City R C and Jaycees push recreation facility upgrades
The city recreation commission and Jaycees seek to improve downtown parking and youth recreation spaces while awaiting completion of updates at W State Street and Sells Park. Plans include a $700 ballfield building with donated labor and a WOUB broadcast funding request as Athens High earns regional basketball nods.
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Ping
W. State St
Sells
Raymond Shepard
City Recreation Committee
Shepard
Athens High
Columbus council weighs budgets and street projects
The Columbus council discussed removing a Dumond ordinance for engineering services on a major Columbia Ave. street job. First reading was given to vacate five unused streets in the Urban Renewal area for Ohio University. They reviewed liquor permit transfers and applications, and heard anti litter ordinance proposals from Mary Prakas and others. Court figures show February totals of 239 cases and 4,019.50 in fines. March totals were 227 cases and 3,680.25 in fines plus municipal traffic costs. The next meeting is 7 p.m. April 5 with a public hearing on rezoning Richland Ave and a potential Stimson Ave traffic study.
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Eee
Dumondord
Columbia Ave
Council
Ohio University
State Department of Liquor Patrol
Marvin Donald Moore
W. Union St. Mary
Crewson
Ohio Municipal League
Municipal Traffic Bureau
Richland Ave
Stimson Ave
Dun
Beautification Group Proposes Plantings At Athens Entrances
Athens beautification committee proposes a $1500 plan to plant white pines along Route 33 north entrances and evergreens with flowering shrubs by Route 50E shops. Planned additions include crab apples, ground cover, and light stone around trees at a new College Street parking site.
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Athens
Goff Dunfee
Dunfee
Buckeye Mart
College St
Fish Habits Topic At Kiwanis Meet In Logan
Logan mayor Jack Moorehead and guests attended the Kiwanis session where Billy discussed fish habits in district lakes during National Wildlife week. He described nets recording reproduction rates and a creel census by wardens from April to June to gauge anglers success and lake desirability.
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Logan
Jack Moorehead
Billy
Billy Fodbie
Nate Lakes
Ohio
May
New Officer Takes Post at Athens Patrol Post
Ohio State Patrol announces Sgt. Ronald T. Fannin has reported for duty as commander of the Athens post. Fannin, formerly stationed in Zanesville, joins the patrol since 1949 and succeeds Roger Wilson, now sergeant major at district headquarters in Jackson.
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Ohio State Patrol
Ronald T. Fannin
Athens
State Highway Patrol
Fannin
Zanesville
Roger Wilson
Jackson
Extremist Speakers Scheduled for Ohio University Campus
Lincoln Rockwell head of the American Nazi Party and a leader of the Ohio Communist Party will speak at Ohio University next month as part of the Bush Hall government symposium.
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Bush Hall
Lincoln Rockwell
American Nazi Party
Ohio Communist Party
Ohio University
OU Senior Receives Lasher Living Legacy Grant
Ronald McMillen a senior in Ohio University School of Journalism is named recipient of the George Starr Lasher Living Legacy endowment providing 300 dollars annually for a New York visit during spring vacation. He is managing editor of the Ohio U Post and previously interned at Memorial Hospital in Fremont.
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Ronald McMillen
Ohio University School of Journalism
George Starr Lasher
L. J. Hartin
New Yorkty
School of Journalism
Ohio U
Kenneth A. Barnette
Tonawanda
N.Y
Robert R. Rodgers
Ithaca
New York
McMillen
E. B. McMillen
Knox
Ohio U. Post
Memorial Hospital
Fremont
Perkins Hall
Birth Report From Sheltering Arms Hospital
A birth is recorded to Mr and Mrs Gerald Weekley with a son born in Athens. Multiple admissions include Vern Scott Glouster Route 3 Marcia Shull Athens William Gabriel Albany Gail Currie Athens Leroy Cross Athens Route 5 William Runyon Athens Roy Wilson Athens Everett Males Athens Route 4 Harry Linscott Millfield Route 1 Mary Rood Athens Steven Shover Glouster Route 5. Discharges include Mrs Don Mace and daughter The Plains Mrs Douglas Harrington Athens and Mrs James Roy Millfield Route 1.
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Gerald Weekley
Athens
Vern Scott
Glouster
Marcia Shull
William Gabriel
Albany
Gail Currie
Leroy Cross
William Runyon
Roy Wilson
Everett Males
Harry Linscott
Millfield
Mary Rood
Steven Shover
Don Mace
the Plains
Douglas Harrington
James Roy
Athens Commissioners Buy Two Dump Trucks
The county commissioners awarded a contract to Beasley-Matthews Inc. for two dump trucks at 9419.46. Other bids ranged from 9640 to 9734, with Motor City 9549.20 and Penne Implement Co. 9. The trucks will have 144 inch beds and were to be mounted for use.
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Beasley-Matthews Inc
Bob Hess
Motor City
Storers
Penne Implement Co
City Planning Group May Alter Late Community Plan's Future
The City Planning Group weighs possible changes to the long delayed comprehensive community plan at a 3 pm Thursday meeting. Officials discuss extending the contract, potential turnover to Turner and Pabst, and completion status of mapping, land use, water supply, and transportation analyses.
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John Pabst
Clark Turner
Yellow Springs
Edward Hurley
Lanning
Pabst
Planning Commission
DOD
Arnall T. Connell
Connell
Washington, D. C
Hensive
Hurley
Athens
Turner and Pabst
City Increases S Congress Street Width For Utilities
Safety Director Dwight Robinson announces widening of S Congress St between Washington and Union to 34 feet for three lanes. Columbia Gas and General Telephone crews begin work, add an eight inch gas line and a six cable conduit to Bromley Hall area. Project cost about 16000 dollars with sewers to be built by Sam and Richard Grim of Athens.
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S. Congress St
Bromley Hall
Dwight Robinson
W. Washington
W. Union St
Robinson
Ohio U
Congress St
Columbia Gas
Union
Washington
Columbia Gas Co
South Bridge
President St
Washington St
High St
Bromey Hall
General Telephone
Congress and
Washington Sts
Congress
Ohio University
Richland Ave
Sam
Richard Grim
Athens
Rotarians Gather in Athens for 1965 District 669 Convention
Athens hosts the 1965 District 669 Rotary convention at Ohio University Inn with sessions starting 3 p.m. Friday chaired by Dr. Edward P. Lynn. Activities include a district banquet, a play by Ohio University School of Fine Arts, and a Governor's Banquet at Baker Center with entertainment by the Athens Rotary and the Ohio University Singers. The event ends with Del Ray show and Auld Lang Syne. Temperature notes record a high of 49 and a low of 25 with a later 11 a.m. reading.
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Bill Peeper
Athens
District 669
Ohio University Inn
Edward P. Lynn
Athens Rotary
Carl Roberts
Ohio University School of Fine Arts
Ohio University
Baker Center
Lawrence Worstell
Ohio University Singers
Eugene Wickerstrom
del Ray
Colmer
U.S
Flag Seen Over Bromley Hall Sparks Gag Talk
Sidewalk superintendents report a green flag atop Bromley Hall in the South East corner on Tuesday. Lloyd Hardman, field coordinator, says the flag is just a gag with no official meaning and no cut or ceremony attached.
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Flag
Bromley
Bromley Hall
Lloyd Hardman
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