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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1935
Page
5
Enrollment for 1935 36 is expected to reach about 900 freshmen, exceeding last year as Ohio University reports faster female and overall applications. The university notes improved admission numbers and federal support aiding growth while many students face dropout pressures and broader European connections influence admissions.
WPA started in Athens County with 530 men projected to be employed on 21 approved projects. Start dates vary as foremen report progress. 19 projects began today, two depend on bond votes. Pay ranges from 44 to 69 dollars monthly, with more projects awaiting approval from Washington to expand jobs across the eight county district.
B M Covert heads arrangements for a Zone 64 meeting to be held tonight in Athens as part of the Ohio State Optometric Association.
The will of the late Han num was presented for probate and the will of the late Sarah A Staneart was admitted to probate and record.
Athens County Rural Letter Carriers Association and families gather at P F Russell home for monthly picnic. W D Tucker presides after a noon basket dinner with songs talks and state convention reports. Present are many members and guests from Frost Coolville Amesville Marysville and surrounding areas.
Ohio University and Kent State University submitted revised appropriation schedules for the 1935-36 biennium to Governor Martin L. Davey at Columbus. The governor’s veto reduced Ohio University's two year personal service total to 886 200, a cut of 113 800 from the legislature. Kent State’s two year personal services total was set at 483 000, down from 576 000. Governor to seek a new general bill in the September session to authorize operations under lower appropriations. Other universities also affected by the 8 8 million slash have not yet filed revised estimates.
A WPA project proposal for a $17,000 road rehabilitation program in Athens County seeks $15,000 in labor from relief authorities and $2,000 in county supplied equipment. County Engineer J W Wilson prepared the estimate. The plan shifts from an emergency FERA project to a WPA program since no roads were rendered impassable by recent storms.
Maude A. Mathews files a civil petition in Athena County Common Pleas Court seeking to set aside her life estate in real estate off University Terrace. The complaint names 39 defendants including relatives and others and was entered by Deputy Clerk Ed B. Larasen after a lengthy session.
A Fellowship Dinner is planned tonight at 6 p m at the Richland Avenue M P Church before Rev William Genheimer speaks at 7 50 p m He asks each member and guest to bring sandwiches a covered dish and their own table service At 7 30 p m Genheimer a former missionary in Africa will give his talk A Genheimer night has been set aside Tuesday night.
Members of the Kutch-Worth 4-H Sewing Club gathered at Thelma Parker’s home in Mechanicsburg and reported completion of their sewing projects. The next meeting will be at Helen and Betty Hamer’s Hooper Street home Friday night Aug. 16. Members should bring finished articles and record books, and parents are invited.
Woodrow Tippie pleads not guilty to intoxication at arraignment before Magistrate Bennett. He is bound over to the grand jury under $100 bond, arrested by Deputy Sheriff Karl Gardner. New York City reports 99 hotels with gross income over $165 million annually.
Dr. Herman G. James of Ohio University told the Athens Kiwanis Club that Americans must decide soon whether the country will be ruled by regimentation from above or by individual salvation with minimal government help. He warned that the regimentation philosophy leads to dictatorship and an ever larger bureaucracy that could erode democracy if violence or crises trigger government power.
Dr. C H Creed superintendent of Athens Hospital spoke at the Athens Rotary Club at Berry Hotel. He identified two causes of mental illness the predisposing factor such as inherited weaknesses and the exciting cause or precipitating circumstance that triggers an attack. The speaker noted that a predisposed person is only mildly affected or may be normal without treatment.
Henry Atkinson reports finding a box tortoise on Columbia Avenue at the northern end of Congress Street. The shell features irregular quadrangular markings and a brighter yellow brown color than typical dull brown specimens. Encyclopedias note box tortoises may live about 20 years.
Athens County old age pensioners face missing September checks as state inaction delays re applications and staff replacements. McKinstry, previously administrator, is removed and local assistants are dropped, leaving no local staff to process new applications before the month ends.
A Pike County gas well near Beaver struck a large gas pay in the Ohio shale. The drilling firm has 15 Athens men as interested investors and estimates production above 300000 feet. State geologists caution the Pike County field could become a high producer.
Hearing in New Lexington Perry County was re-elected President of the Southeastern Ohio School Superintendents Association at the Chamber of Commerce meeting. H. B. Bradbury of Gallia County was re-elected vice president and J. W. Coleman of Logan was re-elected secretary.
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