Athens Council Approves Seven Ordinances In One Night
Athens council fast tracked seven ordinances at a short Monday session. They suspended rules to require rooming house owners to obtain city permits and set plans for a Tulane area sewer and street project with owners paying 40 percent of costs. Also approved were urban renewal and federal code measures, raised dispatcher salaries, authorized salt purchase for water treatment, and set dates for future votes on city plans and street bonds.
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Greg Black Messenger
Winter City
Nance
Don Reed
Tulane Rd
Gerald Mollica
Tulane
Reed
George Mara
E. State St
Grover
Dwight Robinson
Mill St.Elliott St
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
E. Union
B. and C
Mollica
Joseph Gerig
City Planning Commission
Briarwood
Canterbury Drive
Stimson Avenue
Bryan Road
Citizens promised say on new city pool plan
Tad Grover president pro tempore of the city council says citizens will have a large say on the pool project. Council members discuss progress delays land acquisition and potential sites including the old stadium near the airport and the Crystal Pool as last resorts with completion aimed for late summer 1969.
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Tad Grover
Grover
Howard Romine
Council
Albert Squibb
Jacobs
Pessi
Athens
Robert Kappes
Ransom Rd
Dwight Robinson
Safety Service
Crystal Pool
Beckert to be named outstanding alumnus at Ohio U homecoming
Ohio University Alumni Association will honor Ralph F. Beckert class of 1923 as outstanding alumnus before the Ohio University Dayton homecoming football game at Peden Stadium. Beckert, professor of accounting, retires in June 1969 after a long service to the university and alumnus activities.
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Ohio University Alumni Association
Peden Stadium
Ralph F
Sid’ Beckert
Ohio University-Dayton
Jack G. Ellis
Ellis
Beckett
Ohio University
Beckert
College of Business Administration
Ohio
Piqua
Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
Alumni Association
Omicron Delta Kappa
Blue Key
Sigma Chi
Delta Sigma Phi
Marshall University
University of Florida
San Jose State College
U. S
Future of Pornography Explored by Ohio Author Tevis
Walter Tevis, Ohio University English lecturer and author of The Hustler, spoke at an Athens Rotary Club luncheon on censorship. He argued against publishing censorship, urged parental moral guidance, and warned literature, film, and TV may face major suppression or liberalization in the 1980s to reflect human character under duress. He noted the need to know evil before judging sexuality and referenced his Connecticut obscenity case involving salacious passages in his Chicago pool shark tale.
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Walter Tevis
Ohio University
Athens Rotary Club
Tevis
Rotarians
San Francisco
Connecticut
Chicago
Athens Board approves seniors free entry to high school events
The Athens Board of Education voted to allow citizens 65 and over in the Athens City School district to attend Athens High School activities free of charge as an experimental program extended for the 1968-69 school year. The meeting also saw resignations of six non teaching staff and appointments of new employees including bus drivers custodians and teachers.
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Eric Dalton Messenger
Athens Board of Education
Athens City
Athens
Leonard Ball
James Carder
Donald Forsyth
Geneva Johnson
Resurfacing Approved For Two County Roads
Athens County commissioners on Monday approved resurfacing two roads serving the E M Poston Power Plant at an estimated 26303.35 dollars. One road runs from Route 682 at The Plains to the plant, 3.18 miles long, 20 feet wide. Harold Hitchens estimated 19954.75 dollars. The other, Glen Ebon Road in York Two, links Route 33 to Route 691, 1.12 miles, 18 feet wide, costing 6384.60 dollars. Annexation of 19 acres near Dairy Avenue to Athens was approved with no opposition. A Wonder Hills subdivision plat by Emerson Ball was approved. Stop signs at Third and Clinton Streets in The Plains were journalized, and a 35 mph limit on Luhrig Road was authorized. Dog warden warns owners as several sheep claims exist. fines include a 3 dollar pickup fee plus 50 cents daily for food. Open meeting about Alexander Local tax levy set for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Shade Elementary School.
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E. M. Poston
Athens
The
Plains
Harold Hitchens
York
Dover
Glen Ebon
York Two
Dairy Avenue
City of
Wonder Hills Subdivision
Emerson Ball
Third
Clinton Streets
Luhrig Road
John Villers
Athens County
Villers
Toyota Dealers Jet to Japan on Sales Quota Trip
Mr and Mrs Robert Mathews departed Monday as guests of Toyota to Japan the first leg of a tour for more than 150 Toyota dealers nationwide who surpassed a 90 day sales quota. They will visit Toyota factories in Kyoto Tokyo and Nagoya with a stopover in Hawaii aboard two jet liners from Los Angeles.
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Robert Mathews
Japan
Toyota Company
Mathews
Beasley & Mathews, Inc
Toyota
Los Angeles Wednes- Kyoto
Tokyo
Nagoya
Hawaii
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Athens Council
Robinson
Ralph Beckert
Knowledge Communication Fund, Inc
Ohio Company
East Washington
Richard M. Phillips
Keogh
Mowest Stock Exchange
the Ohio Co
North High Street
Columbus
Richard Kerns
Loretta Lyons
Orville Buck
Clarence E. Cline
Richard Coe
Arthur Corwin
Nancy C. Hawk
Floyd Linscott
James C. Gates
Charles Nickels
William S. Ryan
Patti
Donna Carpenter
Suzanne Driscoll
Maxwell Ferguson
Beulah Hoffee
James Mason
Douglas A. Patti
Richard Stacy
DEA
OASSP
Evelyn Stiff
Ohio Federation Council For Exceptional Children
Charles McAfee
Arthur W. Philabaum
EMCO
Patricia Fuller
Marjorie Wolrath
Ronald Partridge
England
Clarks
Farley
W. Union
University Terrace
Alexander Levy
Shade
Alexander Local
Citizens Committee
Tom Hendershot
Richland Ave
Athens, Ohio
State Farm Fire and Casualty Company
Bloomington
O.K
City Loan
Lau In Bank
FDIC
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