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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1965
Page
7
Area notices list multiple deaths across Athens, Nelsonville, Pomeroy, and Point Pleasant. Included are Nutt, Selby, Jefferson, Rush, King, Bolin, O Rourke, Ward, Steffy, Roush, Erb and other locals with burial plans, service times, and survivor details. The long list notes ages, birthplaces, wartime service, and family ties across Ohio and Pennsylvania communities.
Funeral services were held for Harold H. Radford 56 of Albany Route 1 at 1 30 p m Monday. A typographical error in Sunday's Messenger omitted his parents Mr and Mrs Roy Radford also of Albany Route 1 from the survivors list.
In Columbus two gunmen robbed the Kahiki Polynesian supper club late Sunday night fleeing with about $15000 after forcing co-owner William Sapp to surrender the safe combination. Sapp, tied up, freed himself and alerted police.
Logan police and a London Bureau of Criminal Identification inspector investigate break ins at King Lumber Co and Keynes Mill on E Front St between 10 p.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday. Only $3 was taken from a mill coffee machine. safe attempts failed and papers were scattered at the lumber office.
Gene Thompson 23 of Gore pleads innocent to manslaughter in Hocking County Court. He is bound over to the grand jury by Judge Vaughn Collins after spending days in jail on a $1000 bond for the accidental shooting of Tracy Wintermute 21 of New Straitsville at the Stagecoach Inn in Logan.
Yellow and black warning signs mark turning points for city school buses at the north end of Madison Street and Grove-Scott streets. Additional signs crossing areas for bus riders will alert motorists to bus stop zones.
The eighth district of the American Legion held its fall conference at Logan post 78 with nearly a hundred Legionnaires and auxiliary members present. District leaders reported that 12 districts were ahead of last year's membership totals as part of the 1966 Ohio drive, noted guest speaker Phillip R. McBride and welcomed Mayor Jack Moore of Logan.
Logan opens the 1966 Community Chest drive with a 7 50 am breakfast and a goal of 23650 up 650 from last year. Eight organizations support the fund including Girl Scouts Boy Scouts Red Cross Salvation Army USC YWCA Rainbow School and mental health programs. Industrial drive led by IAM Local 1251 with Clarence Dishong as president Gordon Gray and William Backus as chairs. House to house campaign starts Oct 18 led by Mrs Howard Blum.
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