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Thursday, January 22, 1959
Noble County's N
The news was of a "general
nature" during the past year as
it is being reviewed in Noble
county for 1958.
The following breakdown of
Noble county in review for the
past year is by month*: with the
lead stories noted for each week.
Month by month, the news in
Noble couniy unfolded as fol
lows:
January
General Telephone company of
Oh io completed a two-year multi
project program which provides
the most modern type of auto
matic dial telephone service for
Sill telephone users in the Pleas
ant City and Senecaville areas,
•according to the company's com
mercial manager, William R.
Krieter, of New Philadelphia.
Final approval for a site for
Noble county's new armory came
with an announcement from Cle
vite Corporation officials in
Cleveland to the effect that five
acres of their land, located south
of Caldwell will be made avail
able to the state for such a pro
ject.
The Noble County Ambulance
unit of the 112th Medical Battal
ion of the Ohio National guards
will be highly, honored Wednes
day evening, Jan. 29th, at the
local armory when Colonel How
ard H. Laille, commanding of
ficer of the battalion, Fort Hayes,
presents them with an excellency
plaque.
Last week a new and improved
telephone service between Sar
ahsville and Caldwell was in
augurated. A vast improvement
in the reception is evident in
fact no interference is reflected
when a call is made to that Cen
ter township village from Cald
well over the new installation.
'February
The $350,000 bond issue for
construction of a new elementary
grade school building was defeat
ed by the voters of the Caldwell
exempted village school district,
Tuesday. The vote was 563 for
the bond issue and 642 against.
f5ut
it needed a 60 percent af
irmative vote to pass or a total
tf 726 votes. It received only 47
percent of the votes cast.
The new $167,000 Diesel en
gine purchased last fall by the
Caldwell Board of Public Affairs,
is now being installed at the
Caldwell Light and Waterworks
plant by the service department
of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., of
Cleveland. Ivan L. Depew is the
service engineer representing the
company since the engine arriv
ed in Caldwell on a Pennsylvania
flatcar.
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ed in Caldwell and area reached
an all-time new high during 1957,
according to a report from Art
Murphy, Supt. of the waterworks
department. Total consumption
of 83.420,000 gallons during 1957
represented an 18 percent in
crease over that of the previous
year. In 1956 a total of 67,748,000
gallons was used by the village
customers.
A private plane, carrying four
young people, crashed early Sat
urday morning in a field north
of Columbus, claiming two lives
and seriously injuring the other
two. Killed when the single-en
gine, four passenger craft crash
landed, were Miss Susan Janice
Chicwak, 19, daughter of Mr. and
Mis. Michael Chicwak, of Flor
ence and co-pilot, Albert Butts,
23, of Loudonville.
March
The jurors hearing the grand
larceny case of Adolph Swyers,
accused suspect of Cleveland, in
the Lewis E. Henery robbery of
Nov. 30, 1957, failed to reach a
verdict last Friday afternoon af
ter deliberating the case for more
than two and one-half hours.
Lucien C. Young, Jr., a student
at Ohio Northern University,
Ada, was recently elected presi
dent of the school's junior bar
association for the school term,
1958-59. The Caldwell student is
a junior in law college.
Acting upon the recommenda
tion of Supt. Charles E. Davis,
the Caldwell board of education
recently renewed the contracts
for nine teachers, all of which ex
pire June 30. Teachers given a
five-year contract include: Mrs.
Lulu McDonald, Bryon Steen,
Miss Ruth Addis, Sub ray Dahood,
Mrs. Helen Douglass. Mrs. Doro
thy Dyer and Mrs. Rama Steen.
Two-year contracts were given to
Mrs. Ruth Marquis and Glenn
Scott.
For the third consecutive year,
Belle Valley high school was
highly honored, Monday, when it
received the annual Kroger
award for outstanding achieve
ment in the field of science. The
presentation was made to Miss
Karen Higgins, representing the
school's science department by
Eugene Fanker, administrative
director for the Kroger company,
Columbus division.
April
The annual Noble county Wo
men's Achievement day will be
held Tuesday, April 15, in the
Caldwell Presbyterian church, ac
cording to Mrs. Paul Seffens,
president of the Noble county
home demonstration council.
Purses at the 106th Noble coun
ty fair racing program will be
raised to $600.00, according to an
announcement made by J. Kyte
Walkenshaw, secretary of the lo
cal agricultural society. They
were previously $400.
Jav D. Miller, 25, Belle Valley
resident, was instanly killed Wed
nesday morning at 5:23 o'clock
and his brother. Fred Leroy Mill
cr. was critcally injured, when
they figured in a fatal accident
on USR 30, east of Wooster.
The Caldwell board of educa
tion hired a new football coach
and a new elementary teacher
this week and the contracts have
been signed and returned, accord
ing to Dr. Charles E. Davis, local
superintendent. James Thomas
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Smoot, of Canal Winchester, has
been hired as the new football
coach, filling the vacancy created
when Donald Fuchs resigned and
Mfss Betty L. Larrick, of Pleasant
City route 2, is the new elemen
tary teacher.
May
Tne first annual Southeastern
Ohio Firemen's association fire
school will be held at the Noble
county fairgx-ound, Sunday, May
4, in cooperation with the state
department of education, voca
tional division trade and indust
rial service.
There were only 1255 Republi
cans and 784 Democrats who went
to the polls Tuesday in one ot the
lightest primaries ever held in
Noble county.
Dr. Robert Clyde Yarbrough,
head of the speech and drama de
partment of Bethany, Kv., col
lege, will deliver the annual com
mencement address for the Cald
well high school graduating class
Tuesday evening, May 26, at the
•Caldwell school auditorium.
There were 19 Noble county
students who placed high in the
district-state scholarship tests, ac
cording to an announcement
made today by Supt. H. C. Sec
rest. Beaver local high school
again took the honors for hav
ing the most students placing in
the test but the top individual
honor went to Miss Sharon Black
well, of Sarahsville, whf took the
highest honors in the itiistict for
English eleven.
June
Noble County Auditor C. R. At
kinson will offer for sale on Tues
day, June 17, 51 county land par
eels, consisting of land, lots, parts
of lots and coal lands. Included
in the list declared forfeited to
the state for non-payment of tax
es are 48 real estate parcels and
three coal properties.
Construction of the 30-inch
pipeline for the Texas Eastern
Corp. got into full swing this
week as foremen, workmen and
equipment poured into the Cald
well area for the project. The
contract for the project was
awarded to the H. C. Price Co.,
ol" Bart let tsville, Okla.
Announcement was made today
that Caldwell and Noble county
would have another doctor of
medicine. Dr. Frederick M. Cox,
who will complete his year's in
ternship at the Ohio Valley gen
eral hospital. Wheeling, W. Va.,
July 1, will locate in Caldwell
permanently after that date.
Rev. Gr. James A. Dirker cele
brated his first Mass Sunday as
new pastor of Corpus Christi
church in Belle Valley. Fr. Dirk
er received his appointment to
the local church on June 14. Cor
pus Chrsti has been for the past
several years a mission church to
St. Philomena in Caldwell.
Miss Helen Combs, of Cam
bridge route 2, in the Fairdale
community, has assumed .her new
duties as Noble county's 4-H club
assistant and will work mostly
with the girls' clubs during the
summer months.
July
Five hundred and thirty reser
vations have been accepted for
the alumni banquet of the Cald
well high school to be held Fri
day evening, July 4, at the school
auditorium, according to Presi
dent Billy Seraon.
Tuesday marked the last day of
operation for the Caldwell branch
of the Cozier Container Corp., af
ter twelve years of existence
here.
An extensive manhunt, headed
by the Noble county sheriffs de
partment. got underway Wednes
day at 6:30 a. m, as the search
was begun for two Florida state
penitentiary escapees hiding in
this area. The search was center
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ship with sheriff's departments
from Guernsey, Belmont, Noble
and Washington counties, in ad
dition to Marietta policemen and
several cars of highway patrol
men participating in one of the
largest manhunts ever to be held
in the county.
An unofficial crowd of 4,000
jammed every street in Caldwell,
Saturday evening, for the annual
firemen's parade which climaxed
the three-day festival with per
fect weather prevailing for the
first time in several years.
Robert Kubat and Harry Clark,
Jr., who escaped from the Noble
county jail early Sunday morn
ing, were captured at Brunswick,
Georgia, according to information
received Wednesday morning by
Sheriff Donald Conaway. The two
fugitives were stopped at 5:30 p.
m., Tuesday on a traffic charge
at Brunswick -by a state patrol
man.
August
The New Harmony Baptist
church at South Olive is receiv
ing a new electronics organ this
week valued at $1,350. But the
most significant thing about the
installation is the fact it is not
costing the church a single penny.
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nent Noble county farmer, died
Friday night at 9:15 o'clock in St.
Francis hospital, Cambridge from
injuries received Thursday when
his arms were caught and mang
led in a hay baler at the farm of
a neighbor, Raymond Wheeler,
three miles north of Caldwell.
An early Tuesday morning
blaze completely destroyed the
32-year-old grandstand on the
eve' of the annual 106th Noble
county fair, but the show is go
ing on and temporary bleachers
were secured from the Caldwell
high school and installed under
direction of Marvin P. Wood.
September
Paul William Everly, 22. of
Summerfield route 2, died in
stantly from a broken neck and
his two companions were injured
at 10:35 p. m., Friday, two miles
east of Caldwell on State Route
564.
James D. Rutledge, 32, who was
wanted in Minerva, Ohio, lor
questioning in the strangulation
of his mother. Mary J. Rutledge,
58. was arrested Monday by po
lice in Chicago, 111. Mrs. Rutledge
wai: formerly of the Sarahsville
community.
Dr. Charles E. Davis, superin
tendent of the Caldwell exempt
ed village schools for the past
two years, was hired Tuesday
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October
Announcement was made that
the State of Ohio has earmarked
$850,000 for the construction of a
300-acre lake in Noble county,
which will more than adequately
meet all demands from industry
for a sufficient water supply
should they locate a plant in this
area.
Violet Jean Bailey, seven-year
old daughter of Mrs. Geneva Car
penter, Coal Ridge, was fatally in
jured when she was struck by an
auto Saturday afternoon at 4:10
o'clock as she darted across the
highway near her home. Driver
of the auto was A. J. Whims, 56,
of Bedford, near Cleveland.
Albert E. Rathburn, 34, busi
ness education and commerce in
structor at Southern Noble high
school, was killed Friday night
in an auto accident near his home
town of Huntington, W. Va.
State Route 78 has been re
classified from a secondary state
highway to a major state thor
oughfare, according to an an
nouncement made this week in
Columbus by State Director of
Highways. Charles Noble.
Dedication of Dexter City's
new $362,000 Southern Noble high
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Nov. 1. Keys to the building wit!
be presented to Mr. Burley, by
Congressman John E. Henderson,
who will deliver the dedicatory
address.
November
The school consolidation issue
was swamped by the seven dis
tricts involved, the right-to-work
issufe lost 1798 to 3174, Fran/. Mc
Nutt and Clarence VanFossen
were returned as commissioners,
Rolland P. Elliott beat out Dwight
F. Wiley as treasurer of Noble
county and Clayton McKee won
handily over Arthur L. Davis in
the race for judge of the county,
completes the rundown of results
in Tuesday's general election.
Clayton S. Smith, of Amity,
Knox county in the Mt. Vernon
area, has accepted the superin
tendency of the Caldwell exempt
ed village school system and he
will take over his new duties on
Nov. 15.
A representative group of the
Noble county fair board met with
the Noble county commissioners
Monday in the interest of obtain
ing a new grandstand this com
ing year to replace that which
was completely destroyed by fire
Tuesday, Aug. 26, just one day be
fore the 106th county fair was to
open.
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December
Two Sarahsville women, en
route to work in Cambridge, are
improving from injuries received
early Friday morning when the
car in which they were riding
skidded out of control on a snow
covered highway and plunged
over a 50-foot embankment. Driv
er of the car, was Mrs. Edna Bond
of the Shenandoah Trail and the
passenger was Miss Karen Davis,
of Sarahsville.
The working part of the sher
iff's department were on display
Monday to 150 juniors and sen
iors in four high schools of the
county with the remaining schools
to be extended the same oppor
tunity at a later date. Sheriff
Conawav explained his display of
the necessary weapons and equip
ment needed to operate the sher
iff's office in the law enforcement
department of this county.
Congressman John E. Hender
son today announced the nomina
tion of 17 young men from the
15th congressional district, in
cluding three i'rom Noble county,
to compete for the vacancies to
occur in July. 1959, at the Air
Force Academy, West Point and
the United States Merchant Ma
rine Academy. Noble county's
nominations are Larry Atkinson
of Batesville, James Herbert
Hague of Senecaville and Dale
Shackle of Caldwell.
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