Athens Messenger (Newspaper) - May 13, 1975, Athens, OhioPage 6 — The Messenger, Athens, Ohio — Tues., May 13,1975 Job Bores Bureaucrat.: No Work in 4 Years what’s going •— J WASHINGTON (AP) -Jubal Hale admits he’s a bureaucrat with little to do. So he spends his working hours reading and listening to Beethoven records at his office. Hale says it s not that he doesn t try to earn his $19,693-ayear salary as executive secretary of the Federal Metal and Non-Metallic Safety Board of Review It s just that the board has neve had anything to review in its four years. Hale said in an interview. We have been expecting to be abolished for over two years.” Hale said. "Bills have been introduced in Congress to abolish us But nothing happened ’ The administration is asking tor $60,000 in annual upkeep for the office in the President’s budget for fiscal year 1976 Hale was contacted after Rep Ken Hechler. D-W. Va., charged in a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting Monday that the board was "a totally useless, toothless and do-less government agency which has never earned its pay Hechler called for the board to be abolished. Hale said he doubted any objections would Jubal Hale come from his office if Congress did just that. "We have been extremely candid with Congress." Hale said. "Our annual reports are clear and concise We have had no cases." The five-member board was set up to hear appeals from non-coal mine operators ordered to shut down by the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration as unsafe. A MESA spokesman expressed surprise that the board was still in operation. "I thought it had been abolished some time ago." he said. There were 1,998 closure orders last year but not one was appealed to Hale's board. Hechler said that mine operators have another avenue of appeal through the Interior secretary. He described a trip to the board's offices last week. "The door was open, the telephone was off the hook, and nobody was around." said the congressman. “The coffee-making equipment was elaborate. A large stereo set was in the office of the executive secretary with Beethoven records stacked high." Hale said he was visiting the Interior Department and his secretary was home sick when Hechler visited, so no one was manning the offie. He did not dispute Hechler s description. Hale. 4. said his board can only be abolished by congressional action and that he thinks Hechler and other congressmen "should stop making diatribes against us" and. in effect, put up or shut up. Group Activities Today ATHENS riffY Athena Delphian. 6 p.m., potluck picnic with Helen Jennings Take table service Regerts to 593-3569 Catholic Ladies of Columbia. 6 p.m.. St Paul s Church Hall Take table service and covered dish Athens High School Class of 1960.7 30 p m . with Linda Walls. 9 Briarwood All class members interested in planning the IS-vear class reunion should call 593-7120 Senior Circle, CCL. 6 p m pot luck. with Mrs Pearl Lee. 4 Lorene Ave Take table service Paramuthia Lodge 25 FAAM. Athens. 7 30 p rn . Albany Masonic Temple First United Presbyterian Women's executive Board. 9.30 a.m.. with Mrs P I. Peterson. 43 Sunnyside Drive Members of Pack 71 Webelos. to meet at 7 p rn at the Central Avenue Methodist Church, members will explore abandoned strip mine near Athens ATHENSCOUNTY Lodi Grange. 8 p m Third degree practice The Plains Home Demonstration Club, 7 30 pm. with Mrs Lela McAllister Albany VFW Auxiliary. 8 p m. Tuesday, election and installation of officers Glouster Boy Scouts. 6 p m . Scout building. Glouster Thea Chapter 192 OES. 7 30 pm. Glouster Masonic Temple . Cub Scouts. Den I. 3 30 pm. Jacksonville United Methodist Church NELSONVILLE Nelsonville Emblem Club. 8 Klks Hall pm court news Athens Municipal COURT CASES Stover O Dell 58 Athens Route 2. maintaining a junkyard without a license sheriffs department 1300 and costs fine deferred for 30 days to permit cleaning of premises Terry Robinette Nelsonville, intimidating a police officer charged by Nelsonville police bound over to grand IWV Men L Oldstead Chauncey. Stanley F Colden no address both shoplifting Kro*erv 8100 and costs Lyn E Taylor 95 S Shafer St bad check Krogers 8200 and costs 8150 of fine suspended if restitution is made within two weeks Duane Bums Glouster grand theft Nelsonville police dismissed costs to 'tate Timothy A Bowen 19 Portsmouth intoxication police 825 and costs Paul R Powell no address resisting arrest, sheriff* department. 835 and t»ts. trespassing shenff s department 135 and costs David Vickers Glouster contempt failure to appear 8100 and costs, criminal damaging charged by Duane 'weigard 8100 and costs 15 days in jail suspended if restitution is made within kl days TRAFFIC FINES Robert F Lee. 36 Painesville left of t enter police 850 and costs Sanford J Cohan 25 of Monticello Village speeding patrol dismissed insufficient evidence Thomas J Vitchner 34 of 37 Robinson Trailer Park stop sign patrol 810 and costs Kevnha Holt Brough House assured clear distance police 815 and costs Mark Raster 20 Glouster failed to stop at the signal of a police officer sheriff s department 835 and costs Richard A Johnson 42 Heath David S Pettigrew 19 of Conestoga Trailer Park both driving while intoxicated police and sheriffs department. 8200 and costs todays in jail driver s license 'uspended for 60 days Athens County Marriage Licenses Cidnev Lam Riser 27. Glouster, and Norma Gene Rodgers 25. Glouster Harold Koalheim 39 St Paul. Mum . and Frances Dahlia Uriber 50 Albany Hocking County FINES Kenneth B Lutz. Logan Route I. possession of an hallucinogen 8100 and seven days in jail Jail suspended pending one year s good behaviour James Allen Warren 21. Glouster Route 3. reckless driving found innocent but charged with speeding 825 Ann S Million 24 Colubmus. driving while intoxicated 8150 three days in jail 30-day license suspension Robin E Hyme 19 Rushville Route I speeding 810 Leo H Sapp 61 Reynoldsburg left of enter 810 Charles P Hopkins 22 Logan Route t overload 825 Gary M Hearst 22 Cleveland improper turn 810. suspended Carl D Fell 22 Zanesville unsafe vehicle 85 Jo L Lease 19 Centerville, failure to dim lights. 810 suspended HEARINGS iieorge A Hopkins Logan Route I. two counts of passing bad checks, pleaded innocent bond 8500 Jem While Nelsonville found inno-