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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1949
Page
2
The 98th Athens County Fair continues with harness racing a Western horse show and rodeo on Tuesday. Attendance dipped modestly after opening day. gate receipts lagged about 15 percent from 1948 as weather affected turnout.
The Athens County horse pulling contest drew about 5000 spectators and featured record-breaking pulls across four classes. Teams from across Ohio competed for more than 445 dollars in prize money, with Storts and Vincents of Frankfort winning the heavyweight class and multiple teams posting new distance and weight records.
Red Cross attendants performed dental work at the county fair with the lone case being a loose tooth pulled. About 300 girls enter a 4 H style show at 11 o'clock Wednesday. Four of nine county Granges compete for judging this afternoon alongside nine garden clubs booths. Ohio State dairy and beef experts judge cattle with over 85 awards. Race horse owner Fred Rowe notes the first split race due to many entries. Earl Kibble the peanut vendor again entertains visitors with his ritual. An afternoon horse pulling contest gains praise as the best seen by one team owner.
Two day-old son Larry Eugene Channell, of The Plains, died Monday morning at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Surviving are his parents Mr and Mrs Robert Dale Channell and grandparents Mr and Mrs Ervin Channell and Edward Slater of The Plains. Grave side services were held Monday afternoon in Union Street Cemetery.
Almarion Leroy Davis, 47, claiming to be a concessionaire at the Athens County Fair, was fined $10 and costs by Mayor W. P. Mickle after pleading guilty to intoxication. He was apprehended on the fairgrounds following a police complaint.
Two trucks sustained minor damage when they sideswiped Monday on Route 33 south of Athens. Drivers Paul F. Edgar 38 of 46 S Shafer St and Forest J. Cremeens 25 of Bladen were identified by the State Highway Patrol.
Sgt Harold Dutton of Ohio University ROTC recounted his Arctic experiences from early childhood in Belpre to wartime service near Hudson Bay. He described igloos, whale use for dog food, caribou and seal skin clothing, extreme cold, and the high caloric Army diet with excellent health records among 4000 Arctic soldiers.
Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Carl Gillilan Coolville Route 3 a son to Mr and Mrs Leonard Laflan Gloucester a daughter to Mr and Mrs Thomas Shields Millfield Route 1 Admitted Hattie Webb Athens Route 1 surgery Grace Weiss Athens Route Dismissed J B Roberts Athens Edwin Zink Athens Jerry Loonis Gloucester Harley Wemmer Gloucester Mrs Margaret Perry Carpenter Route 1 Frank Rivers Chauncey Meeting of Conrath Bean chapter Disabled American Veterans cancelled due to Athens County fair per C J Ailstock commander
Administrative headquarters of the Wayne purchase unit will move from Columbus to Bedford Indiana. Ohio and Indiana units merge for economy with Rudolph H. Grabow to supervise the Wayne Hoosier unit. Euclid Drive Athens office remains under James R. Seward with Arnold K. Steelman as assistant ranger. Fire guard Richard S. Moore serves Nelsonville district. About 325000 acres fall under supervision and timberlands show a good growing season. Pine trees are planted on eroded lands and strip mine banks with future thinning and some sold as Christmas trees. Forest fire season begins in late September with patrols by the Forest Service and state.
Slightly warmer, more humid weather moved into the Athens area pushing the high to 81 in the afternoon. Low last night 63 reported by Mrs. C. N. France, with partly cloudy skies this morning and 2.70 feet on the Hocking River. A small amount of rain fell overnight. In Edith McDaniel Krivesti death notice a brother Howard McDaniel was omitted.
Health officials and Ohio University officials moved to Athens to organize a pioneering county nutrition and health survey. A 1000-family sample will undergo physicals, blood tests and dental exams while soil, plant and animal data for diet links are studied. Dr Frank Lowenstein and public health staff will direct medical components with local volunteers invited to demonstrations at the county fair.
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