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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 16, 1942

Page

8

Work on Gallipolis defense housing halted amid delays

Gallipolis faces a stalled housing program for defense workers with FHA rules and priority issues hindering construction. Officials and local businessmen warn of a looming shortage as hundreds of needed homes remain unrealized despite interest from landowners and expanding wartime industries nearby.

Athens Messenger Athens Gallipolis Point Pleasant FHA J. E. Evans S. A. Clendenin H. W. Walters C. E. Holzer

High School to Have Musical Assembly

Gallipolis high school schedules a Friday morning assembly featuring band and chorus. The program includes Salute to the Flag, the national anthem Come Away Finnish Lullaby Girls Ensemble cornet solo Tom Robinson French horn solo Ella Louise Hall piano solo Velvet Shoes Betty Jean McHenry flute trio Scott Westerman Jo Wells Charlotte Lloyd Songs My Mother Taught Me Elinor Doepping sax solo Donald Mohr Sing to Me and Chant It Czechoslovakian dance song and mixed ensemble.

Gallipolis Tom Robinson Ella Louise Hall Velvet Shoes Betty Jean McHenry Scott Westerman Jo Wells Charlotte Lloyd Elinor Doepping Donald Mohr

Health Group Reports on Sale of Seals

Gallia County Health and Tuberculosis League re elected C. C. Byers as president Naomi Evans as vice president Dean Davis treasurer Marjorie Rinehart executive secretary The pre Christmas health seal sales totaled 829 with 20 percent or 10580 forwarded to the national society and the rest kept for county health programs Chest clinics are held monthly and indigent tuberculosis suspects are referred to their family physician.

Gallipolis Gallia County

Dr Leo Bean Buys Henking Block on Court Street

Dr Leo C. Bean purchased the former Henking-Bovie block on Court Street for 13000 dollars. The building, now a chain grocery store, was part of the Henrietta Henking estate.

Gallipolis Leo C. Bean Henking-Bovie Court St Henrietta Henking

Dixon Beckett Pure Oil Station Names New Manager

Edward Judy will become manager of the Dixon and Beckett Pure Oil station opposite the Libby Hotel. He succeeds Marshall Fowler who has joined the Commercial and Savings Bank as a clerk. C. C. Byers, Gallipolis High School principal and secretary treasurer of the Ohio High School Principals Association, will attend a Columbus meeting.

Gallipolis Edward Judy Dixon & Beckett Pure Oil Libby Hotel Marshall Fowler Commercial & Savings Bank Columbus Gallipolis C. C. Byers Columbus Ohio High School Principals Association

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