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Newspaper
Logan Daily News
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1954
Page
8
Lake Logan dam repairs advance with 95 percent rock excavation and five percent concreting complete. Brock-Sanders Construction reports delays but expects a January 1 completion, with about 25 workers, three cranes, and a thicker dam and longer spillway reflecting rebuild.
Mrs Earl Hansel librarian for Logan Hocking County district library announced the bookmobile route for Wednesday through Friday and next Monday visiting Nickel Plate Honeyfork Simple Creek Laurel Run Goat Run Tick Ridge Cherry Ridge Trowbridge Hollow Zion Ridge and Coonville Starr Union Furnace Gibisonville South Bloomingville Marion Bremen Horns Mill Walnut Dowler Washington Township Rt 75 Ilesboro Cedar Falls Rd Clay Tick Jack Run Middlefork Laurelville and Thompson Rd routes with times from 3 p.m. to noon.
Last rites were held yesterday at 10 a.m. for Henry Deible 77 who died Thursday at the home of his daughter Mrs Retha Poling Logan Rt 2. He retired in 1952 after years at Logan Clay Products Co. The Rev Fr Charles P Foy officiated at Roberts Funeral Home with music by Mrs Sumner Martin Pallbearers were Barton Hall Clarence Brooks Roy Schrader Walter Hoplite Levi Palmer and Vern Spicer Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery.
In Tuscarawas County two drownings occurred within 48 hours. A 12 year old, Russell Leven good, drowned in a farm pond yesterday. On Saturday, John P. Strawn, 23, drowned while swimming in an abandoned strip mine.
The agricultural extension office announces two camps at Tar Hollow State Forest in July. The 4-H Camp runs July 11 to 15 with a $7.50 fee and limited spaces for Hocking County youths from Athens and Vinton counties. The Women’s Camp runs July 16 to 18 with a $7 registration, open to all Hocking County women. reservations are due by July 5. Activities include swimming outdoor recreation and craftwork. Lamp-making will be taught by Ohio Power Co. and Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co.. cost is $3.25.
Mrs Violet Culbertson Simon earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education at the Oliver Nazarene College 41st annual commencement in Kankakee New Jersey. She is Logan High School class of 1944 alumnus, daughter of John and Rosa Culbertson, with Charles Unger and family as grandparents near Logan.
The notice lists crafts including making lamps and other items. Water colors cost $1 glove making $1.35 and fishbowl garden making requires enrollees to bring their own fishbowls.
A seven-pound, 12-ounce daughter to Mr and Mrs Harry Campbell of Logan Rt. 3 was born at 1 50 p m yesterday. Admissions include Mary L Johnston Logan Rt 4 Asa D Carnel McArthur medical and Mrs Orson Dicker New Plymouth medical. Transfer Mrs Ralph Heft Jr Logan Rt 4 to a Columbus hospital.
The schedule lists a playground program for ages nine to ten thirty at Rachelmacher Park. Golf has no instruction. The Midget Baseball League meets at 5 30 at LHS Diamond with LCP versus Hack Keynes.
About thirty doctors staged a sitdown at the Welfare Ministry to protest proposed cuts in fees for patients under a government sponsored low cost hospitalization program.
U S Education Commissioner Samuel Brownell cautioned on federal aid for school construction near Ohio’s atomic plant, saying he wants concrete overcrowding evidence. Burke’s bill to extend aid for two years is not yet supported by Brownell, who favors another solution. Waverly, Ohio faces 1000-student space shortfall this fall if the law lapses June 30. Ohio Senator Bricker and four Republicans weigh longer extensions.
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