County keeps four EEA positions eight months due to funding delay
Athens County commissioners will retain four Emergency Employment Act jobs for eight months instead of a year. Buckeye Hills official Robert Decker said funding will match last year and no positions will be cut, though the appropriation bill is stalled in Congress.
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Susan Crites
Athens County
Robert Decker
Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley
Common Pleas Court
Decker
Labor Department
Com
Congress
Ohio
Airport Land Use Meet Set in Athens
The Ohio University Board of Trustees subcommittee on old airport land rental will meet Friday in Athens to review Kroger’s offer to lease 16 acres on E State Street and decide what recommendations to present to the full board. OU President Claude R. Sowle notes two earlier actions. the July 17 vote to ask the Ohio Department of Public Works to negotiate with Big Bear Stores and a Kroger counteroffer two days later. Trustees William Morris Charles Holzer Sowle and Martin Hecht will participate.
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Ohio University Board of Trustees
Athens
Claude R. Sowle
Kroger
E. State Street
Ohio Department of Public Works
Big Bear Stores Co
Big Bear
Hart Department
Sowle
William Morris
Charles Holzer
Martin Hecht
Law Upset Over School Board Invite To Aug Meeting
Athens County Commission President John Law rejects school board invitation to attend the August 5 meeting. Commissioners Edwards and White, and candidates Mrs. Helen Baker and Fred Weber II, may attend. Law questions the board’s plan to lease a dormitory at the Mental Health Center for a county office, calling $6,750 yearly rent too high. He questions meeting outside city limits and defends the current W State Street office as adequate.
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Athens County Commission
John Law
Athens County School Board
Law
Jim Edwards
Jack White
Helen Baker
Fred Weber II
Athens Mental Health Center
George Christman
Edwards
White
Weber
W. State Street
School Board
Convict-Author Urges Prison Reform at Athens Rotary
Lou Torok, convict author from Chillicothe Correctional Institute, spoke at The Ohio University Inn in Athens calling for prison reform. He described prison life as degrading and argued for better correctional officers and humane jail conditions, noting juvenile detainees’ suffering and urging parole review in September.
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Fred Resting Messenger
Lou Torok
Chillicothe Correctional Institute
Athens
Rotary Club
Ohio University Inn
Toledo
Torok
Ohio Penitentiary
Chillicothe
Parole Board
Los Angeles Times
Popular Mechanics
Christian Science Monitor
The
Chicago Tribune
Ohio
St Pauls Elementary Board Sets Friday Parent Meeting
The St Pauls Elementary School Board schedules a Friday 8 p.m. meeting in the church basement for parents considering enrollment this fall. Those not yet on the roster should contact Joyce Antoinette at 592-2866. The board will charge tuition next year and is reviewing teaching applications.
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St. Paul’s
St. Paul’s Church
Joyce Antoinette
Jan. B. Kish
Monsignor Kish
Robert Krauter
Donald Scheck
Tom Antoinetto
4-H Agent Delivers Farm Safety Talk at Kiwanis Meeting
Athens County 4-H Agent Don Van Nostran spoke to the Athens Kiwanis Club at the fairgrounds on National Farm Safety Week. He emphasized tractor safety with mandatory red triangles and mirrors, proper pesticide use, and home farm safety measures including handrails lighting and ladder precautions.
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Don van Nostran
Athens County 4-H
Athens Kiwanis Club
Fairgrounds
VanNostran
Ohio
OSU
van Nostran
Birth Announcement and Patient Discharges at O Bleness Memorial
Birth records list Mr and Mrs Staneslaus Hu of Athens welcoming a son. Inpatients include Mrs Inez Wade April Crowell Paul Parsons John R Clark and others from Athens The Plains Albany and Reedsville. Discharges include Mrs William McClure and son Edna L Brooks Mrs Larry McCoy and daughter Ken McKnight John Almashy and Jeffrey Frost.
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Staneslaus Hu
Athens
Inez Wade
April Crowell
Paul Parsons
John R. Clark
Kathy Stanley
Cheryl Martin
James Alva Hanning
the Plains
Danny Turner
Albany
William Seel
Nelsonville
Frederick Goebel
Reedsville
Thomas Byrd
Phillip Byrd
William McClu
Weather Outlook July 25 1972 Ohio Outlook
A weak cold front across Ohio triggers scattered thundershowers today with clearing tonight. Wednesday brings fair, less humid weather with highs in the 80s and tonight's lows 60 to 65. National forecast notes relief from heat in central plains and mid Atlantic. rain along the front in eastern Rockies Plains and southeast coasts.
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Ohio
Canada
Central Plains
Mid-Atlantic
Rockies
Plains
International Y's Open Convention marks 50th year
The 50th anniversary International Y's Men’s Clubs convention opened on Ohio University’s South Green drawing nearly 1000 attendees. A 48 nation flag procession highlighted the ceremony as Ethiopian ambassador H E Ato Kifle Wodajo introduced representatives.
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Dean Rowland Messenger
International Y’s
Ohio University
South Green
YMCA
H. E. Ato Kifle Wodajo
United States
Ethiopia
Charles Thompson
Y’s Men's
Asia
Australia
South America
Europe
Africa
Y’s Men’s
Battery Theft Reported From Martin Auto
D E Martin reported a battery stolen from his car sometime Thursday or Friday. The vehicle was parked in a garage behind his house and the theft was logged at 12 45 p m Friday.
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D. E. Martin
Torch
Athens County Sheriff's Deputies
Martin
Roy Lewis
Chauncey
Big Elm
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