Strippers Mine Great Seam Of Coal In Hocking Valley
The Congo strip mine reveals the Great Seam of coal near New Straitsville with a bench 80 feet wide and 14 to 17 feet thick. Draglines, drills, and loaders move coal to the Poston plant and Congo tipple as engineers drained water to enable surface mining.
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Congo Strip
Congo
E. M. Poston
Nelsonville
Hocking Valley
Athens
Perry
Hocking
New Straitsville
Peabody Coal Co
Glen Ebon
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co
Poston
Corning
No. 6
Sunday Creek
Rt. 691
Candidates For Hocking County School Boards By The August 6 Filing
Only three petitions filed for Hocking County school boards as of now with 11 seats open in November. Logan district has one candidate Robert Redd for Starr Washington seats. Laurelville reports Don Thomas for Laurelville board. Orval Hampshire seeks Hocking County board. 22 township trustees to be elected with two per district. Latest filings include Marion Two candidates Charles Hummel and Cleo Bierly.
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Hocking County
Election Board
Logan School
Robert Redd
Logan Rt. 3
Starr-Washington
Don Thomas
Laurelville
Orval C. Hampshire
South Bloomingville
Marion Two
Charles Hummel
Sugar Grove Rt. 1
Cleo Bierly
Logan Rt. 2
Mariner 6 Snapshots Mars Closeup Ahead Of Telecast
Mariner 6 flew within 2130 miles of Mars and began sending closeup pictures expected to be fascinating. Technicians planned to display images for newsmen as they arrived at JPL, while Mariner 7 faced earlier technical glitches and a brief loss of signal.
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Pasadena
Calif
Mariner 6
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mariner 7
Surtax Showdown Sets Up Six Month Extension Try
Congress races to extend the 10 percent surtax withholding before midnight. Senate Democrats push a six month extension while Republicans seek a full year and repeal of an investment tax credit. House tax reformers weigh higher standard deduction or larger personal exemption as part of broad tax reform.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Montana
John J. Williams
Delaware
Finance Committee
House
Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Ohio House Buys Tax and Bond Ease Amid Spending Warnings
In Columbus, two bills easing municipal levies and bond issuance passed the House as Rep. George Voinovich and Rep. Robert Carpenter warned voters about rising spending. The measures allow up to 10 percent indebtedness and a simple majority to approve bonds, while a separate panel faced debate on a state office building project and a $2.27 billion education tax bill.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
George Voinovich
Cleveland
Voinovich
Robert C. Carpenter
Senate
Carpenter
Legislative Office Building Committee
Statehouse
Legislative Service Commission
Keith McNamara
Logan Floods Hit Streets After 1% Inch Rain
An unexpected downpour drenched the Logan area on Wednesday evening with 1% inches of rain in 35 minutes, flooding city streets from curb to curb. Cloudy warm weather is forecast for Friday and the day topped 83 degrees after an 11 a.m. reading of 76.
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Logan
Cold front cools north central states with storms
A cold air mass moved across the north central states triggering thunderstorms from the central Plains to the western Great Lakes. Rain soaked parts of Minnesota and North Dakota, temperatures dipped to the 50s, and thundershowers affected the Rockies and Southeast. Clear skies spread over the Far West and much of the eastern third. In Miami a cold upper low ended the hurricane watch as Anna weakened.
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Associated Press
Central Plains
Great Lakes
Minnesota
North Dakota
Rockies
Atlantic
Miami
Anna
Caribbean
U S Steel hikes price on large items
U S Steel Corp with headquarters in Pittsburgh raises prices about 4.8 percent on large tonnage products used for autos refrigerators and tin cans. The move follows Bethlehem Steel’s earlier hike and drew a cautious response from other makers and users. Washington notes a possible easing in inflation as wholesale prices slow, led by a drop in cattle costs.
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Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel Corp
White House
Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Probation Hearings for Youngstown Convict Joey Naples
Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt is to hear a motion next week on granting probation to Joseph Joey Naples of Youngstown. Naples has appealed after being sentenced in 1962 to concurrent terms for promoting a numbers game and receiving stolen property. He is linked as brother to the late Sandy Naples and Billy Naples, gang figures slain in the 1960s.
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Youngstown
Naples
Sandy Naples
Billy Naples
Joey Naples
Hocking GI Wins Army Commendation Medal in Vietnam
Sp-5 Gerald W Mitchell 20 Murray City son of Mr and Mrs Harold W Mitchell received the Army Commendation Medal for heroism in action while with the 63rd Transportation Company in Vietnam. He entered the Army in 1967 and trained at Ft Jackson, S C. He holds two such awards.
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Gerald W., Mitchell
Harold W. Mitchell
Murray City
Vietnam
Mitchell
63Rd Transportation Company
Army
Ft. Jackson
S.C
Sowle To Take Oath as Ohio University President
Dr. Claude R. Sowle will be sworn in as Ohio University's 16th president, succeeding Vernon Alden. The private ceremony Friday at 11 a.m. in the president's office will be administered by Fred H. Johnson, trustee chairman, and attended only by the Sowle family and Johnson.
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Athens, Ohio
Claude R. Sowle
Ohio University
Vernon Alden
Fred H. Johnson
Columbus
Sowle
Johnson
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C. E. Jenkins
Solons
Mariner
U.S. Steel
Claude Sowle
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