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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1952
Page
9
France will issue a traditional Olympic torch stamp for the 1952 Games. The design is by Franz Tsechersky of Sarrebourg France.
City of Logan and Ohio Department of Highways file a petition seeking a court order against Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to widen the Route 33 Front Street trestle from 25 to at least 60 feet and raise clearance from 12 to 14 feet. The suit claims current dimensions are unsafe and hinder growing traffic.
Logan reports a county primary focused on three commissioner contenders from Republicans Stanley Baker Harry Armstrong and Elza Ringhiser and three Democrats John Owens Keith Schultz and A M Bierly. Democrats must select between Ethel Bratton and Clara Gleason for county recorder. Polls close at 6 30 pm with returns expected by 7 30 pm.
Ray Surber and Rose Surber file damage suits totaling 50000 against Ray S Jacobs and U S Gypsum Co Inc claiming negligence caused a May 5 195 crashes rear ending their car at Front and West Streets Route 33. The plaintiffs seek 30000 and 20000 respectively for injuries mental anguish and auto damage.
A surprise birthday party was held yesterday afternoon for Mrs Norma Harden on the courthouse's first floor. She received gifts and a cake at a noon luncheon in Brandt's Restaurant. Attendees included Mrs Robert Span now Miss Jeanette Ruth Mrs Margaret Webb Mrs Emily Van Fossan Mrs Catherine Sater Miss Vivian McDonald Miss Nelle Nutt Carl Poling A R Hummel and Carl Blosser.
Logan police report details an early Monday collision at Main and Hunter streets involving Margaret Frazier 50 Lancaster and Clyde E Erwin 20 Logan. No injuries reported. Erwin fined 10 dollars plus costs in Mayor Friend's court for reckless driving.
Births noted for Mr and Mrs Denver Wess Murday City a daughter and for Mrs Joseph Reynolds Corning Route 1 plus Mrs Nellie Later Rockbridge Larry Beery Logan Route 2 and Mrs Willis P Cheetham New Straitsville Discharges include Mrs William S Miller Logan and son Russell Thompson New Straitsville and Mrs Robert Schultz and son Wellston and Mrs Sylvanus Spradlin Logan and daughter
Logan Lee Doellman, 19, a Ohio University student from Springfield, dislocated shoulder after a fall at Old Man's Cave Sunday. She was treated and released from Hocking Valley Hospital Sunday afternoon.
Elizabeth Stimmer files for divorce from Charles Stimmer of Rockbridge Route 1 alleging gross neglect and extreme cruelty and seeks alimony.
Mr and Mrs Amos Potts returned to Logan Friday after a week in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Mr Potts attended meetings of the National Ceramic Engineers Society during the trip.
Logan Hocking County cancer crusade extends through May 15, chairman Paul Stimson announced today.
Mary Evelyn Jenkins Anderson, 45, wife of Glenn K. Anderson, died at 7 a.m. at her Route 664 home near Old Man's Cave. A Mansfield native, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Florence Harper Jenkins and sister to Thomas Eldon Jenkins of Fort Worth. Services were held at Heinlein Funeral Home with Rev. Henry J. Carr. body moved to Fisher Funeral Home in McConnelsville for 3 p.m. Wednesday services, burial in McConnelsville Cemetery.
Ralph O. Stephenson, 26, of Logan, pleaded innocent in common pleas court to a driving while intoxicated charge and was bound over to the grand jury on $500 bond. He was arrested after a head on collision on Route 33 at Route 328 with Virgil M. Wood, 29, of Columbus, and jailed, with no injuries reported.
Logan reports three individuals fined in Mayor Roger Friend's court for traffic violations. Claude R Strawn 18 New Straitsville paid 10 and costs for reckless driving. William Matheny 30 Nelsonville paid 5 and costs for driving without a license. Ray E Hill 32 Columbus paid 18 and costs for speeding on Route 33. Strawn and Matheny were arrested by city police Hill by the state highway patrol.
Harry L. Smith auditor Ralph Moorhead treasurer and Joe M. Brown commissioner attended a State Board of Tax Appeals conference in Columbus today. The meeting discussed a new order on real estate valuation.
Twenty two members attended a three course dinner at Salem Center School Auditorium. Mrs Nan Moore presided over a meeting and Miss Lucille Smith led the program. Mrs Nell Davis reviewed The King and I seen in New York City.
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