Groundbreaking Starts Hospital Toward Reality in Logan
About 300 people gathered on Logan's west edge for the groundbreaking of Hocking County's new 1.546 million hospital. Judge Harley Myer led ceremonies with county officials, church leaders, and hospital trustees pledging optimism and a brighter future.
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Hocking County
J. Ward Doering
Citizens Committee
Harley Meyer
Harry Mack
Messenger Newsphotos
Logan
Harley Myer
Otto Shaw
Tom van Duren
Walter North
Raymond Storm
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Building
Meyer
Dr. Doering
Citizen’s Committee
Doering
Ohio delegates shift to Goldwater at GOP convention
Ohio delegates at the Republican National Convention moved to back Barry Goldwater with about 42 of 58 first ballot votes. Bricker acknowledged a secret poll showing 13 still aligned with Rhodes. Frances Bolton vows at least one vote for Margaret Chase Smith and plans a second speech.
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Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Barry M. Goldwater
Arizona
Buckeye
Goldwater
U.S
John W. Bricker
Rhodes
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Associated Press
Frances P. Bolton
GOP
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Murray City Man Killed In Smashup On Route 216
A Murray City man, Ray Nixon, 42, died when the car he rode in swung off Route 216 south of Murray City and overturned. Driver Pearl Mitchell, 40, was injured with fractures after the crash around 9:20 p.m. Nixon died of a broken neck at the scene. Mitchell was hospitalized at Mount St Mary. Funeral services for Nixon are set for Thursday at Johnson Funeral Home with burial at Green Lawn Cemetery. He was a World War II veteran and survived by a sister and a brother. The investigation continues.
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Ray Nixon
Murray City
Messenger Newsphoto
Pearl Mitchell
Charles W Swackhamer
Logan
State Highway Patrol
Nixon
Mitchell
Mount St. Mary Hospital
United States Army
Chauncey
Harve
Emma Nixon
Myrtle Deem
Ernest Nixon
Wickliffe
Johnson Funeral Home
Green Lawn Cemetery
Leap Into Ohio River Ends Chase In Gallia
Gallia county scene as Point Pleasant youth David Lanham fled Kanauga police at 11 30 p m driving across the Silver Bridge He leaped into the Ohio River narrowly missing a barge and was rescued by boat crew members He faced charges of driving while intoxicated resisting arrest and no operator's license and said he ran because he had only a temporary learner permit.
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Point Pleasant
Kanauga
Silver Bridge
Ohio River
David Lee Lanham
Elgercliff
Stanley Doss
Henderson
Basil Whittington
Lanham
City Hall
Cpl
Boggs
Bridgwater Talks Resume in Cleveland as UAW Strike Persists
Negotiations between Bridgwater Machine plant representatives and United Auto Workers Local 324 resumed in Cleveland with Federal Mediator George Bell stating talks began yesterday and continued today. The four month strike, last active June 17, saw 29 Bridgwater supervisors return to work without incident under court injunction observance.
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United Auto Workers
Cleveland
George Bell
Second Body Found Near Old River Slough
Authorities probe a muddy Mississippi River offshoot after portions of two bodies were found. An almost unrecognizable lower portion was recovered near Old River about 17 miles south of Tallulah. The torso, found earlier, was tentatively identified as a former student at Alcorn A&M College in Lorman, Mississippi.
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Tallulah
Mississippi River
Old River
Louisiana
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson
Miss
All Negro Alcorn A & M College
Lorman
Ohio highway work continues despite three day union strike
Columbus reports little impact from a three day Operating Engineers strike as work resumes on 500 million dollars in Ohio highway projects. The union won back its approved contract after a secret ballot vote by 14 000 members and early indications point to ratification.
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Columbus
Ohio
Operating Engineers Union
Ohio Contractors Association
Billy Graham
Jet Stadium
Fog Lifts as Nomination Fires Mark San Francisco Meet
In San Francisco area coverage, Governor Hatfield backs Scranton but others split over Goldwater and Rockefelli er. The convention scene notes trouble with Bristish and domestic groups while Hoover delivers a letter urging a short platform. Brezhnev to be replaced by Mikoyan in the Soviet Union per informant.
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John Birch Society
Communist Party
Sen
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Illinois
Herbert Hoover
New York
Jayne Mansfield
Cairo
Leonid Brezhnev
South Soviet Union
Anastas Mikoyan
Soviet Union
Goldwater Momentum Continues Toward Republican Nomination
In San Francisco Senator Barry Goldwater presses toward the Republican convention with growing first ballot backing. Pennsylvania Governor Scranton mounts last minute amendments and a nuclear arms control proposal from former Secretary of State Christian Herter. Scranton backers also seek to denounce extremists in a brief platform clash as Goldwater holds a commanding delegate lead. The Geneva issue reports the Soviet Union rejecting a U S gradual nuclear disarmament plan.
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San Francisco
Barry Goldwater
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Massachusetts
Christian A. Herter
Goldwater
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
America
United States
Platform Committee
Hugh Scott
Scranton
Arizona
Associated Press
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
Kenneth Clark joins Holzer Clinic internal medicine dept
In Gallipolis today the Holzer Clinic expands its internal medicine division with the addition of Dr. Kenneth Clark. The move is noted on page 12 of the Messenger.
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Holzer
Gallipolis
Kenneth Clark
Department of Internal Medicine
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Tom Dewey
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