Plan to Provide Ample Downtown Parking
Logan business leaders form a plan to create off street parking for four blocks around Main Mulberry Hunter Spring Second streets. A committee and four block subcommittees will survey space costs and financing options, aiming to fund mainly from meter revenue and private public funds. A long range plan may include zoning changes and property acquisitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Wally Saving
Main St
Mulberry, Hunter, Spring
Second Sts
Logan Trade Club
Rt. 33
Health Board weighs trash rules and disposal plan
Hocking County Health Board debated solid waste collection regulations to be submitted to County Prosecutor Forrest Moore for approval. Acker Bros. Dairy processing license was suspended due to high bacterial counts until reinstatement and proof of acceptable levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking County Health Board
David Mingus
Forrest Moore
Logan
Ohio Department of Health
Acker Bros. Dairy
Mingus
Public Health Council of
Ohio
Land donated to remove traffic hazard at Front and Walnut
The curb at the southeast corner of E Front and Walnut Streets will be moved back 10 feet to ease a hazardous traffic condition. Barton A Hall of Logan Clay Products Co donated the extra land. Eastbound Rt 33 traffic will shift to Front Street once the first two sections of the Logan bypass are finished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Front and
Walnut Sts
James Parkinson
Barton A. Hall
Logan Clay Products Co
Parkinson
Front St
Logan Bypass
Weather Brings Cooler Air to Hocking Valley
Light rainfall cooled the Hocking Valley overnight. By 11 a.m. the temperature was 68 degrees under cloudy skies after an overnight low of 63. Monday reached a high of 77 and forecast calls for fair and cool weather on Wednesday.
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Hocking Valley
Urge No Cuts In Welfare and Farm Price Supports
Johnson seeks to shield welfare payments and farm price supports from a $6 billion spending cut. House support grows as Rep. Mahon favors exemptions while Rep. Mills plans no active opposition. About $1.2 billion involved in the exemptions amid a $180.1 billion spending limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
House
George H. Mahon
Dtex
Appropriations Committee
Newsmen
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means Committee
Mahon
Congress
Mills
Former New York Water Chief Sentenced In Bribery Case
Former New York City Water Commissioner James L. Marcus received 15 months in prison for bribery conspiracy tied to a kickback scheme. Marcus, son in law of ex governor John Davis Lodge, pleaded guilty and cooperated against three other convicted men. He will begin serving Friday and faces up to seven years on state charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James L. Marcus
Marcus
Connecticut
John Davis Lodge
Edward Weinfeld
Weinfeld
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
Herbert Itkin
Henry Fried
Daniel Motto
Antonio
Tony Ducks’’ Corallo
Marines Clash With North Viet Namese Near Rock Pile
U S Marines reported two battles just north of the Rock Pile near the DMZ killing 34 North Vietnamese troops and seizing a large ammunition and supply cache. Five Marines died and 23 wounded as two fights occurred within two miles of each other.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Rock Pile
196Th Light Infantry Brigade
da Nang
Mekong
Kontum
My Tho
Delta
Senate Urged To Approve A B An Treaty
Washington AP The Senate Foreign Relations Committee faced a first real test since the Czech invasion as Albert Gore urged swift action on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. President Johnson pushed for quick Senate approval despite waning support after East European moves.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Albert Gore
Dtenn
Congress
Johnson
Senate
East
Europe
Mike Mansfield
State Department rejects Pueblo apology claim
The department said the seizure of the USS Pueblo and its crew was illegal and no apology is due. Press officer Robert J. McCloskey announced the stance amid reports that Washington planned an apology to North Korea in exchange for the sailors' release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
U.S. Navy
Robert J. McCloskey
United States
North Korea
Humphrey Sees Possible Vietnam Troop Reductions
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey predicts some U.S. troop reductions in Vietnam by early next year and says substantive peace talks may begin by January. He accuses Nixon of confusion over the nuclear nonproliferation treaty as voters head to nine state primaries.
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Associated Press
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S
Vietnam
Richard M. Nixon
Senate
Nixon
United States
Kentucky
A. B
Chandler
George C. Wallace
Arizona
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Maryland
Utah
Minnesota
Rhode Island
Colorado
Vermont
GOP
Barry Goldwater
George D. Aiken
Bronson C. la Follette
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Kennedy
Paris
Philadelphia
Dean Rusk
Washington
Biafra
Johnson
Market drifts lower after failing to hold gains
New York trading opened with a sluggish drift and a lower tone. The Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at noon 923.79, down 1.19 points as activity slackened.
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New York
Rockefeller selects Goodell for RFK Senate seat
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller appoints Rep. Charles E. Goodell to fill the vacant New York Senate seat after Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. The 42 year old Jamestown congressman, a nine year House veteran, is praised for his work on the 1968 Republican platform. Kennedy's term would have run to 1971.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
U.S
Charles E. Goodell
Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
Rockefeller
Goodell
Jamestown
New York
Kennedy
Merchants Plan Midnight Madness Sale on Sept 18
The Merchants Division of the Logan Trade Club announced a Midnight Madness Sale for 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday Sept 18. The annual event adds an extra shopping night with special bargains each hour and is one of the merchants top promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchants
Logan Trade Club Today
Daley to Air Balanced TV Version Amid Convention Probes
A federal grand jury in Chicago will probe demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention, examining civil rights violations and possible TV influence. Mayor Daley announces a one hour TV program to air Sept 15 on 47 stations including Metromedia and WGN networks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William J. Campbell
U.S. District Court
Campbell
Thomas A. Foran
U.S
Grand Jury
NBC
Richard J. Daley
Metromedia
WGN Continental
Daley
Expect Wallace Name To Be On Ohio Ballot
Ohio Secretary of State Ted W Brown expects Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to order George C Wallace's name on the Ohio ballot for the November 5 election. Stewart asked lawyers to outline a plan for the name's placement and is expected to rule mid week on provisional ballot status.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ted W. Brown
U.S. Supreme Court
Potter Stewart
George C. Wallace
Brown
Stewart
Wallace
Supreme Court
Washington
Legislators Tour Hocking Mine Areas
A 12 member legislative committee toured Hocking and neighboring counties to study substandard housing amid mine decline. They visited New Straitsville, Murray City and Glouster, spoke with residents, and noted junked autos and strip mine spoil banks. The group includes Sen. Harry Armstrong and Reps. Keith McNamara and Larry Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking
Carl E
Doc) Blosser
Hocking County
Pittsburg
Sunday Creek Coal Co
Newtown
Smoky Row
Murray City
Phyllis Ross
Richard Smith
Alma Howard
Athens County
Harry Armstrong
Keith McNamara
Franklin County
Larry Smith
Hough
Cleveland
Brown and Davidson Added to Hocking Draft Board
Local Board No. 61 of the Selective Service System in Ohio increases from three to five members with the appointment of Dr. Keith V. Brown and Max D. Davidson. Col. Heber L. Minton announced the change. recommendations came from a local advisory committee including Judges Harley Meyer and Rhea Bangert Brown and William S. Miller. The new members join Charles Barker Earl Lowe and George Tucker. The expansion aligns with a national directive to enlarge boards from three to five members.
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Hocking County
Keith V. Brown
Max D. Davidson
Col
Heber L. Minton
Selective Service For
Ohio
Harley Meyer
Rhea Bangert Brown
William S. Miller
Logan Daily News
Brown
Davidson
Pastors Seek Minimum Wage at Ohio Lutheran Synod
Six hundred ministers and delegates at the Ohio Synod of the Lutheran Church in America voted for a minimum pastor salary of 6000 dollars per year. They also urged allowances for automobile housing and utilities plus pension and death benefits. The four day meeting at Wittenberg University supported a 65 million urban crisis appeal for social work and asked Ohio Lutherans to contribute 180000 in 1968 and 210000 in 1969.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ohio
Ohio Synod of the Lutheran Church In America
Wittenberg University
Ohio Lutherans
Fourteen Men Face Examining Trial In Labor Day Gun Battle
In Richmond Kentucky fourteen men eight white and six Negroes appeared for an examining trial after a Labor Day interracial gun battle that killed one white man and one Negro. Defendants from Ohio Georgia Kentucky and Berea residents were ordered held and to return October twenty third for grand jury action.
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Richmond
Madison County
Robert Turley
Kentucky
Turley
National States’ Rights Party
America
Berea
Ohio
Georgia
John Nixon
States’ Rights Party
Homer Baker
King
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HHH
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American Independent Party
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RFK
Mayor Daley
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