Leader Lookback: Cheerleader goes to Rose Bowl
This is what was in The Evening Leader 50 years ago this week.
CHRIS WILL LEAD CHEERS, ROSE BOWL Cheerleader Chris Vogel will be at the Rose
Bowl game New Year’s Day to help lead cheers for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Chris is a graduate of Memorial High School and now a student at Ohio State where she qualified for cheerleader this fall. Chris is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth Vogel, formerly of St. Marys and now of Terre Haute, Ind.
Chris will leave Dec. 27 for California. The game will be televised and local friends are hoping they will see her cheering for the Bucks.
ORIGINAL BED OF MIAMI ERIE CANAL COMES TO VIEW
The original bed of the Miami and Erie Canal, constructed more than 125 years ago, is back into view after the removal of decayed wood and vegetation to a depth of five and six feet. The muck was removed by rag line at the highway 33 bypass construction site north of St. Marys.
The rounded bed of the canal was exposed after the muck was removed to produce a base for the corrugated metal pipe to carry the canal under the by-pass.
Sand to a depth of three feet will be spread in the canal bed, then firmed, to provide a base for the 11’7” by 7’5” pre-fabricated corrugated metal pipe arch to carry the canal under by-pass 33. The pipe will be 256 feet long.
The size of the pipe will permit passage of small boats and canoes.
A by-pass has been provided for the flow of canal water while the construction work is in progress.
JAN. 14 IS SET AS DATE TO RECEIVE BIDS FOR $2,300,000 BOND ISSUE, JOINT TOWNSHIP HOSPITAL DISTRICT
Trustees of Joint Township Hospital District unanimously passed the necessary legislation last night to proceed with the sale of bonds in the sum of $2,300,000 to provide for expansion of the hospital. The issuance of the bonds was authorized by the voters of the four township district at the November election.
January 14 at 2 p.m. was set as the time and date for opening of the bids for the purchase of the bonds.
All 12 of the trustees from the four townships were present for
the special meeting to enact the resolutions required.
Under the resolution to authorize advertising for the sale of the bonds, the bonds will be issued for a 20 year period. They will be issued as of Feb. 1, 1971, in bonds of $5,000 each with the first bonds in the sum of $105,000 to mature Nov. 1, 1972. Subsequently, $100,000 bonds will be paid off in the odd numbered years, $125,000 in the even-numbered years. Interest will be paid semi- annually.
On motion by Cloice Williams and second by Howard McGee, the board passed a motion to designate the First National Bank, St. Marys as the location for payment of the bonds and interest.