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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1964
Page
5
A visitor from SylaCauga Alabama recalls Nelsonville High School basketball champions and players from the era. Meanwhile the city faces waterworks issues with a broken coal furnace heat and a pending gas plan. Engineering studies say well water treatment costs may triple river water costs, with taste possibly unchanged.
In Logan Ohio the Logan High School homecoming queen will be crowned from five finalists at 7 40 p m Friday before the Logan Nelsonville grid game. Finalists are Jody Blosser Cindy Horwell Pam Jones Sandy Steward and Sandra Shaw. Jeff Todd student council president will crown the queen and LHS co captains Merle Beery and George Hummel will kiss her in congratulation. Nomination came from the senior class with grades 10 12 selecting the five finalists. Four will serve as the queen s court.
Laure and Harry Greene of Logan were dinner guests of Clarence Greene. Mrs Kathryn Eichhorn of Adrian Michigan returns home after two weeks with her mother Edith Graham. Edith Graham and Kenneth Eichhorn toured eastern states. Nellie Wend visited the Mooreheads and Blanche Moorehead was a dinner guest. Ruth Todd visited Sylvia Todd in Nelsonville. Henry R Todd visited Guy Lewis in Nelsonville. The Poston Elementary PTO meets Monday at 730 pm in the school All purpose room. The York Nelsonville Republican Club hosts a know your candidate meeting at First Presbyterian Church at 730 pm Tuesday with Brandon Grover as main speaker.
Neighbors report ed rubbish along the Hocking River as it flows through Hocking and Athens Counties. Fishermen and boaters encounter the sites but few report them, and residents urge authorities to inspect the river between Nelsonville and Logan for potential pollution sources.
Mount St. Mary Hospital notes list multiple births admissions and discharges. Entries name numerous patients by full or partial names and their towns including Nelsonville Glouster New Straitsville and Chauncey with several transfers to University Hospital Columbus.
Nelsonville mayor Herman Lanning announced that weather permitting the relocated section of State Route 216 would open to traffic Tuesday in the village. Workmen will improve berms and drive approaches while the village enforces speed limits with signs set at 25 miles per hour west of 12th Street and east of Akron Street. School children travel the road to York School, requiring motorists to be extra alert.
Birth notices list Melvin and Melva Partee in McArthur for a girl, William and wife in Logan Route 2 for a boy, Harold and wife in Logan for a boy, with dismissals and emergency reports. Michael Hawk, 14, of Logan treated for a left arm injury after a football incident, released. Greg Van Bibber, 4, of Union Furnace treated for a cut right arm from broken glass, released.
Logan Hocking County residents note intensified campaign activity for the November elections. The Democratic prosecutor Forrest P. Moore and the county election board face a legal dispute now before the Ohio Supreme Court after a Fourth District ruling.
Logan firemen logged seven alarms in two days, four Saturday and three Sunday. Incidents included grass and weed fires along Routes 33 93 and 664, a coal shed blaze, and re ignited underbrush near Orla Fickel and Parley Phelps residences. Causes varied from discarded cigarettes to trash burning and unknown origins.
Murray City residents discuss renewing York Local District school operating levies totaling 3.0 mills, a 1.2 mill and 1.8 mill combination. The Murray City PTO endorses the renewal as citizens meetings favor it ahead of the November 3 vote.
Haydenville former residents Mr and Mrs Wilburn Sparks moved to a new Logan home. Mr and Mrs Mihaleck of Pontiac Mich spent the weekend with relatives here. They visited Mrs Rose Hannah and Mr and Mrs Charles Foster in Coalton then called on Mr and Mrs Fred Adams of Connett. The Nelsonville Fire Department was called to a grass and brush fire at 1 54 p m on Fairview Street behind the Chester Windle property. Firemen Tom Riley and three volunteers reported. residents aided. Cause undetermined.
Crowds at least as large as the prior week filled Hocking County roads and parks as thousands toured the Hocking Hills to view autumn colors. State park parking lots overflowed onto roads and fields amid heavy weekend traffic. A minor accident on Route 33 near Route 180 caused brief confusion. Traffic on Route 180 toward Rockbridge moved slowly in bumper to bumper congestion.
Police report a juvenile curfew enforcement call after a passing car threw a pop bottle at Harold Blackston’s porch on Friesner Ave. No damage occurred. City officials vow zero tolerance for vandalism during Halloween.
City report shows 190.55 in meter collections for the week ending October 15. Included 10.00 for Northwest Cab Reserve Spot. In Logan a car theft at Mohler motel’s west end. Vivian Higgs of Chicago reports a broken right wing and a suitcase with jewelry clothes and a watch stolen. Tom Kelly of Nelsonville home on leave after basic training at Great Lakes. will depart Oct 27 for an aircraft carrier near Vietnam.
Logan police cited four people for traffic violations over the weekend. Leslie Northway 43 of Grand Rapids Mich for no tail lights at 2 45 a m Saturday. Douglas Caldwell Lancaster for reckless operation at 7 30 p m Saturday. James Eisman 20 of Lancaster for reckless operation at 2 30 p m Sunday. Harold Van Bibber 22 of Nelsonville Route 2 for speeding on E Hunter Street at 3 15 p m Sunday. All to appear before Mayor Jack Moorehead on later dates. Nelsonville Elks Lodge 543 will meet 7 30 p m Tuesday at Elks Hall. One chair officer to be elected, says secretary J O Steenrod.
Logan Hocking County deputies investigated two weekend crashes. The first on Route 33 near Elm Street left both cars damaged with Janet Carr treated for a neck injury. Forrest Coon cited for following too closely. The second on Route 93 near Route 664 left a vehicle off the road with no occupants at the scene. investigation continues. Roy L. Trainer, 61, was bound over to the Grand Jury on a drunk driving charge and released on bond after a prior minor wreck on Mulberry Street.
Five persons receive minor injuries in a head on collision on Sams Creek Road Hillcrest four miles south of Route 56. William Graham and Anna Graham of Laurelville Route 2 suffer head abrasions. other injured are Cecil Knece Cathy Buffington Cecil Buffington and Terry Monk. State Highway Patrol reports no citations issued. Circle Two will meet Monday at 7 30 p m in Presbyterian Church social rooms with Mrs Burley Blair as program leader.
A new healing substance Bio-Dyne, discovered by a world famous research institute, shrinks piles without surgery and relieves itch and pain. Sold as Preparation H in suppository or ointment form at drug counters.
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