Lightning Sparks Two Mulligan Road and Franklin Ave Fires
A Thursday evening storm caused two fires in the city twelve minutes apart. Lightning allegedly sparked a wall socket fire at 88 Mulligan Road, injuring Pat Wickline’s thumb while flames damaged curtains and carpet. A second blaze at 11 Franklin Avenue required a pumper truck, with no one home in the unit. both fires remain under investigation. The storm dumped 6 inches of rain with 40 mph winds, lifting this month’s total to 4.2 inches.
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Mulligan Road
Carl Wickline
Wickline
Troxel
Franklin Ave
Jerry Ferguson
Royce Cooley
Franklin Avenue
Pat McCleary
Cooley
Athens
Messenger
Robert Ekey
Collins Sees 2 Percent Cut as Ohio Budget Solution
Ohio state law requires a 2 percent budget cut to close the Medicaid shortfall cited at 127 million dollars. Senator Collins warns deficits will persist with 53.5 million expected for 1977 after 1976 and 1975 deficits, urging spending controls and cautioning against tax increases without voter approval.
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James Rhodes
Ohio
Len Oakley C. Collins
Ironton
Collins
Ohio University seeks new ombudsman in half time post
The ombudsman deadline closed with under ten applications as of Wednesday. A screening committee will narrow to three names for OU President Charles Ping to choose, replacing Dr. Carol Harter. The role serves students faculty and townspeople, beginning Sept. 1, with half the duties a faculty post. Richard Tomsu currently serves in the post.
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Ohio University
Clifford McCarthy
Charles Ping
Carol Harter
McCarthy
Ombudsman
Richard Tomsu
Harter
Health Department Halts Scrap Material Burning Action
Common Pleas Judge Lowell Howard issued a temporary restraining order against Ronald Way of Ames Two Road 335 prohibiting burning of industrial transformer tar on his property. The order follows prior burnings and complaints from neighbors and the Stalder Demolition operation, with potential contempt charges for violations.
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Common Pleas
Lowell Howard
Howard
Ronald Way
Ames Two
Health Department
Joe Kasler
Hursday
Way
Kasler
Bill Stalder
Stalder
Salem Road
Compensation Pact Reached in Athens County
The Athens County Commissioners agreed to pay Rebecca Harris Radcliffe 2500 dollars for back wages after a personnel board ruled she should have been fired by the county rather than by her ex-husband Wesley Harris. Radcliffe rejected reinstatement and sought 19529.52 in wages and room and board for 14 months after her May 1975 firing by Harris.
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Athens County
Rebecca Harris Radcliffe
Ms. Radcliffe
State Personnel Board of Review
Review Board
Radcliffe
Wesley Harris
Harris
Radliffe
Buckeye Card Discounts Spread Across Athens County
More than 1,800 senior citizens in Athens County have enrolled in the Golden Buckeye Card program. participating merchants across Athens Glouster Nelsonville The Plains offer discounts to cardholders 65 and older. Cards can be obtained at senior centers RSVP Salvation Army or on Thursdays at designated locations in Athens Sugar Creek or Amesville. For details contact Tom Milligan at 592 3031 Extension 374.
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Athens County
Tom Milligan
Golden Buckeye Card Program
Glouster — Angles
Glouster Key
Stokes Furniture
Mod
Carpenters Hardware
Village
Walkers Clothing
Burr Oak
Emerson's
Burr Oak Lumber
Nelsonville
Nelsonville Lumber
Patti Rae
the Plains — Sew & Save Fabrics
Milligan
RSVP
Salvation Army
Athens City Hall
CAA
Sugar Creek
Amesville Village Hall
Rhodes Urges Expanding Ohio Youth Corps Camps Tenfold
Gov. Rhodes visited the Zaleski Training Academy with DNR officials to push expanding the Youth Conservation Corps camp program. The state runs 10 camps with 900 campers, funded by $625,000 federal, matched by 20 percent in-kind services, and camp capacity at Zaleski is 60.
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Zaleski
Ohio Natural Resources Department
Youth Conservation Corps
James Rhodes
Rhodes
Zaleski Training Academy
DNR
Ohio Bureau of Employment Services
Ohio
Robert Teater
James Duerk
Claire
Sundance Sets Family Ice Cream Social and Cake Contest
Sundance, Inc. sponsors a Sunday family event on Harmony Road from 2 to 8 p.m. with an ice cream social cake bake contest. Activities include crafts nature walks music games and a cake auction with cash prizes for multiple categories. Entries must be on non returnable plates by 3 p.m. with winners at 5.
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Sundance, Inc
Harmony Road
Sundance
Moon Tree Planting Offered For Seventh Moon Landing Anniversary
The seventh anniversary of the Apollo 14 moon mission will be marked Tuesday at 3 p.m. with a moon tree planting in Athens Ohio. An American sycamore seedling grown from seeds carried to the moon will be planted at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources district office with Rep. Claire Ball saying guests include area children born July 20, 1969. Public invited.
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Ohio
Roosa
Alan B. Shepard
Edgar D. Mitchell
Ball
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Robert Troxel
Office of Budget and Management
General Assembly
Central
The
Arthritis Foundation
Salem
Vore Ridge
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Ames
Vere Smith
Stimson Cleaners
Food Giant
Farmacy Health Foods
Athens Office Supply
Bauer Volkswagen
Revco Pharmacy
AORTA
Vance-Leach Home Furnishings
Ohio Food Market
White Motors
Charley Moore
Ford
AMC Jeep
Bill Edwards Dolen's
Medical Center
Prescription Shop
Steppes Beauty Shops
Phil Halbirt Realty
Farley's Clothing
Stimson’s Cleaners
Cunningham Music Center
Allen Supply Co
Barons
Bieh!'s
Safety Service
Baker & Stauffer and
Pizza Hut
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Athens City-County Health Department
Homer
Tombo
Sah
Nelsonville Home & Savings Association
Columbus
Telephone
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