Fraud Evidence Prompts Ballot Disqualification in Athens Precinct
The Athens board of elections threw out about 30 ballots after fraud indicators emerged in Ward 4 Precinct 3. C. E. Handley said Wakefield gains edge in unofficial count, six votes separating him from Edwards, with six officials replaced for suspected involvement.
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Athens
Board of Elections
C. E. Handley
W. H. Wakefield
Handley
Ward 4
Precinct 3
James F. Edwards
Nelsonville
Wakefield
County Board Approves 1957 Budget for Ath ens County
The Ath ens County board of education approved a tentative 1957 budget for the superintendent’s office at its Saturday meeting. Salaries for two county supervisors will be included. The board discussed the joint Ohio School Boards Association and Ohio Association of School Administrators convention in Columbus from Monday to Wednesday, with County Superintendent George Christman planning to attend.
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Athens
County Board of Education
State Board of Education
Ohio School Boards Association
Ohio Association of School Administrators
Columbus
George Christman
Firemen Respond to Three Alarms in 36 Minutes
Chief Charles W. Dalton reports three alarms sound in rapid succession Monday evening. A grass fire near the Vanadium Tool Co. plant on Stewart Street started the sequence at 6:52 p.m. Dr. P. J. Woodworth’s home at 36 Utah Place saw a smoky basement when a radio burned out. A third alarm at 7:18 p.m. involved burning leaves at W. Washington and S. High, quickly extinguished by engine booster water.
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Charles W. Dalton
Vanadium Tool Co
Stewart St
P. J. Woodworth
Utah Pl
Harland Harris
W. Washington
World Trip Impressions Shared By Dr Felsinger At Rotary
Dr Margaret J Felsinger associate professor of education at Ohio University described a 53 day world trip comparing it to Jules Verne. She noted friendliness in most nations visited in the Far and Near East but not Athens Greece. The talk included colored slides and registration offered for an intercity meeting in Nelsonville with a post dinner club tour of the new tuberculosis hospital.
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Jules Verne
Athens
Rotarians
Margaret J. Felsinger
Ohio University
Felsinger
Far East
Near East
Greece
Nelsonville
Logan
Methodist Church
Hospital Notes and Athens High School Concert
Admission records list several new and returning patients from Columbus, Athens, Amesville, The Plains and New Marshfield. A light concert program by the Cresburg High School arch erain was held at Athens High School with a 70 piece ensemble under Frank Gelber and conductors Thomas Stubbs and Dr Karl Ahrendt.
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Cersburg High School
Archerain
Athens High School
Frank M Gelber
Thomas Stubbs
I Karl Ahrendt
OU J School of Music
Albany street paving project moves ahead on Washington Street
Workers began laying hot mix on W Washington St between S Lancaster and ELECTION SLATED Shafer according to Franz Wood Albany Lodge 723 officers. The paving was to be completed today with a meeting at 8 p.m and meals to be served, said Ald Beckley master.
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W. Washington St
S. Lancaster
Shafer
Franz Wood
Albany Lodge
Worth
F&am
Washington St
Ger
Ald A. Beckley
Four Dead Are Identified in Tragic Interstate Crash
Four passengers in a single automobile were identified after a wreck near an intersection. Truck driver Robert Carson, 26, of Bloomsburg Pennsylvania and Kenneth Riggs, 18, Athens, were among the dead. Time of the 2:15 a m crash was given by the State Highway Patrol, but identification awaited coroner’s findings.
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Messenger
Don Moore
Robert Carson
Bloomsburg
Kenneth Riggs
Athens
State Highway Patrol
Coolville
Colville
Mecsatie Ceden Esot
Olivia
Jack White
W. T. Phillips
Athens youths receive vaccine at new gym site
About 210 Athens school children were given first or second polio shots this morning at the new gym per Don Thomann, the high school principal. The vaccine was offered by the Athens City-County Health Department to all city pupils in elementary and junior high. Three Athens board of education members attended the Ohio School Boards Association convention in Columbus, with joint sessions held with the Ohio Association of School Administrators.
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Athens
Don Thomann
Athens City-County
Athens Board of Educaion
Ohio School Boards Association
Columbus
Don R. Clippinger
Homer T. Baird
William H. Herbert
Ohio Association of School Administrators
Our Town Play Final Rehearsals At Local High School
The 1HS production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder moves toward Friday night performance after weeks of trials. director Mrs Charleen Davis notes weather and construction noises and a shortage of black umbrellas as challenges, while focusing on the Gibbs and Webb families in Grover's Corners New Hampshire.
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1HS
Chinery
George Gibbs
Emily
Webb
Lcon
Our Town
Charleen Davis
Ber
Black Umbrellas
Ohio University
Davis
Thornton Wilder
Lves
Gibbs and Webb
Grover's Carner, N. H
Mercury Dips to 20 as Winds Chill Hamley Run Area
Early today the low reached 20 degrees at 7 am from Hamley Run rural station. Athens records show 28 degrees at 11:30 am per Observer C L Colmer. Strong west winds followed a high of 60 yesterday with weekend highs 50 47 and 70.
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Hamley Run
Athens
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Cline
Clair Berry
Central
Morris Ave
Maplewood Drive
John Dowler
Charles Jump
Edith Bahr
John H. Preston
Len McCune
Harold Pierce
East Side
EUB
Ohio Ave
Berry
Stimson & Palmer
D. H
Jonesy) Sams
New York Stock Exchange
Hamilton
Dayton
Cincinnati
Charleston
Wheeling
Frigidaire Appliances
N. Court St
Athens, Ohio
Conesco
George Roberts
Mgr
Main St
Pomeroy
Gallipolis
Ernest Johnson
Paul Weise
Ardath Durfee
Amesville
David Strawn
Blaine Grubb
Roy Llewellyn
New Marshfield
J. A. McCallan
Deborah McGraner
the Plains
Charles McGraner
George Sanborn
Patrick White
Earl Ervin
Nina Harris
Rudolph Barnett
Cussins and Fearn Store
Ohio
Betty Newton
Ruth
Mercury
Personé Columbus, CO
Athens Pharmacy
Court St
Prophetic Crusade
National Guard
Carpenter Sts
U.S
Earth
Arthur D. Leach
John Loveridge
Newark
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