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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1962
Page
2
The city school board considered dismissal policy for outside events and hired six new staff. It approved Richland Ave Methodist Church use of Morrison Elementary for services under emergency, set text and extracurricular budgets, and reviewed cafeteria and bus operations.
Five drivers were fined in Athens County Court after State Highway Patrol arrests on speeding charges. Randall Mackey 19 of Parkersburg and Roy Hoisington 38 of Athens were each fined 20 dollars and costs. Gary Merriman 28 of Worthington and Thomas Dexter 21 of Belpre were fined 10 dollars and costs. Homer Smith 28 of Belpre was fined 15 dollars and costs for failure to stop within the assured clear distance.
A Shade Route 1 resident, Jack Martindale, 59, went to city hall to talk with an officer, was intoxicated, and jailed. He was fined $25 and costs in Municipal Court on the intoxication charge. The board hired Linda Sanford, a 1962 Berea College graduate, as a part time junior high French teacher at $15 daily, taking over two sections from G A Gardner. Elson Bowles received two additional kindergarten runs with $73 monthly added salary. Other hires include Samuel Riggle as Morrison custodian at $3400 annually, Mrs Warren Kasler part time cafeteria at West for $73 monthly, Thomas Chesser juvenile court probation officer as part time attendance officer at $50 monthly, and John Jones a senior at Ohio University as part time bus driver at $73 monthly. The board voted Homer Gall Sr and Sol Rosenberg to attend the Ohio School Boards Association convention Nov 14 15 in Columbus as delegates. They approved an Athens youth’s continued attendance at Chauncey-Dover Schools at the request of Juvenile Judge Harold Rose. Benton Fish resigned after more than a decade as Morrison custodian. A report on the excavating project behind the school bus garage at Lancaster and Washington was heard. Plant said city school enrollment is 2063.
Officers from the Athens post of the State Highway Patrol investigated 36 accidents in September with two fatalities and 19 injuries. Twenty resulted from excessive speed for road and weather, four from failure to yield, three from driving left of center, and two from speed over legal limits. Route 33 saw seven crashes, Routes 50 and 50-A five each, Route 13 four, and Route 56 three.
New Straitsville farmer George Hoy, 77, drove a 1953 flatbed with about six calves. He ran a red light and crossed double yellow lines as Patrolman Dwight West pursued with siren on E State Street. Hoy said the siren sounded like a noon whistle before he was stopped. he will be cited into Municipal Court.
Names and charges from Municipal Court include David A. McClain of The Plains Route 2, stop sign violation, $11. Denzil H. Bailey of Albany, defective exhaust, $11. Ronald Jordan of Trimble, red light, $11. Alva Whittaker found guilty of operating a vehicle in a private driveway, fined $15 with costs suspended. Paul Edgar filed the charge. William Holcomb, Carpenter, pleaded guilty to intoxication charge, fined $25 and costs.
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