City May Rent Airport For $500 A Month
Athens City Council moved to advertise rental of the old E State airport for $500 monthly as city university contention over keeping the facility during transfer to Albany grows. Ohio University protests the price while residents fear summer disruption, with council planning a five week ad period and OU to operate the airport in the interim.
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Tad Grover
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City Council Considers Criminal Code Revisions
Athens officials and Ohio University students proposed three new laws and repeal of two existing ordinances. They plan to add obstructing a sidewalk and stop and frisk while removing vagrancy and suspicious persons rules. Updated laws cover alcohol in vehicles DUI trespass and rail obstruction with new hallucinogen penalties.
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Harry Pettigrew
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County School Board rejects rehiring Mrs Perry 3 2
Athens County School Board deadlocks 3 2 to not rehire assistant clerk Jean Perry whose contract runs to August. The vote followed debate over superintendent Christman’s future staff and came as the board pursued office curtailment and attendance officer renewals.
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Floyd Dillinger
Dillinger
National forecast prints scattered rain and chill in Midwest
The forecast calls for rain and showers across much of the Midwest and Mississippi Valley Tuesday with Wyoming to see snow flurries. Colder air moves into the upper Midwest while the Deep South warms. Yesterday’s high reached 85 and the low 53. precipitation for yesterday was 0 inches, total this month 3.9 inches, year to date 12.44 inches, 3.08 inches below normal.
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Ohio University coed receives suspended term in larceny case
Barbara Daugenaux of Boyd Hall was sentenced in Athens County Municipal Court to 15 days suspended jail time after pleading guilty to petit larceny for stealing a bed sheet worth $4.99. She must continue psychiatric treatment with monthly doctor reports to the judge. Several others forfeited bonds for offenses including petit larceny and intoxication in related court actions.
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Barbara Daugenaux
Boyd Hall
Deborah Sevold
Miss Daugenaux
Dean Brandt
Pickering Hall
Petit Larceny
Logan’s
Carol Gahagan
W. Washington St
Jeffrey Grant
Brown Hall
Everett Jones
Perkins Hall
Robert Suimpert
Brown Ave
Phu Duc Vu
Mill Street
Orville Dean III
W. Washington
Earl Seel Albany
Barbara Roth
Byers Hall
A&p
James Edward Mayle
Athens
Wilkesville Post Hosts To Meeting
The Wilkesville Joseph Freeman Post 476 American Legion Auxiliary hosted the District 8 Junior Legion Conference with about 72 youths and 24 adults in attendance. Guest speakers were Harold Cottrill district eight commander and Raymond Long mayor of Wilkesville. The auxiliary elected Mary Helm president and others including Juanita Burns first vice president Dorothy Long second vice president Erma Newsom secretary Mildred Strausbaugh treasurer Jenny Cottrill historian Evelyn DeVault chaplain and Evelyn Napper sergeant at arms. Delegates for the district convention on June 3 include Mary Helm Dorothy Long Mildred Strausbaugh and Thelma Campbell.
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Joseph Freeman
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Junior Legion
Harold Cottrill
Raymond Long
Mary Helm
Juanita Burns
Dorothy Long
Erma Newsom
Mildred Strausbaugh
Jenny Cottrill
Evelyn DeVault
Ohio University hosts undergraduate program institute
The Ohio University English Department sponsors an institute on undergraduate programs with speakers Kenneth Eble from Utah and Thomas Wilcox from Connecticut. A 10 a.m. to noon panel in Baker Center room 327 leads into 2 to 3 p.m. talks in Ellis Hall room 111 for undergraduates, followed by 3 to 4 p.m. sessions for graduates and teaching assistants in the same room.
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University of Utah
Thomas Wilcox
University of Connecticut
Baker Center Room
Ellis Hall
Children’s Fire Rumor Sparks at Sunnyside Drive
Children playing with matches started a fire in trash behind 92 Sunnyside Dr Monday afternoon. Athens firemen arrived at 4 20 p m and extinguished burning leaves and pine cones with no damage reported.
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