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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1973
Page
7
Shawnee committee announces a three day celebration marking Shawnee Centennial and Mine Festival. Mayor Barry Hoy opens July 6 at 6 p.m. with queen and Little Miss Shawnee contests to follow.
In Columbus the Internal Security Committee hearings consider censorship of revolutionary mail entering prisons amid a flood of materials since the high court ruling on convict mail. Testimony cited publications like the Berkeley Barb and Columbus Free Press as examples entering Ohio prisons.
Logan Jaycees schedule a July Fourth Holiday at Home with two events starting at 6 p.m. Apple Max Will performs a rock concert in the racetrack center field, featuring Mike Tucker Dean Inboden Mike Brown Pete Jurgensmier and Foncee Coker. A square dance led by Bob Smith with the Star Valley Boys follows next to the Youth Building, and a children’s full-length movie begins at 6:15 p.m. Fireworks end the day as gates open at 11:30 a.m. with 25 cent admission.
The Hocking County Title Office issued 955 automobile titles in May including 238 resale 196 used retail 330 used casual 160 new and 2 conversions with 20 voids 8 replacements and one body change. Mortgage filings reached 370 with 291 cancellations. Total receipts were 2311.00 split 1800.75 to the county and 510.25 to the state. Boat titles yielded 25.50 receipts with 20.25 to the county and 5.25 to the state.
Hocking County deputies investigated two traffic crashes and three other incidents over the weekend. A Logan man missteered into an EMS ambulance near Hocking Valley Hospital injuring nothing. A second crash on Helber Road damaged a motorcycle and sent rider Newton Rooker to the hospital. A pony was shot on Stump Run Road. A Rockbridge residence was ransacked with 46 cents missing. Items were stolen from a cabin porch on Strawn Road.
Logan city police charged Francis Branham 18 Fremont and two juvenile girls with curfew violations after a 5 20 a m stop at Route 33 and Route 93 hitchhiking to Kentucky. The juveniles were picked up by their parents. Branham was remanded to county jail awaiting further action. Clifford D Stephenson 30 New Straitsville faces driving while intoxicated and speeding charges after a Falls and Mulberry Streets stop at 7 50 p m Saturday. Robert F Beougher 36 Warner Ave and William E Wright 71 Betty Ave were charged with speeding Saturday.
A motocross race is scheduled Sunday at the Athens County Cycle Park on old Route 33 between Deanville and Floodwood with a refreshment stand run by the Nelsonville volunteer firemen at the site.
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