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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1962
Page
4
Boy Scouts from Athens County's Hock Hocking District will gather at Camp Lowman off Peach Ridge Rd five miles north of Athens for the district's third annual camporee. About 100 area scouts are expected to participate in the three day event starting with registration at 2 p.m. Friday.
The camporee ends at noon Sunday as troops arrive Friday for a flashlight scavenger hunt. Saturday features a campsite judging, knot tying, fire by friction and flint and steel, a buffalo hunt with compass work, and archery. Two teams chase a hidden buffalo bag of rocks through clues and compass bearings. Evening skits and an Order of the Arrow meeting precede Sunday church services in Athens for Catholic scouts. Edward Dean chairs the steering committee. Richard Rypma heads publicity. Don Niesse is program chair. Walter Ervin handles registration.
Beechwood resident Frances Antle of Route 280 Trimble is named as defendant in a $7500 civil action filed in Common Pleas Court. Sandra Zelvy of Beechwood says her husband Robert Zelvy was passing the defendant’s car on Route 33 southeast of Athens when the collision forced the auto into a guardrail.
Athens County is among 12 Ohio counties that received no state tuberculosis subsidy in the last fiscal year. State Auditor James A. Rhodes reports the decline in subsidy payments due to sanatorium and hospital billing for 59 230 fewer patient days. The subsidy is 2.50 dollars per day for hospital care in a county sanatorium and 1.25 dollars per day for care in other TB hospitals if the county is legally obligated.
Chesterhill Frank Hammond 86 died at home after a stroke. A Marion Township native, pioneer in local telephone service, he belonged to Chesterhill Methodist Church Mount Olive Lodge 148 F&AM Fairview Grange. Survived by widow Laura and nieces and nephews. Funeral Saturday 3:30 p.m. at Fawcett Stone with Masonic services Friday 7:30 p.m. Burial Chester Hill Cemetery. Friends may call after 10 a.m. Friday.
Doors open at 6 30 p m for Rome Canaan school carnival with a brief band concert in the gymnasium and a coronation of a king queen prince and princess. The Great Clayton Show and other attractions including games booths fish pond refreshments and prizes are planned. A marriage annulment case in Common Pleas Court regarding Jill Yvonne Wallace and Gerald A Wallace was announced.
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