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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1957
Page
6
The Logan Board of Education approved a record budget of 1,147,061.15 for 1958 featuring a $550,522.35 construction and remodeling item. The general fund totals 442,857.02 with a year-end balance near 24,000. The plan includes 37,461.80 for lunch operations and 113,219.98 for retirement of bonds to finance expansion.
Mel Adams outlined a four-part asset framework for Logan High School football and described a program emphasizing split-T offense, fundamentals, and ball control. He announced a flag league for younger players, a freshman team, and traditional reserve and varsity squads, with supporting staff and visiting Rotarians present.
Logan fire department fought three alarms on Monday including a dry run and two grass fires. Smoke drifted from a nearby building into a second floor apartment at 91 Market Street while residents were away. A hillside grass blaze rekindled at 5 10 p.m. burning about an acre. Fire crews aided by volunteers and Hocking Honor Camp.
Arrangements are set for the funeral of Miss Mary Etta Geslin 83 who died unexpectedly Monday at her brother B F Geslin’s home. A native of Enterprise she lived in Logan most of her life aside from 20 years in Pittsburgh. She leaves a brother and a sister Mrs Emma Meyer of Dunedin Fla. Services are 2 p m Wednesday at Heinlein funeral home with Rev Thomas C Smallsteed officiating. Burial is in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Melba Clark by her father Virgil Linn is awarded an uncontested divorce from Ralph Clark on grounds of gross neglect of duty Custody of a minor child is awarded to the plaintiff with the defendant ordered to pay 25 per week for support An entry in the Thomas Thomas divorce records shows the defendant to pay 20 per week for support of minor children and 100 expense money
Graveside services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday for James Eugene Herdman infant son of Lester and Mary Iser Herdman of Sugar Grove Route 1. He died at birth Saturday in Hocking Valley Hospital. Survived by parents a brother Clinton a sister Wanda and grandparents Clinton Herdman of Shinnston and Walter Iser of Morgantown. Burial in Baptist Corner Cemetery Fairfield County.
In Logan mayor's court Sunday Leroy Mitchell 36 Logan was fined 20 dollars and costs for intoxication Lavina Folts 68 Kenmore N Y forfeited a 15 dollar bond for failure to yield the right of way and Clarence William Warren 34 Stoneville was fined 20 dollars and costs for unsafe operation.
Miss Frances Ann Schultheis and Gerald Jay Massey wed at St John’s Catholic Church with Fr. Charles P. Foy officiating. The bride wears a white silk gown with pearl accents and carries a crystal rosary from Belgium. Guests include families from Logan and Ottawa, with a reception for about 300 at the bride’s home. The couple plans a two week Cape Cod honeymoon and will reside in South Bend Indiana after the trip.
Hocking Valley Hospital notes list admissions births and surgeries. Mr and Mrs Robert Levering New Lexington Route 1 welcome a son Ed Ringhiser Logan Route 2 undergoes medical. Beverly Kay Lehman South Bloomingville has surgery. Effie Weekley Logan Nellie Shuttleworth New Straitsville Charles Huffines Haydenville and son. Ralph Guess Logan Route 4 and daughter. Floyd Mount Union Furnace and daughter Pearl McClelland Laurelville Route 1.
Shawner and Jones families along with Mrs Lyons and Mrs Call joined Mr and Mrs Jack Foster for Sunday dinner in New Straitsville marking Mrs Jones's birthday. Families from Columbus Washington Cleveland Pataskia and nearby visited relatives and vacationers over the weekend.
Mrs Lillian Howard of Union Furnace announces the engagement and upcoming marriage of her daughter Nancy Jane to A 10 Leonard Eugene Ostness son of Mr and Mrs Leonard Ostness of Chicago Ill The bride to be is a 1956 Union Furnace High School graduate and assists her mother who is postmaster at Union Furnace Ostness is a Lane Technical High School graduate currently stationed at Bunker Hill Air Base Peru Ind The wedding is planned for early September.
Point Pleasant selects Carol Grimm as drum majorette and Maurice Mayes as drum major at Monday night tryouts held on the high school field. Also named were majorettes Maury Mayes Sandra Cappel lari Rita Sue Green Judy Dudding Marlene Thompson Katie McDaniel. Junior high selections include Charles Whiteford and majorettes Carolyn Burris Judy Noble Martha Sturgeon Francie Heiskell.
Murray City social column lists multiple regional visits and homecomings. Families from Willoughby Athens Nelsonville Columbus and Buchtel travel to see relatives in Davis, Dixon and Snedden households and attend a Lake Hope picnic.
Hollister and Tenpie McGee and families from Fostoria and Newark plus visitors from Columbus, Marion, Zanesville and Michigan gather for weekend and holiday visits. Granddaughter Cheryl Ann accompanies. Multiple households in Carroll Lithopolis Shawnee Harpster Glouster and Glouster area host and visit.
Logan L Green 25 toolmaker Rockbridge Route 2 and Stella Mae McManus 21 factory worker Rockbridge Route 1 appear in a local notices listing with ages occupations and addresses.
At a special meeting in POINT PLEASANT the council named Barbee Rothgeb city clerk and treasurer after Charles Musgrave resigned to take state work. Mayor Krodel becomes water works office manager while Ronald White serves as clerk. residents urge zoning updates and a board of adjustments to handle building complaints.
Arnold Lester Watson and Viola Joy Swisher obtain marriage license. both are 26 and 21 respectively, with Henderson and Point Pleasant family roots listed. Lewis Wesley Harper and Linda Mae Harmon, both 21 and 17, hail from Gallipolis Ferry and Henderson with parent names noted. Okey Raymond Killingsworth and Judy Mae Webb, ages 20 and 17, list Hartford and New Haven origins. Marvin J. McFarland and Jane Marielle Powell, both 17, are documented with their parents.
The Ladies Bible Class of the Methodist Church met on August 12 with Margaret Kreitz and Margaret Opperman as hostesses.
The world's largest water reservoir is Lake Mead near Las Vegas Nevada. Its creation came via Moorer Dam, as described by the Encyclopedia Britannica.
POINT PLEASANT Mark F. Ethridge Jr son of the Louisville publisher has purchased a majority in Star Publishing Co Ravenswood from Charles Hodel publisher of Beckley papers Hodel retains some interest The company publishes the Ravenswood News and Mason County News in New Haven Phil Frouney editor and manager since 1955 likely to remain in place Ethridge formerly edited the Raleigh Times.
The Church of Christ hosted the Wednesday evening wedding of Miss Alice Mae Plants of Bellemeade and B I Lasseter of Gadsden Alabama. Readings by A M Gillispie and attendants Mary Sue Plants B I Lasseter Jimmy Adams William Lasseter. The couple plans a Southern wedding trip and will reside in Gadsden Alabama.
Sandra Bond Foley and Alexander Keith McClung were united in marriage at Christ Church Episcopal in Point Pleasant. The ceremony included Brereton Jones as crucifer, Alex Cruickshanks on organ, and a reception in the parish house. The couple, with ties to Washington and Hartford, will reside in Cambridge Mass after Sept. 1 with the bride in a lace gown and orchid accessories.
The WSCS of the Vaught Memorial Methodist Church will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mrs C E McCullough Winfield Road Mrs James D Long will preside
Mrs. Rose K Mills of Jefferson Boulevard returns home after a month with sister Mrs A G Meade in Beckley. Hugh Gaskins of Gallipolis Ferry has a stroke at home Friday in critical condition. Carl Lynch and family of Camp Conley return from Greenbrier State Park vacation. Charles McCulloch of Weirton spent weekend with parents. Major and Mrs Richard Taterson and children return from 11 day Lake Erie vacation. Two of seven West Virginia men chosen for the national firing match at Camp Perry joined the pistol team and are National Guard members.
Cleveland report says steel supply will be adequate with few exceptions and prices likely to stay stable rest of the year. Steel magazine notes mill operation was spotty but good enough last week to lift national average output to 80.5 percent of capacity, up 1.5 points from the prior week.
Three men faced fines on Monday in POINT PLEASANT. James Knapp paid $50 plus costs, had a six month license suspension and 24 hours in jail by Justice A M Goodwin after state police arrest. Russell Jenkins forfeited a $16.68 bond for intoxication. Clyde Hayman and Berlin Brougham each paid $10 plus costs and were jailed for non payment after pleading guilty to intoxication.
Discharged were Mrs. James Kerwood and infant son of Point Pleasant. Mrs. Howard Myers and infant daughter of Gallipolis Ferry. Sharon Sue Krebs of Point Pleasant. Allen Krebs at Point Pleasant. Everett Abbott of Fifth Street, Point Pleasant.
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