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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1956
Page
7
Athens County GOP executive committee selected seven delegates for the Republican state convention in Columbus on September 12. Leading the slate is State Senator C. Stanley Mech.
Two defendants appeared in Municipal Court Friday on charges of selling ammunition to a minor. One case was dismissed for lack of positive identification. The Weatherby case stems from a June 26 accident that wounded nine year old Jack Weatherby, son of Aller Weatherby.
Walton League members led by Gerald Glover will hold a trap shoot Sunday at the club’s new skeet site beginning at 10 a.m. Open to members and guests, the event precedes the Athens County 4-H picnic at the Athens County Fairgrounds on July 10. Also noted: James W. Cooper of Albany Route 3 was fined $10 and costs in Municipal Court for having no muffler on his vehicle.
A 25 year old patient escaped from Athens State Hospital at 7 30 p m and stole a car on Richland Avenue before being captured by State Highway Patrol and a deputy sheriff in Meigs County at 8 15 p m near the Rock Springs fairgrounds. She was returned to the institution the same night.
Shelterin g Arms Hospital notes list admitted patients including Clayton Wires Stewart, Mrs Ralph Frost of Athens, Ellsworth Cline, McArthur Route 2, and others like James Jeffers of Athens Route 5, Paul Cooley Albany Route 3, William Mace Radcliff, Mrs Laud Miller Athens Route, Mrs Charles Gilkey Athens Route 4, Robert McCormick Athens. Dismissals include John Scott Athens, Mrs Odessa Howell Athens, and Mrs Marie Handley Athens.
Helen Hanning sues Lorenzo E. Hanning alleging a marriage on August 2, 1954 in Athens County and grounds of neglect. Wanda Porter sues Bernard Porter claiming a May 1, 1990 marriage in St. Marys West Virginia and seeking child support and custody for two children.
Bonn lower house approves a bill cutting income taxes by 10 percent for low earners and 3 percent for others. Five men were summoned at 2 23 a.m. Friday to Depot Street for a fire at an electric heating plant. Fire Chief Charles Dalton said an overheated coal conveyor motor sparked the blaze, was extinguished with chemicals, slight motor damage but no building loss.
Two drivers were fined 310 and costs each in area courts following State Highway Patrol charges Thursday. Charles Cooley of Corning Route 1 was cited for speeding by Glouster Mayor Thomas Williams, while Junior J. Lanning, 28, of Milford, was fined for driving left of center by Chauncey Mayor Cles Wadley.
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