Nelsonville Draft Board Sends 21 Men to Fort Thomas
Nelsonville area Selective Service Board No 2 sent twenty men and one transfer to Fort Thomas Kentucky for induction into the U S Army Wednesday. A change in regulations excused about twenty others reporting for the current call with deferment expected to be temporary. The new order aims to speed induction of younger men.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Nelsonville Draft Board
Fort Thomas
Nelsonville
Athens County
Selective Service Board No. 2
U. S. Army
Joe Pritchard
Columbus
Charles Edward Grose
Williams St
Rusell William McDonald
Buchtel
Cecil Forrest Secoy
Sharpsburg
Crabtree Returns Home Amid Brief Nelsonville Visit
Estel Crabtree, Reds coach and utility man, stayed with family in Nelsonville on Wednesday while sidelined by a cold and an eye injury from batting practice. He joined the Reds in Richmond for an exhibition game as the season opens next Tuesday. Draft board activity near Nelsonville saw many local men called for pre induction tests and enlistment processing.
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Nelsonville
Estel Crabtree
Cincinnati Reds
Crabby
Bloomington
Ind
Reds
Richmond
Hocking Valley Engineers To Gather For Dinner Meeting
Nelsonville Ohio Hocking Valley Chapter of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers plans a regular dinner meeting tonight in the Presbyterian Church social rooms. Charles Walker is chapter president and H. H. Hardings serves as secretary.
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Nelsonville
Hocking Valley
Ohio Society of Professional Engineers
Presbyterian Church
Charles Walker
H. H. Hardings
Easter Services Bring Baptisms and Local Visits
Easter services at the Methodist Church included a baptismal rite for Patricia Jane Price and Lalitha Maxine Browning. Local families from Columbus and Spiller enjoyed holiday gatherings while relatives and workers on the Steamer Reliance returned from various trips.
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Methodist Church
Patricia Jane
Clarence Price
Lalitha Maxine Browning
Dana Browning
Columbus
Rita
Jimmie Ritchie
Lawrence Ritchie
Mary Johnson
Clinton Johnson
Margaret Fields
Dayton Fields
Pvt
Orville Rhodes
Camp Bowie
Texas
Fred Ritchie
Spiller
Alberta Foutty
Parkersburg
Earl Jewitt
Vaughn Adams
Gallipolis
Milo Rhodes
Ralph Rhodes
East Liverpool
Dorothy Wolfe
Racine
Fagan Price
W. C. Moser
Bert Rowley
Bel Worthington
U. 8
Roderick Grimm
Letart Falls
Wilkie Larson
C. E. Peoples
Don Millikan
Athens
Annie Price
Syracuse
Ray McDade
V. E. McDade
J. M. Cox
Joe Schmidt
Joan
Maxine
Pauline Ritchie
Lawerence Ritchie
Wesley Allen
Reliance
Point Pleasant
John Lawson
Lily Smith
Bertram
Charleston
Isabel Cecil
Cecil
Local weddings and visits mark Radcliff notes
Jean Pierce returns from Easter in Athens. Families gathered for the wedding of Frances Eileen Penn to Leo Robert Jarvis near Wilkesville. Faye Eleanor Pendleton wed Raymond C. Barnes April 8 at the groom’s sister’s home in Wilkesville with a single ring ceremony.
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Jean Pierce
O. U
Athens
Monafter
Garfield Dodril
John P. Jeffers
Columbus
Delver Quick
New Marshfield
Stace Peck
Cynthia Cummings
Sammie
James
Frances Eileen Penn
Leo Robert Jarvis
Wilkesville
Frank Cottrill
Camp Roberts
Calif
Daniel Pendleton
Faye Eleanor
Raymond C. Barnes
Dwight McLaughlin
Russell H. Waltz
C. E. Pierce
Mary Lou
Jean
Ardath Pierce
Kenneth Queen
Karen Rae
John H. Hocter
Dwight, Jr. Duane
Margaret
Nelsonville Social Notes and Local Updates
Mrs Clarence White hosted the Loyal Women's Class of the Church of Christ with a brief business session led by class president Adda James. Readings and contests were arranged and 3 13 members attended the social hour. East Parent-Teachers Association meets Friday at 3 pm East building. Rainbow Class meets tonight at 7 30 at Mrs Earls home. Local notes include residents visiting family, Easter gatherings, and military family news with Pfc Pearl Lones Jr in Orlando Florida hospital after knee injury.
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Clarence White
Loyal Women's
Church of Christ
Adda James
Josie Baugh
Rainbow
Mrs. Earl
Franklin St
Sandusky
Ohio
Matt Adkins
Marjorie Dempster Roberts
Melba Keyhoe
Cleveland
Meda Dempster
Pinecastle Air Base
Orlando
Fla
Pfc
Lones
Florida
Chainute Field
War Veteran Dies in West
Nelsonville Joe Humphrey, 50, World War II veteran and longtime Nelsonville resident, died suddenly Tuesday in Chico California. The body will return to Nelsonville for funerals and burial. He is survived by two sisters Mrs Frank Freer and Mrs Kate Edington, both of Nelsonville.
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Nelsonville
Joe Humphrey
Chico
Calif
Frank Freer
Kate Edington
Fealty to Visit Logan for Crop and Feed Loan Aid
Clarence Fealty field supervisor of the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office will be in Logan on Tuesday April 18 from 9 30 to 10 30 to help write applications for anyone seeking assistance. He will be at the County Extension office in the courthouse.
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Clarence Fealty
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office
Logan
County Extension Office
Court House
Equipment For School Work Arrives
Nelsonville High School prepares a new vocational training wing by converting basement space for a machine shop and auto mechanics. The federal procurement division supplied over a dozen power machines including lathes, shapers, drills, a milling attachment, a hack saw, and punching equipment at a total cost around $500.
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Nelsonville
Nelsonville High School
D. W. Codding
Board of Education
NYA
Vocational course planned with state approval pending
Evidence of interest from junior and senior boys precedes final state approval for a vocational program. Reimbursement from state and federal governments will cover part of the teacher salary. A legal council with Nelsonville industry ties will be formed. Details to be announced and public inspection of facilities planned.
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