Dear Abby: reader letters on divorce, support, and aging drivers
Abigail Van Buren fielded letters about child support abuses and ex spouses using kids as leverage. She notes divorce reforms are in progress and discusses driver safety statistics contrasting older and younger drivers with a skeptical take on a daughter worried about her 82 year old father.
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Abigail van Buren
Abby
Pops
National Safety Council
Tell
Sante FE M. D
Dear AbbyAdvice prompts re testing for elderly drivers
A letter to Dear Abby recounts an 80 year old father who drives despite poor vision and bad driving. The writer informs the state DMV anonymously, prompting a re testing notice for the father to address the risky driving problem.
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Abby
Pops
Daddy
State Motor Vehicle Department
Beckley native leads 4-H work in Vinton County
Ann Pinney of Beckley West Virginia, new county extension agent home economics, talks about her first Vinton County 4-H Fair experience. She notes local women show more interest in sewing than in food and discusses organizing programs and adult committees. Her husband Robert teaches English at Berne Union High School.
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Michigan
Vinton County
Ann Pinney
Beckley
W. Va
Robert
Fairfield County
Berne Union High School
Fair Bake A Rama Winners Announced
First place ties go to Linda S. Wyse of 300 Albany Road and Robert J. Smith of T and R Mobile Park for an apple pie and a spice cake in the All Ohio Electric Bake A Rama at Athens County Fair. Each won 50 dollars and a spot at the Ohio State Fair. Wyse bakes Aug 23 and Smith Aug 29. Second place went to Mary Louise Koehler and Judy Reynolds. Cerificates signed by Gov. James Rhodes were awarded.
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Athens County Fair
Linda S. Wyse
Albany Road
Robert J. Smith
T and R Mobile
Wyse
Smith
Mary Louise Koehler
Guysville
Judy Reynolds
S. Pomeroy
James Rhodes
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company
Contestants Sought For Queen Event
Girls in Glouster High School may enter the Old Settlers queen contest during the Labor Day weekend by submitting applications at listed homes in Jacksonville and Hollister. A style show with Hartley's clothes will judge entrants on a point system. crowning time to be announced.
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Jacksonville
John Koons
Fourth Street
William Tolliver
Thomas Hardy
Hollister
Glouster High School
Hartley
Glouster
Kiwanis Hear Bur Oak Naturalist on Reptiles
GLOUSTEP Robert Blanke Burr Oak State Park naturalist spoke to Kiwanis at Hotel Gordon on reptiles. He displayed about 60 live snakes and demonstrated harmlessness but members declined to hold one. He outlined a public weekly program at Burr Oak Lake with hikes nature studies slides and movies continuing through August.
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Gloustep
Robert Blanke
Burr Oak State Park
Kiwanis
Gordon
Blanke
Burr Oak Lake
Heloise style tips and reader kitchen fixes
Readers share clever hacks from kitchen to craft. Tips cover dissolving pills with sugar and water, cooking steaks to satisfy guests, storing sewing patterns on tubes, avoiding glare in photos with glasses, mounting a flashlight on bicycles, and rinsing tuna to cut oil.
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Heloise
My Favorite Recipe By Barbara Bennett
Barbara Bennett shares easy relish ideas by Mrs. David Wagner of Avon Place. Anne Wagner preserves cucumbers in a brine then a cider vinegar mix without jars. Also offered is Easy Corn Relish using corn, vinegar, sugar and turmeric for a two cup yield.
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David M. Bryson
William Cassill
East North St
McArthur
Guysville
Charles B. Taylor
Cassill
Lynda
William David
Bryson
The
Plains United Methodist Church
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Garden Club
Order of Eastern Star
Barbara Bennett
David
Anne) Wagner
Avon Place
Anne
Glouster and Chauncey Social Letters Note Travel and Visits
Residents from Glouster circle report recent trips and guests in nearby towns. Beatrice Vaughn returned from Columbus after a week with H J Black. Visitors included Antle and Jagers families from Columbus and Athens. Families from Clifton Forge and Cincinnati joined gatherings in Columbus and Vaughn Campbell home. Edingers vacation at Burr Oak Lodge. Crabtree Reunion attendees listed but some names omitted.
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Beatrice Vaughn
Main Street
Columbus
H. J. Black
Vaughn
Howard Antle
Gene Antle
Erma Jagers
Anna Thomas
Athens
Mike Erdy
George
Eddie Cochenour
Leonard Edinger
Melvina Sauser
Jacksonville
Sauser
Vaughn Campbell
Walnut Hill
Edingers
Burr Oak Lodge
Chauncey
Robert Crabtree
Scott
Jerry
Dale Robinson
Brenda
Becky
Alan
Karen
Crabtree
Orville Crabtree
Albany
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Winien
Guerlain
Bankamericard
Lil Kint
Logan
Follett Store
Suerlain
Glouster Meetings
Memorial Park
Eagles Hall
Trimble
STOUT
C. E. Stout
Albany Ces
Masonic Temple
Jerry Strube
Denise
Ann
Alexander-Smith
Vance-Leach Furniture
W. State ST
Efoelk
Dad
Huntington
Barre
Monuments Logan Monument CO. Inc
West Main
Ohio
Sears & Elberfelds
Hardy
Chrysanthemums
LaLa
Sunnybank
E. State St
North Court Street
Orlon
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