27 Oct 1977
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1977
Page
1
A Southeastern Ohio feature explores local haunted sites in Athens County. Tales center on a moved house graveyard grave markers and a hanging tree near Simms cemetery. Residents recount mistlike apparitions and a headless woman.
In Washington the Senate presses toward a vote on a $40 billion eight year energy tax package backed by the Finance Committee while opponents seek to block aid to oil and gas firms. House supporters of Carter say the President opposes diverting tax revenues to oil interests and would veto bills raising gas prices over 1.75 per 1000 cubic feet.
The Senate backed removal of most gas price controls allowing prices to rise with market forces from the current average around $1.45. The House previously set a $1.75 price cap and a Senate House conference committee will craft a compromise figure. Six congressmen who met with Carter presented a plan.
United States and allies clash over votes on an immediate arms embargo against South Africa or a conditional ban if Pretoria maintains apartheid. Britain and France resist, while U.S. pressure grows for action amid sanctions talks and potential oil and gas industry shifts.
Ohio group opposing a November trap ban agrees to pull a TV spot claiming CDC support for Vote No on Issue 2. Ohioans for Wildlife Conservation chair James Glass says CDC did not take a position and will have the spot redone.
UCSF researchers report a vaccine for pneumococcal pneumonia shows 100 percent protection in 77 sickle cell children in a two year San Francisco Bay area study. If FDA approves by December it will target elderly, children with spleen defects, and about 50 000 blacks with sickle cell anemia before infection.
The Athens County Commissioners plan a meeting with city officials next week to decide the fate of 156000 dollars in Issue I funds pledged to the East State Street widening project. Seven candidates for the Alexander Local School Board agree schools need more funds.
CWU police plan to ticket cyclists after reports of speeding on campus. Chief Adolph Brickley cites a recent hit-and-run as context while cars remain banned and officers monitor with radar.
Snowville confronts an 85 acre strip mine site mined 15 years ago with no reclamation. The state under Land Reborn aims to reclaim the area through the Division of Reclamation. Demolition of the Athens County jail is to start by next month for a new city county facility. Ohio University contract talks with the non academic workers union start Friday.
Meigs County Prosecutor Rick Crow said on Wednesday that Mrs. Freda Middleswart, 40, of Portland, confessed to poisoning her husband with arsenic after failing a polygraph test.
The Nelsonville York Board of Education at a special session ruled that football players may not continue supervised conditioning after school closes Friday. All activities must cease with the official closing.
U S District Court Judge Frank J Battisti heard from special desegregation master Daniel R McCarthy that full local school integration should take effect next September with busing of about 30 000 students.
Two lawmakers push to keep marijuana possession as a federal crime after a Senate committee cut the penalty to a 100 dollar fine. The item appears in Page 13 with weather notes on Page 11 indicating clear skies and mild temperatures.
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