Logan Council Proposes 70 Percent Water Rate Increase
Logan officials vote to raise water rates by about 70 percent to fund a proposed system upgrade. The plan includes a new well, pumping electrification, plant improvements, reservoir construction, and new mains. A three-sergeant police structure is considered, and a new cruiser purchase proceeds. Rates take effect after July 1 with first billing December 1.
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Cleon Tucker Logan
Logan
Sam Bright
Water Department
Ohio Inspection Bureau
Fran
Mrs. Gibbon of Shawnee Dies at 70
Joyce Gibbon of Shawnee, 70, died Tuesday at her Shawnee home after a long illness. She was born there to David and Sarah Richards. Survived by husband Phillip R. and four daughters Phyllis Owen Cincinnati Evelyn Navratil Catherine Roshon Columbus. three sisters and 10 grandchildren. Visitation at Humphrey funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday at C. P. Stotler’s funeral home. Burial Shawnee Cemetery.
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Shawnee
Joyce Gibbon
She Was
the Daughter of
David and
Sarah Jones Richards
Phillip R
Phyllis Owen
New Lexington
Evelyn Navratil
Catherine Roshon
Cincinnati
Joyce Hodgson
Columbus
Anna Peart
Crooksville
Bess Schuster
Matilda Legg
Humphrey
C. P. Stotler
Shawnee Cemetery
New Teacher Is Employed For Ilesboro
Starr Washington District Board of Education hired Mellissa Hall for the third to fifth grades at Ilesboro School. Hall, a Junction City graduate of Ohio University, replaces Deanna Peden who resigned. The board authorized bids for a nine passenger bus a Union Furnace School refrigerator and milk and coal for 1960 61 term with bids opening July 11. Baker Typewriter Co Lancaster sold five electric typewriters for 1290 to be used in Union Furnace High School.
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Baker Typewriter Co
Lancaster
Union Furnace High School
Infant Rites Conducted for Duncan Falls Baby
Delbert Hammer infant son of Eugene and Bonnie Simpson Hammer of Duncan Falls died at birth Tuesday night in Good Samaritan Hospital Zanesville Graveside rites were held Wednesday afternoon at Springer Cemetery near Hemlock with maternal grandmother Mrs Iole Simpson and paternal grandmother Mrs Alta Hammer listed as survivors
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Shawnee
Delbert Hamner
Eugene
Bonnie Simpson Hammer
Duncan Falls
Good Samaratin Hospital
Zanesville
Iole Simpson
Alta Hammer
Rehobeth
Springer
Hemlock
Surveyor Hitchens Opens Office in New Lexington
Harold W. Hitchens, a professional engineer and surveyor with prior state highway Department service, announces the opening of a surveying office in the Sheeran Building, New Lexington.
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New Lexington
Harold W. Hitchens
State Highway Department
Sheeran
Thieves Fail In Attempted Safecracking
Police reported a Sunday night safecracking attempt at the Hardent and Helber Market on W Hunter St. The office safe was moved and the front plate pried with a cold chisel but entry was not made. This mirrors a December 7 theft of 7500 dollars and a June 5 break in. burglars left a tool kit and fled.
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Logan
Hardent and Helber
W. Hunter St
Straitsville Sexton Dies at Home in Heart Attack
Otto M. Eberts a 61 year old New Straitsville Cemetery sexton was found dead at his Main Street home Tuesday evening. Death was caused by a heart attack. He had worked as a stationary engineer and lived alone. Survived by several cousins. Humphrey funeral home of Shawnee handling arrangements.
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NEW _ STRAITSVILLE
Otto M. Eberts
New Straitsville
Eberts
Main St
Humphrey Funeral Home
Shawnee
Computer Importance Outlined At Kiwanis
Dan Fisher of Sperry Rand outlined computer importance in industry government and the armed forces at the Logan Kiwanis meeting. John Busch chaired the program with guests Wallace Barr agriculture economist and Jack Barker quality control supervisor.
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Logan
Logan Kiwanis Club
Dan Fisher
Columbus
Remington Rand
Sperry Rand Inc
John Busch
Wallace Barr
Ohio Extension Service
Jack Barker
Logan G-E Glass Works
Logan Families Return From Vacations
Several Logan families ended June trips returning home from Florida. Walter Leonard and family visited Rotary events in Miami Beach and toured Washington Gettysburg and Philadelphia. Judge Meyer and family vacationed at Miami Beach with Rotary duties. Heine Meyer and family joined. Marion Allen group toured Bradenton St Augustine Marine Land and Daytona Beach on an east coast Florida circuit.
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Walter Leonard
Robbie
Miami Beach
Leonard
Pearl Tinderlake
Logan
Myrtle Beach
S. C
Washington, D. C
Gettysburg
Philadelphia
Harley Meyer
Fritz
Mingo Terrace
Judge Meyer
Logan Rotary Club
Rotary
Heine
Miami University
Coral Gables
Marion Allen
Susan
Florida
Bradenton
Jack Dietrich
David
Bradenton High School
Allens
St. Augustine
Marine Land
Daytona Beach
Miami Beach Cyprus Gardens
Silver Springs
Sarasota
Rock City
Tenn
Sommers Speaks on World Day of Prayer at Presbyterian Group
Mrs Harold Sommers president of the Schwenke Vail Group spoke on The Origin of The World Day of Prayer at Westminster House. Devotions by Mrs Carlos Gaffin followed with Year Book of Prayer and Psalm based Bible study. The group plans a September reunion and an August picnic for Chillicothe Veterans Hospital patients.
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Logan
Harold Sommers
Schwenke-Vail
The
Presbyterian Church
Westminster House
Carlos Gaffin
Earl F. Schottke
Women’s Association of the Church
Veteran’s Hospital
Chillicothe
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C&o
Mulberry St
Roy Kelch
Cis Myers
Kelch
Police Department
Safety Committee
William Morgan
W&h Chevrolet
Water and Sewer Committee
Robert Angle
Third
Fourth Sts
Betty Ave
Vivien Leigh
London
U. S
Laurence Olivier
Joan Plowright
Ilesboro
Straitsville
Sexton
Kiwanis
George Bernard Shaw
Waypoints
Mrs. Sommers
Presbyterian Group
Ter
David Myers
Betty Wright
Gaffin
Karl Poling
Ralph Poston
Amos Potts
Vance Rannells
Royal Crown
Cliff
Athens
Broiler
Carnation
Lucky Boy
Yacht Club Bread & Butter
Yacht Club
Robin Hood
del Monte Tuna
SUN
Good Thru Sun
David Davies Wieners
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