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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1966
Page
3
About 1000 visitors attended Sunday's open house for the new Alexander High School near Albany. The $1.3 million, 43 acre campus serves grades 9-12 with 400 students planned and a 24-member faculty. Superintendent Marcus Dp. Lohr Jr led a program followed by guided tours.
The Alexander Local school district may spend 13000 more next year for general fund expenses, to 606450, from 593174 current year. Increases include instruction 365000, auxiliary agencies 67600, and operation of the school plant 64000. administration may drop to 38000. Income next year expected to be in the black if voters approve a 7.4 mill operating levy renewal Tuesday.
Joe Stanley Adams 20 Brant ford Ontario conditional speeding fined 50 dollars and costs. Richard G Gardner 31 11 Far Hills Dr failure to yield right of way fined 20 dollars and costs. David William Diggle 21 Cleveland speeding fined 20 dollars and costs. Alan Ross Becker 22 Carroll no valid operator license fined 25 dollars and costs speeding 15. Lucille Mabel Verity 29 Mill field Route 1 failure to yield right of way while turning left fined 10 dollars and costs fine suspended patrol. Flossie J Lawson 50 Athens Route 1 failure to yield found guilty fined 10 dollars and costs patrol.
A patrol record lists bond forfeitures for drivers from Cincinnati to Pataskala for speeding and related offenses. William F. Butler, Kathleen Poock, Duane Sidders, Wenman Wade, Robert Harris, David Lush, Ann Romine, Garcia Workman, and Howard Frost face fines ranging from 18 to 27 dollars for offences including left of center and failure to yield.
City council opens public hearing at 7 p.m. to review a 1967 budget totaling 1 978 177 dollars. Agenda shows three new bills and a second reading for an engineering contract with Engineering Associates of Athens and Wooster to craft the street construction program. The session may discuss a parking study committee report.
The Athens County chapter of the Ohio Retired Teachers Association will be discussed at a 2 p.m. meeting Thursday in the Athens High School auditorium. Mrs. Charles McCall of Portsmouth, southeastern district director, will conduct the session and invites all retired teachers to attend.
City police reported water was being thrown from a Bromley Hall window around 1 a.m. Sunday, the action had stopped on arrival. They also noted two dogs were lost over the weekend with one found. Gerald Frank, 21, Nelsonville, ill, was taken to Sheltering Arms Hospital by the fire emergency squad from 11 West Union Street at 8:52 a.m. Monday.
Birth announcements list newborns and parents in Athens and surrounding towns. Names include Ath ens and Milford shown with families of O Loughlin Stanley White Dicken Bobo Musgrave Muter Hoisington Cheatham Hudwell King Sayre Keeney Perry Able Bail Buffington Secoy Beaty Bald Folden among others.
President Vernon B. Alden of Ohio University arrives in Saigon for a four day visit tied to a USAID contract. He will meet university officials and ministry leaders and tour the National Ward's School aiding 2300 orphans of Vietnamese soldiers.
Weather note reports warmer conditions Monday after last night's rain with thunder and lightning. Observer C L Colmer logged 50 at 10 a m after a 35 overnight low. weekend highs reached 39 and 50. Rainfall: .37 inch today, weekend total .55 inch.
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