City Sets Two Day Garbage Pickup During Clean Up Week
Athens schedules three two day collection periods for waste from residents during the annual Clean Up week observed Monday through Saturday. Safety Service Director Franz E. Woodworth directs routes with east and west sections and outlying districts including Peach Ridge Road Strouds Run Road and Mechanicsburg area to be collected on specified days. Mayor Kenneth W. Sands urges citizen cooperation as the event is set by city ordinance for the first week in May.
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Court and Grosvenor Sts
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Peach Ridge Rd
Strouds Run
Mechanicsburg
Kenneth W. Sands
Explorers Day trip includes Columbus visits and Philmont talk
29 Hock-Hocking District Explorer Scouts and leaders toured the Air Defense Filter Center in Columbus, the Naval Marine Training Center, and the Ohio State Museum during Explorers Day. They viewed a Philmont film in Athens and heard Eagle Scout Dick Life recount adventure at Philmont in 1956.
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Hock-Hocking
State Capitol
Naval Marine Training Center
Ohio State Museum
Athens
Philmont
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Dick Life
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Athens Sailor Survives Four North Atlantic Storms Aboard Corregidor
MM 2 C Ralph Rodehaver of Athens Route 4 served on the aircraft carrier Corregidor damaged in a brutal North Atlantic sequence. The ship faced four storms from Naples to the Azores with a 60 foot wave cracking the hull near the forward engine room. Rodehaver, a machinist mate second class, writes home of the repairs and his family joins him in Mobile after the voyage.
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Jacksonville
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Newly Organized Cub Pack 77 to Receive Charter in May
Wesleyan Methodist Church sponsors Cub Pack 77 has completed its charter application and will receive the charter at the May meeting. Howard Romine named institutional representative, Parker Walker chairs the pack committee, and Ralph Wigal serves in a role yet to be defined.
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George McGarvey
Merrill Auckland
Andrew E. McGarvey
I. L. Shanafelt
Lenoyd Cargill
Russell Cargill
Bruce Johnson
David McCaulsky
Dennis McGarvey
Michael Wigal
Barry Wolfe
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Cub Pack
Howard Romine
Parker Walker
Athens real estate man Allen E. Locke opens office at 28 S Congress
Allen E. Locke, longtime partner in Buck, Locke and Slagle, announces new real estate and insurance office at 28 South Congress Street in Athens. A World War II veteran and Ohio University graduate, Locke has worked in Athens since 1947 and is married with three children.
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Buck, Locke and Slagle
Athens
S. Congress St
Locke
Ohio University
Two Men Fined in Municipal Court for Intoxication
Dean Maxwell of Athens Route 4 was fined 75 dollars plus costs and Harry W. Webb of First Street was fined 50 dollars plus costs, with three days in jail after pleading guilty to intoxication charges. Pack 64 of Nelsonville introduced its new pack committee and assistant scoutmaster, and awarded badges and pins to cubs in a Keep America Beautiful themed display contest.
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Dean Maxwell
Athens
Nelsonville
Bill Leffler
Robert Guess
Clyde Shingler
Paul Daugherty
William Friedrich
Webelos den
Robert Lent
Cameron Brooker
David Ludlow
Jimmy Joe Guess
Timothy Jacobs
Steven Shingler
Terry Morman
Wayne Lewis
James Lent
Mike Guess
Bobby Poling
John Fiske
David Thompson
Den 3
America
Explorer Survival Training Hike Planned by Kootaga Area Council
The Kootaga Area Council will hold its annual Explorer Survival Training Hike May 17 and 18 at Camp Kootaga near Parkersburg West Virginia. Explorers aged three to six per crew under a elected leader will face problems in first aid fire making conservation ropework trail cooking communications and camp engineering during a 24 hour period.
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Kootaga
Albany Troop 50 Sees Charter Presented At Church
Neighborhood Commissioner Richard Rypma presented the new charter to Scout master Max Crabtree at Albany Methodist Church. Advancements included First Class awards for David Wiseman Don Clark Virgil Bowler. Second Class for Edward Bradley Paul Blough Ricky Smith. Tenderfoot recipients Robert Cain Larry Cain Barry West Robert Whitlatech Robert Stinson. A family night followed with parents observing a troop meeting and a Q and A session with scouts. May Cub Scout orientation for parents will be at the Presbyterian Church in Athens Monday at 7 30 p.m. Application cards available for boys wanting to join cub scouts.
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Albany Methodist Church
Richard Rypma
Max Crabtrees
David Wiseman
Don Clark
Virgil Bowler
Edward Bradley
Paul Blough
Ricky Smith
Robert Cain
Larry Cain
Barry West
Robert Whitlatech
Robert Stinson
Crabtree
Presbyterian Church
Athens
Potatoes Show Higher Vitamin C than Citrus, Idaho Expert Says
University of Idaho horticulturist Walter Sparks states potatoes supply more Vitamin C than any other source including citrus fruits. This claim highlights the vegetable as a major nutrient source.
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University of Idaho
Walter Sparks
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