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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1962
Page
2
The city will sell 10 steelcraft two apartment dwellings on Highland Ave after December 7 when the sale ordinance takes effect. Most occupants have moved out. several families already vacated. Dwellings will be sold separately, with inspections open daily next week from 9 to 3.
Mr and Mrs Roy Cross of Athens welcome a daughter. Admitted and discharged lists include residents from Trimble Millfield Athens Logan Nelsonville and Youngstown. Seaway cargo through Montreal Lake Ontario section reached 3 873 000 tons in October.
A long list of property transfers in Athens County and nearby townships shows many parcels traded between residents and local entities. Notable movements include multiple tracts in Glouster Lee Dover and Trimble Township, with buyers and sellers from Athens Columbus and beyond.
WOUB TV at Ohio University will begin public broadcasting in December. The 814 foot tower, construction delayed by material shortages, is nearing completion late in the year.
Funeral services are set for Sunday at 2 p.m. in The Plains Methodist Church for Robert Hawk 69 native of The Plains died Wednesday at Veterans Hospital Cincinnati. He is survived by wife Ira Nash Hawk and brother Fletcher of The Plains. another brother Roy had died earlier. Military rites will be at Green Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call at Peonles funeral home in Lowell Friday and Saturday.
U S Observer C L Colmer reports frigid Athens temperatures Friday with a 22 degree low and 12 degree reading at 10 a m. By Thanksgiving morning the sun appeared and the Mercury rose to 58 degrees before colder winds dropped it to 38 and held.
A former Athens resident, Robert V. Kirkendall, 33, now of Indianapolis, Ind., pled guilty to forgery and issuing a check without funds. He was sentenced Wednesday by Common Pleas Court to two concurrent terms in the Ohio State Penitentiary after bypassing the grand jury. A city police report says he signed his uncle’s name on one check and wrote the other for seventy dollars.
Robert Stalder of Riverside Dr pleaded innocent in Municipal Court to a charge of property conversion. He was bound over to the grand jury on a $200 bond. The charge, filed by Wendell Calendine of Athens Route 2, alleges Stalder sold a deep well pump and tank valued at $70 and kept the money.
An auto driven by Marlene Janet Cole backed from a supermarket lot into another car at 4 30 p m in Athens Route 3. The other driver Frank H Gifford was 82 from Amesville. Cole was cited for improper backing and both autos were heavily damaged.
Three drivers were fined 100 dollars and costs and given three day jail sentences by Athens County Judge George Schoon after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated. Francis Douglas 50 Albany Route 2 Glenn Bickel 64 Columbus and Ernest Mingus Jr 37 Jacksonville were arrested after accidents near Nelsonville. Douglas struck an embankment on Route 33 and Mingus upheld a chin laceration. Bickel’s car veered off Happy Hollow Road into a creek.
Final official results show Democratic Sen. Frank J. Lausche winning a second term with a 692,640 vote plurality over Republican John Marshall Briley of Toledo. Secretary of State Ted W. Brown led the slate with 621,882, securing his sixth consecutive term. Governor James A. Rhodes leads DiSalle by 555,669 votes.
William Virgil Munn, 35, of Athens Route 2, pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. He was fined 125 dollars and costs, given a six day jail sentence with three days suspended, four months probation, and four months driving rights suspension.
The Rev. Charles L. Harrison deputy BIS superintendent will address the Athens Kiwanis Club at Berry Hall Monday evening. A Denison graduate who studied at Oberlin and the University of Chicago Theological Seminary he has worked with delinquent youths and holds memberships in several groups.
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