Snowfall Transforms New Year in Hocking Valley
A heavy five plus inch snowfall greeted 1964 in the Hocking Valley delaying travel on icy roads. City and county crews spread salt and ashes, plowed primary streets, and prepared for warmer weather as Ohio roads faced widespread disruption.
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Hocking Valley
Ed Ritgers
Ritgers
Freeman
Main St
Associated Press
Ohio
Buckeye
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Dayton
DuPage detectives probe fatal shooting of ex Illinois star
In DuPage County investigators continued their probe into the fatal New Year’s Eve shooting of Tony Parrilli at a bowling alley party. Parrilli, 24, was Illinois’ most valuable grid player in 1961 after an argument with a world champion Bears star ended in a police bullet. In Athens Greece the caretaker government sought an extraordinary NATO meeting in Paris to discuss the Cyprus crisis.
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Chicago
DuPage County
University of Illinois
Chicago Bears
Tony Parrilli
Illinois
Athens
Greece
Cyprus
Atlantic Alliance
Paris
NATO Committee
Market Opens In 1964 Rally Dow Up At Noon
New York stocks opened with a broad advance as traders concluded the first trading session of 1964. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2.60 points to 765.55 at noon amid moderately active trading.
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New York
Malaysia may seek Britain Australia and New Zealand help
Kuala Lumpur reports the government weighing an appeal to Britain Australia and New Zealand for military personnel to assist in reinforcing defenses on the Borneo border with Indonesia. Disbarred attorney J Harvey Crow asks Ohio Supreme Court to set aside a 30 day jail term and 1500 dollar fine for contempt. Niger and Dahomey officials plan a frontier meeting to resolve their differences.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Borneo
Indonesia
Columbus, Ohio
J. Harvey Crow
Ohio Supreme Court
Cotonou, Dahomey
Niger
Dahomey
Canada Receives First 28 Bomarc Nuclear Warheads
North Bay Ontario reports the arrival of the initial 28 nuclear warheads for Canada's Bomarc antiair missiles, stationed 180 miles north of Toronto, marking a milestone in the defense program.
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North Bay, Ont
Canada
North Bay
Toronto
Six Republican Senators Back Comprehensive Medicare Plan
Six Republican senators led by Clifford Case Jacob Javits and Margaret Chase Smith propose a broad health care program for Americans 65 and older funded by Social Security or general revenues. The plan would cover hospitalization nursing and home care with private insurers allowed to offer a nonprofit mass plan for low cost coverage. Antitrust rules would be bypassed for these private collaborations.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
GOP
Clifford P. Case
New Jersey
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Jacob K. Javits
Kenneth B. Keating
New York
Thomas H. Kuchel
California
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Buckeye Trail Marking Gets Expedited Under New Agreement
An agreement between state divisions of parks recreation and forestry and the Buckeye Trail Association speeds marking of the Buckeye Trail on state lands. Robert Teater announced the deal after talks with officials and trail representatives. Parks in the Hocking Hills including Old Man's Cave Ash Cave and Cedar Falls will receive standard blue blazes and metal markers where needed.
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State Divisions of Parks, Recreation and Forestry
The
Buckeye
Robert Teater
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Parks and Forestry Divisions
Trail-Building Association
Hocking County
Ohio
Cincinnati
Lake Erie
Buckeye Trail
Old Man’s Cave
Ash Cave
Cedar Falls
Hocking Hills
Roy Fairfield
Athens
Death Claims Ira Shurtz At Age Of 86
Ira Shurtz 86 of New Plymouth died at Hocking Valley Hospital Wednesday morning. He and his late father owned about 1000 acres in New Plymouth area and ran farms now managed by his sister Minnie Shurtz. Survived by wife Ida and four stepchildren Lawrence Champion Belle Cook Ruth Angle Lillian Rife. Friends may call at Heinlein Funeral Home after 7 p.m. Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday. Burial Elk Cemetery McArthur.
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Ira Shurtz
New Plymouth
Gibraltar
Mich
Belle Cook
Toledo
Ruth Angle
Massillon
Lillian Rife
Luckey
Heinlein
Funeral
Elk Cemetery
McArthur
First Arrival Here at Hocking Valley Hospital
New Year's Day 1964 saw the first birth at Hocking Valley Hospital a son weighing seven pounds five ounces born to Mr and Mrs Donald Oney Creola Rt 1 at 3 46 p m An event welcoming the newborn and family to the community noted by the hospital.
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Hocking Valley Hospital
Donald Oney
Creola Rt. 1
Traffic Toll Tops Estimate Across New Year Holiday
Road fatalities during the 48 hour New Year holiday totaled 223 with belated reports expected. Ohio recorded four deaths, while Hocking County posted a notably safe period as a single minor accident occurred Wednesday afternoon.
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Hocking
Holiday traffic toll climbs past early estimates
The article notes three week period fatalities totaling six highway deaths and the New Year 1962 period with 11 deaths. The National Safety Council had warned 140 to 180 deaths could occur in a 30 hour window from New Year's Eve to New Year's Day. AP figures show nearly 200 fatalities in that period, plus 316 deaths over last week's 48 hour Christmas holiday and 382 during the 1962 63 New Year weekend.
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Ohio
National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
Associated Press
Sheriff’s Department Reports Quiet New Year Eve
Hocking County sheriff's office marked a calm New Year's Eve with no traffic accidents. One 1 a.m. call featured a woman asking if it was 1964, and a deputy clarified the current date by quoting the department’s number.
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Hocking County
Lappen Won't Run In 1964
Hubert Lappen the Hocking County prosecuting attorney announced he will not seek re election in 1964. The Logan Democrat will end his second four year term this year. No candidacy announcements have been made but Republican Neal Dillon a former Logan city solicitor has obtained nominating petitions for the post.
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Hubert Lappen
Hocking County
Logan
Neal Dillon
Logan City
Personal Khrushchev Note Given Johnson
President Johnson contemplates peace breakthroughs as Khrushchev sends a personal message via Dobrynin. A White House brief outlines aims for housing reform civil rights an elder medical program and a continued drive for budget savings through 1965. Edwin M. Martin is named ambassador to Argentina.
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Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Dean Rusk
Newsmen
Khrushchev
White House
Johnson
United States
Robert C. Weaver
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Congress
Robert S. McNamara
Maxwell Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Johnson City
Tex
Edwin M. Martin
Foreign Service
Argentina
New Officials Are Sworn In At Logan City Hall
Logan selects a Republican mayor Jack Moorehead and council members in a New Year ceremony presided by Judge Harley Meyer. Moorehead outlines a pro city budget and open contact with citizens as Ed Rittgers returns as service director and Clarence Beery resumes as city electrician.
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Jack Moorehead
Logan
Harley Meyer
Moorehead
Ed Rittgers
Rittgers
Rutgers
Francis Myers
Clarence M. Beery
City Electrician
Beery
Freeman
Logan City
Evans and Jr
Ralph Griffin
Tom Walsh
Rolland Schorr
Louis May
Lawrence Ellinger
Wilbur Lanning Jr
Edward Nelson
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Montgomery County
Columbus
Mulberry St
Lappen
Nikita Khrushchev
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