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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1960
Page
7
Athens County April real estate activity shows 125 deeds up 41 from March and above April 1959. Mortgages filed reach 91, down seven from last year’s April, with 18 more than March. Fees total $989.70, up from March, while releases, right-of-ways, affidavits and other instruments add varied items to the month’s totals.
Salvation Army observes its week in Ohio May 22 to 29 with open house at 92 W Union St from 9 am to 5 pm Friday and Saturday. A mobile canteen and free coffee and doughnuts will be offered on Saturday outside the courthouse while uniformed workers answer questions about the organization.
Lynn Rinehart former executive secretary of the Ohio University YMCA won a Junior World Service Worker Fellowship to Lima Peru from the International Committee of the YMCA. Only two other fellowships were awarded nationwide among 65 applicants. Rinehart, a Ohio University graduate student, will serve one year with the Lima Asociacion Christiana de Jovenes under the Lima YMCA. He is a native of Parkersburg West Virginia and earned a 1958 degree from George Williams College Chicago and will receive a master’s in Human Relations in August.
No injuries reported in a two car crash on Route 33 north of Athens. James Thomas Hart, 18, Athens Route 2, struck John W. Hootman, 20, Hickville, who had stopped for turning traffic. Hart cited in Municipal Court for failure to stop within the assured clear distance.
Athens County sheriff deputies report two men were found guilty of the Ben Wagner service station robbery in Buchtel on May 3 but no charges will follow. They were later arrested in Vinton County for carrying concealed weapons and have repaid the $24.80 stolen.
Birth announcements list Mr and Mrs Gene Staley of Athens Route 3 a daughter Mr and Mrs Robert Antle Trimble Route 1 a daughter Mr and Mrs Hans Oehring Athens a son Mrs Harold Darnell Athens Herman S Dunfee Athens Virgil McLain New Marshfield Route 1 Mrs Fred Hoodlet New Marshfield Mrs Stirgil Barnett Athens Dawne Pickering Athens Dismissals Ada Tall Tuppers Plains J R Baker Athens Mrs Ray Willison Carbondale Mrs Carl Turner Ashville Route 2
Glendale resident W. Vaman ordered bound to the Athens County grand jury. Chester Stevens, 45, arraigned on non support of a five year old child in custody of Catherine Van Ness. Stevens pleaded innocent and is held on a $1000 bond in Athens County jail.
John F. Pitcher of Fanwood New Jersey and a junior at Ohio University forfeited a 16 dollar bond in Municipal Court on Friday. He had been cited by the State Highway Patrol for failure to observe a stop sign.
Ohio Fuel Gas Co announced a $30 000 service improvement program in Athens with a new $14 000 border station on Richland Ave near Dairy Ave to be completed by July 1. Additional projects include a $9000 regulator station on Euclid Ave north of E State St and pipeline work by Ohio Pipeline Construction Co Newark along E State.
An Ohio University student was arrested in connection with the theft of a car reported by Keith B. Stump a freshman. The vehicle was found in Pittsburgh and William Lee Moussianyu a sophomore from Gamnertsfelder Hall was taken into custody in nearby Menessen. Moussiany will return to Athens to face auto theft charges.
Under water repair work on a broken Ohio Fuel Co. gas line in Guysville was completed about 6 30 p m Saturday. The line broke Thursday possibly when a tree fell across the line. A diver Harry McGuffin of Pomeroy made the under water repairs. Service in the Guysville area was continued throughout the period of the break.
Roger A. Shaffer a Ohio University freshman of Johnson Hall was fined 15 and costs after pleading guilty to a State Highway Patrol charge of speeding in municipal court Thursday.
The Master Mason degree will be conferred at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Masonic Temple by Parmuthia Lodge 25 T&AM. Refreshments will be served, said Joe Jagers, master.
The Athens Elks lodge will initiate new members at 7 30 p m Tuesday. A fish fry will follow the meeting served by Kenneth Jones exalted ruler.
Mack McCutcheon 65 of Glouster Route 3 a retired miner wed Effie Cartwright 73 of Glouster Route 3 an unemployed person in a marriage license filing.
Mrs. A. B. White, 87, former Coolville resident and widow of the late A. B. White, died Sunday night at IOOF Home in Springfield. She helped run a Coolville millinery shop and general store for over 50 years and is survived by a foster daughter and 14 nephews and nieces. Funeral arrangements are under White Funeral Home.
Melvin C Circle 20 Racine cited by Athens City police for failure to stop within assured clear distance after his car collided Sunday at 2 pm with Wayne A Early 21 of 64 N High St Athens. Early slowed before turning into Wakefield's garage when struck from behind.
New members Roger Connor John Good Brandon Grover Jr M Vermillion Ross Wright Richard Bitters and David Hughes join the Athens YMCA board after a meeting addressed by area secretary Robert Taylor. Retiring directors are Edwin J. Taylor and John Clark.
Ohio aviation news reports Bridgwater Machine Co of Athens is among 12 Ohio firms funding scholarships for the Lakes Regional Aero Space Education Workshop this year.
Ohio wildlife official Everett E. Ridge discounted a reported bear sighting on McKinley Ave in Athens. He said the animal seen by a local woman was probably a raccoon and noted no bear licenses exist or are issued for pets.
Two Ohio University students pleaded innocent Monday when arraigned in Municipal Court on drag racing charges. Thomas J. Smith and Charles A. Abookine, both students, faced hearing dates while free on $100 bond. Police said they raced north on Court Street from State to Fern Street early Saturday.
Overcast and cool conditions persist with more rain possible after weekend totals of .09 inches in Athens. Sunday peaked at 71 degrees with a 56 degree low, then 65 by 10 a.m. Rural Hamley Run fell to 48 degrees after a 78 degree low yesterday.
Funeral services for Charles H. Ley 54 of 5 Elmwood Place will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday at St. Pauls Catholic Church with Requiem High Mass. Burial is in Mt Calvary Cemetery. Ley was killed Thursday in a Route 50 truck car crash seven miles east of Chillicothe. his wife Jessie 52 was injured.
Thirty nine boys and three girls will attend YMCA Camp Nelson Dodd this summer according to local chairman Doug Foss. The three Athens girls are Janet Mason Starr Wilson and Berinthia Rosenberg making Camp Nelson Dodd a coed program for the first time.
An insurance agent uses his expertise to influence public affairs by advocating sound automobile liability legislation and modern fire prevention ordinances. He campaigns to protect property, families, and the community through safer policies and regulations.
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