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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1972
Page
2
City Council unanimously updated the Athens criminal code raising penalties for petty larceny under 60 dollars to up to 300 dollars fine and 90 days in jail, increasing second offenses and grand larceny penalties. The city will get cost free help from 15 Neighborhood Youth Corps workers for clerical and safety duties.
Portsmouth firm Earl C. Hayes and Associates seeks a final contract for the health building at Athens County Fairgrounds. Estimated project cost is 202000 dollars with a possible 10 to 30 percent architect fee. Commissioner group eyes ARC grant of 140000 dollars and free fairboard site, planning to add 62000 local funds.
The Athens City Board of Education voted to retain its corporal punishment policy after reviewing a Citizens for Better Schools ad hoc committee report. It rejected requiring parental notification and discussed a parent designee idea. The board schedules a July meeting for a public hearing on the 1973 budget.
A detailed weather summary reports considerable cloudiness tonight with showers and thundershowers. Lows 60 to 65. Wednesday remains mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and highs mid 70s. Extended outlook calls for partly cloudy Thursday and cooler 70s Friday and Saturday with 80s. Overnight lows in the 50s.
O Bleness Memorial Hospital reports births for Mr and Mrs Wandling Athens Route 1 a son Mr and Mrs Whaley Shade Route 1 a son Mr and Mrs Phelps Albany Route 1 a daughter. Admitted are Anne McGarvey Hattie Walker Maxine Patterson Eugene Poppenhaeger all of Athens Richard Thomas Zaleski Mrs Thomas Buckley Stewart Route 1 Mrs Robert Cecil Haydenville Mrs Elizabeth Doughman Logan Route 1 Therese Osler Nelsonville Sam Thompson Jeanette Rickey both of Guysville Route 1 Bertha Canny Albany Harold Kasler The Plains. Also listed: Mrs Gregory Simons and daughter Mrs Martin Kuklas and daughter Mrs Randy Miller and daughter Scot Smathers Mrs Terry Zarley Mary Tittle Dale Hart. A frayed lamp wire can sometimes be repaired with friction tape available at a hardware store.
Athens County officials report few protests about plans to close the Chesapeake and Ohio line between Athens and Nelsonville. Prosecutor Claire Ball Jr. says only a handful of entities have objected and urges written protests to be forwarded to PUCO through his office. If protests are scarce, proceedings move to Washington DC with no public hearing. Nearby social note mentions Nelsonville guests of Mrs Edna Reynolds.
In Vinton two swimmers Dan Knotts 25 and Steve McNeal 9 were saved after McNeal panicked in Raccoon Creek. Sheriff’s deputy Charles Cardin and Tom Carver pulled them from the water and performed mouth to mouth resuscitation. both were unharmed.
Ohio Finance Director Harold Hovey spoke in Athens arguing that defeating the income tax would trigger chaos in the legislature within 50 days. He cited benefits to school districts and property taxpayers, warned that scrapping the tax would raise property taxes and sales taxes, and urged voters to keep the tax to fund education and state services.
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