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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1967
Page
5
Area death notices list multiple rural Ohio communities including Glouster Gallipolis and Syracuse with details of last rites burial and calling hours for James Albert Allen Gertrude Tippie Thomas Eynon Leona McLain Nicholas Thivener John Coleman Paula Saxon and others. Services note church affiliations veteran status and family survivors across Pike Gallia and Lawrence counties with several cemeteries referenced.
Cincinnati cattle and hog markets show a mixed, steady to downbeat tone with steers near 25.50 for chosen weights and hogs 25 to 40 cents lower for No 1-2 190-230 lb, while sows fall 50 cents and boars ease. Columbus reports Ohio Dept of Agric prices for grains with No 2 red wheat down 1-3 cents and corn mostly 1.87 per bushel, oats steady around 69 cents, soybeans down 2-3 cents.
The Athens recreation department offers social dancing for adults with classes at 8:30 p.m. starting July 1 at the Columbia Gas of Ohio office on Route 50E. Dr. Fred A. Phillips will teach sessions on July 1 15 29 and August 12 and 19. For details call Peg Quisenberry or Bob Burson, or mail a registration form with a stamped return envelope to the city recreation director at Athens High School.
A 160 million year old set of Anchisauripus footprints from the Triassic period were uncovered in Rocky Hill State Park, Connecticut, when a bulldozer digging for a highway department laboratory exposed the fossil trackway.
Herbert Bryan Hine Jr., 18, of Buchtel, pled guilty in Juvenile Court to acting to cause a minor's delinquency by furnishing beer to a boy. He was sentenced to six months in county jail with three suspended, placed on two years of strict probation, and ordered to pay court costs.
Jack Paul Dillon, 43, of Nelsonville, is charged with embezzling 2523.11 while he was manager of Athens Food Giant. He pleaded innocent in Municipal Court and was bound to the grand jury on a $3000 bond. The alleged theft occurred May 24. the store has since appointed a new manager.
Point Pleasant fire crews responded at 2 45 a m Friday to a blaze eight miles east on Route 35. The old Hereford residence owned by Dr Leonard Brown burned to the ground. A passing salesman reported the fire while Mason County sheriff's department and State Police investigate the cause.
The 67 acre Meigs Local District site for a new high school was bought Friday morning. A $49 560 check was given to Mr and Mrs William Carman in attorney Fred W Crow's office. Meigs board representatives included Bernard Fultz Richard Jones E O Ball and Lee McComas. The site lies beside Salisbury Elementary near Rock Springs and will serve Pomeroy Middleport and Rutland communities now merged.
Zone 16 of the Ohio State Mental Retardation Committee will meet Saturday at the Ohio University Inn to discuss facilities for retardation instruction and a home tutoring program for mentally retarded youths. Herschel Nisonger and the Rev. William Black will help conduct the 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. program with about 25 state and area committee members and laymen. Zone 16 covers Athens Meigs Gallia Perry Washington Morgan Hocking and Vinton counties. John Chapman roamed Ohio and Indiana in the early 19th century preaching the gospel and dropped apple seeds along the way becoming Johnny Appleseed.
The forecast shows temperatures averaging below normal from Saturday through Wednesday with daily highs in the 70s to 80s and lows mainly in the 50s to 60s. Expect warmer weekend then cooler overall, with 0.5 inch or more of rainfall mainly as showers or thundershowers over the weekend.
An old promotional piece argues Volkswagen vehicles offer low depreciation and savings on repairs. It compares resale values of a 1967 VW to domestic cars, noting three and five year depreciation, and suggests buying a VW may yield long term wealth through savings and resale.
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