Industrial boost urged for Meigs Gallia and Mason counties
Francis H. Klein reports from Point Pleasant where Mayor Walter Kel urged a permanent pro job group to promote industry in the Ohio West Virginia Tri County area. The talks aim to keep regional industries, encourage investment, and prevent brain drain as a new plan forms through the Tri County group with a no shut down pledge.
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Youngstown
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Amber
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Eeting
Essenger
Standard Nail and Ron Company
Easton
Clifton
Carnegie Steelompany
Grants
Andarrett & McManigal
Langon Woolen Mills
Hio
Vulcan Machine Colny
Ohio Machine Company
Webb
Chair Facory
Aptain
Picnic Honors Rollin Dill Before Army Sendoff at State Park
A Portland state park gathering honored Rollin Dill as he prepares to leave the Army on August 12. Relatives attended including Harriet Dill, Anna Dill, Lawrence Smith Jr, Allen Dill and families, Homer Dill and son, Thomas Scott and family, Charles Gilkey and others. Jerry Gilkey, visiting from Chicago, joined after studies at Coyne Electrical School.
Man Held as Suspect by FBI Agents in Meigs County
Hobson was picked up yesterday in the York Central Railroad yards and taken to the Meigs County jail awaiting FBI men. Rickman, 27, of Rale m W Va, failed to produce identification while waiting for an outgoing ride.
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Chester Township soldiers listed with dozens of enlistees
A partial roster from Chester Township begins publication listing Chester North precinct names and ranks. Miss Clarice Cleland and Mrs. Ada Morris lead the survey. more names from Minersville to follow in two upcoming lists. 13,000 army dentists serve 2,000,000 soldiers monthly nationwide.
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Minersville
Chester Township
Chester
Clarice Cleland
Ada Morris
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Cleland
Morris
Armed Services
Club Camp Starts for Jackson Area Youths
Four H club members from Meigs County and others from nearby counties depart for a week at Camp Keystone on Raccoon Creek Jackson County. The program includes classes crafts swimming vespers and campfire with staff from county agents OSU specialists and home demonstration advisors.
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Pine Grove
Vada Paulsen
Maxine Smith
Hemlock Grove
Jean Lee
Donna Jean Stanley
Donna Mae Wells
Darwin
Salem Center
Raymond Halliday
Gene Norton
Rex Shenefield
John Phillips
Bobby Bowen
Harrisonville
Don Cotterill
Paul Cotterll
Richard Epple
Bobby Epple
Betty Lou Hull
Bertha Douglas
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlights Local Farewells and Engagements
Local social items report Mr and Mrs Wright McCroba and daughters Mary and Ann visiting from Bucyrus farewell parties and dinners as they return home. Ann and Mary plan to enter Ohio University Athens, while Chester Knight heads to military service with a Moose Club gathering and Katydid outing. Engagement announced for Betty Cranston of Pomeroy and Kenneth DeMoss of San Francisco with marriage planned in San Francisco.
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Trenton
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San Francisco
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Pittsburgh
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Pacific Coast Division
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Culling of Poultry To Be Studied in Meigs County
D D Moyer from Ohio State University will lead four culling demonstrations in Meigs County on Thursday August 12. Due to feed shortages and labor gaps, every laying flock bird must reach peak production. Programs are arranged with Vocational Agricultural Teachers and local farmers. Demonstrations run 10:00 at F C Halliday farm Harrisonville. 1:00 at Norma Deans farm Sumner road. 4:00 at Clarence Proffit farm Ravenswood ferry Portland road. 7:00 at W F Hawley farm Long Bottom Reedsville road.
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Harrisonville
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Sumner Road
Middleport Social Notes Featured Local Weddings and Visits
Middleport notes report Mr and Mrs James Stevens celebrating their 53rd wedding anniversary with a family dinner on S Third Ave. Guests included Mrs Stevens sisters Mr and Mrs Isaac Taylor and Mr and Mrs Charles Keller from Rutland and Gary Hamilton. Also mentions Miss Cressa Webb hosting a dinner party and wedding of J Redmon and Lyda Wallace at Point Pleasant with relatives from Beaumont and Columbus. White Rose Lodge to picnic at Roadside Park Wednesday. Several locals track visits and weekend trips to Buckeye Lake, Athens, Ravenna, Columbus, and Charleston.
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Rutland
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Miss Webb
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Columbus
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Point Pleasant
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DaRueben Beck
J. J. Schmoll
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Ralph Burnett
Gravel Hill
Burnetta Mossiman
Fred Healy
John Talbott
Ravenswood
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Cecil Ward
Charleston
Gus Ward
Dan Farmer
General Motors Corporation
Dayton
George Ury, Jr
Horton Brown
Eleanor Roush
Department of Internal Revenue
State 4-H Conservation Camp Near Newark
POMEROY Fort Meigs County 4-H Club members attend the State Ohio 4-H Conservation Camp at Camp Ohio near Newark. Attendees include Joan Hawley Long Bot tom Iris Boring Reedsville Claude Montgomery Salem Center and Edwin Nelson Salem Center. Daily activities feature flag raising classes games swimming selective activities flag lowering and vespers with instructors from Ohio State University.
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Ohio
Camp Ohio
Newark
Joan Hawley
Long Bottom
Iris Boring
Reedsville
Claude Montgomery
Salem Center
Edwin Nelson
Ohio State University
More Meigs Countians Enter Army
Meigs County Draft Board 1 selected seventeen men for the October quota, leaving Clarksburg for induction in Columbus. Fourteen more are to depart Thursday. Fathers likely to be called for the October quota as the board nears its single and married with children pool. Names include Raymond Chester Sohn Pomeroy and others from Pomeroy Racine Middleport Minersville and Rutland.
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Pomeroy
Truman Autherson Russell
Marlin Henry Young
R.D
Racine
Rollin Oscar Dill
Syracuse
Carroll Howard Randolph
Long Bottom
Herschel Leroy Rose
Minersville
Licensed To Marry In Meigs County
Meigs County Probate Court issued sixteen marriage licenses since August 1 by Aug Sth list includes Kenneth Root and Virginia King both of Frost and Pratts Fork couples, plus others from Middleport Huntington Cheshire Gallipolis Ferry and Pomeroy with ages ranging 17 to 28.
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Frost
Virginia King
Pratts Fork
John Holdcroft
Glouster
Nettie Smith
Middleport
Jack Osborn
Huntington
Emogene Pyles
Clarence Lewis
Cheshire
Mary Green
Eugene Barber
Springfield
Delia Cadlow
Ebersbach Rites Being Arranged
Pomeroy business leader Charles Ebersbach 73 dies in Tampa Florida from a stroke. As president of Ebersbach Construction Company he directed highway and airfield projects and led the Mar kersburg Rig and Reel and Pomeroy Machine Shop lineage. Funeral plans to be announced. Dexter Star Garden Club set Aug 12 meeting at the Dexter Church with a pot luck lunch.
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Ite
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Markersburg
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Street Repair Work Starts in Pomeroy
Favorable weather aided state highway crew under Mont Osborn to resurface Second Street. A tar coat and sand treatment were applied to fill holes and depressions. Next, Second Street from Lynn beyond Court Street received the same treatment with final sealing by Cavett Coneern of Lockland.
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