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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1960
Page
5
The county treasurer and staff wrap up the six year appraisal of Athens County as required by Ohio law. After completion within months another reappraisal is due in six years under the Revised General Code. Counties missing the 1961 deadline risk halved state funds.
Athens County moves toward uniform state wide property valuations with a final state approval pending. The reappraisal could lift total real estate tax value to about 39 million dollars, about 22 percent above 1949 figures, while tax rates may fall to keep current revenue. Dayton firm Cole Layer Trumble Co. teams reappraised all lots farms and buildings under state rules, transferring data to 27 000 cards for final state value setting.
The Red Cross bloodmobile from the Columbus regional center will be in Athens Tuesday for a one day stand at Royal McBee Corp Plant 3. Lt. Col. Burton S. Andrews says the unit seeks 175 pints with 20 pints set aside for heart surgery. Donors may eat before arriving. Reservations: LY 3-1651 or LY 3-1183.
Dayne Withem of The Plains was fined $25 and costs after pleading guilty to assault and battery charged by his wife Patricia Withem in municipal court Monday.
The Athens City County Health Department announced milk grades for July 1, 1960 to January 1, 1961. Dairies and processing plants are graded on production and handling conditions with tests performed by the Ohio Department of Health branch in Nelsonville. Permits for sale of Grade A milk and milk products were issued to listed Athens and nearby area producers including Fairmont Foods, Hope Dairy, Easler's Dairy, Broughton's Dairy, Bel Park, Belpre, McClelland's Dairy, United Dairy Co, Waterford, Pro ducer's Coop, Parkersburg WV, Crystal Dairy Marietta, Deeds Brothers, Pure Milk Lancaster, Ideal Milk Portsmouth, Meadow Gold Lima.
Amesville moves toward a municipal water system about three months from completion. The $105 000 project funds a treatment plant storage tank and pipeline built by Cook Construction Co Jackson Construction Co and Bill Clark with plans by George Sheeter. Residents already rely on wells but will switch to the system improving fire insurance prospects and bringing modern facilities to homes.
County commissioners approved the county budget for 1961 in a Wednesday session. The budget will be advertised.
Birth announcements list a daughter for Mr and Mrs Maywood Smith of Athens and a daughter for Mr and Mrs Raymond Dicken of Athens Route 1. Admitted to Shelter Arms Hospital include Mrs William C Sharp Springfield and others. discharges named. In Amesville, Charles L Nichols of Cutler fined 29 dollars for reckless operation. County budget notes detail unsubmitted requests totaling over 585 thousand dollars and a petition for a county highway continuation of County Road 59.
Observer C. L. Colmer reports Thursday in Athens with a 9:30 a.m. temperature of 75 after an early low of 66. The previous day reached 89 amid humidity, while rural Hamley Run saw 88 for its high and 64 at dawn.
Sheriffs departments of Athens, Hocking and Franklin Counties coordinate a joint effort to detain suspects, with officers from the three counties pooling resources and sharing information to track down those sought on local warrants.
A break in at Carrs Tavern Circle Hill was interrupted when two hitchhiking youths passed by as two men fled the scene Police say entry was through a rear window and cash was taken A search for the getaway car involved multiple counties and deputies from Athens Fairfield and Logan reported the York Club break in arrests of Sherrill Booth and Richard Hamilton in Franklin County were confirmed along with a second incident at the Five Mile Inn in Hocking County The entry led to charges of breaking and entering grand larceny and destruction of property with instruments valued at 390 dollars damaged plus other damage noted
Word came today of the unexpected death of Rev. Lester Stanley of Union. He died while attending a Nazarene camp meeting at Columbus. Further details were not available.
Mrs. Charles Klein died in Mount Carmel Hospital Columbus after four weeks of critical illness. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kelley, of Athens, were notified. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Schoedinger Funeral Home with burial at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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