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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1968
Page
3
Registration for the Hocking Valley Day Camp opens Monday at Hawk Community Center 482 Richland Ave. The three week program serves three and four year olds, running daily from morning until around noon through July 19. Ruth Anna Valmer leads the program.
Harold Watson is named to the 100 Club as a top Lincoln Mercury salesman at Ray Riges Lane. He joins the top third of Lincoln Mercury salesmen after three years in the trade. Mrs Kenneth Wulff leads the Day Camp this year with three assistants in service. The Day Camp is part of the Hocking Valley Day Sessions Inc a non profit. Trustees include Mrs Paul Koons manager of the Day School Mrs Wesley Marshall manager of the summer program and Sheppard Black representative of the Community Arts Council.
Mountain State College of Parkersburg announces IBM 1140 computer programming courses starting September 9 for all students in business administration and secretarial science. Special day and night classes will cover data processing with a regular yearly laboratory fee, plus a promise of practical, hands-on learning and career-ready skills.
Mrs. Etter 42 of Cloverdale had charges dismissed for filing under wrong section. Second degree homicide by a smatter vehicle manslaughter charge remains for trial over the June 17 crash that killed Donald J. Malcom, a 23 year old Ohio University student from Middletown. Judge Franklin Sheeter noted the manslaughter charge is a misdemeanor except when driving while intoxicated. Etter denied all charges. her husband works on a Nelsonville construction project.
City officials expect state and federal officials to approve about twenty thousand dollars in flood relief funds to repair streets damaged in May. The travel team from the Ohw Department of Highways and the federal Bureau of Public Roads will inspect the Fast End sector and may authorize additional payments as inspections continue.
Wayne Allen Davis, 27, of Cleveland, faces a concealed weapon charge in Athens County Municipal Court. Arrested March 1 during a narcotics probe, he previously had a hung jury on narcotics possession and sale in Common Pleas Court. Davis, a former Ohio University student, faces potential fines up to 500 dollars and up to one year in jail for the misdemeanor first arrest under a new state law.
A Lancaster man, Robert John Travis Jr aged 24, was cited by the State Highway Patrol for speed too great for road conditions after a one car crash on County Road 3 near Route 664. His vehicle overturned on a rain slick curve but he was not injured.
The list records admissions and transfers for Sheltering Arms Hospital. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hine Jr of Buchtel with a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McGrath of Shade Route 1 with a daughter, Thomas W Oldfield, Richard C. Dodd of Athens, Jeffery and Michael Gipson of Palestine, W. Va, Juanita Henderson of Albany Route 1, Mrs. Gail Smith of Amesville Route 1, Mrs. Robert Angle of Glouster Route 2, Clyde Stanley, Lew Marshfield Route 1, Charles L. Barrows, Ethel Cartwright, Mrs. James Mescher, William M. Bolin of University Hospital Columbus, James P. Cumley to Grant Hospital Columbus, and James De Weese to Huntington Hospital in West Virginia.
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