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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1971
Page
7
Logan City Council adopted five ordinances including financing for the Front-Weis Street storm sewer project with $60,000 notes pending bond issuance dated July 1972. Other changes allow delinquent water bills to be placed on the tax duplicate, require signed committee reports, and standardize petition referrals and opening prayers.
The Nelsonville Business and Professional Women's Club plans a sales booth at Sunday's Antique Flea Market on Baird's lot Canal Street. Members should contact Dorothy Gettle at 753 3090 or committee members to contribute items and arrange pickup Friday or Saturday morning.
Photography has started on Fat City a feature for Columbia Pictures. Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges star with John Huston directing. The story follows two young boxers in an impoverished area and marks Leonard Gardner's first screenplay.
Nearly 50 people gathered Sunday at Elvin and Mamie Bean's Poplar Street home for a family celebration and birthday party honoring Myrtle McKibben and Homer Daft. Attendees from Athens, Doylestown, Little Hocking, Columbus and surrounding towns joined in a daylong event with dinner on the back yard table.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Shaw returned from a reunion of 302 Medical Co. of the 77th Division veterans who served in the Pacific Theatre. The gathering at the Holiday Inn in Joliet included six other couples and attendees from New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Three members could not attend.
Windy Hills Farm owners win multiple prizes at the All-American Equestrian Sports Center show in Granville. Mrs. Robert Mathews takes first in the five gaited amateur class aboard Mariana's Morning Star. Nancy Wildermuth earns blue in western saddle with Windy Hills Supreme and second in novice three gaited with Windy Hills Jubilee. Deep Dark Secret, ridden by Mrs. Wildermuth and owned by Nancy Rice, claims English pleasure third.
Regents Chancellor John Millett says state universities are processing tuition grants at prior maximums while a biennial budget is debated. House-passed legislation would raise grants to 510 dollars for public colleges and 1200 dollars for private colleges, affecting about 25000 applications if enacted.
The Heart Association notes studies suggesting higher death rates from heart disease among excessively overweight individuals. Doctors advise heart patients to maintain normal weight for better prognosis.
Ohio University art professor David Hostetler will display sculpture at the Canton Art Institute from July 13 to 18. The show will feature Karsh photography of the sculptor and his studio and will include wood, bronze, and graphic works. Hostetler, a Massillon native now living on Coolville Ridge, has exhibited widely in New York Dayton Wichita and Ohio venues.
The Hocking County Children Services Board logged 155 total cases in June, up from May with 11 closures and 14 additions. Expenses fell to 2,871.89, broken down into maintenance, medical and other costs, while placements included boarding, parents, relatives, and foster homes.
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