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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1953
Page
7
The 102nd Athens County Fair opens Sunday with Quarter Horse Races and a Chauncey Dover High School band concert led by Maureen Kelley who receives the Manesseh Cutler Sesquicentennial Scholarship. Daily attractions include horse shows, harness racing, wrestling shows, WLW Midwestern Hayride, auto thrill shows, and a Guernsey show.
Athens and area students total 110 enroll in the three week program directed by Dr. Harry E. Benz. The session began Aug. 10 and will end Aug. 29 with 64 men and 46 women including 22 graduate students. Freshman week starts Sept. 21 and fall term opens Sept. 28.
Gas in Albany will be turned off from 8 a.m. to 4 40 p.m. on Saturday for repairs, instead of Sunday as previously announced. Utility officials say the shutdown enables repair of the lines.
Two cars collided head on on Route 33 a half mile north of Route 50 A as both drivers slowed before impact. French Handley 34 of Columbus faced a passing without clear distance charge and was fined $10. John Gretz 30 of Chauncey escaped injury as both vehicles met on a hillcrest. A separate crash on Route 682 demolished a car driven by Came B Fiffe 31 of Martha Ky with no injuries.
Admissions include Mrs Louise Beckle Athens Robert Jackson New Marshfield Mrs Marie Quick Athens Mrs Mae Wooten Athens Also admitted Mrs Don Cotterill Rutland and son Mrs Robert Steinberger Athens and daughter Mrs Worley Stout Pomeroy Mrs Barbara Stauffer Athens Mrs Marie Handley Athens James Rice Athens. Discharges include none listed.
The Cincinnati Ord nance District Civil Service Examiners announce tests for industrial specialist contract negotiator and contract specialist posts. Salaries range from 4205 to 5060 dollars annually. Applications and details may be obtained at the post office from local secretary F. D. Higgins.
Former Common Pleas Judge Alfred Nippert gives 100000 dollars to Christ Hospital Institute of Medical Research in memory of Senator Robert A. Taft. The gift supports cancer research and honors Taft’s legacy.
The Rev. Richard Haines pastor of Jerseyville Methodist Church is a patient at Memorial Hospital Columbus receiving medical treatment.
Albany VFW Post 9893 will meet at the new post home Sunday at 1:30 p.m. The gathering marks a move to the new facility and invites members to attend.
Athens County native Asher H. Dixon, 87, who taught in New Marshfield Albany Beverly and other districts, has become a writer with national publications. His August National Republic piece Your Pocketbook and Foreign Aid was reprinted in the Congressional Record. He holds four college degrees and remained active despite poor eyesight.
The second grass fire in the same vicinity within a week was fought Thursday afternoon by city firemen. They were called to W. State St where grass and weeds burned along the Baltimore and Ohio tracks. Fire Chief Charles Dalton said a railroad flare likely started the blaze. The fire was across the tracks from Tuesday's scene. Firemen were called at 4 15 p m.
USDA market report from Cincinnati shows hogs steady to higher with bids rising to 26.33 for 170 to 195 lb choice hogs and sows softer at 21.00 for 400 lb. Cattle and calves see limited activity with yearlings sold 23.00-23.50 and calves trading 16.50 for commercial and good quality. Sheep and lambs offer scattered sales with spring lambs steady to weak and feeder lambs around 15.00.
The morning market notes poultry and butter prices with current receipts and case exchanges. Eggs show varied consumer and wholesale grades across white brown and mixed categories. fryers and hens priced by weight. butter wholesale at 70, potatoes range from 1.50 to 4.00 per unit.
The morning temperature fell into the 40s for the fourth straight day with a low of 45 at the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co Hamley Run plant. The previous day’s low was 46, while Thursday’s high reached 80 and by 9 am Friday the reading was 65.
An old timers quartet with an average age of 82 performs at the Athens County Fair on Sunday at 7 30 p m. Organized by A R Linscott Athens bass and Evelyn Rathburn Athens accompanist, the group also includes Alvira Shafer Baker Settlement Ida Allison Athens and Charles Beverage Athens. They sing around the Manasseh Cutler Sesquicentennial Scholarship presentation at the bandstand as a fair sesquicentennial feature.
Former Athens County resident Lewis Acord died Friday morning at his daughter’s home in Buckeye Lake. Arrangements are being completed by Jagers Funeral Home, with calls after 4 p.m. Saturday.
Clark West sues Marie West in Common Pleas Court over divorce claiming willful absence. They married in Zanesville on June 30, 1926 and have five children, four under 21. He seeks custody of two children for himself and two for his wife.
The Athens County Fair program lists weekend events from Sunday with noon opening, then Quarter Horse racing at 2 pm, Band concert at 7 pm, Manasseh Cutler Resquicentennial scholarship at 7:30 pm, and an 8:15 pm All Western Horse Show. Monday features horse pulling contests, Tuesday Children’s Day with free admission, harness races, wrestling show, and a fireworks show. Wednesday and Thursday include harness races, hayrides, and a Jimmie Lynch Death Dodgers appearance.
In 1953 Wayne district output rose 98 percent to 1192 million board feet valued at 8495 thousand dollars as Athens County part of the district. National forest timber across the north central U S fell overall but pulpwood market weakness and large mill inventories limited gains. Revenues go to the federal treasury with 25 percent shared with counties for schools and roads.
Twenty teachers hired to begin the 1953-54 term across Athens County schools. Supt. George Christman said three vacancies remain in the Carthage Troy district for vocational agriculture music and a combined science mathematics post. Executives plan opening clases with calendars to be finalized soon. Names of the new staff include Irene Dahmer Joe Dilley Clara Belle Burns Patricia Fox Ursula Henry William Robinson Vance Vennari Patricia Mader Marlene Fraser Elizabeth Carr Neal Glenn L F Miller Dorothy Thoescher Merlyn Ross Elmer Horsky Gladys Pickering Lester Wolfe Edith Bass.
King Powder Co. files a petition in Common Pleas Court seeking payment of 107.66 claimed due since April 23 from Lloyd and Holley Smith Jr. of Athens Mining Co. The case names the parties and requests the owed amount.
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