Community Good Friday Services Draw Fourteen Area Ministers
Fourteen Athens area ministers from multiple churches will take part in a noon to 3 p.m. interdenominational Good Friday service at First Presbyterian Church. The program features guest soloists, organists, and a sermon on the Seven Words of Christ by ministers from First Methodist Christ Lutheran Central Ave. Methodist Salvation Army First Christian Church of God First Presbyterian Nazarene Weslayan Methodist Richland Ave. Methodist Pilgrim Holiness First Methodist Evangelical United Brethren Church of the Good Shepherd, plus scripture readings. The Athens service rotates among churches. the public is invited to worship. In Amesville, the annual Good Friday service at the Amesville Methodist Church will offer two half-hour programs with messages by Virgil Versteeg and Norma Ramsey Jones, music by Carolyn Marquis and Mrs. Robert King, and an offering for Christian Rural Overseas Program. Local businesses will close for the hour-long service.
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First Presbyterian Church
Odist Church
William LaFountain
Christ Lutheran
James W. Brown
Central Ave. Methodist
Robert Wratten
Salvation Army
Joe B. Maffett
First Christian
Claude Sandlin
Church of God
Thomas B. Foster
First Presbyterian
Jay Keiser
First Church of the Nazarene
Walter Jeffries
Wesleyan Methodist
Charles L. Magee
Richland Ave
Pilgrim Holiness
John D. Seay
First Methodist
Walter Whitaker
Evangelical United Brethren
Walter Taylor
Church of the Good Shepherd
Athens
Amesville
Virgil Versteeg
Norma Ramsey Jones
Carolyn Marquis
Robert King
Lee D. Glass
Ralph Bennett
Kenneth Vernon
Christian Rural Overseas Program
New Rector to Be Ordained Sunday
The Rev. William G. Black assistant at Christ Church Chicago will become rector of The Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal. He will be ordained at 7 30 p m Sunday by Bishop Roger Blanchard. Black is in training for a PhD at the University of Chicago and has served in the armed forces earning the Purple Heart and Silver Star. He and his wife have three children and plan to move to Athens June 15.
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William G. Black
Christ Church, Chicago
Church of the Good Shepherd
Episcopal
Roger Blanchard
Southern
Ohio
Mr. Black
Holy Trinity Church
Oxford
Greenville College
Ill
University of Illinois
University of Chicago
Southwest Pacific
Black
Athens
Legion Posts Memorial Day Plans And Delegates
The K. T. Crossen Post 21 American Legion mapped the Memorial Day observance and district convention delegates. Edmond Settle leads the memorial plan with Pierce Baird James Vercoe Don Strawn Sr Edgar Tuckerman Carl Wilson Jack Quest Charles McGinnis Ben Williams Clarence McKinstry as committee members and parade units. Delegates elected to the Eighth District convention on June 3 in Lancaster include Commander James Balding Nolan Mace Charles Gilkey Vercoe McKinstry and Settle with alternates Paul J. Lewis Wilson H. Carr Elbert Carmichael Harlan Carpenter John Cox and Wilson. Mace reported on the Gallipolis spring conference. Cloyce Martin named general chairman of a Legion stag party May 18 with tickets via John M. Jones. Cox and McKinstry co-chair the chicken dinner service.
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K. T. Crossen Post 21
American Legion
Edmond Settle
Pierce Baird
James M. Vercoe
Don Strawn, Sr
Edgar Tuckerman
Carl R. Wilson
Jack Quest
Charles B. McGinnis
Gallipolis
Cloyce G. Martin
West Virginia Man Fined In Court
A Fairmont man Cecil W. Grimes age 63 was fined 100 dollars and costs in Municipal Court on a city police intoxication charge. He pleaded guilty and was confined to the county jail for failure to pay the fine. Police noted prior intoxication arrests.
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Fairmont
W.va
Verona
E. State St
Cecil W. Grimes
Oil pipeline burst near Route 675 halts traffic
A six inch Buckeye Pipeline Co line burst at 2 p.m. on Route 675 one mile north of Route 13. Crude oil spread a three foot patch across the roadway. State patrol rerouted traffic while State Highway Department workers spread limestone. Repairs finished about 5 p.m. and normal traffic returned.
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Route 675
Route 13
The
Buckeye Pipeline Co
State Highway Patrol
State Highway Department
Squad Called When Prisoner Becomes Ill
The fire department emergency squad rushed to the county jail at 9 13 a m Thursday where Woodrow Putman 50 Hocking port was suffering a probable seizure of epilepsy according to the sheriff s department. The sheriff said Putman was arrested Wednesday on his wife s complaint following a disturbance at home.
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Fire Department
Woodrow Putman
Hockingport
Putman
Students Win Top Science Honors in Southeast Ohio Fair
Three Athens School students won top honors at the Junior Academy of Science Fair in the Southeast Ohio District held here recently. Fourteen others had displays. Karen Heffelfinger of Athens High will enter the state Toledo contest in May. Superior ratings went to Mike Wren and David McQuate. excellent ratings to Greg Bridgewater, Merry Carol Wheaton, Kenneth Kerr, Kathleen Parkis, Bob Randall, Terry Bumpass, Jon Man eny.
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Southeastern Ohio
Karen Heffelfinger
Athens High
Toledo
Greg Bridgewater
Merry Carol Wheaton
Kenneth Kerr
Kathleen Parkis
Bob Randall
Terry Bumpass
Jon Math
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Gene Rowe
Ames
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Fred Wells
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Cox and McKinstry
West Virginia
Scott's
South Court Street
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Coats
Youngland
Youngland & Fern
Athens School
Mike Wren
David McQuate
Eny
Ronald Davis
Ty Porter
Janice Barnhill
Bob Cooley
Cheri O’brien
Greg Moore
Carol Phillips
Maude Wolfe
Cabell Co
W. Va
Carl E. Hartman
Jacksonville
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