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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1963

Page

2

Income Tax Study Proposed To City

A city income tax study is proposed for Athens by the Town Meeting steering committee led by Mrs Idus Murphree. Mayor Raymond Shepard would empower the capital improvements finance committee to conduct the analysis with Ohio University faculty help and to compare practices in other Ohio cities. The committee hopes a Town Meeting reassembly will discuss findings and recommendations.

Raymond Shepard Athens Community Workshop Idus Murphree Capital Improvements Finance Committee Worshop Finance Committee Ohio University Ohio Murphree George Drach Cochairmen John Good Ann Fitz-Gibbon Roger Jones Jr Jacob Mirviss Ellery Goles W. H. Kirchner William Channell Kenneth Hoggard Robert Daniel William Beale Lucille Duffee George Klare

New York City Editor To Head Ohio University Press Project

Cecil Hemley of New York City is named editor of the expanding Ohio University Press, with teaching duties in creative writing. Hemley, a veteran editor at Farrar Straus and Cudahy and co founder of Noon day Press, will lead goals to publish 22 more volumes in five years. He has written novels and poems and taught at Columbia the New School and City College of New York.

New York City Ohio University Press Cecil Hemley Vernon R. Alden Hemley Farrar, Straus and Cudahy New York Noonday Press Noonday That Press Horizon Press Harcourt, Brace and World Taylor Culbert Amherst University of Chicago Mr. Hemley Elaine Gottlieb Mrs. Hemley Nola Jonathan Rogin

Variance Granted For Home Near Burned Property

The zoning board of appeals granted a variance to Frank Harold Miller of 42 Factory St to rebuild a home in a manufacturing district after his prior house burned. Three members approved after earlier denial by the building inspector. The fire caused $21,000 damage during March floods with firemen battling the blaze as water surrounded the house.

Zoning Board of Appeals Frank Harold Miller Factory St Miller

Ex-Resident Is Promoted at Woolson Spice Co Toledo

John M. Barron of Toledo formerly resident of New Marshfield was elected vice president of Woolson Spice Co Toledo. He leads the grocery products division after 16 years with the firm rising from salesman to sales manager. Barron is a New Marshfield High School and Mountain State Business College alumnus.

John M. Barron Toledo Joseph Barron New Marshfield Woolson Spice Co Barron Mountain State Business College Parkersburg W. Va

Ten More Drawn for May Term Grand Jury List

The names of 10 additional persons were drawn Wednesday for the grand jury list for the May term of Common Pleas Court. The list includes Norman Dean Alma Davis Doris Bennett Monte Davis Athens Wilmena Mender Gary L. Dean Genevieve Starkey Nelsonville Clara Taylor Gertrude Snackenburg Nelsonville and Presley Winner Stewart.

Common Pleas Court Norman Dean Alma Davis Doris Bennett Monte Davis Athens Wilmena Mender Gary L. Dean Genevieve Starkey Nelsonville Clara Taylor Gertrude Snackenburg Presley Winner Stewart

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