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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1944
Page
5
Epiphany Episcopal Church in Nelsonville will hold Holy Communion at 9 30 a.m. on April 23 the second Sunday after Easter. The celebrant will be Rev. Robert G. Purrington of Good Shepherd Church Athens.
Fifty four Athens area boys in G I uniforms were inducted into the Civil Air Patrol Cadets at Athens Airport. Cadets took the oath and received identification certificates after 12 weeks of drill and training. Capt Bush CAP administered the oath. ceremony included formal inspection and a cadet band.
Gardeners who drive to their gardens may get an extra gasoline allotment under a wartime plan. A plot of at least 1,500 square feet used exclusively for vegetables may receive up to 20 gallons for 300 miles of extra driving. Access requires car use twice weekly with no other transport available.
Columbus report that R. C. Hess of the F. J. Beasley Co. Athens, a member of the distributors association executive committee, will participate in the Deshler-Wallick Hotel conclave April 25-26. E. J. Siller of Cleveland will open the meeting and others will speak on retailer views, canned goods, and postwar plans. Election of trustees and officers ends Tuesday. a full program follows Wednesday.
Yesterday's high reached 70 degrees in Athens with a 48 degree low. At noon today the reading was 65. Rainfall yesterday measured .10 of an inch.
More workers quit and a mill room walk out threatened to halt production today at Goodyear Fire and Rubber Company Plant Number One in Akron.
Ohio University opens Greek Week with Dean of Men presiding over round tables at the Student Center. Dr Lionel Crocker Theta Chi and author of Public Speaking for College Students will speak at tomorrow's luncheon at 1 p.m. on Fraternities and the Post War World.
Victory Gardens series advises planting beets carrots and turnips in loose soil with careful spacing and thinning. Beets require 12 inch rows, 30 seeds per root, and 1-2 inches of soil. thin to 1 inch then 3-4 inches apart. Carrots need 12 inch rows, 75-100 seeds per foot, cover lightly, and thin. Turnips sow 1/8 to 1/4 inch apart and thin. protect seedlings from flea beetles with early spray. fertilize twice with 4-12-4, about 3 pounds per 100 feet. Continuous sowings and spring plantings recommended for canning and texture.
Edward B Sharp of Nelsonville Athens County Ohio appointed Administrator with will annexed of Nathan Hill deceased of Nelsonville Ohio. Creditors must file claims within four months or be barred. Dated April 4 1944 Francis D White Probate Judge Athens County Ohio.
Philip C. Houston, district manager, explains the Smaller War Plants Corporation does not charge fees for its services. The SWPC pairs small firms with procurement agencies, lists firms for subcontracts, and offers loans, equipment leases, Alien Patents, and technical advisory help at no cost to firms employing under 500 people.
POMEROY Local farmers were urged today by C. E. Stout Racine High School vocational agriculture instructor to see that soybean seed planted this spring is properly inoculated, especially on ground that has not heretofore repeatedly grown the crop. Inoculation is a practice which will make a decided increase in the average yield and is important this year as the allied war effort depends on the American soybean crop for oils and proteins. Commercial inoculants are more readily used.
Technician Fifth Grade Bradley Peck arrives in England with letters home describing Easter drizzle and green countryside as American soldiers march along narrow roads. Leslie E. Lasch earns wings as a glider pilot and flight officer at South Plains Army Air Field, while George Dwight Burson receives corporal rank in Boise. Don Montgomery arrives in New Guinea, Elwynn Dorr finishes boat training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and returns home on leave.
Irvin A. Wolfe of Athens County AAA announced a seed drive as supplies of red clover, alfalfa, sweet clover, clover, and sudan grass have fallen below five year and 1942 levels. Triple A will pay 3.50 per acre for seed harvests up to 25 acres to boost production for both domestic needs and Allied requests.
Congress heard Rep Jenkins describe Mrs Ernest McGraner of Athens Ohio as the Magazine Lady who meets every troop train to hand out magazines stamped post cards and other items. She began this effort to aid the war and now receives scores of magazines daily from across the country. Telegraph operators alert her to trains.
Twelve messenger carriers in Athens earned places on the Honor Roll this week for satisfactory service. Names include Billy Driscoll Robert Nida Jimmy Westfall Rower Gilkey Tommy Dowler Gene LaBaw Merrill Thomas Danny Watkins Danny Morrison Charles Gilkey Ren Roberts Don Carr.
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