Laurelville Transfer Hangs on Benton Township Tax Feud
Laurelville district transfer to Logan Elm runs into tax wealth split. Pickaway board delays decision amid questions on tax valuation and debt. Logan Elm may accept full district if issues resolved. state intervention possible.
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Laurelville
Logan Elm
Hocking County
Benton Twp
Pickaway County
Logan City
Logan
Logan Elm Board
Edward Martin
Pickaway Board
Tom Quick
Frey
City Council OKs Hiring of Attorneys for KDOC Suit
City Council passed emergency legislation to hire two attorneys Neal Dillon of Logan and Jack Alton of Columbus to represent the city service director and mayor in a suit filed by Kentucky Drilling & Operating Corp in U S District Court at Columbus. The council also forms a committee to address the vacant city solicitor post and considers temporary advisor Richard Gerken at 25 dollars an hour.
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U.S. District Court
Columbus
Kentucky Drilling & Operating Corp
Neal Dillon
Logan
Jack Alton
KDOC
Dillon
Robert Gosnell
Alton
George Dunigan
Merril Haney
Roy Loomis
Loomis
U.S
Carl Ruben
Ruben
Haney
Zoning Board
Council
Common Pleas Court
Gosnell
Richard Gerken
Dunigan
James Stewart
Louise Smith
China
North Vietnam
Dong Hoi
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
A Shau
Hue
Tuyen Binh
Moc Hoa
Saigon
Cleveland May 2 election foulup panel urges probation and firing
A special panel says Secretary of State Ted Brown and three Cuyahoga County Elections Board members share equal responsibility for the May 2 election problems. It recommends probation through the November election and firing if unsatisfactory. The report largely exonerates Anthony Garoifoli. Brown fired the four board members. the Ohio Supreme Court reinstated the board pending a hearing. In Columbus, Ohio, Brown makes the May 2 primary official with no changes in major races. Humphrey holds 79 delegates for the DNC and McGovern 61. 13 delegates go to two favorite sons.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Ted Brown
Cuyahoga County
Elections Board
Appeals Court
Daniel Wasserman
John Carney
Saul Stillman
Robert Hughes
Brown
Election Board
Ohio Supreme Court
Anthony Garoifoli
Columbus
Ohio
Ted W. Brown
Hubert H. Humphrey
George McGovern
Weather Summary for the Hocking Valley
Rainfall in the Hocking Valley last 24 hours measured 1.1 inches. A high of 81 degrees and sunny skies at 11 a.m. today contrast with Tuesday's 73. Overnight low 61. Tonight and Thursday forecast cloudy with thundershowers, lows near 70 and upper 80s highs.
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Hocking
Lost Hollow joins Hocking County outdoor attractions
Hocking County adds Lost Hollow to its camping area lineup. Located on Rt 664 near Logan, the 507 lot leisure subdivision offers electricity comfort stations a general store swans nature trails and planned tennis basketball volleyball and mini golf. About 160 lots sold so far with prices from 2200 to 3500.
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Hocking County
Lost Hollow
Ohio
Warren Lee & Co
Sugar Grove
Logan
Lake Logan
Old Man’s Cave
Conkle’s Hollow
Ash Cave
Moore
Leonard Burns Dies From Goodyear Plant Blast Injuries
Leonard James Burns 31 of 150 Maple St died at University Hospital Columbus from burns suffered in an accidental explosion at the Logan Goodyear plant. He had worked as a laboratory technician since 1965. William Mark Mechem 23 of Nelsonville was in satisfactory condition. Funeral plans are being arranged. It was the plant’s first fatality in nine years.
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Leonard James Burns
Maple St
University Hospital
Columbus
Burns
Logan
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Leonard Funeral Home
William Mark Mechem
Nelsonville
Ploye
Logan Goodyear
Mechem
Six Floridians Face Slavery Charge in Migrant Camp
Six men from Forest City Arkansas were indicted in Tampa on conspiracy and involuntary servitude for beating migrant tomato workers and detaining them at an abandoned Sun City schoolhouse. The group operated the camp with 40 residents including women and children.
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Santoiana
Walter Taylor
Hillsborough County Health Department
Tampa
Taylor
Podgorny urges halt to bombing in Vietnam during Hanoi visit
Soviet President Podgorny arrives in Calcutta en route to Hanoi and calls on the United States to cease bombing North Vietnam The delay in departure due to bad weather extends his refueling stop as talks with Hanoi loom. American bomber raids continue with a record 340 strikes reported in Saigon.
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Calcutta
Nikolai Podgorny
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Podgorny
High Command
Nixon
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Moscow
Brezhnev
America
South Vietnam
U.S
Saigon
China
Haiphong
Peking
Warren appeals 15 year sentence in burglary case
John Warren of Amherst appealed his 15 year Ohio Penitentiary sentence handed down by Judge Harley Meyer. He posted a $5000 appeal bond and was released from Hocking County jail after being found guilty by a petit jury of breaking into Harley Ellinger’s Logan Rt. 1 residence in daylight on February 9, 1970.
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John Warren
Amherst
Ohio
Harley Meyer
Fourth District Court of Appeals
Warren
Hocking County
Harley Ellinger
Logan Rt. 1
Market rally boosts Dow as peace talks spark gains
The New York stock market rallied in active trading. The noon Dow Jones average rose 8.28 to 946.57 as brokers cited a Paris report that the Soviet Union and France may attempt peacemaking in the Middle East and Indochina.
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New York
Paris
Soviet Union
France
Middle East
Indochina
South Logan Water Shut Off Delayed
Plans for connecting new water lines in South Logan were postponed this morning due to overnight rain and threatening skies. Public notice will be given by the contractor before any further water shut offs.
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Logan
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Benton
Pickaway
City Council OK
Formore
Edwin Johnston
Cleveland Vote Mess Report
Forrest Moore
Leonard Burns
Goodyear
FBI
J. F. Santoiana Jr
Walter Taylor Jr
A. J. Taylor
Edward Earle Hinton
David Rucker
Frank James
Ernest Morgan
Morgan
Sun City
Hillsborough County
Bradenton
Francis Ford
Luberta Taylor
South Logan
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