Three-Way Project Aims to Cut Hocking Flood Loss
Army Engineers hear that Logan reservoir combined with Rush Creek and Hocking River works could cut Athens flood damage from 200000 to 20000 annually. Cochran notes levees not feasible for federal funding. project would relocate channel to 175 feet wide.
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Art Kuhn
Logan
Army Engineers
Hocking Basin
Logan Reservoir
Rush Creek
Hocking River
Athens
Harrington Cochran
Army Engineer Corps
Clear Creek
Hocking
Fairfield County
Cochran
Consid
Mill St
Richland Ave
Sugar Grove
Bremen
Monday Creek
McLeish
Sunday Creek
Federal Creek
Forest Fire Scarce as Rain Quiets Hazard in Ohio Counties
Rain halted a Thursday wildfire outbreak across six Ohio counties, including 70 acres burned at Eagle Two in Vinton County. Officials doubt the danger is over as sun and wind return, with arson suspected on two blazes. Fires also scorched 18 acres near Glouster and smaller areas in Morris Township and surrounding counties. Fire crews from the state, U S Forest Service, Hocking Honor Camp, Glouster and local volunteers contained the flames aided by New Straitsville Brick Co. workers. one blaze threatened an oil well near Hemlock but was kept from the rig.
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Vinton County
Ohio Division of Forestry
U.S. Forest Service
Eagle Two
Ed Chesser
Chesser
Hocking
Trimble Wildlife
Glouster
State Forestry Division
Morristown
Chauncey
Washington
Monroe
New Straitsville Brick Co
Hemlock
A&P Not For Sale Says Company Official
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. chairman John D. Ehrgett states the A P and Co is not for sale and never has been amid reports of potential purchase by the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. The remarks were made Thursday.
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A&p
New York
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
John D. Ehrgett
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Ball heads to West Germany to discuss U S European ties
Undersecretary of State George W Ball travels to Germany today to meet West German leaders on U S European relations and divisions within NATO.
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Washington
George W. Ball
Germany
Japanese Leftist Students Rally in Sasebo
About 2000 determined Japanese leftist students gathered in Sasebo today to voice protest and demand reforms amid rising political tensions. Police monitored the event as demonstrators marched through city streets.
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Sasebo
Japan
Psome
Fireman's Dilemma: Duty to Family and Community Intertwined
District Fire Warden Ed Chesser faced a dual duty when a family funeral collided with a major forest fire. He informed his aunt, aided by Chauncey-Dover and The Plains fire departments, preventing the blaze from reaching homes near Morristown Route 13. His aunt’s house, where she attended the funeral, was saved.
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Ed Chesser
Ohio Hills
Chesser
Findley F. Drescher
Morristown
Nelsonville
Anna
Chauncey-Dover
Plains Fire Departments
Route 13
Chauncey
Vatican to Vote on Revised Declarations Next Week
The Vatican Ecumenical Council is expected to approve revised declarations on the Jews and religious freedom next week. It is unlikely these declarations will be promulgated as council decrees before the next session in 1965 or 1966.
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Vatican City
Po - The _ Vatican Ecumenical Council
Ford begins large scale layoffs amid strike across U.S.
Detroit report says Ford Motor Co starts a nationwide layoff as union strikes spread to eight plants. Arjay Miller warns a full shutdown could follow by next week affecting key parts and stamping facilities feeding Ford production.
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Detroit
Mich
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Arjay Miller
United Auto Workers
Rail Unions Schedule Walkout Threatens Rail Service
Six railroad shop unions plan a strike at 6 a.m. local time on November 23 affecting most railroads. More than 150,000 shop workers are urged to prepare as federal mediators push for a wage settlement in the 17 month dispute. Other nonoperating unions may honor picket lines, with over 400,000 railroad employees potentially impacted.
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Michael Fox
J. E. Wolfe
Chicago
Johnson leads with 15.6 million vote margin in early returns
Unofficial totals show President Johnson ahead of Barry Goldwater by 15.6 million votes as 175,000 polling units report. Johnson holds 61.1 percent of 69.3 million votes with 486 electoral votes to Goldwater's 52. Final official results await absentee ballots and third parties.
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Washington
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Alabama
District of Columbia
Floods Drive Viet Cong Movement Into Central Vietnam Villages
Refugees report Viet Cong forces move openly from mountains into flooded central Vietnam valleys aided by destroyed identity papers. Amid chaos, Saigon students stage anti government protests while U S advisers warn large scale rebuilding will require extra security troops to protect engineers and aid efforts.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Nhatrang
Quinhon
Tran van Huong
Girl Aided Escapees Hid Saws In Toothpaste
A 17-year-old girl admitted smuggling three hacksaw blades into the Cuya hoga County jail in toothpaste tubes to aid four escapees. One escapee injured while descending a bedsheet rope was captured. three inmates remain at large: James E. Kennedy, 26, Columbus. William J. Moral vitz, 25, Lakewood. Edward J. Ward alias Dawson, 21, Cleveland. Kenneth E. Canda, 27, Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Gettrick
Castoday
McGettrick
James E. Kennedy
Columbus
William J. Moralvitz
Lakewood
Edward J. Ward Alias Dawson
Kenneth E. Canda
US and USSR missiles edge ahead in 1965 outlook
The Institute of Strategic Studies reports the United States will hold a lead in intercontinental ballistic missiles through early 1965 though the Soviet Union may close the gap afterward. It notes Soviet naval air power and subs growing influence, US SAC superiority in bombers, and China’s emerging nuclear capability. The report highlights China’s logistics and older fighters but acknowledges advanced nuclear tech.
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London
United States
Soviet Union
Institute of Strategic Studies
America
Strategic Air Command
Japan
Europe
China
Parking lot razing bids received in Athens
Inside The Messenger notes bids have come in for razing a parking lot property in Athens. Other brief items reference Prince Charles hair style confusion, McArthur in a regional controversy, Hocking County 4H financing needs, and a brush fire that burned about 1000 acres in Ohio Two.
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Athens
Prince Charles
McArthur
Hocking County
Ohio
Noisy local notices and obituaries in Athens area paper
Fragmentary OCR shows obituaries and editorial notes across Athens County towns including McArthur Nelsonville Pomeroy and Gallipolis with references to Gliouster Glouster and Pt. Plossamt. The unreadable text hints at community notices and obituaries rather than a single article or event.
Readers Get Sunday Bonus
Two special projects enhance the Sunday edition. Wilbur D. Mender provides an interpretative story on the Logan flood control hearing with a scaled map of the affected area. AP writer Sid Moody reports from Dallas on the Kennedy assassination with photos and profiles of key figures.
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Messenger
Wilbur D. Mender
Logan
Sid Moody
Dallas
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