Heritage Trail Route: Logan to Laurelville through Gibisonville
The Star Route from Logan to Laurelville, once a vital pioneer road, traces Wyandotte trails and early settlement paths. This historic route, linked to the Skyline Drive and Rock House, shaped Gibisonville and Laurel Township and deserves recognition as the Heritage Trail.
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Logan
Laurelville
Dorothy Krieg
Maude Hack
Oldtown
Park
Hocking County
Justice
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Laurel Two
Township 12
Range 18
McBrooms
Cantwells
Kinsers
Hansens
Samuel Tannehill
Christopher Westenhaver
Samuel Moore
Athens
Chillicothe
Rock House
Daily News
Hocking Valley
Solomon Harsh
Harsh
Joe Nihiser
Daniel Harsh
Adelphi
Gibisonville
Logan St
Laurel
Dunmore Trail
Laurel Twp
Skyline Drive
Logan Plan To Lease Mulberry St Parking Lot
Logan merchants meet to discuss a proposal by the parking and improvement committee of the Logan Trade Club to lease the Chrisman parking lot on Mulberry Street for one year. The 75 by 150 foot lot would hold about 40 cars with first hour free if shoppers spend at least two dollars with a cooperating merchant. After the initial hour, parking costs 10 cents per hour.
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Logan
Logan Trade Club
Clarence Blosser
Trade Club
Chrisman
Mulberry St
Main
Hunter Sts
Severe Storm Warnings Forecast For Ohio And Midwest
The Weather Bureau in Columbus warns of scattered severe thunderstorms with hail and damaging winds and a chance of tornadoes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST. The region includes eastern and central Illinois, central and southern Indiana, and parts of Ohio and Kentucky with a line from Evansville to Columbus as the noted boundary.
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Columbus
Ohio
U.S. Weather Bureau
Kentucky
Evansville
Ind
Greenville
Marion
Circleville
Portsmouth
Vacation Here For School Kids
Four thousand Hocking County students enjoy vacation with different schedules. Logan district ends Friday for most. Gibisonville follows Logan. baccalaureate Sunday at 3 p.m.. commencement Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. weather pending. St John’s Catholic School diplomas after 8 a.m. Sunday Mass.
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Logan
Gibisonville
Logan School District
Gibisonville High School
Logan High School
Harley Ellinger
St. John’s Catholic School
Senate OKs surplus-cutting farm bill amid partisan clash
The Senate passed a farm bill by 42 to 38 after weeks of debate, emphasizing higher price supports and reduced production quotas for wheat corn grain sorghum and barley. It allows a vetoed outcome where farmers vote with a two thirds majority, and features penalties for excess sales, a 25 acre exemption, and a $10 million recreation land pilot.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
House
Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
George Aiken
R-Vt
John G. Tower
R-Tenn
Milton Young
North Dakota
Model Plane Kills Man in Dayton
A copper control wire on a model airplane touched a power line Friday night electrocuting 37 year old Richard Herman of Dayton. He was the man piloting the plane at the time of the accident.
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Dayton, Ohio
Richard Herman
Dayton
Meany Pushes 35-Hour Week Drive for Nation
AFL-CIO President George Meany said the merged labor movement will seriously consider a nationwide campaign to cut the 40 hour work week to 35 with the same pay. He indicated the AFL-CIO Executive Council will discuss the idea in August at its meeting in Atlantic City New Jersey.
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Afl-Cio
Atlantic City
N.J
George Meany
Meany
Afl-Cio Executive Council
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Kennedy
Arthur Goldberg
Dave Dubinsky
ILGWU
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
Dubinsky
Phil Hannah Ousted as Ohio AFL-CIO Chief
Ohio AFL-CIO elects David Kane to replace Phil Hannah as president. Kane defeated Hannah 2341 to 2244 with 50 for William Fenton, while Elmer Cope won the secretary treasurer post 2916 to 1852 over Morris Riger. TheBlueprint for Victory plan to fund political education failed.
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Cleveland
Phil Hannah
Ohio
Afl-Cio
David Kane
Dayton
Kane
Elmer F. Cope
Hannah
Thomas E. Fenton
Warren Steelworkers
Cope
Morris Riger
Aflcio
Mystery blast opens hole in Berlin Wall on border
Mysterious explosions hit the Berlin Wall at four points early today, punching a six foot hole at Bernauerstrasse and Schwederstrasse. East German border guards repaired the damage as West Berlin police and a French patrol formed a border presence. No link to an escape was determined and no further incidents followed.
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West Berlin
Bernauerstrasse
Schwederstrasse
Eagles Lodge Aide William G. Watson dies in Ohio
ZANESVILLE Ohio AP funeral services will be held here Monday for William G Watson 54 long time international secretary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the Eagles lodge obituary notice
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Zanesville, Ohio
William G. Watson
Order of Eagles
Moslems in Casbah Guard Against Revenge Amid Terror
In Algiers Casbah Moslems prepare makeshift hospitals for Terrorism victims. FLN leaders urge restraint to curb vengeance as European terror groups provocate a bloodbath and authorities promise action against terrorism. Casbah population swells from 80 000 to over 150 000 with scarce food and vigilant guards.
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Andrew Borowiec
Algiers
Casbah
National Liberation Front
FLN
Kassaman
Tion
el Kettar
Greater Casbah
Carpenter Skindives, Shows Little Concern
After his 3 orbit Mercury flight, astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter faced mixed readings from tracking stations. Officials debated his condition as he prepared for return, while Carpenter himself displayed hunger and exhilaration upon rescue and awaited debriefings at Cape Canaveral and Boulder.
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Grand Turk
B.W.I
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
West Indies
John H. Glenn Jr
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Virgil I. Grissom
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Carpenter
Cape Canaveral
Boulder
Colo
Atlantic
Kauai
Hawaii
Woomera
Australia
Stanley T. White
Earth
George Ruff
University of Pennsylvania
Ruff
Wall Street Slumps Again Amid Fear and Loss
Wall Street fell sharply as investors sold stocks amid fear of deeper declines. The AP average indicates about 23.7 billion erased from NYSE listed values, lowering total market value to roughly 321 billion. Analysts cite steel price stability, SEC probes, European market fears, and later fear as the main drivers.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Kennedy
SEC
White Man Accuses Police of Torture in Racial Tension
Eric Weinberger of Norwich recounts being jailed in Brownsville Tennessee for 72 hours after aiding evicted sharecroppers trying to register to vote. He alleges wrist clamps, beating, pants slashing, and a cattle-type electric probe used during fingerprinting in a case voiced to Eleanor Roosevelt’s inquiry committee.
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Washington
Eleanor Roosevelt
Tennessee
Eric Weinberger
Norwich
Conn
South
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Washington Post
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
Roger Baldwin
The
American Civil Liberties Union
John Culbertson
Greenville
S.C
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
Americans For Democratic Action
Telford Taylor
Kenneth
Clark
Freedom Riders
FBI
Weinberger
Brownsville
Tenn
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Ohio Power Co
State OF
Old Man's Cave
U.S
Berlin
Eagles Lodge
Provisional Executive
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