Police Training School Planned in Athens for April 20
FBI agents will direct a day-long police training school in Athens City Hall on April 20 for officers from Athens Meigs Vinton and Hocking counties. The program includes suspect description, interviews, laboratory aids, courtroom behavior, crime scene search and arrest techniques with Judge Rowland and Mayor Goodworth leading sessions.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Athens
Franz Qloodworth
Mary Shumway Former Pomeroy Resident Dies
Mrs. Mary Shumway a former resident of Pomeroy Ohio died Thursday night in Fort Thomas Kentucky She is survived by two daughters Mrs W Neekamp of Fort Thomas and Miss Dorothy Shumway of Sees Funeral arrangements are pending at Finsterwald Funeral Home today
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Pomeroy
Mary Shum‘y
Lincoln
Fort Thomas
W., P.neekamp
Dorothy Shumway
Sees
Finsterwald Fu
Kenneth J. Stalder Reported Missing in Action Over Germany
War Department informs Mr. and Mrs. Mila C. Stalder that Staff Sgt. Kenneth Joe Stalder an aerial gunner with a U S Army Air Forces unit stationed in England has been missing in action over Germany since March 24 He previously had four emergency landings in enemy territory and this is his second MIA report His sister Mrs Charles Tribe lives at 100 W State St Chauncey Ohio
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Mila C. Stalder
Chauncey
War Department
Kenneth Joe Stalder
Germany
England
Stalder
Charles Tribe
W. State St
Ohio service men share overseas news and honors
Letters and notices report soldiers from Athens and surrounding towns returning from overseas duty. Col. Dorothy Coughlin receives new assignment in Miami Beach after 32 months in Europe, with awards including the Legion of Merit. Others earn Purple Hearts, Air Medals, and Combat Infantryman Badges while serving in Europe, France, the Philippines, and the Netherlands East Indies. families announce reunions and hospital recoveries.
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Dorothy Coughlin
Park Place
Army ‘Ground and Service Forces
Miami Beach
Ifla
Coughlin
Bird Elected President of Health Association
Prof. C Bird of Ohio University was elected president of the Athens County Tuberculosis and Health Association at the annual meeting. Mrs. Owen Kennedy was named vice president and Bertha Brigham re elected secretary with G Worstell as treasurer. Worstell reported Christmas Seals sales brought 3165 dollars. Plans for next year were discussed and the officers will meet again May 1.
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C. Bird
Ohio University
Athens County
Tuberculosis and ‘Health Association
Owen Kennedy
Bertha Bridgeman
G. Worstell
Worstell
Eldon Dailey
Herman Humphrey
Marietta Institute
State Scholarship Test Winners From Messenger District
Ohio official Ray G Wood lists Messenger district district winners for the 1945 General Scholarship Test. Boys include Hart Culver Gifford McConnelsville first 236 and Robert Carroll Barrows Stewart second 233. girls Marjorie Anne Carr Stockport Route 1 fifth 206 and Barbara Edith Garvin McConnelsville twentieth? twenty fourth 189. Honorable mentions include John Edward Krieg Jr Logan 193 and Delmar Frost Lee Athens 189.
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Ohio
Ray G. Wood
Messenger
Hart Culver Gifford
McConnelsville
Robert Carroll Barrows
Stewart
Robert Noel Wells
Pennsville
Robert Eugene MecBrde
Robert Roy Seerg
Logan
Marjorie Anne Carr
Stockport
L. Jeanette Green
Martha Anne Mauldin
N. High St. Athens
Barbara Edith Garvin
Athens
Wilbur Warren Lanning
Richard ‘Eugene Shoemaker
Second St
Increased Mail Service To Italy Announced
Dr. E R Goldsberry of the Athens County Red Cross Chapter announced new regular mail routes to 16 Italian provinces north of Rome plus parts of two others. Civilians may send letters directly rather than via Red Cross channels, with cities Florence and Pisa and southern portions of their provinces included. Non illustrated postal cards may reach Belgium Greece and Crete for personal business or family matters.
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Red Cross
E. R. Goldsberry
Athens County
Ancona
Aquila
Arezzo
Ascoli Piceno
Chieti
Grosseto
Livorno
Leghorn
Macerata
Perugia
Pescara
Rieti
Pesaro
Siena
Teramo
Terni
Viterbo
Firenze
Florence
Pisa
Arno
Beligum
Greece
Crete
der. Goldsterry
Bulgaria
Roumania
Poland
Fed Cross
Geneva
Duffee To Be Honored At Dinner In Columbus
Prof. Walter Duffee of Ohio State University’s Department of Physical Education will receive university recognition for 25 years of service at a dinner in Columbus on April 18. Duffee, born in Albany Iowa, has served OSU since 1919 rising from instructor in the College of Medicine to professor and medical examiner. He is a World War I Army Medical Corps veteran.
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Columbus
Walter & Duffee
Ohio State University
Department of Physical Education
University Board of Trustees
Dr Duffee
Albany
Ohio State
College of Medicine
Jeesdelate
Army Medical Corps
U S Army Air Force Corporal Guthrie In Iceland
Corporal Guthrie serves with the U S Army Air Force in Iceland. He entered service in December 1942 and trained at Bangor Maine Langley Field Virginia Norfolk Virginia and Greensboro North Carolina. He is the son of Mrs Laura Guthrie and the late Frank Guthrie of Alfred.
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Corporal Guthrie
U. S Army Air Force
Iceland
Bangor
Langley Field
Norfolk
Greensboro
Laura Guthrie
Frank Guthrie
Alfred
V E Day Plan Is Announced By Athens Merchants
Plans for V E Day observance in Athens were announced by W A Mechem president of the Athens Retail Merchants Association. Stores will close immediately if news of European hostilities ends before 2 pm on a weekday except Saturday and reopen next morning. If announced after 2 pm, they stay open that day and close the next day unless that day is Saturday. Weekend news means Monday opening.
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Athens
W. A. Mechem
Europe
Agnes Jordan Dies at Home of Daughter at 88
Agnes Jordan age 88 died at 11 this morning of a heart attack at the home of her daughter Mrs. R. M. Van Dyke 34 Race St after ten weeks illness. She had lived with her daughter during last winter and previously at Wolle St. Husband Abe Jordan died in 1919. She left three sons Owen G Columbus Charles L Akron and John T Oxnard Calif and five daughters Mrs O R Ross Columbus Mrs Nell Purdy Mrs Frances Fitzgerald Oxnard Calif Mrs G J Willy Chicago and Mrs R M Van Dyke Athens with many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements not set today.
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R. M. van Dyke
Race St
Jordan
Owen G. Columbus
Charles L. 4Kron
John T
Oxnard
Calif
O. R. Ross
Columbus
Nell Purdy
Frances Fitzgerald
G. J. Willy
Chicago
Athens
Beer and Liquor Ceiling Prices to Be Posted Monday
OPA district price specialist Camille T Botte announced that there will be no postponement of posting the beer and liquor ceiling prices in taverns and drink establishments. Ceiling prices must be posted on or before Monday April 16 and boards report many firms have not yet filed triplicate price lists. A later survey will check posters, and failures may incur OPA penalties. The note also cites a 1944 U S ship production record of 16 343 436 deadweight tons, down 2 343 000 from 1943.
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Camille T Botte
OPA
Columbus
Botte
State Plans for New Hospital Buildings in Ohio
The Ohio Welfare Department reports preliminary plans for about 15 million dollars in new hospital construction as part of an expansion. Gov Lausche cites a 18.2 million request in the budget to fund the program. Planned projects include Athens State Hospital with 250 beds and a new Ohio Hospital for Epileptics at Gallipolis with 360 beds.
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Columbus
Uspi
State Welfare Department
Frazer Reams
Frank J. Lausche
Athens State Hospital
Ohio Hospital
Gallipolis
Local Schools Hold Memorial Services in Athens County
Schools across Athens County dismissed for the memory of the President after memorial exercises. In Athens the Rev Harold F Kellogg spoke to junior and senior high students at 11. Memorial services were held at University Elementary School and each city elementary school conducted programs before dismissal at noon.
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Athens County
Athens
Harold F Kellogg
First Methodist Church
University
Ration Roundup By The Associated Press
Government ration details list stamp validity for meats fats and other items under Book Four and Book Three. stamps for sugar shoes gasoline fuel oil and related categories show expiration dates and validity periods through late summer and the current heating season.
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Associated Press
OPA
McVey Infant Dies in Albany Area
Margaret Kay McVey infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Leonard E McVey Albany Route 1 died yesterday burial held today in New Marshfield Cemetery grandparents are Mr Pearly McVey Albany Route 1 and Mr and Mrs Will Lowry Mineral.
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Margaret Kay
Leonard E. McVey
Albany
New Marshfield
Pearly McVey
Will Lowry
Mineral
Delt Alumni Elect New Athens Chapter Officers
H. C. Bobo was elected president of the Athens Alumni Chapter of Delta Tau Delta at a Hotel Berry meeting Thursday night. M. D. Hughes was named vice-president and Robert Essex secretary-treasurer.
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H. C. Bobo
Athens
Delta Tau Delta
Hotel Berry
M. D. Hughes
Robert Essex
St Joseph Aspirin Advertises Quick Cold Relief
Suffering with colds is discouraged as the ad promises fast relief from muscle aches and sore throat. It touts St Joseph Aspirin as the world's largest relief and notes price points for a 10c and a 35c bottle.
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St. Joseph
Nightly Kedrex Lotion Promises Clear Skin
A local notice touts Klecrex a liquid remedy to erase pimples with nightly use. Advertisers claim users see disappearances and boosted confidence and offer a money back guarantee if unsatisfied. Athens Pharmacy endorses the product.
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Protet Kietrex
Athens Pharmacy
11000 Trees Planted in State Forest Reforestation Effort
High school boys from Hamden Nes Marshfield and Zaleshi planted 11000 small trees at Zateshi State Forest. Ranger Emmett A Conway announced 123 acres of wasteland will become a young forest in a few years. He urged older workers to help and provided contact at the state forest Zaleski. Readable names list readers include John Easter William Burns Edgar Eberts Joe Fain Robert Kibbe Roy Bumgardner Lawrence Tolbert William Patton Robert Mees Floyd Wiseman Donald Thompson Robert Newman Dale serves Charles W Schoff Clark Ward Rex Shiffert Robert Gibson George Sim Jr Donald Oberholzer Arthur Sickels David Fair Harold Morgan Dick Collins Bill Bevange Lord Smith Gene Smith John Lopez Arthur R Woods Harry Potter Clyde Pinney Robert Booth Kenneth Loper.
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Nes Marshfield
Zaleshi
Zateshi State Forest
Emmett A. Conway
Forest, Ranger
West Satuide
M. Conwas
Boss
State Forest
Zaleski
Vic Einity
John Easter
William Burns
Edgar Eberts
Joe Fain
Robert ‘Kibbex
Roy Bumgardner
Lawrence ‘Tolbert
William Patton
Robert Mees
Floyd Wiseman
Donald Thompson
Robert Newman
Dale
Charles W3choff
Clark Ward
Rex Shiffert
Robert Gibson
George Sim, Jr
Higher Meat Prices May Increase Supply
A spokes man for livestock producers told Senate food investigators yesterday that a rise of one dollar per hundred pounds in cattle prices would push the country toward beef sufficiency. P O Wilson of Chicago secretary manager of the National Investors Producers Association said it would not cost consumers more than current prices when accounting for the black market.
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Washington
Senate
P O Wilson
Chicago
National Investors Producers Association
Mercury Reaches 84 in Athens Weather Swing
The Athens temperature peaked at 84 yesterday with a low of 51. By late morning today, the mercury rose to 70 as conditions warmed.
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Athens
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