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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1968
Page
12
Coolville and Rome Township fire crews responded to a call at 8 40 a m to the Ralph Sayre residence in Guysville. A motor on a stove caught fire causing damage only to the motor with no injuries reported.
Hocking County officials discussed maintenance and costs for more than 300 bridges on Thursday. Commissioner, prosecuting attorney, engineer, and a state auditor representative attended. The engineer outlined aging bridges and funding limits for repairs, emergencies, and bids. He noted use of stockpiled materials and a certified welder, with potential county liability reduced by certification. He also warned of a looming $75,000 auto gas fund impact if a legal action against the commissioners proceeds.
Forrest Moore, Hocking County prosecutor, faced eleven interrogatories in a case against county commissioners over a $75,000 pledge for Mulberry Street and Route 93 bridge work linked to the Route 33 relocation in Logan. The suit seeks a court order barring payment under a Nov. 23, 1966 contract with the Ohio Department of Highways. Moore’s forthcoming answers aim to show no county treasury funds or bond plan existed to cover the payments in 1966 1967 or 1968, and that the county would have paid only if not for the contract.
Two Goodyear plant workers Lewis Fellure and Earl Prose drowned when their boat hit driftwood and was pulled under a barge on the Ohio River near Burlington. Prose, a former Air Force lieutenant and local resident, is survived by a wife and children. Fellure, a married operator, leaves a wife and two daughters. Services set for Sunday at First Baptist Church Gallpolis with burial at Ridgelawn. Burial details and calling hours listed for both families.
Mrs. Nora Adkins age 96 of Letart Route died at home after a long life in Mason County. She was a daughter of Marion and Elizabeth Fry and widow of George T. Adkins. Survived by three sons a daughter three grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. Funeral at Oak Grove EUB Church conducted by Rev Don Elder with burial in the church cemetery. In Columbus Arnold Lee Browning 54 died in a Columbus Hospital. He was an artist for Big Bear Company and husband of Frances Boggs of Point Pleasant. Survived by a daughter Karen a son Robert and three sisters. Burial at Browning Cemetery in Hamlin.
Sealed bids requested by the Ohio Division of Forestry for an estimated 329 MBF of marked sawtimber on 235 acres in Raccoon State Forest Vinton County Ohio. Bid forms and information available from M A Decker Ranger Zaleski State Forest Zaleski Ohio 45696 or the Ohio Division of Forestry 815 Ohio Department Building 65 South Front Street Columbus 43214. Bids due March 14 15 and 17.
Any interested persons may file exemptions before five days prior to the hearing. Harold J. Rose Probate Judge and Sandra Vaughan Chief Deputy Clerk are referenced as the authorities.
One of the United States earliest neurological clinics opened at Massachusetts General Hospital, established by James J. Putnam in 1872, marking a pioneering milestone in clinical neuroscience.
Walter B. Iles of McArthur and Mrs. Carol Lightfoot of Logan join admitted patients along with Mrs. Clarence Wood and Mrs. Margaret A. Blume of Logan and Larry Blosser and Carl Clark of Logan. Discharges include Wallace Beck David Beavens Harold Stephenson and Mrs Edgar Cunningham.
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