Shipping Costs Threaten Midget Motors Life
Athens defense contractor Midget Motors faces a six month delay before relief as a shipping classification shift drives freight up by as much as fourteen hundred percent. The 800 pound King Midget carrier now pays for 6,000 pounds, forcing losses and layoffs. ICC and the National Classification Board expect six months to resolve the issue.
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Athens
Midget Motors
Midget
King
California
Vernon Eads
Commercial Motor Freight Co
Columbus
Commercial
Coronado
Cal
Fullerton
Eads
National Classification Board
Washington
ICC
the Messenger
Gaffney
Car Front-impact Injures Glouster Passenger on Columbus Road
A Glouster woman, Fontell Powell 45, was lightly hurt when her car rear ended another on Columbus Road north of Lancaster Street. Driver Donya B. Stanley 24 pleaded guilty to failing to maintain a safe distance and paid $20 fine. A separate two car collision at Mill Street and Putnam Street led to minor injuries for two passengers in the Sands vehicle and a citation for Frances A. Baker 50 for failing to yield.
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Columbus Rd
Lancaster St
Fontell Powell
Donya B. Stanley
Stanley
Byron R. Temple
Columbus
Mill St
Putnam Do
Frances A. Baker
Hudson Ave
Putnam
George W. Sands
Sunnyside Dr
Sands Auto
Four Await Decision On Prison Terms
Four Ohio University students from Pittsburgh Cleveland and Dayton are in Athens County Jail awaiting Judge John W. Bolin to rule on their motion to reconsider sentences. They pleaded guilty to check forgery and were initially sentenced to Mansfield Reformatory after writing checks against a Belpre bank.
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Ohio University
Athens County
John W. Bolin
Bolin
Linn B. Washington
Pittsburgh
Toyce Anderson
Cleveland
Walter McKinney
Dayton
Reginald Sanders
Mansfield Reformatory
Seaman Apprentice Reighard Receives New Military Address
Mrs. E Keen Reighard of Fairview Street is informed of her son Seaman Apprentice Billy Reighard’s updated address. The new posting reads S A Edward W Reighard Jr B 54757 First Division USS Myles C Fox DD 829 Fleet Post Office New York 09501.
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Nelsonville
E.keen Reighard
Fairview Street
Billy Reighard
Edward W. Reighard
Myles—C—Fox
Fleet Post Office
New York
River Rebounds as Rain Forecast Eases Athens Drought
River levels show 2.14 feet on the Hocking after a drought driven decline. Rain is forecast for Tuesday indicating relief after the extended dry spell. Local residents Howard and Jo Ellen Carter are noted travelers visiting several Kentucky towns. Master Mason degree set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Par mu thia Lodge 25 in the Masonic Temple.
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Athens Area
Hocking
U. S
C. L. Colmer
Colmer
Masonic Temple
Paramuthia Lodge 25
F&am
Hydrogen Device Rocks Hotel 100 Miles Away
A hydrogen device with a yield near 800 000 tons of TNT was detonated beneath a desert mesa at the Nevada Test Site. The blast rattled Las Vegas hotel towers about 100 miles away and caused ground motion and dust plumes observed on site. No atmospheric radiation was detected.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
Los Angeles
Landmark Tower
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Board of Truckers
Bob Roger
NoRoll
Flexnit Company Inc
Columbus Road
Belpre
Seaman Reighard
Rhodesia
Laverna Grandfield
Athens Free
Glouster
Howard Carter
Kentucky
Mayesville
Bardstown
Hodgensville
Herodsburg
Somerset
Mammoth Cave
Mr. Carter
J. M. Carter
Toledo
Carters
Jo Ellen Carter
Robert King
Grove City
Hydrogen Device Rocks
F.D.I.C
Wank A Cypry Bank
Southeastern Ohio
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