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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1948
Page
2
This message claims 41 516 people are rushed to hospitals today and 1 in 9 in the U S will be hospitalized this year with 60 percent needing surgery. It promotes a hospital plan with fixed rates, no rises, and 100 days of surgical extras while promising to send a check on request.
Nearly 70 years of service to almost 1,000,000 people backs Bankers insurance plans that pay surgeon fees from five to one hundred fifty dollars for operations at home, hospital, or physician offices. It covers X rays medicines and specified treatments in hospital even if not a bed patient. Pick any surgeon and any hospital.
Rep. Thom as A. Jenkins attacked CIO tactics in a Troy Township High School event before about 300. He displayed a handbill accusing him of supporting Taft Hartley and farm bills, while urging voters to back Eu rope recovery efforts alongside Athens County Republican Club sponsors. The program included a Mechanicsburg PTA play and a public luncheon served cafeteria style with local officials assisting.
Athens High School seniors participate in the American Cancer Society campaign. John Jagers, city campaign chair, announces a prize for the top two solicitation teams who will earn an airplane ride. all volunteers share in the general prize.
Prof. Fred O Flaherty director of the Institute of Scientific Research and professor of Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati will address the annual meeting of the Ohio University chapter of the American Association of University Professors at 4 p.m. Thursday He will discuss research on a university campus and also confer informally with members of the university's committee on research.
Charles Wolfe, 18, Nelsonville Route 1, was fined five dollars and costs in Mayor William P. Mickle s court for failing to halt at a stop sign. Gail Cunningham, 33, Guysville, was bound over to a grand jury after pleading not guilty to willful destruction of property in an affidavit by John Bajus.
Kiwanis Club members hosted a Monday night panel at the Berry Hotel on practical politics. Samuel B. Erskine, Farl Mathews, and FE Hellebrandt discussed the Bill of Rights, party origins from Republicans and Democrats, and liberalism as viewed by Dewey Taft Truman Stassen and Wallace. Warren Cooper reported on charter night. Russell McCammon was elected to the Athens club board.
Walter C. Dowling U S foreign service officer and associate chief of the State Department’s Southern European Affairs division will discuss What the U S Foreign Service Is and Does to Ohio University students Friday at 4 p m in Chemistry Auditorium. He will cover foreign service qualifications and how consular and diplomatic officials protect American interests abroad. The talk is sponsored by the Committee on Foreign Service led by Dr E B Smith with help from Dr C L Dow and F C Kershner Jr.
Summer heat continued Monday as Athens area reached 89 degrees, three above the April 1947 high. The low fell to 56 last night and rose to 65 by 9:30 a.m. Tuesday despite a light Tuesday morning shower. Weather observer Mrs. N. France noted the Ho ck ing River receded to 4.20 feet.
The Monday noon Rotary meeting featured a musical program by Ohio University students and a talk by Michel Marchal a French agriculture student. Vocal solos were performed by Mrs Maxine Smith and Miss Jean Abernethy with piano accompaniment by Mrs Dorothy Lavely and C C Robinson. Marchal spoke about studying in the United States escaping occupied France and serving as a pilot in the U S Air Forces. He noted his father belongs to the Saint Malo Dinard Rotary in France and was introduced by Dean W S Gamertsfelder. W H Logan was welcomed back to the club after wintering in Florida.
Births include a son to Mr and Mrs Don Rowland of Athens. Admissions list major surgeries for Mary Ann Hanes Athens Patty Powell Jacksonville and Kenneth Reynolds Cincinnati plus medical cases for Judith Elaine Stout Harrisonville QC L Davis Guysville. Dismissals include Ray Owen White and William Seaman both of Athens. Funeral services were held in Jackson for Henry Smith Globe Iron Co workman who died from a 35 foot fall at work last week.
Tables showing the new withholding rates for wages after May 1 1948 are mailed to area employers. Herbert J. Kelly deputy collector of Internal Revenue said the revenue act lowers taxes in most brackets and adds exemptions for employees or spouses who are blind or age 65 by year end. Claims for age or blindness must use revised certificate forms. If no new exemptions are claimed, workers need not file new certificates.
A student center planning committee at Ohio University, led by Dr. James R. Patrick, will oversee a $1,000,000 memorial student center for World War II fallen. Board Chairman C. Don McVay pledged trustee support as the board approved financing via a $5 per semester fee.
The County Commissioners ordered thirteen thousand board feet of lumber for bridge repairs at a total of 1625 dollars, split into two sizes. They approved a 1000 dollar payment to Herb Hooper for laying a four inch pipe into the county home. A chemical sprayer and two drums of liquid spray for weed control totaling 1232.90 were not acted on. The petition of Darwell Jewell and 125 others for repairing County Highway 31 from the Perry County line to the Gloucester corporation limit was tabled.
Two New York Central passenger trains were still not running due to a coal shortage. The 11:06 a.m. to Columbus and the 12:02 p.m. to Charleston were cancelled pending lifting of government coal locomotive restrictions.
The Common Pleas Court Civil suit over injuries from a 1946 bus ride advances with testimony linking a murder trial to credibility concerns. Marion Norris, whose son is jailed for murder, testified about seeing Martha Cephas in her yard. doctors and welfare workers described her condition while bus driver Clarence Allen and passenger Mary Adams supported or disputed Cephas’s claim of a fall.
Farmers urged to attend an April 29 wood lot management meeting on the Elmer Pierce farm at 1 30 p m. Ross Wright says the site lies one mile west of Union and one mile east of New Marshfield on Route 56 near Jesse Carsey's home. Frank Needham of the Ohio Division of Forestry will discuss farm woodlot management from cutting to pasturing and replanting.
Athens City County Health Department receives immune serum globulin through the Red Cross National Blood Program for measles treatment. Dr. McIntire notes supplies are ready for immediate delivery, while Dr. Goldberg reports cases locally are declining. Serum should be given within five days of exposure to be effective.
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