New Haven Library Opens April 28 with Lions Club support
The Athens Messenger reports New Haven plans a library opening on April 28. Four children received eye examinations for glasses through a Lions Club sight project led by Jack Frey. Proceeds from a ham shoot totaling $48 will fund library and community activities as Bazaar plans proceed and senior play preparations continue. Nearby social notes cover local visits, funerals, and property description excerpts in a wide range of community updates.
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Athens Messenger
New Haven
J. L. Stewart
Lions Club
Jack Frey
Sight Project
Henry Buck
James Hampton
Girl Scouts
Hamp
Paul Les
Woman's Club of
Mittes
Jim
Roy Franklin
Raymond Darling
Wahama High School
New Haven Sees Vaccine To Break Polio Back This Summer
The U S Public Health Service predicted that despite shortages enough Salk polio vaccine will be available this summer to immunize all 58 million persons aged 1 to 14 and pregnant women. Dr Jack Haldeman told the National Conference of State Pharmaceutical Association secretaries the effort could curb the crippling disease. He noted a possible relief from current vaccine shortages by year end.
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New Haven
Detroit
U. S
Public Health Service
Jack Haldeman
National Conference of State Pharmaceutical Association
Health Service
Haldeman
Soviet biologist Ly senko ousted as head of academy
Theory favored by Ly senko that stressed environment over heredity led to his removal from the presidency of the All Union Academy of Agriculture Sciences. The move reflects ongoing shifts in Soviet genetics policy and leadership.
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Moscow
Trofim D. Lysenko
Stalin
All-Union
Academy of Agriculture Sciences
Admits Older Murder Case Involves Kestinsbury and Stephens
Robert C. Stephens, 63, voluntarily admitted to a 22 year old murder. Through his lawyer he agreed to an eight year prison term. Stephens was in Baton Rouge when he told officers about killing Lace Hunter near here. He said he was sorry and wanted to straighten it out.
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Kestinsbury, RY
Robert C. Stephens
Stephens
Baton Rouge
Lace Hunter
Birds That Eat Like Men Would Starve
ROCHESTER N Y reports a bird nutrition study shows parakeets and canaries eat far less than humans. A parakeet consumes about 100 times its weight yearly while a human eats about 1300 pounds, meaning a bird that ate like a man would quickly starve.
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Rochester
N. Y
Easter Visitors and Family Gatherings Across Bidwell
Bidwell and Jackson area residents hosted Easter gatherings with relatives from Huntington W Va Columbus Ohio Crown City Gallipolis and Addison. Attendees included the Mahon Wriston Hinson Moore Moorhouse Knotts Smith and Robinson families as well as visitors from C&O foreman Charles Riley and a Crown City cousin. The WSCS meets April 10 at Mrs David Wickline's home.
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Don Wallace
Akron
Walter Wriston
Smithers
W. Va
Donald Ray Wriston
Elwood Hinson
Hinson
Glenn Hinson
Bobby Robinson
Bradford Robinson
Charles Robinson
T. J. Moore
Ie Moore
Ohio University
Alice Sprague Kerr
Edna Gatewood
Crown City
Ivor Moorhouse
Idelle
Arlene
Arlene, Spent A Sunday With Mrs Moorehouse
Frank Brothers
Gallipolis
Charles Riley
C & O Foreman
Prospect
Ohio
Delmar Quickelvdson
Lester Glassburn
Hal Shoemaker
Bill Smith
Elvin Neal
Willam Caldwell
Columbus
Veda Cunningham
Leslie Brewer
Hanersville
Fred Kirk
Robert Carroll
Eva Kirk
Pete Cappacomma
Donald ‘Knotts and Family
Addison Two Homes Pre 1806 in Addison Township
White settlers built permanent homes in Gallia County Addison Township before 1806. Notable early sites include Hezeiah Frazer on Little Chickamauga Creek, early Cherrington and Bings families, and Samuel Rees. Addison voting population reached 21 by 1821. Early industry featured Joseph Rife’s 1808 mill on Campaign Creek and John Cherrington’s 1810 school near Bethel Church.
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Gallia County
Addison Township
Hezeiah Frazer
Little Chickamauga Creek
Julaville
John Bing
Thomas
Earl Fulton
Addison
Samuel Gates
Ween Marietta
Gallipolis
Gallia
Guthrie
Samuel Johnson
Melrose
Scotland
Cherrington
Jacob Mink
Addison Townstorn
John Martindale
Meigs County
Bulnville
Samuel Rees
Adeline McCoy
Virginia
David R
Shaffer
Lewis Sharon
Ohio
America
Wheeling
Senator Sharon
California
Pacific Coast
Nevada
Joseph Trackler
John Trackler
Gailia
Amanda Mason
Ravenswood Wedding and Local Notices Feature Shook Shockey Union
Miss Nancy Marie Shook of Vienna and Ivan Eugene Shockey of Ravenswood announce their marriage celebrated Saturday at 7 30 p m The Shockey family and Parkersburg Ravenswood high school alumni are noted The issue also lists Women Auxiliary Grace Episcopal Church VFW Post 6689 officer elections 1956 plans for a VFW Cottage and local building permits totaling 49 000 including new frame house at Wells and Ann Streets and four properties in the Ritchie Addition on Cherry Street.
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Ravenswood
Nancy Marie Shook
Vienna
Ivan Eugene Shockey
C. C. Shook
Mr. Shockey
Gordon Shockey
Shook
Parkersburg High School
Ravenswood High School
Sears, Roebuck Co
John Phup Jousa
Ery Way
Eileen Kerwood
Charlotte Ann Tonroe
Ruth Chambers
Council Chamber
John Henry Noll Jr
North Ravenswood
Wells and
Ann Sts
W. H. Compston
Brown Addition
C. H. Beckett
Ritchie Addition
Cherry Sts
Hat swap mystery at cafe ends in stashed ink stained loss
District Judge Gar ett R. Burks found a hat with ink stains at a cafe in Colorado Springs. He later returned to claim his original hat after discovering a swap had occurred. The exchanged hat disappeared again, leaving Burks puzzled by the sequence of swaps.
Air Force repurposes foil for downed pilots survival kit
Captain Joseph Garner of the Air Force Special Weapons Center at Kirtland AFB recommends kitchen aluminum foil in jet pilot survival kits. He notes foil serves as cooking utensil and emergency signaling reflector for downed airmen.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Joseph Garner
Air Force Special Weapons Center
Kirtland Afb
Garner
Hemlock Social Guests and Visiting Families Across Communities
A Hemlock gathering lists guests from Marshfield Petersburg Columbus and beyond. Families including Kehl Fitch Linscott Williams Fouts McDaniel Tharp and Osenbaugh are noted as visiting relatives and friends across Hemlock Pleasantville Newark Columbus and other nearby towns with several trips and shared meals reported.
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Debbie
Springfield
Gladys McDaniel
Paul McDaniel
Paula
Grace Anne
Columbus
Bernard McDaniel
Petersburg
Bernard
Hemlock
Homer Tharp
Jim McCoy
Dickie
William Turner
Richard Lanning
Edna Sue
Robert Foura
Pleasantville
Jack Williams
Lewis Rush
Barberton
George Wycinski
Corning
Wesney
Congo
Bob Huston
Shawnee
Rush
Forest Dennis
W. A. Eayle
San Tharp
Nelsonville
Otto Tharp
Harmon Home
Maxine Klomowski
Cleveland
David Williams
Linda Storts
Forest Storts
Ed Cook
Newark
Charles Winters
Illinois
Miss Lehman
Jessie Lehman
Charlie Bope
Somerset
Harry Tharp
Wm. Stahl
Plain City
Mary Hughes
Columus
Martha Hughes
Robert Hughes
Lancaster
Glenna Williams
Taylor Ridge community notes on deaths and visits
A Taylor Ridge Church of Christ Ladies Aid meeting was postponed after the death of Jack Vore and will reconvene Thursday at Mrs Charles Drake’s. The report lists numerous visitors and relatives from Columbus, Trimble, Glouster, Tiffin, Dayton, Portsmouth, and Jacksonville, plus local residents visiting and staying with families during the period. Several residents, including William Davis and family, Delbert Skinner, and Norma Oyler’s group, are reported with travel and stay details.
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Taylor Ridge
Ladies Aid Society
Church of Christ
Jack Vore
Charles Drake
Blaine Chalfant
Linda
Columbus
P. B. Chalfant
Glen Chalfant
Della Lyne
Rolland
Trimble
William Davis
William, Jr
Jackson
Mr. Davis
Robert Snyder
Chanute ‘Air Force Base
Wand
James Bickley
Basil Vore
Maude McKee
Maxine McKee
Thomas Whitlock
Glouster
Carolyn Post
Corning
Glen Bickley
Tiffin
Kenneth Porter
Dayton
William Andrews
Russell Vore
William Bartels
Michael
Portsmouth
Robert Comminsky
Gerald
Local visits and family gatherings documented in Ohio
Addison son Douglas and Mrs R C Taylor traveled to Columbus for shopping and visits with relatives. Numerous relatives and friends from Columbus Mansfield Dayton Dunbar Athens Gallipolis and Gorham shared visits and meals in this extended family gathering. Names include Thelma Epple Doris Johnson Edna Backus Fred Carman Gertrude Carman Elva Jane Williams and many others.
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Douglas
R. C. Taylor
Columbus
Henry Reeves
Thelma Epple
Ethel Beckey
Bill
Dayton
Edna Backus
Reeves
Patty Gay Pearl
Mansfield
Fred Carmer
E. L. Kelley
Ironton
Doris Johnson
Walter Bell
Uly
New York
Charleston
Fred Carman
Gertrude Carman
Ella Rothgeb
Ray Roush
Fred ‘Carman
Roy
George
Dorothy Amsbury
Pomeros
E. C. Crisfield
Sherry
Judy
Gorham
N. Y
Raymond
Joe Drummond
Rio Grande College
Gladys Calder
Fred Welling
Robert
Dunbar
W. Va
William Reed
Amanda Bean
Gallipolis
Bill Beckey
Mildred Roush
Lawrence
Henson
Charles Hock
Charles Hockman
Inlaw
Noel Hockan
Zenia
Alice Lemley
Mary
Sue
Fostoria
James Thompson
Gorham, 'Y
J. E. Harmon Pleasant
Hartford S Aankung-nun raves de vice at church service
The Hartford interdenominational service at the Baptist Church drew cooperation from Methodist United Brethren and Baptist groups. Rev Rufus of the Methods Church led prayer and Rev Shirley Wood of the Baptist Church gave the message as Easter flowers and lights decorated the church. The town council met Tuesday evening with Mayor Quillin, Recorder Crump and councilmen Gibbs and Grimm among others. They discussed drains, the annual convention, election plans, and bill payments. A schoolhouse election nominating convention was held Friday evening with Quillin as mayoral nominee and Crump as recorder. Several local births, graduations, and social notes followed, including a major surgery for Dr. C. W. Petty in Atlanta and multiple visits by Hartford residents.
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Baptist Church
Hartford
Methodist
United Brethren
Baptis
Rufus ‘Caste
Methods Church
Shirley Wood
Town Council of
Oneail Quillin
James M. Crump
Charles Gibbs
Isaiah Gibbs
Harry Grimm
Quillin
Billy Fields
J. W. Gibbs
Eiveron Crites
Don Roush
Connie
Lucille James M. Crump
J. Morriston
Dover
Morriston
Mason
Parkersburg
Akron
Bertha Cunningham
Mason County
Delbert Dotson
Hartford Baptist Church
James Fiber
Charleston
Charleston Hospital
Fiber
Jane ‘Ann Kell
Wahama High School
Mary Margret Beard
Karen Hall
Alice Hall
Annette Johnson
Erma Jo
Ann’ Reitmire
Thomas Johnson
Hubert Gibbs
James Duncan
Rupert Howard
A.B. Ginden
Atlanta
Harry Gibbs
Mildred Chapman
Lee
Donnie Gibbs
Jack Frye
Chester
Keith McClung, Jr
West Virginia University
Mortontown
A. K. McClung
Sam Carter
Wheeling
N. C. Wein
W. T. Stone
Merrill Johnson
Nicky
Merrilyn
Betty Jo
Gallipolis
George James
Billie
J. W. Kell
James McKnight
Arthur Wayland
Esther McKnight
George McKnight
New Haven
Patricia Lerner
Dayton
George Lerner
Squire
Jacob Phillips
W. Va
Harold Phillips
Washington
Airman James Theiss discharged at Clark Air Force Base
Syracuse area notes list James Theiss receiving honorable discharge at Clark Air Force Base California after duty at Hickman Air Force Base Honolulu. Reported also are visits and hospital stays involving local residents and families across multiple towns during Easter weekend and convalescence.
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James Theiss
Clark Air Force Base
California
Theiss
Hickman Air Force Base
Honolulu
Don Quisenberry
Athens
John Rowan
Ben Quisenberry
Charles Boggess
Mason Clinic
Norma Lisle
University Hospital
Columbus
Daught
Donald
Thomas Durst Jeffery
Middleport
Robert White
Paul Morrison
Kalmony
Mich
Richard Duckworth
Frank Morgan
Portsmouth
Morgan
Frances Ritter
Earl Harden
Dale
Newcomerstown
Harden
Florence Harden
Elmer Houdahelt
Buchannon
W. Va
Houdashelt
William Houdashelt
Herbert Parker
D. T. Summerfield
Chester
William Eynon
Parkersburg
Max Bowers
Carson Hayes
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William Chisler
Ivan Shawver
Carl Shawver
Fred Wygal
J. H. Wygal
Salem
Jack Miller
Bobby
Hamilton
Hio
James Roush
Hester Fields
Patty
Michigan
Kent Roush
Karl King
King
Cleveland Jones
Board of Comm
Ath
Athane Atheks
Hinanto
Ath Sar
Tate
Ivon
Elaine Sayre
Louis Wolpert
Sear
Cee
Jong Chord Aisiance
Arthur Webrlie
Phaee
Grant Fry
Huntington
Kien
Donald F. Roush
Probe Roush
Walden Fienen
Roush
John Fry
Sak.font
C. E. Fry
Fry
Disianes
Tichland Avenue
Derwriters
Powel
Feud
Bart Eanorg
Culm
Florence & Hewict
Allende
Bouin
Bastenim
Urac
Thames
Coerce
Get
Pune
Wien
Berinni
Matty Peano
Ieee
Bidwell
Addison Two
Hobson
Cheshire
Ravenswood News
T. A. Knotts
Women’s Auxiliary of
The
Grace Episcopal Church
Harold Smith
Smith
Sterling Service
Pred Anderson
Holly Moorehead
Okey C. Slaven
Charles
Wm. Sorby
Ity
Fast
Harry K. Marsh
Howard Jones
Jake Kinzel
Don Maupin
H. K. Marsh
E. E. McMurray
VFW
Ripley
Air Force
Mrs
Carl Welling
Ase Et Fiee
Syracuse
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