Logan School Board Accepts Transfer of S-W Territory
The Logan school board in special session accepted the Starr Washington district transfer affecting 72 square miles and adding about 5.14 million to district valuation. The move follows Ohio state actions on the S W charter and court appeals. S W students may attend grades 10 12 in Logan with ninth grade options to be decided.
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Logan School Board
S-W
Starr- Washington
Hocking County School Board
Logan
Ohio Supreme Court
State Board of Education
Hocking County Common Pleas Court
Fourth District Court of Appeals
Starr-Washington
Logan City
George M. Sarbalas
Union Furnace
Sarbalas
Dan Long
Logan Board
Tom Grey
Saribalas
Dale L. Johnson
Marion
Rockbridge
Norman Spitzer
Goss and Shaw Buy Bob's Barber Shop
Gene Goss owner of Gene's Barber Shop 62 W Main St and John Shaw purchase Bob's Barber Shop 98% E Main St under Leon's and plan to open Monday. Goss vacates current location razed by Lewis Vance. Shop to operate as a union shop with union prices. Shaw to join the union.
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Gene Goss
Gene
W. Main St
John Shaw
Bob
E. Main St
Leon’s
Goss
Lewis Vance
Lancaster
Robert W. Hardman
Union Furnace
Shaw
Bob’s
Fess Parker Sued Over Dog Attack Incident
A San Francisco deliveryman sues actor Fess Parker for 50000 dollars claiming Parker's dogs attacked him during a grocery delivery. The suit raises allegations of injuries and seeks compensation.
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San Francisco
Fess Parker
Parker
Russians Face Space Station Problems Amid Skylab Prep
CAPE KENNEDY FLA AP The Salyut 2 space station is in trouble as Skylab pre launch tests begin at Cape Kennedy. Skylab aims for unmanned May 14 launch, with astronauts Conrads, Weitz and Kerwin to orbit May 15 for four weeks of medical and Earth resource experiments.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Russia
Salyut 2 Space Station
America
Charles Conrad Jr
Paul J. Weitz
Joseph P. Kerwin
U.S
Space Agency
Evaluation Team Visits Logan High
A two day North Central Association team evaluated Logan High School focusing on facilities curriculum and staff. Dr. Charles Wood led the team with input from Ohio University educators. a written report will follow with strengths weaknesses and improvement recommendations.
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North Central
Logan High School
Bella Reddick
University of Akron
Charles Moore
LHS
Charles Wood
Wood
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Moore
Ed Lynn
Reba Pinney
Ronald Whitaker
Herman Humphrey
Gilbert Stephenson
Ohio University
Doyle
Metal Powder Union To Vote On New Offer
About 80 Local 12513 members will vote at 10 a.m. Friday at the Hocking Youth Center on a new contract proposal from Metal Powder Products Corp. The offer, negotiated with a federal mediator in Columbus, requires a two thirds majority to pass. MPP general manager T. H. Wallace calls it a markedly improved deal and hopes for production resumption. the plant has been idle since March 1 due to the strike.
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International Machinist and Aerospace Workers
Hocking
Metal Powder Products
MPP
Ohio Penitentiary Blackout Ends
Power was restored at the Ohio Penitentiary after a Wednesday evening blackout. Five inmates fled the hospital area during the outage but were recaptured inside the penitentiary as Columbus police mobilized cruisers around the facility.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
Columbus
Spreading Floods Hit Mid U S Hard in seven states
Floodwaters inundated 10.4 million acres across seven states with damage estimated at 193 million dollars. Missouri levees broke including a central Missouri breach near St Louis forcing evacuations of 600 mobile home residents at Boshe town. Thousands of families from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Plains faced inundation.
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Nice Tatro
Associated Press
Missouri
St. Louis
Boshetown
Gulf of Mexico
George Thad Watts
St. Charles County
Illinois
Larry Wolfe
Havana
Illinois River
Charles Noble
Mississippi River Commission
Vicksburg
Miss
Louisiana
Arkansas
North
Little Rock
Robert L. Rosa
Mond
Baton Rouge
Louisana Farm Bureau Federation
Delta
Louisiana Conservation Department
National Weather Service
Agriculture
Earl Butz
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Tennessee
Rockies
Plains
Alabama
Muscle Shoals
Texas
Ark
Tallahassee
Fla
Jacksnville
Nixon Committee Seeks Favorable TV Poll Backing
The Nixon re election campaign said a local Metromedia TV poll on Haiphong mine reaction drew 5157 agree and 1158 disagree with Nixon, with about 2000 ballots mailed by committee workers. Other Watergate fallout followed as Agnew defended Nixon, and figures linked to the Nixon camp were reported contradicting the McGovern effort. The piece also notes floods and weather impacts across multiple states with casualties and economic losses.
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Washington
Nixon
DeVan L. Shumway
Metromedia
WTTG
Haiphong Harbor
Shumway
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Los Angeles Times
The
Washington Post
Kenneth S. Rietz
Melvin R. Laird
White House
Marshfield
Wis
South Vietnam
Jack Anderson
Federal Reserve System
E. Howard Hunt
New York State
James Dooley
Nixon Committee
Post
Dooley
Frank Mankiewicz
George McGovern
the Post
Paris talks aim to keep Vietnam peace on track
U.S. and North Vietnamese diplomats prepare a new Paris round to steer the conflict to a political path before the three month cease fire collapses. Sullivan travels to meet Thach while Kislinger and Tho plan mid May talks as Kissinger warns of repeated violations by the other side.
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Washington
USS
Paris
Vietnam
Nixon
William H. Sullivan
Ter
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Kissinger
Associated Press
New York
Hanoi
United
Thieu
South Vietnam
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
State Department
Charles W. Bray
Bray
Sullivan
Thach
United States
North Vietnam
Stock Market Slips After Brief Noon Rally
In New York the noon Dow Jones industrial average stood at 926.48, down 4.06 points after trading higher briefly earlier. The index has dropped more than 32 points over the first three sessions of the week.
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New York
Athens aides walk out at mental health center
About 230 aides from local 1782 of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees strike at the Athens Mental Health Center to protest five new supervisory psychiatric aide posts held by registered nurses. Superintendent Dr. Harry Chovnick plans to promote five union members pending state procedure guidance.
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Athens, Ohio
Athens Mental Health Center
American Federation of State
Harry Chovnick
Ohio Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Demolition Begins on James Building Next to Courthouse
Wrecking crews from Kiener Wrecking Excavating Co. of Moxahala started razing the old James Building on E Main Street near the Hocking County Courthouse. The bid winner for $11,700 will clear the site for a future county parking lot.
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James
Hocking County Courthouse
E. Main St
Kiener Wrecking Excavating Co
Moxahala
Hocking County
17 Year Locusts To Emerge After 17 Year Sleep
Millions of cicadas will surface from underground after 17 years of darkness in a brief chorus season. Henry Dybas of the Field Museum notes cicadas feed on tree sap and cause limited damage when females lay eggs, with timing for emergence remaining remarkably precise.
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Chicago
Henry Dybas
Field Museum of Natural History
Dybas
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Logan High
Metal Powder Union
Ohio
Rietz
Republican National Committee
MM Records
Margaret Chase Smith
Hocking Valley
Athens
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