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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1963
Page
4
The city planning commission and city council met Tuesday night to explore cooperation on zoning changes. They considered a council proposal for a general business B-3 classification for three Richland Ave tracts and possible boundary adjustments.
The advertisement promises quick relief from nagging backache headaches and muscular pains with Doan’s Pills. It claims three actions to ease discomforts from exertion and stress, soothe bladder irritation, and mildly diurese kidneys for better sleep.
Mayor Raymond Shepard and city planning consultant Richard Beagle plan a Thursday flight to Chicago to meet URA officials about finances. If URA approves the consultant budget, surveying and planning for the South Green project would begin soon. URA has granted 121,433 for surveying and planning but a previously proposed higher budget was deemed excessive.
A New York City firm, James Talcott Inc., seeks foreclosure in Common Pleas Court on a mortgage held against Wade Tom and Frank V Scrubbie for a 1960 loan of 13717.50 used for a coin operated laundry. Installments due in 1963 remain unpaid. balance cited at 3048.38. Sale of pledged chattels including a washer dryer hot water heater two dispensers and a coin cashier is requested. Athens Commandery 15 Knights Templar will meet at 7 30 p m Wednesday in the Masonic Temple.
The August Municipal Court docket repeats 1962 figures with 94 city cases and $1536.72 in fines and costs. City cases collected $1649 in August 1962. August yielded 39 state cases for $811.52. Municipal Traffic Bureau collected $1740.47, and $1351.11 in August 1962.
Jerome Ancel Sheets, 20, of Nelsonville Route 2, was cited by city police for failing to stop within an assured clear distance after a two-truck collision at 1 15 p m Tuesday on Richland Avenue near the Parkette Drive In
The national legislative program war chest and national convention plans will be discussed at 8 p.m. Thursday when Athens Barracks Veterans of World War I meet at the American Legion home. The auxiliary will meet at the same time and place. Veterans and their wives sisters daughters and mothers are welcome. Masons to Meet Guysville Savannah Lodge 466 F&AM will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday with refreshments served.
Slightly cooler conditions prevailed as observers reported a high of 87, three degrees below the prior day. A morning reading at 9:30 a.m. showed 71 degrees after an overnight low of 54, with fair and mild weather continuing.
Columbus salesman Harry Gormas charges Duds and Suds Inc of Cincinnati with withholding $2800 owed under a March contract for laundry equipment sold to James Shafer of Nelsonville. A common pleas court issued a temporary restraining order to prevent sale or disposal of the note while Shafer may retain the equipment in Nelsonville.
Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Alton Tenney Carpenter Route 1. Others listed for births: Mrs Fannie Bailey Gloucester Mrs Sophia Lewis Albany Route 2 Mrs Ambrose Howard Guysville Route 1. Dismissals include Carlotta Taylor New Marshfield Mrs George Strode Athens Guy Morris Glasgow W V Mrs Charles A Milligan and daughter Athens Route 1. County Court Diane Yvonne Bateman 21 Nelsonville fined 10 dollars and costs for failing to stop within assured clear distance. Municipal Court Raymond Alton Clark 20 Athens Route 1 fined 11 dollars for stop sign violation.
The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Columbus on a mandamus challenge to the Athens County election board over signatures removed from a local option petition. If the court rules for a ballot, about 400 ballots would be affected and the issue could appear on the November ballot in Precincts 1 and 2.
In Murray City Oscar Mike Loper was placed on a 500 peace bond and one year probation after admitting to verbally threatening his wife Olive in a County Court hearing Tuesday.
The city fire department emergency squad arrived at 11 25 p m Tuesday at Jake's Sandwich Shop 27 S Court St where Michael Mitchell 19 of 97 N Lancaster St was ill No aid was given and Mitchell was left in the care of a friend.
The Rauch family with four decades in local baking opens Rauch's Pastry Shoppe at the Kroger Shopping Center. Frank Rauch Jr and his wife will run the one story shop with on site baking, a delicatessen, and a focus on wedding and party cakes and specialty breads.
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