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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1946
Page
15
Athens county police search for a sharply dressed well fed burglar after a weekend break in at Dr. C. G. Dew’s summer home near Carbondale. A green tweed suit size 40 and canned meats were taken along with a Winchester rifle, authorities said. The burglary was reported Monday.
Ollie T. Shouse and Foster Pierce, both from Athens, were forced to land in the Tennessee mountains while flying from Cincinnati to Lexington. A wing struck a fence post on takeoff from a small field, causing substantial damage, but both men escaped injury.
Officers for the coming year will be installed when the Shade PTS meets Thursday evening April 25. A guest speaker will be present, it was announced.
Harold E. Wise, longtime Ohio University assistant athletic coach, named associate director of the Ohio University Fund Inc. He will continue as athletics ticket manager but stop coaching Bobcat football, baseball and basketball. Wise will tour with alumni and civic groups to raise support for the new fund launched three weeks ago to support university projects and needs.
Rotary Club officers for the coming year were elected at a weekly meeting. Don C. Peden was named president, with John Jagers as vice president, P Q Nichols secretary, Dwight F. Rutherford treasurer, and Harper C. Pendry as feeder officer. Howard E. Waugh spoke on Community Safety noting 32,000 home deaths versus 24,300 traffic fatalities and high kitchen accident rates.
Izaak Walton League plans a May fish fry and reports from delegates to the national convention will be discussed. The meeting is Wednesday April 24 at 7 30 p m in Hotel Athens announced by president James L Cassell.
Francis E. Collins has filed a motion for a new trial in the Athens Common Pleas Court after his conviction for assaulting a minor. The petition, supported by attorney John F. Seidel, cites irregularities and seeks a new hearing on three general counts. Judge O F Rowland is expected to rule today. Sealed bids for Isaac Wilson Company assets are invited with terms cash and minimum appraised price.
State patrols arrested Robert L. Corrigan a 15 year old escaped inmate of the National Training School Washington D C after a late night chase that started on Richland Ave and ended two miles east of Albany on Route 50. Corrigan said he and two companions escaped April 21 and stole three vehicles during their trip from Washington. He is held in the county jail with no word yet on the other two suspects.
Athens County received 9472.75 of April 1946 vehicle fee distributions to go to the County Road and Bridge Fund. The remainder was allocated by township including Albany Amesville Athens Buchtel Chauncey Coolville Glouster Jacksonville Nelsonville Trimble and others with pro rata shares. Fourteen townships shared equally in the first gasoline tax distribution totaling 5600 with each township receiving 400.
The Spot on W Union and Court Street changed hands Friday. New owner George Karageorge of Fredericksburg Md purchased from Claire Ball of Athens. He plans interior remodeling, short orders, more varied foods, and his family will join him by June 1. He began in 1909 in Constantinople and came to the United States in 1911.
Herman B. Larimer died Monday in Athens. Funeral services will be held at Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home on Wednesday at 3 30 p m. Mrs Virginia Larimer Hayes of Athens, daughter of the deceased, was omitted from Monday’s survivors list in The Messenger.
Raymond J. Jeffreys of the Jeffreys Lecture Bureau in Columbus is announced as speaker at Cooloville High School Thursday afternoon April 25 for a WCTU public meeting. State Rep Miss Mary B Erbin, State Class Founding Secretary Miss Grace Richmond, and County President Mrs Blanche Starkey will attend sessions.
A series of meetings to improve cream quality produced by over 300 Athens County farmers will be held next week. The Agriculture Extension Program and the Ohio Dairy Products Association sponsor four sessions at 5 p.m. in Mechanicsburg Albany Coolville and Amesville with demonstrations and pictures provided.
Pvt. Joe Walburn son of Mr and Mrs Joe Walburn Sr will perform on drums during the Army Post Bard broadcast from station WHMA Anniston Alabama tonight at 9 30.
Ayus Isarasena, Thai student and Ohio University alum, told Kiwanis members how a biscuit tin size short wave radio tested in a hotel room after Pearl Harbor helped contact Allied forces. He described OSS training, double agent roles, guerrilla operations in Thailand and French Indochina, and a vault heist in Washington.
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