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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1972
Page
11
Meigs Local School District reveals full day kindergarten with assigned MonWed and TueThu classes. Pupils from Rutland Middleport and Pomeroy may ride regular buses. noon meals cost 25 cents.
Mason League Softball tournament hosts 16 teams at Mason Little League diamond. First game Saturday at 11 a.m. Jim's Camper Sales versus Hart's Used Cars. Other Saturday games include Matthew and Edelbulte versus West Columbia 69ers at 12:15 p.m. and Keefer's Service Center versus Penn's Texaco at 1:30 p.m. Sunday action starts 12:15 p.m. People's Bank versus Gallipolis State Institute with winners advancing to later rounds. 18 trophies awarded. second and third place receive trophies.
Karla Fraley 22 Bidwell in good condition at Holzer Medical Center after a two car crash on Route 35 and Route 160 in Gallia County. Dennis McKinney 29 Rutland driving a truck. no citations issued. investigation ongoing. Second one car crash on McCulley and Millcreek Roads left Freman P Locke 42 Gallipolis with facial injuries. Ronnie Walters 3 a.m. Middleport taken to Veterans Memorial Hospital for leg injury. Divorces granted in Meigs County Common Pleas Court include Iona Brickles Donald Brickles Dana Channell Judy Channell Dorothy Fischer John Fischer. Racine tournament awards and Labor Day events planned by Mason Fire Department with chicken barbecue and refreshments.
Six youths from the Meigs and Mason area enlist in the Navy and begin seven weeks of boot camp training. The group includes Frederick Robert Thompson 18 of Pomeroy Terry Wayne Wyatt 17 of Letart W V and Raymond Eugene Robinson 18 of Racine under the occupational speciality school guarantee program Dorsey Otis Ohlinger 17 of Middleport under the seafarer airman program and James Leroy Mash Jr Middleport Route 1 and Skippy Ray Moore Langsville Route 1 under the Buddy Program.
Meigs Local School District released kindergarten transportation and bus routes for opening day Aug 28. Key changes include Mrs Darst’s Bradbury route with pickups at 7 20 7 30 7 35 7 45 and 7 55, junior high transfer to bus 35, and adjusted afternoon dismissal to 2 55 to ease congestion.
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