OU Hopes To Settle E State Lease In December
Ohio University officials aim to obtain State Public Works recommendations for the former airport land lease by the OU Board of Trustees Dec 14. Neff outlined leasing procedures to five developers with revised offers due soon and earmarked parcels for a motel plus a shopping center, while Kroger, Big Bear, and Skilken vie for parcels.
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Tom Price
Ohio University
State Department of Public Works
University
OU Board of Trustees
Athens
Martin Hecht
R. Wilson Neff
Hecht
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Franklin County Common Pleas
Kroger Co
Big Bear Stores Co
Neff
Department of Public Works
Airport
E. State Street
Kroger
Big Bear
Skilken Properties, Inc
Columbus
Joseph Gill
OU trustees weigh land lease while business group backs Holiday Inn plan
Columbus developers Ciske Inc and unnamed businessmen back a Holiday Inn and travel trailer park on Home Street with alternate motel and shopping plans. Judge Flowers orders Neff to decide what serves Ohio University best, due by December 6, with final lease decisions needing both state public works and OU trustees approval. Trustees also review student enrollment declines, OU budget changes, and fundraising progress, noting a 1,231 drop in Athens campus enrollment from 18,772 to 17,541.
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Skilken
Ciske
Ohio University Inn
Robert Savage
Athens
Sowle
Trustees Finance Committee
Duncan Baxter
Alexander Board Meeting Tackles Classroom Discipline and Tax Changes
At the Shade-Area board meeting parents and teachers clashed over classroom discipline with a two hour closed session. The district approved a tax rate cut from 5.8 to 2.8 mills to raise 65800 for bonded debt retirement and adopted a new attendance policy empowering principals. Substitutes’ pay rose from 15 to 18 dollars daily, with 20 after ten days, while noncertificated staff pay stayed unchanged.
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Fred Whissel
Shade
Alexander
Alexander Board of Education
Albany
Jean Locke
Cynthia Kokis
Pat Wessels
Wessels
Ray Brooks
Brooks
Columbus
Fire damages patrolman's Selby Road home and contents
A fire heavily damaged the bedroom of Patrolman James L. Chapman and Mrs. Chapman on Selby Road with $5 000 estimated loss. Richland and Albany fire units responded. cause undetermined. Chapmans were away with three children, smoke and heat spread through the single story house.
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Selby Road
James L. Chapman
Radford Road
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Richland Area
Albany
Richland
Pete Good
Good
Chapman
Munir Dismissal Upheld by Ohio University Trustees
Ohio University trustees vote unanimously to uphold the removal of tenure for physics professor Basharat A. Munir. The decision follows a Faculty Senate committee finding Munir guilty of unprofessional and disruptive conduct after 16 witnesses testified in hearings.
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Ohio University
Basharat A. Munir
Munir
Ohio U
Claude R. Sowle
Muskingum Area Technical College
Zanesville
Bond Continued In Theft Case At Athens Court
Terry Merckle an Ohio University student pleaded innocent to shoplifting a pocket comb from Woolworths. Bond remained at 100 dollars for a November 28 hearing. Other cases included improper turns and backing with fines, driving while intoxicated with jail time and license suspension, and a sit in trespass with fines. Judge Franklin Sheeter was away, with Roger Jones filling in.
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Terry Merckle
Garnertsfelder Hall
Athens County
Woolworth’s. the
Ohio University
Helen Joan Flood
Woodward Ave
Athens
Phillip Howard
Washington Hall
Charles Atkinson
Baltimore
State Highway Patrol
James Alex McPherson
Atlanta
Lindley Hall
McPherson
Roger Jones
Franklin Sheeter
Sheeter
Election Okayed for Special Levy in Athens District
Athens County Board of Elections approves Dec 12 special election for a 6 mill operating levy in the Federal Hacking Board of Education district after two prior rejections. Fire squad aided 19 year old Miss Katie Richards after a fall on S Congress St, taken to Hudson Health Center.
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McTyre
Athens
Pat Henson
Brooks
John Lowsey
John Cogar
Athens County
Athens Fire Department
S. Congress St
Katie Richards
S. College St
Hudson Health Center
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Ciske, Inc
Jay C. Flowers
Ohio
Savage
Alumni Association
Wallace Hodes
Hode
R. L. Morton
Hoden
Portsmouth
Scioto County
Armco Steel Corp
College Rules & Regulations
Ohio University Board of Trustees
Alexander Board
Policy
Luhing Road
Union
Bill Elmore
Elmore
Shade Kindergarten
Shade Elementary
Agnes Hall
Vickie Snyder
Sheila Theiss
Vivian Munn
Helen Walls
Sharon Sturbois
Jeannette Ackerman
Jane Arbaugh
Darla Stanley
John Cornell
State Department of Education
Faculty Senate
Edward Sanford
Senate
Beaumont Davison
Bond
F&t Life
Robert O'Nail
the Plains
Metzler Agency
Valley View Circle
F&t
Nsurance Company
Syracuse
New York
Jaynes Furniture
State Street
Rose & Green
UNICO
Delbert Kasler
Mgr
Kurtz St
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