County Hocking Jr Fair seeks aid for new building
Hocking County commissioners were asked to fund a new junior fair building by a group including the 4 H Advisory Council Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. The fund has 3584 70 in the bank with a 1000 pledge once started. A similar 40x100 ft cement block building in Vinton County cost 16500. The group envisions a year round facility with kitchen restrooms and partitions.
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Fair Board
4-H Advisory Council
Young
Junior Fair Building Fund
Vinton County
Roy Beery
Hocking County Agricultural Society
Jud Matheny
Otto Shaw
Howard Blum
Ernest Shull
Shaw
Fairgrounds
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Good Hope
Fairview
Arab Summit Collapse Shocks Mideast Leaders
The fifth Arab summit in Rabat collapsed after three days of talks with 14 states and the Palestine movement failing to agree on a unified strategy against Israel. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser criticized the conference, which ended without a communique, marking its biggest setback since 1967.
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Morocco
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Cairo
al Ahram
Israel
Logan Postoffice To Close Friday For Nixon Holiday
Logan postmaster Vaughn A Collins says Friday is a national holiday for federal employees per presidential order. No mail service or deliveries will occur Thursday or Friday, but lobby hours will be 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and lock box service remains available.
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Vaughn A. Collins
Logan
Nixon
Collins
Valley Snow Forecasts Bring White Christmas Hopes
A three inch snowfall Tuesday with more predicted today promises a white Christmas in the Hocking Valley. The weatherman warned of possible freezing rain tonight as temperatures dropped to five degrees before rising to 28 by 11 a.m. State crews treated highways while residents were urged to keep snow between sidewalks and curbs.
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Hocking
Mercury
Rhodes appointee Earl Allison suspended from practice
Ohio Supreme Court suspended Earl W. Allison, longtime chairman of the State Board of Review, from the practice of law indefinitely after he admitted mishandling client funds. The case involved a $10,000 trust in a divorce matter for Lois Rhinehart Shelton. Restitution had been made. the court noted prior disbarment was recommended but not imposed. Allison had served as Franklin County prosecutor and was appointed by Gov. James A. Rhodes in 1964 and reappointed in 1967.
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Allison
Lois Rhinehart Shelton
Ohio Board of Commissioners On
Franklin County
Rhodes
Steam-Powered Auto of Henry Lutz to Be Shown in Logan
Henry Lutz’s steam powered auto, built in 1898 and once used by Lutz for about a decade, will go on display Friday in the lobby of the Logan Federal Savings & Loan Association at 61 N. Market St. Also shown will be a velocipede and a child’s tricycle. The exhibit continues until a permanent home is found for the collection, part of a will-directed return to Logan for the local historical society.
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Logan
Wayne Whitcraft
Lutz
Floyd Hiles
Hocking County Historical Society
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Cleveland
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Athens
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Germany
U.S
Final City Council session ends year with 60 contracts approved
The council met briefly for the last session of the year with Ed Dalton as acting president pro tem. It approved 60 water contracts for outside-city users and denied three contracts due to non opposition to annexation clauses.
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General Hocking Brick Co
William Wallace Co
House
Fritz Huls
Blue Cross
Dick Collison
Council
Metropolitan Insurance
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Dollison
Chuck Eaton
James Johnson
Wilbur Lanning
Congress Ends Lengthy Unproductive Session
The 1969 session of Congress closed with limited passage of President Nixon's proposals. Major acts include a $4.8 billion housing bill, a stringent coal mine safety measure, a draft law revision for a lottery system, and extensions of the surtax. Burger confirmed as Chief Justice. Haynsworth to be reconsidered in 1970. Many crime welfare and tax issues remained unacted.
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Nixon
Capitol
Warren E. Burger
United States
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Supreme Court
Senate
Bethlehem Christmas Guards Tighten Security Amid Calm
Bethlehem sees heavy security with over 1,000 troops and police on duty as explosions rattle the town. Worldwide Christmas preparations continue with inflation driven shopping and festive voyages through airports and stations.
Court Decrees New Sentence For Baker
Hocking County Prosecutor Forrest Moore was notified of an Ohio Supreme Court ruling on the Michael Lee Baker appeal. The court affirmed Baker as a delinquent but ordered resentencing, ruling he was not guilty of a felony. Baker had been sentenced to Mansfield Reformatory with a stay of execution pending the ruling.
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Mary Jo
Briede
Ohio Women’s Reformatory
Simon Leis
Hamilton County
Hocking County
Forrest Moore
Ohio Supreme Court
Michael Lee Baker
Baker
Roy J. Gilliland
Jackson
Fourth District Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Moore
High Court
Mansfield Reformatory
Allies Start Cease-Fire 17 Hours After Viet Reds
Allied forces began a 24 hour Christmas truce 17 hours after the Viet Cong announced a three day cease fire. U S forces suspended up to 60 battalion size operations and air attacks on targets in South Vietnam were halted for 24 hours while attacks on infiltration routes in eastern Laos continued. A claymore mine killed four Americans and wounded others in a Viet Cong violation. U S forces also clashed near the Cambodian border with over 100 North Vietnamese troops entrenched in bunkers 75 miles north of Saigon.
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U.S
South Vietnam
Laos
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
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