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U.S. WWII vet of the Three Route month recounts arrested 250 final South Pacific in drug bust phase pushed back
Due to work remaining on phase one of the U.S. 250 Major Rehabilitation Project, work on phase two will be pushed back. To minimize impacts on motorists, the contractor must complete the final paving on phase one before construction starts on phase two. The phase two closure start date is unknown at this time. ODOT will release the upcoming start date as it becomes available. Phase two will require the closure of U.S. 250 from Pleasant Valley Road to State Route 151. During the phase two closure, Pleasant Valley Road and State Route 151 will remain open at U.S. Route 250. ODOT reminds motorists that local traffic only will be permitted to drive through the closure. Local traffic includes emergency services, residents, property owners, and businesses directly within the closure area. The official detour is SR 800 south to U.S. 22 east, U.S. 22 east back to U.S. 250, and reverse. An alternate detour route is SR 39 east to SR 212 east, SR 212 east to SR 151 east, SR 151 east back to U.S. 250, and reverse. Please note that the alternate detour route is not signed. The 100-day closure for this project began July 6. Construction includes the removal of the 70-year-old concrete base pavement and rebuilding the roadway from the dirt up with an aggregate base, followed by new asphalt pavement. Shelly & Sands, Inc, from Zanesville, Ohio, is the contractor on this $10.2 million project. The completion date for all work is October 31, 2022. For more information, visit www. transportation.ohio.gov/projects and find the “U.S. Route 250 Major Rehabilitation” page.
Castro silent in sentencing BY CORNELIA GRACE Harrison News-Herald Reporter
Todd Glazer appeared in court again this last Tuesday for new charges involving receipt of stolen property, a felony in the fourth degree. Glazer also appeared via video call from Jefferson County Justice Center on various drug charges last week. He has been incarcerated for about three months, unable to post bond. For his most recent case, Glazer’s bond was set at $5,000. While he stated he is unable to post bond for either case, all time he has spent incarcerated will count toward his sentence when it is set. Scio resident Michael Roberts appeared via video call on a felony in the third degree, a charge of aggravated possession of drugs. He expressed irritation that his case was taking more time than anticipated as he’s already been incarcerated for three months. He said his mother was ill, and he didn’t want to be in jail if she passed away. Judge T. Shawn Hervey said that while he understood how Roberts felt about it, Roberts’ attorney had just received SENTENCING See Pg.- 6
Dirk Harkins, Palmer Love, and son Kelly Love with Palmer’s tractor on the Love family farm.
Palmer and Betty Love of Uhrichsville have been married for 73 years. Palmer, 96, recounted the time he served in World War II as a teenager, and Betty, 90, spoke of how they met upon the close of the war and started a family so long ago. The duo resides in their farmhouse off Route 250; Palmer still tends to the farm alongside his sons, and Betty still tends to Palmer. Dirk Harkins presented August’s Veteran of the Month Award to this much-deserving nominee on behalf of the Veterans and First Responders Jamboree Committee. “I received in my mailbox an invitation from the President of the United States to serve my country,” said Love, “and on October 17 of 1944, I was drafted.” Before serving, Love worked as a farmhand for his neighbor and decided to forgo the offer of a raise and possible deferment to continue working instead. Love had attempted to enlist in the Navy’s Coast Guard months prior but was denied because he was so close to draft age. He was one of three graduates of Franklin High School to be drafted that year, including Marvin Crow and Bob Covert, all of whom came home after the war. “I remember running into Marvin in Manilla! We weren’t in the same company, and I never saw him after that until we came home, but I saw him once over there.” After Love’s Army induction ceremony in Cleveland, he was shipped to Camp Attebury, IN, and onto Fort Hood, TX, for basic training. There, Love lost the majority of his hearing from a machine gun blast; however, this didn’t slow him down much, and there was no talk of hearing aids until after he returned home. “I wasn’t too worried about it. I was young. You just kept going and didn’t think much of it back then,” said Love. After a ten-day delay en route through Ohio to say goodbye to his family, Love embarked from San Francisco on a thirty-oneday voyage to the South Pacific. His ship first arrived in Papua New Guinea and continued to the Philippines. “I remember seeing New Guinea for the first time—[the landscape] looked like it came straight down and fell into the sea. When we got to the Philippines, Manilla’s harbor was full of Japanese ships that sank. We couldn’t get in. It was littered with them. So we landed out in the ocean and went down the side of the ship into a rope net on a landing barge that took us to shore.” He spent his first nights in a bivouac, a temporary camp without tents or cover, and worked replacement deposition, sending soldiers to the proper active outfits. Throughout his military career, Love found himself in positions of leadership, logistics, and management. Toward the end of the war, he was transferred to the equivalent of a MASH Unit as Company First Sergeant, controlling the entire battalion. Despite his many responsibilities, Love found time to write home a few times a month.
“When we got there, of course, everything was censored,” explained Love. “They told us we better not write anything about wanting some vanilla ice cream since we were in Manilla, or they’d cut it out of our letter. And they didn’t mark it out; they cut it out with a razor. The letters were more like strips of paper than pages.” “Our grandmother talked a lot about the letters she would get,” explained Kelly Love, Palmer and Betty’s son. “When she got one, she knew he was okay. The content of the letter never mattered—only that she got one, and he was still safe.” After two and a half years of his service, the war finally came to a close. He heard the announcement over radio waves. The impending mass exodus of soldiers would complicate travel and discharge logistics for everyone, including Love. “The night the war was over, I remember being out calling a shipping order. I had men going to an outfit...I know it was 4 a.m. the next morning before we got them rounded up to ship out! I mean, the camp just exploded [with excitement],” remembered Love. “They were celebrating, and I was trying to catch them to get them where they needed to be.” Love was sent home on a much smaller WWII banana boat than the 6,000+ passenger ship that carried him over. The excited soldiers were caught in a typhoon for two days off the coast of the Philippine Islands not long into their return voyage. Thankfully, the storm passed, as did the seventeen days at sea, and the ship’s passengers once again stepped back onto the mainland. “They spent two days trying to keep the ship pointed into the storm. The boat would come off a wave, and you swore it hit solid cement. We weren’t smart enough to be scared. You just took your life jacket and kept on going,” recalled Love. His parents moved from New Athens to Dennison while he was away, so Love came home to a new town and family farm. His Greyhound bus driver asked him where he was going once he left the bus station, and when Love didn’t know, he offered to drop him off on the way home. Upon Love’s homecoming, he participated in church services and youth group events, where he met Betty. He attributes his success in catching Betty’s eye, in part, to his dress uniform that he wore to church each Sunday. She graduated high school in 1949, and they were married that June. Palmer and Betty have four children, nine grandchildren, and too many great-grandchildren to count, many of whom frequent the family farm for visits. Palmer continued to work in management for the rest of his career and taught Agricultural & Diesel Mechanics at Buckeye Career Center. He also raises the flag each year at the Bowerston Memorial Day Service. Love gave this advice to the next generation: “Stand up for your country. And keep a good work ethic—anything you do is going to cost you, so make sure you do the right thing.”
Harrison County Sheriff Joe Myers announced two search warrants were executed accompanied by an arrest, at the homes of Leander Brooks IV, age 33, of Cadiz, Ohio, along with Patrick Keels, age 50, and Nikita Bowen, age 36, of New Rumley Ohio. The searches took place without incident, and a variety of suspected drugs were seized, including cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, and prescription pills. The search warrant and arrest of Leander Brooks IV stemmed from a trafficking in drugs investigation within the Village Cadiz in Harrison County. The search warrant and arrests of Patrick Keels and Nikita Bowen also stemmed from a trafficking drugs investigation, and both were arrested the day prior while transporting a bulk quantity of cocaine into Harrison County. Sheriff Joe Myers would like to thank the Belmont County Sheriff’s Deputies involved in the investigation and execution of the search warrants as well as Cadiz Police for assisting on the search warrant in their village, and of course, his own Deputies for continuing to work hard in keeping dangerous drugs out of Harrison County. Leander Brooks IV will be facing the charges of Possession of Drugs, a felony of the 3rd degree, and Trafficking in Drugs, a felony of the 3rd degree. Patrick Keels will be facing the charges of Possession of Drugs, a felony of the 2nd degree, and Trafficking in Drugs, a felony of the 3rd degree. Nikita Bowen will be facing charges of Possession of Drugs, a felony of the 2nd degree.
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