Red Sox Reign As They Top Yankees For First in East
Boston routs New York 10-4 to seize first place in the AL East as Chicago White Sox shut out Oakland 6-0 and other results reinforce the pennant chase. Sonny Siebert homered, Rico Petrocelli and Tommy Harper also went deep. Eddie Kasko’s club rides hot streak into division lead.
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Herschel Nissenson
Associated Press
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Red Sox
New York Yankees
Chicago
White Sox
Oakland
Chuck Tanner
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Milwaukee
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Rico Petrocelli
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Billy Martin
Fred Sherman
Orioles
Bobby Grich
Paul Blair
Tommy Davis
Brooks Robinson
Blair
Mike Cuellar
Baseball Standings and Results From The Majors
National League East standings show Pittsburgh Chicago New York St Louis Montreal and Philadelphia in tight race. Thursday figures include Houston Chicago and Atlanta wins while Friday and Saturday schedules cover key matchups across Montreal New York Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
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Chicago
New York
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Houston
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Philaia
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Leron Lee
Mike Caldwell
Nate Colbert
Bob Watson
Roger Metzger
Don Wilson
Balor Moore
Ron Woods
Woods
Moore
Earl Williams
Jimmy Freeman
Ron Schueler
Bateman Plans NL Complaint Over Umpire Language
Philadelphia catcher John Bateman said he will report umpire Shag Crawford to the National League front office for allegedly using abusive language during the 2-1 win over St. Louis. Bateman described Crawford's "bleep you" remark after a disputed pitch call and said he would write to NL President Chub Feeney.
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John Bateman
Philadelphia Phillies
Shag Crawford
Bateman
Crawford
National League
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Steve Carlton
Chub Feeney
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Pirates
Chicago Cubs
Cincinnati Reds
San Diego Padres
Houston Astros
San Francisco Giants
Montreal Expos
New York Mets
Alanta Braves
Los Angeles
Booster Club Drives Support For Athens High Sports
Athens High School athletes will canvass the district from 9 a.m. to noon this Saturday seeking Bulldog Booster Club memberships. Donors of $5 or more gain gold card seats at games. under $5 earn white cards. The club funds uniforms, travel, equipment, and meals for varsity and middle school sports, with plans for wrestling support and more.
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Bulldog
Athens High School
Athens
Chauncey and the Plains
Bulldog Booster Club
Century Club
R. Basil Butter Field
Ironton
Muskingum College
Zanesville
Ironton and Waverly
Glouster Picnic for Local Little League Players Saturday
A 6 p.m. Saturday gathering at the Glouster Little League field invites Pee-Wee, Little League and Pony League players, managers and sponsors from Trimble Two. Trophies will be awarded to winning teams. All Little League and Pony League boys should bring their uniforms.
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Glouster
Little League
Trimble Two
Finalist showdown set for Glouster Little League field
The Trimble Two Little League tournament reaches the finals Sunday at 2 p m between the Nelsonville All Stars and Logan All Stars. An away game for the Athens eighth grade football team on Oct 12 seeks an opponent. contact athletic director Phil Bobo at Athens High School, 797 4521. Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York drew a record 29 844 fans on Aug 21 1971.
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Nelsonville All- Stars
Logan
Athens
Phil Bobo
Athens High School
Saratoga Racetrack
Upstate New York
AHS Band Heads to Marietta for Band O'Rama
The Athens High School Band led by Stephan Berry will compete in the Band O'Rama in Marietta on September 16. Marietta Tourist and Convention Board and Marietta Noon Lion's Club sponsor the event with West High School of Columbus as guest band.
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Stephan Berry
Marietta
Marietta Tourist and Convention Board
Marietta Noon Lion’s Club
Marietta High School
West High School of Columbus
Washington County Fairgrounds
Don Drumm
E. D. Southwick
Marietta Daily Times
Man Hurt In Plunge From Ladder At Athens Store
Athens firemen rushed to Heck's on E State Street after Tim Norton 18 of Stewart fell from a ladder sustaining a possible right leg fracture and a facial cut. He was transported to O'Bleness Memorial Hospital. A second call reported a kitchen grease fire at Richard Coe’s Athens Apartments on Albany Road with the oven blackened but contained.
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Athens
Heck’s
E. State Street
Tim Norton
Stewart
Norton
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
Eight teachers hired by Mason County Board of Education
Mason County Board of Education approved eight teaching positions including Albert Wilcox Wahama and Ruth Sawyers Point Pleasant Junior High and six other educators. Non teaching staff hires, transportation requests, substitute teachers, and a range of resignations and status changes were also approved. A pending pay raise discussion and a planned special meeting for bids and site discussions were announced.
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Linda Roush
Point Pleasant
Mason County Board of Education
Albert Wilcox
Wahama
Mary Carson
Debby Murphy
Woods
Shirley Ann Coen
Ordnance
Ruth Sawyers
Pauline Freeman
Ira Sowards Jr
Hannan
John Hodge
Ruth Higginbotham
Shirley M. Meadows
Carolyn Allensworth
Betty Mayes
Bertha Elliott
Velva Tucker
Marlin Ann Yost
Debbie Nowlin
Ora May Hunt
Patty Allensworth
Clyda Fields
Benjamin Casto
Walter Plants
Roger Foster
Harrold Dilley
Wanda Ray
Betty Wallis
Linda Raike
Julia Pyles
Doris Stewart
Retha Camden
Lois L. Nibert
Carla Ball
Clarice Wallace
Homer Laudermilt
Margaret Blain
Ruth Hassell
Irma Gilland
Louise Hobson
Ester Gillispie
Pauline Shinn
Daisy Knapp
Wellston Council Faces PUCO Deadline Over Gas Rate Proposal
Wellston council heard a four year Columbia Gas rate plan with two year segments and a minimum monthly charge, while a councilman urged matching present terms plus a two percent increase. PUCO inspection of the Wellston plant could begin first week of October, with a September 18 deadline to settle otherwise digging starts. Council transferred funds for street work and adopted a new holiday pay rule reducing eligibility hours.
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Joann Hunter
Wellston
Columbia Gas of Ohio Co
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Columbia
Clarence Gray
Columbia Gas
Gallant
Council
PUCO
PACO
Edgar Hayburn
Service Department
Hayburn
John Dupre
Dupre
Obituary for Gallipolis Man Emmett Arthur Saunders 83
Gallipolis area obituary for Emmett Arthur Saunders 83 who died Thursday at Holzer Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Gallia County to Columbus and Mary Wilcoxen Saunders, he was a retired Gallipolis State Institute employee. Survived by wife Celie two daughters in Akron a son in Akron and three grandchildren. one son preceded him in death. Services Sunday 1 p.m. Northrup Baptist Church with Rev Bruce Unroe. Burial Centenary Cemetery. Friends may call Saturday 2–4 and 7–9 p.m. at McCoy Wetherholt Moore Funeral Home. body to church one hour before service.
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Gallipolis
Emmett Arthur Saunders
Holzer Medical Center
Gallia County
Columbus
Mary Wilcoxen Saunders
Gallipolis State Institute
Celie
Earl Moore
Michael Cycyk
Akron
Leaton Saunders
Logan Man John Blosser Dies. Rites Planned
John Blosser 68 of 649 Motherwell Ave Logan died at 12 15 am Friday at Hocking Valley Community Hospital He worked for Logan Clay Co He is survived by two sons Robert Lee Blosser and Sherman Leroy Blosser a daughter Doris Holdren a brother Paul Blosser two sisters and ten grandchildren Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 pm Leonard Funeral Home Rev Wylie Baker officiating Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery Friends may call after Sunday noon at the funeral home
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Logan
John Blosser
Motherwell Ave
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Logan Clay Co
Abraham and
Lulu Musser Blosser
Robert Lee Blosser
Union Furnace
Sherman Leroy Blosser
Kenneth
Doris) Holdren
Paul Blosser
Columbus
Break-In Reported at Rainbow Lake Trailer
Athens County deputies investigate a break in at a Rainbow Lake trailer between Tuesday and Thursday. Richard Grim says someone kicked in the front door and may have stolen a fishing rod and reef, but no other items appear missing. Deputies warn trespassers will be prosecuted.
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Athens County Sheriff’s Deputies
Rainbow Lake
Richard Grim
Obituaries from Logan and Nelsonville areas
Obituary notices announce the deaths of Wilma J. Kuhn 44 of Logan Hocking Valley Hospital at 8 30 p m Thursday survived by husband Bernard four sons three daughters five brothers three sisters and four grandchildren services Monday at 10 a m with Rev Douglas McVay. Logan Rosetta Shaw 79 of Logan dies at Hocking Valley Hospital survived by two sons one daughter one brother one sister five grandchildren and three great grandchildren preceded in death by husband John Cleveland Shaw services Monday at 2 p m with Rev William O Cook. Nelsonville Albert E Huff 65 of Columbus died at Grant Hospital after a heart attack services Saturday at Livingstone Avenue Methodist Church survived by wife five sons a daughter three sisters one brother twelve grandchildren and mother in law. Burial Greenlawn Cemetery Columbus.
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Wilma J. Kuhn
N. Orchard St
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Hocking County
William and
Louise Davis Smith
Bernard W. Kuhn
Ronald
Richard
Larry
Columbus
Charles
Newark
Linda Robinson
Vicky
Deborah Kuhn
Lancaster
Raymond Smith
Kenneth Smith
Roger Dean Smith
John Smith
William Smith
Dayton
June Wine
South Bloomingville
Mary Ritters
Laurelville
Nancy Williams
Haydenville
Leonard Funeral Home
Douglas McVay
Oak Grove Cemetery
Rosetta Shaw
Henrietta Ave
Jayne Strawn Justus
Porter of
Earl
Lewis
Esther) Canty
Fred Justus
Gladys Pancake
John Cleveland Shaw
Nelsonville
Albert
al) E. Huff
Ohio Ave
Livingstone Avenue Methodist Church
Mary McSherry
Ruth Matheny
Madison St
Messenger Coverage Praised at Athens Breakfast Meeting
The Messenger was lauded at a breakfast honoring Will Erwin deputy under secretary of agriculture for community development. Kenneth Ackerman credited the paper with broad coverage from 1959 planning meetings of the Margaret Creek Conservancy District to current watershed progress, citing local development reporting by G Kenner Bush. The report highlighted newspaper coverage shaping community development. Nelsonville note: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whyte and grandson Pat visited from Biloxi Mississippi and returned home.
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the Messenger
Ohio University Inn
Will Erwin
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Kenneth Ackerman
Athens County
Messenger
G. Kenner Bush
Margaret Creek Conservancy District
Ackerman
Bush
Erwin
Conservancy District
Nelsonville
Jack Whyte
Pat
St. John Street
James Whyte
Biloxi
Legion Plans Stag Picnic at Athens County Fairgrounds
K. T. Crossen Post of the American Legion schedules its annual stag picnic Saturday at the Athens County fairgrounds. The event features entertainment and refreshments starting at 1 p.m. with food served at 6 30 p.m. Tickets at the gate are $3 for members and guests.
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K. T. Crossen
The
American Legion
Athens County Fairgrounds
the Legion
Ball calls for expanded state aid to local governments
Republican candidate Claire Ball Jr. campaigns to broaden state aid beyond university towns. He cites Athens County as a case where high property tax exemptions reduce revenues and strain county township and school services, urging the Ohio Board of Regents and Legislature to act to correct the inequity.
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Claire Ball Jr
Ohio
Ohio Board of Regents
Ball
Athens County
Ohio University
Athens Twp
Board of Regents
Apartment Building Wins Okay in Athens Zoning
The Athens Board of Zoning Appeals granted Edward Van Dyke permission to build a three family apartment at 24 Franklin Ave with a requirement for five off street parking spaces. John and Paul Farley won approval to remodel 70 University Terrace for a food service and laundry facility. A 12-foot Dairy Queen addition at Lancaster Street was referred to the city solicitor. Firemen Called to 517 N Walnut St for oven fire at 3 39 p.m.
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Edward van Dyke
Franklin Ave
van Dyke
John and
Paul Farley
University Terrace
Lloyd and
Mary Graham
Dairy Queen
Lancaster Street
Athens
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