Emergency Runaway Truck Crash Impacts Substation In Athens
A four ton Ohio Fuel Gas Co truck with a five ton drilling rig load rolled down Morrison Brown Hill with no brakes, rammed a transformer substation, and cut power to Athens area for about two hours. The driver and passenger escaped unharmed. the crash damaged two telephone poles and disrupted electricity to homes south of the Y. The Athens Radio Club plans a 24 hour emergency equipment test from Angel Ridge with portable transmitters powered by generators, open to public observation.
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Ray Noble
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Morrison Borwn Hill
Stimson
Warren Schulthesis
Richland Ave
Lee
D. E. Cox
Route
Rea
Columbus and Southern I Ohio Electric Co
C&sof
Gasco
Margaret Robinson
Robinson
Athens State Hospital
Athens
Izaak League
Lancaster St
Mentsill
Clarence Kelch
Carl Ivester
Gerald Glover
Ray Sickles
George Beverage
JH. C. Sedwick
Wayne France
Carl Brookhart
Jack Henderson
Athens Radio Club
American Radio Relay League
Angel Ridge
Sunda
Morrison- Brown Hill
Hooper St
Wilson Norris
Roy A. Lee
Warren Schulthels
Morrison Brown Hill
C&soe
Gas theft cited in municipal court action
Sherutt's department cited two men from Millfield Route 1 for tampering with a motor vehicle. Willard F. Clark and Jack Stalling were fined $25 and costs. Deputies said they were stealing gasoline from a car. Also, Mrs. Albert Perry of 21 W Washington St. was treated after a 1:30 p.m. emergency call and taken to Sheltering Arms Hospital.
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Sherutt
Willard F. Clark
Jack Stalling
Millfield
Albert Perry
Washington St
Charles W. Dalton
Brief Downpour Deluges Streams Across Region
A brief forty minute downpour dropped 0.64 inches of rain in Athens Thursday afternoon per U S Weather Service observer C L Colmer. The storm flooded streets and streams, pushing Federal Creek over Route 50 A at Amesville for several hours. Temperatures rose to 85, five degrees above Wednesday, with a low of 65, three below yesterday.
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Athens
C. L. Colmer
U. S
Federal Creek
Amesville
Mrs. Pyle Dies Friday in Athens Home
Gladys Geraldine Pyle 6 died Friday morning at 208 West State Street after a yearlong illness. Lifelong Athens resident, a 1937 Athens High School graduate, formerly of Nye Chevrolet Co. Survived by husband Walter son Melvin and daughters Patricia Sue Mona Kaye Deborah Ann mother Anna Stauffer twin brother Gerald Stauffer sister Mrs Douglas Spaulding, all at home. Father Fred Stauffer died in 1945. two brothers and two sisters preceded. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday at Dowler Ferguson Hughes. Burial Hilltop Cemetery Milfield.
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Gladys Geraldine Pyle
W. State St
Athens
Athens High School
Nye Chevrolet Co
Walter
Melvin
Patricia Sue
Mona Kaye
Deborah Ann
Anna F. Stauffer
Gerald Stauffer
Douglas Spaulding
Fred Stauffer
Dowler-Ferguson- Hughes
Joe Maffett
Hilltop Cemetery
Milfield
Council Meeting Faces Quorum Shortage and Delay
The city council, hampered by a missing majority and councilman absence, adjourned until next Monday. They aim to push a bond ordinance for the Sanitary Sewer District and authorize a street paving inspector through Clark and Sheeter at 440 dollars monthly, funding via off street parking monies with legal opinions supporting the approach.
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Ity
Ley
Fed
George Rutkoskie
Charles Ordinance
Clark and Sheeter
William Rowland
Rowland
State Auditor's Office
Florence Davis
Youth auto theft denied in municipal court
Richard Morris 18 of Athens Route 5 appeared in Municipal Court bound over to the grand jury under $900 bond on auto theft charges. He pleaded innocent after police said he stole a car from a local used car lot last Sunday and wrecked it Monday with a 15 year old companion to appear in Juvenile Court next Tuesday. The youths were later found with two younger boys after the collision. Morris surrendered Wednesday night. Also noted, Mrs. Julia Lash 90 died at 19 Mill Street after 54 years in Athens. George Roberts of Utley fined 25 dollars for intoxication.
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Richard Morris
Athens
Morris
Lodi
Farley Gross
Gross
Julia Lash
Altering Arms Hospital
J. B. Grogan
Athens County
Lash
Jerry C. Lash
Lena
Sheltering Arms Hospital Notes Mix Athens Residents
A fragmented hospital notes list in which multiple individuals from Athens and nearby areas are recorded as admitted or dismissed. Names include Linda Bricker Robert Bricker Mrs Orville King Ted Kasler and others with addresses in Athens Route 5 Route 2 Route 3 The Plains Albany Nelsonville and Carpenter.
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Linda Bricker
Athens
Robert Bricker
Orville King
Ted Kasler
Everett Cardwell
David Jones
Albert ‘Perry
James Mayles
Jerry Kyle
Roy Mast
Larry Niceswanger
Anca Mae Whitehouse
Gladys Ervin
John Rawlings
Carpenter
Ronald Golden
Charles Oxley
Genevieve Harner
Lucy King
Walter Young
the Plains
Clarence Winne
Albany
Jean Harthunft
Ernest Rosser
William Orr
Leonard Wilkes
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Radio Club
ED van Dyke
Buckeye Cafeteria
N. Court St
Y Driven
Carpenter St
Congress
Col Ind
Macmurray
Burt Lancaster
Anna Magnani
Tint
Vito Viton
Rosalind Rus
Eddie Albert
Gloria de Haven
Athens Boys
Waltonians
Technicolor
Darren Ooh
John Payne
Ronald Reagan
Rhonda Fleming
Coleen Gray
Mesa OF
Lost Women
Richard Travis
the Family Theatre
Logan
Nelsonville
Clark
Gable
Susan Hayward
Rory Calhoun
Marjorie Main
Violent Men
Maury
Mrs. Pyle
The
Utley
George Roberts
Sheltering Arms
Amos Hixson
Donald Johnson
Erie
Cinema Cope
Coum Walter Phdgeon
Ane
Francis Leslie Melsen Rogby, the Robot
Commonwealth
Fae
Ares Berber
Fie
Ork of
Ins
Lowell Rapp
Brigade, Inc
Richland
Area Fire
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