Fire destroys vacant house near Art Park in Athens area
Fire of unknown origin destroyed a two story vacant house in Art Park east of Athens. A woman on a party line refused to yield the line to another calling for help delaying alarm transmission. The loss was about 1200 dollars with contents and grass and trees also burning. Chief Pete Good said he will notify the telephone company and remind that Ohio law imposes fines or imprisonment for blocking emergency calls.
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Art Park
Athens
Terrell Road
Canaan
Richland Area
Pete Good
Athens County
Good
The
General Telephone Co
Ohio
Oktoberfest Homecoming at Ohio University Embraces Beer and Games
Ohio University pivots from floats to a German themed Homecoming called Oktoberfest on October 29 from 5 p.m. to midnight on West Union Street. Activities include German food and beer, folk bands, booths, games, beer chugging, and sauerkraut eating contests with banners and lederhosen souvenirs.
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Linda Slawinski
Ohio University
Lederhose
Columbus
Munich
Germany
Donna Wennick
Center Program Board
CPB
West Union St
Court St
College St
Baker Center
Claudia Brandenburg
Union Street
Western Michigan
The
Carpenters
Convocation Center
Misty Miller
Pam Titley
Wendy Schmidt
Mindy Hale
Ira Miller
Terri Boudouris
Lauren Isley
Marathon total sets record for Athens United Appeal
WOUB and Ohio University AC RN raised 12 137 90 for the Athens County United Appeal beating the 2 500 goal. Brown Hall led with 159 88 followed by G amertsfelder Hall 157 55 and Delta Upsilon 65 49. The 9 p m to 4 a m marathon featured talks interviews and live entertainment from 10 residence halls.
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Athens County United Appeal
WOUB
Ohio University All- Campus Radio Network
ACRN
Ted Jacobson
Brown Hall
Sigma Nu
Gamertsfelder Hall
Delta Upsilon
OU Student Hospitalized After Fall at N Court Street Bar
Ohio University student Harold Zenz, 19, was hospitalized after a Wednesday night incident at a Court Street bar. He fell through a plate glass window at Economy Loan after being ejected, suffering head and arm lacerations. Zenz was taken by emergency squad to Hudson Health Center and then transferred to O'Bleness Hospital. Police noted he had been drinking.
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Ohio University
O’bleness
N. Court Street
Harold Zenz
Mill St
Economy Loan
N. Court
Zenz
Hudson Health Center
Athens Fire Department
Probation Given Man After Plea in Two Break-in Counts
A Glouster Route 3 man, Charles Bullock, 22, received two years probation in Athens County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to two counts of breaking and entering. Judge Lowell B. Howard heard the case on a bill of information from Prosecuting Attorney Claire M. Ball Jr. The charges stem from daytime entries aimed at larceny at the home of Robert Hunter and a connected Sun Down Riding Supply building.
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Glouster
Route 3
Athens County Common Pleas
Lowell B. Howard
Charles Bullock
Claire M. Ball Jr
Bullock
Robert Hunter
Athens
East School Sponsor Paper Drives For Fundraising
East Elementary School will run paper drives on October 19 December 13 March 7 and May 23 to fund school projects. Donations should be bundled in flat bundles, no magazines accepted, with pickup from Athens or Albany contacts and Albany collections by the Alexander High School Ecology Club on Saturdays. Last year 79 040 pounds were collected enabling shrubs and refuse containers to be added to the grounds. A separate note reports a trash fire in a barrel at Richland Ave and Route 682 extinguished by Athens firemen at 6 30 p.m.
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East
Robert Trevas
Larry Goldsberry
Athens
Albany
Alexander High School
Ecology Club
Richland Ave
Route 682
Mrs Alberta Schuler Taken To Athens Hospital
Mrs Alberta Schuler, 57, of 221 West Washington Street, was taken to O Bleness Memorial Hospital by the Athens squad Thursday after experiencing difficulty breathing. The call came in at 7 a.m. local time.
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Alberta Schuler
Washington St
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
Athens Fire Department
Boy Charged With Father's Murder in Akron Shooting
Gary Davis aged 18 of Akron is charged with second degree murder for the fatal shooting of his father John Davis 56 during a home argument. Police say the man was shot in the chest and abdomen at their residence.
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Akron, Ohio
Gary Davis
Akron
John Davis
Davis
Furniture Refinishing Class Offered at Athens High
Athens High School offers a one semester furniture refinishing class in the art department taught by Judy Morgan. Fifteen students enroll and work on their own furniture pieces at least an hour daily learning procedures techniques and different refinishing methods while gaining personal satisfaction from completing projects.
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Athens High School
Judy Morgan
AHS
DeMolay Bake Sale Planned Saturday in Athens
The Athens Chapter of the Order of DeMolay will hold a bake sale Saturday at the front entrance of Roberts Men s Store on S Court Street. The sale begins at 9 a.m.
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Athens
Order of DeMolay
Robert’s Men’s
S. Court Street
Gardner Promoted to Ford Foundation Post in New York
Dr James A Gardner lauded for advancement to assistant to the head of the Ford Foundation South America and Caribbean Office based at the New York headquarters He has spent two years with the foundation in Rio de Janeiro and will retain periodic trips to Central and South American countries.
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James Gardner
New
Ford Foundation
James A. Gardner
G. A. Gardner
Grosvenor St
Athens
South America
Caribbean
Gardner
New York City
Rio de Janeiro
Mers
Hawaii
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Yale
Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro
Harvard
Brazil
New York
Malone Weds Motel Head Malone Weds Motel Head
Oscar winning actress Malone marries Dallas motel chain executive Charles Huston Bell in Dallas Texas. The 45 year old star known for Peyton Place and the 1956 Oscar for Written on the Wind was a longtime Dallas resident.
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Dallas
Tex
Dorothy Malone
Charles Huston Bell
Miss Malone
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Elberfeld Realty Co
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Carole Barber
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Yale Law School
Malone
Barrett
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