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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1962
Page
2
More than 250 projects fill the Athens High School auditorium for a public Science Fair running from Monday to Wednesday. Students from eighth to tenth grade present varied topics from anatomy to nuclear fission with many reports. some live animals are displayed.
County election officials report about 50 registrations as the deadline for the May primary nears at 4 p m Wednesday. The notice also enforces a curfew for new addresses and requires residents who have not voted in two calendar years to re register. Thomas J. Janeck 23 Cleveland unsafe operation 36 William W McCandlish 28 Bremen no mud flaps 16 cited by the State Highway Patrol and municipal court.
City officials awarded four contracts opened last week. Kinneer Motors won the service safety director's 1962 auto bid at 1630 dollars. Ashland Oil Columbus gets 20000 gallons of asphaltic dust control and 10000 gallons for street seal coating at 11.98 a gallon. Earl Harris Marietta bids 6.60 per ton for 500 tons cold mix. Shamrock Quarries and Diamond Stone Quarries Albany split the limestone and base work bids at 2.15 and 2.00 per ton respectively.
Firemen used a booster hose to extinguish a blaze in a 1954 auto owned by Sam Jasper at 8 Sunnyside Dr. at 5 55 p.m. Monday. The cause was listed as a short in the wiring and the fire destroyed part of the interior wiring under the hood and dash and burned the paint.
Sol Rosenberg an Athens businessman was elected president of the Rotary Club at a noon Berry Hall luncheon. Other officers named were Burton DeVeau as vice president, Kenneth Ackermaan as secretary, and Charles Ramseth as treasurer. The board includes Carl Roberts John Good and Gaige Paulsen with installation set for July 1.
Athens High School bands and chorus received superior ratings in the district competition at Ironton. The band led by Walter Suchanek performed Ariane Overture Hall of Fame March and Introduction and Invention. Chorus directed by Mrs. Sue Sheeder sang There Is Sweet Music Here With a Voice of Singing and The Blue Swan. A guest speaker noted rising baseball competition in the MAC. D H Sams was named a Kentucky Colonel.
George William Troy aged 40 of Parkersburg West Virginia was sentenced by Common Pleas Court to three days in jail for driving while intoxicated. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs and had his driving privileges suspended for three months after a February 24 appearance. Troy pleaded innocent earlier and was found guilty after a no contest plea.
The Plains home of Vera West saw a grass fire started by burning paper from a container at 10 a.m. Eight firefighters controlled about one acre of land after Chief Basil Cullison urged residents to exercise extreme caution with outdoor burners during this dangerous time of year.
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