No Rate Hike For 2 Months
Ohio Bell rate increases approved by PUCO are delayed two months. Residential customers avoid a $3 monthly boost and can use the new 30 call monthly plan at the base rate with 50 cent per call reductions. Directory assistance charges and installation fees see interim adjustments pending six month review.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
PUCO
Ohio Bell
Commission
Bell
Mason County Jail Plans Rejected After Two Hour Hearing
Mason County Commission rejects preliminary jail renovation sketches after two hour session with Robert J. Kimball Engineers. New set of sketches to be produced next week amid post explosion closure and ongoing repair. Justice of the Peace Charles Sonny Smith receives back pay from January 1975.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Commission
Robert J. Kimball
Huntington
Mason County Sheriff's Department
Pete Wedge
Bruce Sisk
Harriet
Justice of the Peace
Charles Sonny Smith
Little Queens Contest Rules Announced
Nelsonville committee sets eligibility for the Little Queens Contest of the Parade of the Hills Festival. Open to area girls six by August 1, each must have a sponsor. No entry fee. Deadline and forms available at Belk's Athens Hoffman Appliance Nelsonville contact Chairwoman Sharon Edwards or Patsy Cox.
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Nelsonville
Belk’s
Athens
Hoffman Appliance
Sharon Edwards
Pinegrove Drive
Patsy Cox
Pleasantview Ave
Ninth Annual Flea Market Planned in Logan
Hocking County Historical Society announces the ninth annual flea market at the Logan fairgrounds on August 1 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is 25 cents with children under 12 free. Food includes ice cream bars and a farmers market. Indoor space is available for sellers.
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Logan
The
Hocking County Historical Society
Fairgrounds
Open House Sunday at Spencer's Private Pre School Center
Open house scheduled Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Spencer's Private Pre School and Day Care Center 61 N Orchard St. Director Marta Drummond Hopkins notes the goal is to make learning fun and to foster good learning patterns. The facility, owned by Reginald Spencer, will accommodate 29 children ages two to six.
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Logan
Spencer
N. Orchard St
Marta Drummond Hopkins
Reginald Spencer
Ohio University
Hopkins
Hocking County
Nelsonville
General Protestant Orphans Home
Cincinnati
Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Council Meeting at Wolf Run Park
The BH HVRDD advisory council will meet July 20 at 1 p.m. in the Wolf Run State Park picnic shelter. Lunch is offered for 2.50 dollars at 11 30 a.m. Reservations must be made by Wednesday at the district office. Wolf Run State Park lies off Route 215 east of Route 821 near Interstate 77.
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Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley
Wolf Run State Park
Horse Show Saturday at Tuppers Plains Showgrounds
The Bar 30 Horsemen sponsor a horse show this Saturday starting at 5 p.m. at the showgrounds near Tuppers Plains. Judge Jim Dodson of St. Albans WV will preside over 19 halter and 28 performance classes. Admission is $1 with refreshments available.
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Tuppers Plains
The
Bar
Jim Dodson
St. Albans
W.va
Rutland Youth Pleads Guilty in Marijuana Case
Rutland youth Donald David Call aged 18 pled guilty to cultivating and possessing marijuana. Judge John Bacon sentenced him to six months to one year in the Ohio State Penitentiary receiving division. A raid in Rutland Two seized 117 marijuana plants and led to related drug incidents and plant seizures in Columbia Two and Middleport.
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Pomeroy
Rutland
Donald David Call
John Bacon
Meigs County Common Pleas Court
Ohio State Penitentiary
Columbus
Call
Charles Knight
Rutland Two
Robert Hartenbach
Sheriff's Department
Jed Webster
Middleport
J.J. Cremeans
Herman Henry
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Meigs 4-H News Highlights Weekly Club Meetings
Harrisonville 4-H Honor Club met at the Grange Hall with David Riggs reporting on Club Congress and discussion of future trips. Other clubs met at Stewart Hall and at private homes for sewing, painting, lessons, refreshments, and planned demonstrations. Next meetings and events scheduled across locations.
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Harrisonville
Harrisonville Grange Hall
David Riggs
Club Congress
Sesson
Bruce
Brian Gheen
Grange Hall
Danny Riggs
Riverview
Stewart Hall
Cindy Harris
Teresa Dailey
Rockets 4-H
Gina Johnson
Treasury
Beckie Long
Johnson
Larry Johnson
Tammy Johnson
Debbie Woodyard
Radio theft reported at Hocking County fairgrounds
Police report a citizen band radio and a toolbox were stolen from a car at the Hocking County fairgrounds between 2 15 and 5 15 p m. The car belonged to Sharon Baker who drove her brother's vehicle to attend the circus. The items belonged to Bernard F Davis of South Bloomingville Route 1.
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Logan
Hocking County Fairgrounds
Sharon Baker
Fairgrounds
Bernard F. Davis
Bloomingville
Glouster Celebrates Cecil Sanborn 78th Birthday and 55th Anniversary
Relatives and friends gathered at the Sanborn home in Glouster to honor Cecil and his wife on their 55th wedding anniversary and Cecil’s 78th birthday. Many Gonzales and extended families joined from Glouster, Columbus, Amesville, McConnelsville, and other Ohio towns, sharing a large family reunion vibe.
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Cecil Sanborn
Glouster
Ada Mae Barnhart
Eva Kempton
Candy
John Barnhart
Lori
Mike
John Jr
Frank Proctor
Sandusky
James Edwards
Heather
James Jr
George Sanborn
Gary Sanborn Sr
Gary Jr
Mansfield
Terry
Vickie
Joey
Willard Coey
Jean Cominsky
Taylor Ridge
Randy Sanborn
North Carolina
Dwight Sanborn
Lorna
Brett
John Scruggs
Daniel Sanborn
Chris
Woodrow Rutter
Marvin Mays
Columbus
Rodney Sanborn
Amesville
Raymond Sanborn
Millfield
Icel Pierce
Betty Moore
Congress
Sanborns
Ernest K Bryson
William Bryson
John Bryson
John
Woodbridge Va
Jim Ducatte
Jane Bryson
Alexandria
Jean Bryson
Randy Strohl
Mary (Bryson) Hall
Jennifer
Lanexa
Patty Hall
Larry Novak
Corey Ruston
Margie Bryson
Earl McGee
Mary McGee
Dennis Satterwaite
Athens
Marilyn McGee
Garry Welch
Chillicothe
Ernest J Bryson
Newark
CA Bryson
Lisa
David
Jeffersonville
Chuck Bryson
Lorie
Michael Bryson
Donna Rogers
Billy Hillen
Ernest K. Bryson
Marcia
Monica
Mary Leah
Douglas
Harold Curtis Kissimmee
Fla
Ernest Bryson
Downard in Otterbein Theater Cast in Ohio Summer Season
TOM Downard, son of Mr. and Mrs Edward Downard, performs with Otterbein Summer Theater in Westerville. The 11 member company stages four plays a musical and a children's show from June 22 to July 31. The season includes Tobacco Road Of Thee Sing Bus Stop Born Yesterday and Sleeping Beauty for a children’s matinee July 6–10. The note also recalls Ohio's first Catholic church dedication near Somerset in 1818 and its later buildings.
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Wellston
Tom Downard
Edward Downard
Otterbein
Westerville
Tobacco Road
Five breakins cleared in Pomeroy Meigs case
Sheriff reports five break ins solved after Randy Lee 18 Middleport confessed to burglaries at Elberfeld's Store and nine other sites including Eastern High School and Shirley Kay's Beauty Salon. Lee, already sentenced, pleaded guilty and received concurrent terms. An auto at Logan burned total loss on Clay Lick Road at 8:49 am.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Robert C. Hartenbach
Herman Henry
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Randy Lee
Middleport
Elberfeld
Lee
Eastern High School
Kelly Manufacturing Co
Midwest Steel
Shirley Kay
Brown
Senior Citizens
Royal Crown Bottling Co
Eli Ebersbach
Common Pleas
John Bacon
Charles Knight
Bacon
Logan
Walter Robson
Hocking County
Indictments Return in Trans Alaska Pipeline Prostitution Ring
A San Francisco grand jury indicted former US attorney Richard L. McVeigh and eight others in a multimillion dollar scheme to bring prostitution and gambling to work camps along the trans Alaska pipeline. The seven count case cites conspiracy and interstate racketeering with plans to hire prostitutes from Northern California and to pay off local officials.
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San Francisco
U.S. District Court
Valdez
Richard L. McVeigh
Anchorage
Alaska
Alexander Miller
Fairbanks
Alaskan International Airlines
William A. Egan
California
McVeigh
Miller
William Brockett
Brockett
The
Acres
Jackson Youth Sentenced to Extra Term
Benjamin F Imes, 15, of Jackson and escapee from Roweton's Boys Ranch, is sentenced by Judge George Scurlock to a new indefinite term in the Ohio Youth Commission. He faces intoxication and offensive conduct charges. a resisting arrest count was filed in Juvenile Court. The judge orders the new term in addition to his current commitment.
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Jackson
Benjamin F Imes
Roweton's
Ohio Youth Commission
George Scurlock
Jackson Police Department
Imes
David Williamson
Scurlock
OYC
National Guard Band to Give Concert in Point Pleasant
The 269th National Guard Band from Fairmont West Virginia will perform at Fort Randolph Krodel Park Point Pleasant on Saturday at 7 30 p m. The 27 member unit tours West Virginia as a Bicentennial project. The free concert lasts about 90 minutes and features a variety of music.
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Point Pleasant
269Th National Guard
Fort Randolph
Krodel Park
Fairmont
W.va
West Virginia
National Guard
Fall Flower Show Planned for Wellston Event
The Triconta Forum Garden Club, hosted by Mrs. Donald Merry, outlined plans for the annual fall flower show to be held in August at the United Methodist Church from 11 30 a m to 4 p m open to the public. Lessons on successful planting and fern design were shared with demonstrations and a field trip to Old Man's Caves on July 19.
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Wellston
Triconta Forum Garden Club
Donald Merry
Selah Holazpfel
United Methodist Church
Frances Grahm
Selah Holzapfel
Irene Jackson
Eva Ridgeway
Beverly Summers
Citizens Work on Projects for Ohio State Fair
Vinton County senior citizens groups work on three fair projects. Monday they craft hanging baskets from rug yarn at the Community Building with Grace Nannemaker and Bernadean Eberts instructing. Participants bring sack lunches. donations of dolls and photos are welcome for sale and display.
Cedar Siding and Paneling Selection Guide Available
A new booklet from the Western Red Cedar Lumber Assn offers guidance on choosing and finishing cedar siding and paneling. It costs 25 cents in coins and can be obtained from Dept. 612 Yeon Building, Portland Oregon 97204.
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Western Red Cedar Lumber Assn
Yeon Bidg
Portland
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Mason
Little Queens
Cremeans
Hartenbach
Columbia
Renee Stone
Meigs
Five Point Star
Becky Eichinger
Pam Riebel
Lori Louks
Cheryl Folmer
Five Point Bucks
Tommy Pullins
Charles
Royale) Turner
Port Charlotte
Portsmouth
Birmingham
Mich
David Cox
Ohio
Somerset
Perry County
Peesti
Alaskan Pipeline Vice Plan
Per
Mea
Cense
FBI
Charles “the Blade’ Tourine
Miami
Charles White
U.S. Senate
Cosa Nostra
New York- New Jersey
Las Vegas
National Guard Band
Telephone
Wes
Messenger Action
Gibson
Ye Tel Tae
LeLeo
Velley
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