Logan Schools Seek New Operating Levy
Logan city school board votes unanimously to place a 2 mill operating levy on the May 8 primary ballot for one year. A prior 2 mill levy for five years failed by about 400 votes in November. Board members cite low teacher pay and funding needs. district finances show year end 1961 balances of 117,214.51 and unpaid bills around 13,000 with late windfalls of 38,000. They authorize a 40,000 advance on property tax to cover 68,000 in bills, including 52,000 January payroll and 1,302.43 for 74 new lockers at the senior high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan City School Board
Robert Orndoff
Orndoff
Robert Bryan
Harold Sommers
Frederick Blume
Lavon Goodlive
George
Bal
Blosser
Nelsonville Garage Fire Warns of Downtown Blaze Risk
Fire at the District 50 garage of Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co. in Nelsonville started by a faulty overhead gas space heater. Damage tops $3,000 to the structure owned by Peabody Coal Co. and leased to C&SOE, with over $1,000 to equipment. Firefighters, aided by volunteers, battled the blaze for more than two hours, venting the roof and preventing spread while enduring heavy heat and smoke from burning tires.
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Nelsonville
Maurer
District 50
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co
Dannie Linton
Carbon Hill
Peabody Coal Co
C&soe
Linton
Canal St
Nelsonville Division C&soe
Hocking St
Nelsonville Elks Lodge
Timberlake Seeks Hocking County Auditor on GOP Ticket
Wayne Timberlake, 51, Logan Falls Two resident and three term trustee, announced his Republican candidacy for Hocking County auditor. A Sun Glow Furniture Industries worker and part-time farmer, he served three years in the US Army and leads church and community groups including Masons and Farm Bureau. He is married with three children.
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Wayne Timberlake
Falls Two
Hocking County
Timberlake
Logan and
Logan High School
Sun Glow Furniture Industries
Webb Summit
The
Masons
Farm Bureau Federation
Hocking County Fish and Game Association
United Furniture Workers
Logan Methodist Church
Escapee Dies During Flight Near Detroit
An 18 year old escapee from Chillicothe reformatory died in a water filled ditch after fleeing Taylor Township police. Douglas W. Wallace of Medina Ohio died of exposure. A 29 year old companion John Robert Chevalier was captured. Gary G Bogges 17 of Miami West Virginia escaped.
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Detroit
Mich
Chillicothe
Ohio
Taylor Township
Douglas W. Wallace
Medina
Trenton
John Robert Chevalier
Gary G. Bogges
Miami
W. Va
Wallace
DiSalle Details Program at University of Cincinnati
The second of eight one day seminars explaining Governor DiSalle’s program and policies began today at the University of Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Michael V. DiSalle
University of Cincinnati
Fresh Blast Of Frigid Air Heading East
A new surge of arctic air moved from Montana through the Midwest causing temperatures to plunge. Bozeman reached minus 25 and Drummond minus 24 as Minnesota reported minus 16, continuing the pattern seen after the previous major snowstorm.
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Montana
Indiana
Midwest
Bozeman
Drummond
Minnesota
Hocking Valley Weather Outlook Today
Temperatures forecast from 25 to 35 degrees with possible snow flurries and a colder spell through Wednesday. An expected low between zero and ten degrees above. Monday's high reached 45 and fell to 22 by morning. At 11 a.m. the temperature was 29 degrees and rising.
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Hocking Valley
Midwest cold wave edges into the South with heavy snows
In International Falls and Duluth temperatures dipped below minus thirteen and minus eleven in Minneapolis, with subzero readings across the Dakotas and parts of Wisconsin Nebraska Iowa Illinois and Indiana. Chicago reported seven inches of fresh snow in frigid weather while Joliet stood at eight inches. The storm that dumped up to ten inches across the Midwest eased as it moved northeast. Rain lingered in northern New England and snow flurries persisted west of the northern Appalachians into the northern Great Lakes.
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International Falls
Duluth
Minneapolis
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Chicago
Joliet
Ill
Louisiana
Midwest
New England
Appalachians
Great Lakes
Ohio Weather Watch: Cold Front Drops Temps Across State
Official Weather Bureau summary notes frigid air after a cold front. temperatures fall into the 20s to near zero in parts of the state. Winds bring moisture from the lakes creating cloudy skies with snow flurries in the northeastern lakeshore and northern counties. Coast-to-coast forecasts expect continued subfreezing readings and scattered flurries in the north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Official Weather Bureau
Toledo
Chesapeake
Kennedy presses for test ban accord and unity abroad
President Kennedy lamented the failure to reach a nuclear test ban with the Soviet Union, calling it the biggest disappointment of his first year. He praised unity among Western allies and Latin America, urged swift steel contract settlement, and discussed Laos, Berlin, farm policy, civil rights, and tariff authority. He noted ongoing talks with the Soviet Union on Berlin and warned against triggering a violent reaction by tearing down the wall.
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Washington
Kennedy
Soviet Union
White House
Latin America
Laos
Berlin
Congress
Llewellyn Thompson
Andrei A. Gromyko
David McDonald
United Steelworkers
Indonesian Denies Invasion Attempted
FRANKFURT Germany AP The first elements of an Army force of 6000 men arrived to test American airlift capability. A C135 transport carrying 72 officers and men of the 4th Infantry Division landed at Rhine Main base after a nonstop polar flight from McChord.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Rhine-Main
McChord
Portugal Faces U N Attack Over Angola Policy
In New York the United Nations General Assembly debates Portugal's control of Angola with calls for condemnation and possible sanctions from the African and Communist blocs. The United States opposes sanctions, hoping for a moderate resolution pushing Angola toward self determination. Meanwhile U S troops begin the Long Thrust 11 airlift to Europe, with 87 transports and 6,000 soldiers involved in a four day NATO exercise in Bavaria.
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United Nations
N.Y
Portugal
Angola
Poland
Bulgaria
Security Council
Lisbon
General Assembly
Congo
United States
NATO
U.S
Vasco Vieira Garia
Garin
Grimsley
Europe
Berlin
William F. Train
Frankfurt
Bavaria
Mannheim
Germany
Hohenfels
4Th Allied Tactical Air Force
McChord
Indonesia Confirms Loss of Torpedo Boat in New Guinea Clash
Indonesia acknowledged losing one torpedo boat in a clash with Dutch forces off West New Guinea. Maj. Gen. Achmad Jani said only one vessel was lost with no casualties reported beyond that. Dutch sources claimed sinking one boat with a second probably sunk, 50 prisoners, and an invasion attempt indicated by recovered rubber landing craft. U Thant urged peace as Jakarta prepared to file a UN complaint.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
West New Guinea
Achmad Jani
New Guinea
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
U.N
U Thant
United Nations
Thant
de Quay
Jani
Byrd Urges Full Debt Picture Before Any Increase
Senator Byrd announces a Senate Finance Committee inquiry into federal finances as President Kennedy asks for a 10 billion dollar debt limit hike from 298 to 308 billion. Treasury's Dillon seeks 2 billion by March 1 and 8 billion for the next fiscal year to cover peak debt and operating room. Byrd warns of heavy deficits, notes high tax burden, and calls for a clear debt picture before further rises.
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Washington
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Kennedy
Byrd
Virginia
Senate Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Dillon
Congress
Aid and Space Budget Increases Sought by Kennedy
President Kennedy will ask for higher foreign aid and civilian space program funding in his annual budget message. Foreign aid is slated at about 4.897 billion dollars, surpassing Eisenhower era requests and Congress approvals. NASA funding is projected near 4 billion dollars, more than double this year's space spending.
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Washington
Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Khrushchev Criticizes Byelorussian Hog Loss
Soviet Premier Khrushchev bluntly reproached Byelorussian farmers for a 15 percent hog death rate last year. He blamed fodder shortages and poor livestock care, saying his visit aimed to expose shortcomings rather than recite poetry.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Byelorussia
Pushkin
France May Impose Siege as Algeria Violence Surges
ALGIERS AP Despite rising violence in Algeria a plan for a state of siege is discussed as French authorities meet with regional officials at Rocher Noir. Three Europeans killed in Oran and a bank holdup tied to the right wing S.A.O. fuel tensions amid talks on independence and minority status.
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Algiers
Algeria
Oran
Louis Joxe
Rocher Noir
Bone
Mostaganem
European Secret Army Organization
Films May Tell Fate Of Big Space Balloon
Cape Canaveral officials say television and movie films may reveal why a large space balloon broke apart over the Atlantic. The breakup followed a launch of a single stage Thor rocket. analysts theorize the balloon carried too much air and was only partly inflated.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic Ocean Project
Thor
Kennedy Thant Parley Set In New York
President Kennedy plans to meet U Thant the U.N. Secretary General in New York City on Friday for a lunch with U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.N
U Thant
New York City
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dominican Airmen Stage Power Show On Main Street
In Santo Domingo the air force rolled tanks and a half-track with about 40 troops down the capital’s main street near midnight as Balaguer and the military chief face rising attempts to unseat them. Opponents decry Rodriguez Echavarria as pushing toward dictatorship while he denies the charge. A later march of about 20 youths and Castro chants targeted U.S. correspondents.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Dominican Air Force
Joaquin Balaguer
Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria
Rodriguez Echavarria
Fidel Castro
U.S
Balaguer
Trujilo
Congo Premier Slated For Washington Visit
Congo premier Cyrille Adoula is expected to visit the United Nations and Washington next week amid ongoing turmoil. U.S. officials say the UN, backed by the United States, supports Adoula in his efforts to quell secessionist movements led by Katanga chief Moise Tshombe and leftist Antoine Gizenga.
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Washington
Cyrille Adoula
Congo
United Nations
U.S
United States
Adoula
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Antoine Gizenga
Missionaries killed in Congo violence linked to Gizenga factions
Congolese troops from Stanleyville massacred 18 Roman Catholic missionaries and many Africans in Kongolo, North Katanga, with reports of violence spreading from Bukavu. The incident follows claims of Gizenga loyalists advancing and central government efforts to arrest him, amid fears of broad military backlash.
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Brussels
Belgium
Stanleyville
Kongolo
Katanga
Bukavu
Kivu
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Central
U.N
Gizenga
Victor Lundula
Lundula
Gisenga
Congo
Cyrille Adoula
Leopoliville
Death Claims W. E. Wharton
Wayne E. Wharton 58 of Rockbridge, a saw mill operator, died Monday of a heart attack at home. Born in Good Hope Two, he was son of Cliffton and Phoebe Wharton and member of Advent Christian Church. Survived by his wife Opal, three sons, four daughters, a brother, two sisters, and nine grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at 2 p.m. Heinlein Funeral Home, burial Fairview Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today.
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Wayne E. Wharton
Rockbridge
Good Hope
Cliffton
Phoebe Dupler Wharton
Advent Christian Church of
Opal
James and
Lloyd
Logan
Connie Wharton
Burl
Amanda
Louise Troccchia
Sugar Grove
Janetta Wharton
Bryan
Heinlein
Fairview
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Cgosoe
DiSalle
Associated Press
JFK
Southeast Asia
James Grimsley
Florence
S.C
Greenland
Charles D. Palmer
the Hague
Jan de Quay
Khrush
National Liberation Front
W. E. Wharton
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