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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1957
Page
14
The Athens County Ohio notice announces special elections on November 5 1957 for Trimble Township Nelsonville City School District and Athens City School District to renew or increase taxes beyond the ten mill limit for cemetery maintenance school operating expenses and general district needs. Polls open 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST. Chairs Henry Handley and J E Barker oversee proceedings.
Justees of Carthage Township Athens County Ohio announce a special election July 1957 to approve an extra tax levy exceeding the ten mill limit. The measure calls for an additional 1 mill rate for Carthage Township, raising ten cents per hundred dollars of valuation, with Seid tax as the forwarding official.
Notice to Athens Ohio voters that on November 5, 1957 a bond issue of 142,480 dollars will be placed before residents to fund remodeling and reconstruction of Athens City Hall. Bonds run up to 10 years with an estimated tax rate of 0.80 mills per dollar of valuation, or 68 cents per 100 dollars. City officials H Handley and J. Barker sign dated September 12, 1957.
Notices announce special elections in Athens County Ohio on November 7 1957 to decide levies above the ten mill limit for operating expenses of Athens County Children’s Home and Chauncey-Dover Exempted Village School District. Levee rates include 0.70 mills and a renewal of 3 mills for six years with combined cost details for property valuation.
Multiple school election notices outline special elections in Rome Canaan Athens Local and Chauncey Dover districts. Voters confront levies exceeding ten mill limits to fund current operating expenses for periods of ten, three years and renewal terms. Officials Be Handley and Barker announce polling hours and district boundaries.
Rome Canaan Local School District and Shade Local School District prepare for November 1957 elections to decide onlevies beyond the ten mill limit. Shade seeks 2.3 mills for operating expenses totaling 23 cents per mile valuation. Rome Canaan requests 2.7 mills for ten years at 27 cents per hundred dollars. EB Handle y chairs the board.
The village of Trimble Ohio will hold a November 1957 election to consider issuing eight thousand dollars in bonds to partly fund a municipal waterworks system. The 25 year bonds would be repaid by a tax rate of 1.85 mills outside the ten mill limit. Auditor C E Handley, chairman, dated September 12, 1957.
Trustees of Athens Township seek approval in November 1957 for an additional tax not over 0.1 mills per dollar valuation to fund cemeteries. The measure proposes a ten cent tax for each two years, with the ballot opening at 0:30 A. M. and clerk J. II. Bafler listed.
The Ohio State Nurses Association mobilizes members to recruit peers this week. In 24 districts nurses formed Finders Clubs and trained at a Columbus Clinic on Membership attended by over 120 registered nurses. Athens Meigs and Gallia counties are included.
The text outlines district and section level efforts to recruit new members for various nursing categories led by Marge Bennett as chair and Miss Ann Deeds as general membership chair in Cleveland. It lists industrial, office, general duty, private duty, institutional and administrative, public health nurses, educational administrators, and consultants as targeted groups.
The York Local School District in Athens County Ohio schedules a special election on a 1.8 mill levy rate for five years to fund current expenses. Election details include polling locations and start time as established by the Board of Education.
In Trimble Athens County Ohio the village holds a November 1957 election on a proposed levy of ten mills for current expenses including street and alley work. The rate not exceeding 2.9 mills for each is cited as twenty nine cents in Eastern Standard Time. Handles Handley is chairman and Barker is clerk.
Virgil Blossom, Little Rock schools superintendent and architect of the Little Rock Plan to integrate schools, faces a crisis as Gov. Faubus blocks the plan with National Guards. Despite court orders and federal troops, integration remains contentious with two white hot positions. Blossom, 50s, a former athletics director, argues the plan is airtight legally and needed to meet Supreme Court mandates.
Election notices reference Amesville Ohio and Plains Athens Ohio authorizing levies for village and school district current expenses. Dates include July 10 1957 November 5 1957 and August 5 1957 with leviesRenewal 2.1 mills increase 0.9 mills up to 3 mills for Plains local school district operating costs.
Ohio moves to amend Article XV section 4 to allow appointment to state office without elector qualifications. Proposals also seek to reform Article V section 1 to permit voting for President and Vice President without one year residence. Additional measures contact county charter power, municipal power rivalries, and sale of surplus water or sewage services. Secretary of State Ted W. Brown certifies the measure in 1957.
A constitutional amendment would let Ohio counties vote by majority to adopt a county charter that changes the form of county government and grants powers concurrent with municipalities. In counties over 506,900 population the charter could grant exclusive municipal powers to the county with a majority in the largest municipality and in the county outside that municipality.
Alfred area churches celebrated homecoming at the Orange Christian Church led by Rev. Harold Doster. The day featured Sunday School communion and sermon, with elders Louis Person and Marvin Keebaugh ordained. Oldest members Velma Person, Mrs. W. E. Robinson, and Effie Stout honored. A church lawn basket dinner followed.
The Rio Grande Baptist Association Ministers Council met at Vinton Baptist Church with Rev. Luther Tracy presiding. Executives met with Rev. Claremont Hoyt presiding. attendees included multiple pastors and spouses from Rio Grande Coalton Racine Pomeroy McArthur Dart Vinton Middleport Jackson and Rio Grande. The next ministers council gathering is scheduled for December 30 at Coalton Baptist Church.
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