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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1977
Page
3
Athens County Sheriff Gary Efaw says only 6 percent of serious crimes end in convictions due to understaffing. He requests seven more deputies, noting the office has 17 now, and warns further layoffs would worsen a system already strained.
The 11th annual conference at Ohio University runs Friday and Saturday with the OU Student Council for Exceptional Children and College of Education organizing. Speakers include Dr. Phillip Mann and Patricia Suiter discussing diagnostic prescriptive approaches, plus an awards banquet and materials exhibit.
Athens Metropolitan Housing Authority seeks HUD funds to build 75 low income townhouse units in The Plains with two to four bedrooms. The project faces competition from 18 counties and would use a turn key approach with bonds for remaining costs. Two sites in The Plains are under review with county officials negotiating a cooperative agreement covering services taxes and land use.
The Athens County Historical Society will meet Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. office on 100 S. May Ave. Dr. Ivan Tribe of Rio Grande College, former president, will discuss 19th Century mining towns. Officers will be elected.
Athens County Commissioners approved the West Union Street SEOEMS station contract to R.A. Brown Construction of Portsmouth for 537,480 after a bid reduction of 15,000 by using cement block and skipping an asphalt driveway and metal panels. Total station cost reaches 77,304 with most funding from ARc. county share 20 percent. Nelsonville Lumber Co. won timber work at 10,562, with rivals Clarence Fraley and Hinchcliff Products Co. also bidding. The board also planned CETA staff at a New Marshfield youth center and the county dog shelter to cut vandalism, debated subcontracting the grants administrator for local reporting, and started a trial OBES CETA eligibility cooperative.
James O'Hair of Parkersburg has been hired as the Southeastern Ohio Regional Council on Alcoholism occupational program consultant. He will develop employer based alcoholism programs for eight counties, plan an industrial program workshop, and assist Ohio University faculty and staff from the Athens office. He previously coordinated an employee counseling program near Boston and worked for West Virginia's mental health division.
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