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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1957
Page
6
Logan Hocking County Health Department announces resignation of Michael R. Moran, the school health education coordinator, after a heated board of health meeting where Moran cited malicious rumors. Moran resigned Thursday morning.
County health department sees resignation of Michael Moran effective Sept 1. Commissioner notes regret, cites uneven reception of health education program and calls for leveraging school-based health education with support from teachers and local counties. Boocks supports Moran and says staff hold no ill will.
Logan county commissioners postponed the hearing on a proposed annexation of a 236 acre tract east of Logan to Aug 29. The delay comes after declining a week’s meeting to fit five Thursdays into August. A protested water flow change in Dicken Addition prompted an engineer’s report and possible legal action. They also approved a $16.20 per day care contract with Hocking Valley Hospital and bidders for coal to heat the courthouse, and certified various welfare and county bills.
McArthur Route 2 resident Miss Jarvis was chosen as Vinton County’s entry in the Ohio Favorite Farmer’s Daughter queen contest sponsored by local merchants. She earned 345 first place votes, with Fern Kruger the close second. Jarvis will advance to the state contest at the Ohio State Fair and won a portable radio.
Richard Graves son of Mr and Mrs Arlin Graves has leased the McArthur Marathon service station and garage from Ohio Di Co. Graves a 1948 McArthur High School graduate took a leave from his job as groundman with Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co to accept the post. L C Duke Burson who had leased the station for 13 years will enroll at Ohio University this fall.
McARTHUR reports circulated by a Columbus daily claim Asiatic fly could spread in Vinton county but are greatly exaggerated. Health Commissioner Dr. H. M. Boocks says concern over the Asiatic influenza invasion is unnecessary. A New Plymouth family of four was exposed at a church assembly in Iowa and later in Indiana, became mildly ill, were treated, and recovered in 24 hours with blood tests confirming the diagnosis.
Harley Calvin Seitz of Allensville told Sheriff Harold Steele he hit a small deer with his car on Route 50 near the Ross County line. He brought the carcass to the sheriff, which was turned over to Game Protector Richard Sehuermand of Hamden.
Gene Bay 22 of New Plymouth was ordered to report for induction Aug 19 by the Vinton County Selective Service. Eight local youths will report for physical examinations on Aug 29. The local board will operate three days a week Monday to Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from noon to 4:30 p.m.
Sheriff Harold Steele reports that John Beine, 15, was ordered to serve two years in the Boys Industrial School by Franklin County juvenile court. He was arrested by Cincinnati authorities after allegedly assaulting and beating Mrs. Minnie Perry, 76, of Wales Mills. His step mother is Mrs. Perry’s daughter.
Production resumed Monday at the D. B. Frampton Co lumber mill in McArthur after a month-long strike by employees. A new labor contract was signed last week following extended negotiations.
Britannica reports the Labrador herring, once the largest and fattest in the world, has been seriously diminished. The note highlights concerns over stock decline and potential ecological and fishery impacts.
Progress on McArthur’s new fire station continues as Fire Chief Loyd Gill reports volunteers are working five nights weekly, about three hours per night. Six to ten workers, including non firemen citizens, lay concrete block with aim to finish much of the work by late fall.
BIRTHS: Mr and Mrs Floyd Mount Union Furnace welcome a daughter. Mr and Mrs Ralph Guess Logan Route 4 welcome a daughter. Mr and Mrs Frank Frazier Logan Route 2 welcome a daughter. Mr and Mrs Thomas Hatfield Logan welcome a daughter. Mrs Donald Malone Logan Route 2 welcome twin daughters. Mrs James Hyffer Rockbridge welcome a daughter. William Schultz Logan Route and Mrs Warren Wilson Logan Route 2 listed.
Logan police received Thursday morning reports of auto accessory thefts from Wednesday night. Four disc-type hubcaps were taken from an Oldsmobile at the W and H used car lot at Spring and Second streets, and fender skirts were stolen from a 1957 Mercury parked at 325 Gallagher Avenue belonging to Gerald Sinnott.
Mrs. Bert Daft and nephew Lincoln Dearth traveled from New Orleans to Biloxi and then by train to Columbus. Mrs. Daft, a former Vinton County teacher now teaching in Columbus, was treated for appendectomy, improved, and is listed in satisfactory condition after returning home.
Commonwealth Telephone Co of Ohio announces a 500000 expansion for the McArthur dial exchange adding new prefix Lynwood 6-5253 and extending dial capacity. A new building addition, business office, extra trunk lines to Logan, and rural extension are planned with work to begin after equipment arrives in six weeks and construction starting late fall.
Miss Ethel Bower announces first and second place county 4-H project winners in foods and sewing. Food winners include Donna McLin, John Gillogly, Carolyn Iles, Harold Phillips, Judy Blankenship, Karen Brown, Becky Stiverson, Nancy Enderle, Helen Heigle, Lois Nihiser. Style revue winners list Penny Notestone, Lulu Belle Morris, Mary L Wy skiver, Katherine Jinks, Linda Adair, Karen Karshner, Joyce Kaushner, Sharon Steele, Carol Bethel, Janet Reid, Darlene Shull, Wilma Sears, Marvalea Armstrong, Lenora Sater, Karen Armstrong, Barbara Kuhn. 73 members in style revue, 70 in county clothing, 33 in food contest. Awards sponsored by Elberfelds, J C Penney, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.
Mrs Susan Blanch Phillips Will wife of Samuel Keith Will of Hamden has been named Vinton County public health nurse by the board of health. She succeeds Miss Harriet Davis who resigned to accept a University of Michigan scholarship. The appointment was confirmed August 6 with duties starting August 26. The 25 year old graduate of Holzer School of Nursing Gallipolis 1953 and public health nursing course holder has prior experience at Holzer Meade Corp and as office nurse for Dr H D Chamberlain.
A roundup of Sunday services, Sunday schools, and worship times across multiple churches including Logan First Presbyterian, Church of the Nazarene, Union Furnace EUB, Zion, Haydenville Methodist Circuit, Murray City, and others. Details list pastors, service times, sermon topics, and midweek meetings.
Lake Hope State Park hosted a large weekend crowd with about 20,000 attendees reported by Park Manager Dick McDaniel. The event included 1,550 paid swimmers and 1,200 meals served at the dining lodge, with 750 paid swimmers on Saturday.
The estate of Bernice Clary filed an inventory and appraisal with a hearing scheduled for August 31. Real estate was appraised at 9000 dollars.
A dispute between Marvin Huston and E. T. Mohr over a road between Vinton and Meigs counties was discussed at a special county commissioners meeting. Vinton Township Trustees James Pendleton and Sam Burns, County Engineer J. M. Ogan, and Prosecutor John Beckley attended. No mutual agreement was reached amid conflicting views on the Mohr road.
A 13 year old Sugar Grove Route boy charged with delinquency had a juvenile court hearing. The youth, labeled habitual runaway, had been in five foster homes in 18 months and was placed on probation by Judge Rhea Bangert Brown. He remains a ward of the child welfare department and was returned to his parents.
Fifty Vinton county bus drivers, cooks, and food handlers were examined by Dr. H. M. Boocks and Nurse Harietta Davis in the county health office. Tests covered vision hearing heart chest blood and related factors.
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