Rhodes Faces Party Split Over Massive Bond Issues
In Columbus Ohio Republican leaders push for closer scrutiny of Gov James A Rhodes bond plans totaling 965 million dollars aimed at financing over five years. Senate Finance Committee members question long term obligations dreading revenue burden while Rhodes defense notes economy growth will generate tax income to cover debt.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Senate Finance Committee
Robert R. Shaw
Mittee
Richard L. Krabach
Krabach
Pri
Shanghai hit by anti Mao outbreaks in cultural purge
Tokyo based AP report cites Liberation Daily claiming hoodlum gangs funded by enemies of capitalism rampaged in Shanghai. The dispatch notes a split within the city’s vast worker movement, with class enemies uncovered across education, literature, and press, implying the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee lacks full control.
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Tokyo
Mao Tsetung
Shanghai
China
Liberation Daily
Shanghai Revolutionary Committee
Mao
River search to continue for Silver Bridge collapse victims
Ohio Civil Defense officials say the hunt for the 10 missing people and one vehicle from the Dec 15 Silver Bridge disaster will persist along the 14 mile stretch of icy Ohio River between Pt Pleasant West Virginia and Kanauga Ohio This weekend will see intensified efforts with private boats dragging the river as Coast Guard and volunteers assist around the clock at the scene.
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Columbus
Ohio
Civil Defense
Ohio River
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Kanauga
Coast Guard
Ohio Civil Defense
Burglars Strike Tucker's Service Station Rockbridge
Thieves pried open the rear window of Tucker's service station in Rockbridge last night and carried sixty cartons of cigars out through the front door. Snowy footprints indicate two men were involved. a 20 gauge shotgun was reported missing from Floyd Barber's Rockbridge home between Dec 22 and Wednesday.
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Tucker's
Rockbridge
Hocking
Supreme Court Upholds Bus Purchase Ruling
The Ohio Supreme Court let stand a Franklin County ruling that 1965 centralized bus purchase rules were unlawful. The decision affects state reimbursements for local school bus purchases and clarifies future actions by the legislature and State Board of Education.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
State Board of Education
10Th District Appellate Court
State Board
High Court
Attorney General's Office
Supreme Court
Hancock County Appellate Court
Findlay
Jefferson County
Indian Creek
Robert Davis
Mingo Junction
Filibuster Over Rights Bill Seen By Senate Leader
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield warns the civil rights bill opening Congress could trigger a lengthy debate and filibuster. The measure would criminalize violence or threats against civil rights exercises by minorities, with passage uncertain if Everett Dirksen opposes it.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Congress
Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Hocking County Reappraisal Nears May Deadline
Max Smith of Cole-Layer-Trumble Co. says the Hocking County property reappraisal will be finished by May 31 1968 with field work complete and valuations under review in Logan and townships. The contract requires reports to the county auditor by the deadline. Ohio law calls for complete reappraisals every six years. The last reappraisal ran 1960 to 1962.
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Max Smith
Cole-Layer-Trumble Co
Dayton
Hocking County
Smith
Logan
Ohio
Cole- Layer-Trumble Co
Citizens Bank Hikes Stock and Buys New Site
The Citizens Bank of Logan held its annual stockholders meeting in the Logan Federal room. Directors elected for 1968 include nine names with Charles Geil as the only new member. The board approved increasing capital stock from 100000 to 200000, with a 50000 stock dividend and 50000 new stock. post increase, capital 200000, surplus 175000, undivided profits 53000. The bank also purchased the Charles Geil property at Main and High Streets for a future bank site. plans to be announced after supervisory approval. Officers elected: Rolland Bright chairman, Aubrey W Prewitt president, Ralph Poston vice president, James K Fowler cashier.
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Citizens Bank of Logan
Logan Federal Community Room
Charles Geil
Main and
High Sts
Crease
Rolland Bright
James Frey
Ernest Hartman
Roger Humphrey
Ralph Poston
Aubrey Prewitt
Roy Funk
Dayton Schultheis
Geil
Aubrey W. Prewitt
James
Marines Die In Nevada Plane Crash Near Battle Mountain
A Marine four engine transport vanished in a blizzard and was found crashed with no survivors about 20 miles south of Battle Mountain Nevada. The aircraft carried 19 Marines on a training mission from Quantico to Seattle.
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Nevada
Battle Mountain
Nev
George Schwin
Lander County
Buckley Air Field
Denver
Colo
Seattle
Washington
Pentagon
Schwin
Bureau of Land Management Office
Federal Aviation Agency
Salt Lake City
Quantico
Wash
NFO Grain Holding Action Reported in Ohio and 27 States
Mildred Davis of Five Points Ohio says National Farmers Organization members began a grain hold in Ohio and 27 other states Thursday. National president Oren Lee Staley had said the action would be ordered before January 17. Tom Conrad of Pickaway County Ohio notes grain is blocked from markets as bargaining with processors continues for higher farm prices.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Farmers Organization
Mildred Davis
Five Points
Pickaway County
Oren Lee Staley
Corning
Iowa
Staley
Tom Conrad
Atlanta
NFC
Demos Face Big Problem In Ohio Senate Endorsement Fight
Democratic State Committee members may sidestep endorsing a U S Senate candidate at today’s meeting. The move would help veteran incumbent Frank Lausche seek a third term over Cincinnati challenger John Gilligan, who is seen as the committee majority choice for the May 7 nomination. A veteran committeeman described the scene ahead of the 3 30 p m closed session.
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Columbus
Ohio
Democratic State Committee
U.S
Frank J. Lausche
John J. Gilligan
Cincinnati
Lausche
Bad Weather Still Plagues East Coast
A severe winter storm system battered the Northeast with bitter cold while an ice storm disrupted the Southeast and heavy snow hit the Central Rockies. Deaths rose to 76 from five days of severe weather as roads iced over and outages spread from North Carolina to New Jersey.
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East Coast
Rockies
New England
North Carolina
Highway Patrol
Raleigh
South Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Carolina
New Jersey
Idaho
Utah
Montana
Grand Jury to Probe Hospital Irregularities
David L. Kessler the chief of the Division of Criminal Activities will assist Prosecutor Forrest Moore when the Hocking County grand jury meets January 22. He will help present evidence on irregularities at Hocking Valley Community Hospital during John Sappington's administration and Sterling Lewis’s tenure as laboratory technician. The two men were previously indicted but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence by Judge Thomas Mitchell.
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David L. Kessler
Attorney General's Office
Forrest Moore
Hocking County
Kessler
Moore
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
John Sappington
Sterling Lewis
Thomas Mitchell
Jackson
Allies and Reds clash across three Viet areas
U S and South Vietnamese troops battled Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in three major engagements from the Mekong Delta to the Que Son Valley and Binh Dinh Province. American casualties totaled 18 dead and 50 wounded with allied losses about 184 dead and 1,132 wounded. Pfc. Larry G. Dearing of Jackson, 20, was killed January 8 near Dau Tieng.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong
Mekong Delta
Binh Dinh
Americal
Que Son
Larry G. Dearing
Jackson
Vietnam
Jackson County
Co. A
Sth
Dau Tieng
Harris Announces Candidacy for County Recorder in May Primary
Mrs. Geraldine Harris, 40 E Jennison Ave, enters the May primary as a Democrat candidate for county recorder. Three other candidates filed petitions including two Republicans and one Democrat. Harris has worked as deputy clerk, real estate agent, and plant secretary and is married with three children.
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Geraldine Harris
E. Jennison Ave
Jack Moorehead
Logan
Moorehead
Clarence S. Matheny
Haydenville
Natco Corp
Thelma
Western Union
J. Stanley Harris
Monica
Joe
Marilyn
St. John’s Catholic Church
Bricker Named Honorary Chair of Saxbe Senate Bid
John W. Bricker former Ohio governor and U S Senator accepted the honorary chairmanship of the campaign committee backing William B. Saxbe for the Republican U S Senate nomination Bricker praised Saxbe saying he will guarantee Ohio sound intelligent and imaginative representation in the Senate Bricker practices law in Columbus Ohio
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Columbus
Ohio
John W. Bricker
U.S
Atty
William B. Saxbe
U.S. Senate
Saxbe
Bricker
United States
Farmers & Merchants Bank Re-Elects Directors for 1968
Farmers & Merchants Bank of Logan re elected all directors for 1968 at the annual stockholders meeting. Board members include R B Perkins Lester V Risch Clarence Blosser Robert Keynes Fred E Hull Barton A Holl Fred A Murray Carl C Harsh James R King Jr and Ralph O Moorehead. The board named Barton A Holl chairman R B Perkins president Ralph O Moorehead vice president and Ted McVey and Ted Sanders assistant cashiers. Herschel Bensenhaver a 20 year employee was elected vice president after serving as cashier Glenn Hemsworth a 10 year employee was elected cashier after serving as an assistant cashier. The bank surpassed 16 million dollars in resources for the first time in 1967 and transferred 200000 from undivided profits to surplus. The bank now holds 200000 in capital and 1 million in surplus enabling a loan limit of 120000 to a single customer.
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Farmers & Merchants Bank of Logan
R. B. Perkins
Lester V. Risch
Clarence Blosser
Robert Keynes
Fred E. Hull
Barton A. Holl
Fred A. Murray
Carl C. Harsh
James R. King Jr
Ralph O. Moorehead
Ralph 0. Moorehead
Glenn Hemsworth
Logan
Secret Service Seizes Counterfeit Bill Operation
Secret Service agents seized a printing press and counterfeit equipment in Wellsville Ohio after confiscating 4.1 million dollars in fake hundreds in New York. Two Ohio men were arrested. Joel Lee a Miami Beach lawyer was detained as alleged salesman. Clark and Christian held on 75000 bail each.
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New York
Secret Service
Ohio
Miami Beach
Joel Lee
Albert E. Whitaker
Wellsville
Pete Trainer
U.S
Robert J. Rotatori
Cleveland
James Clark
Clinton
Clark
Akron
Louis Christian
Canton
Christian
John Pont Named 67 Coach of Year
John Pont was named college football Coach of the Year for 1967 after guiding Indiana to a share of the Big Ten title and a Rose Bowl appearance. Cecil Moore of Chattanooga earned the small college Coach of the Year award.
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John Pont
New York
Indiana
Cecil “Scrappy
Moore
Chattanooga
Commissioners' Meet Questioned
Hocking County commissioners' courthouse office was closed with a note saying Be back at 12 30 A second note asked What for The regular meeting day is Thursday.
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Hocking County
Commissioners
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