Ohio University Leads Third Attempt to Aid Appalachia
Ohio University President Verne Alden spearheads a third effort to fix Appalachia via the Center of Economic Opportunity. Operation Alternative partners Jaycees with regional chapters to convert manpower into local poverty relief, focusing on low cost housing and mobile school facilities.
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Appalachia
Ohio University
Vernon Alden
Alden
Harvard
Ohio
Center of
Appalachian Jaycees
Jaycees
Caswell County Jaycees
North Carolina
Ford Foundation
Murphy
N.C
Institute For Regional Development
Athens
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Gee
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
Publications Workshop to Produce Three Newspapers
Ohio University Publications Workshop will publish three student produced newspapers this week with about 1,500 participants. The Streamliner mimeo and The Offset Gazette offset and The Workshopper letterpress will each run separate campus polls on presidential candidates and feature staff advisors from Ohio University and area schools. All three papers are slated for Saturday morning release.
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Ohio University Publications Workshop
Streamliner
G. James Bryan
John Glenn High School
New Concord
Barb Koch
Adar
Offset Gazette
A. T. Turnbull
Ohio University
Richard Gentry
Jess Fardella
Bethel Park
Lawhead Press
Athens
Guido Stemple
Ross Pavlak
Cleveland Midpark
NBC Washington
Robert Goralski
Gazette
Bob Dunn
King Features Syndicate
Bruce McElfrish
Sheriff Seeks Hospitalization Insurance for Deputies
Athens County Sheriff Harold Shields asked county commissioners to include all sheriff's department employees in bids for hospitalization insurance. He cited a state law authorizing commissioners to pay all or part of the costs. At a meeting, commissioners voted to solicit bids from area insurers for coverage at the county garage, joining existing city and Nelsonville unions already covered.
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Harold Shields
Sheriff's Department
Shields
Commission
James Edwards
Athens City
Nelsonville
Ohio
Uni
Four Calls Answered By City Squad
City emergency squadmen answered four calls in the period, two on Wednesday and two on Thursday. Miss Winona McMullen, 20, of Athens Route 4, was treated for a head laceration after a fall on the sidewalk in front of 10 North Court Street and transported to Sheltering Arms Hospital. Thomas Oldfield, 38, at 122 Maplewood Drive, received oxygen en route to Sheltering Arms for a heart condition. Wanda McDonald, 22, of 142 North Lancaster Street, was taken to the hospital after falling ill at home. Ralph Wheatley, 44, at 19 Oak Street, fainted but remained conscious and declined aid.
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Winona McMullen
Athens
Wanda McDonald
N. Lancaster St
Oak St
Ralph Wheatley
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