County Hospital Reaches New Daily Rate for Indigent Care
Gallia County commissioners approve a revised contract with Holzer Hospital setting indigent patient care at 21.87 dollars per day plus 2.50 for professional services, effective July 1, 1957 through June 30, 1958, ending a four week deadlock and followed earlier talks over a 19.83 day rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia
Holzer Hospital
Morton L. Dickey
Hospital
Wayne B. Foster
James Thomson
Oly M. Stewart
Foster
Thomson
Chauncey L. Johnson
Stewart
Roscoe Houck
University Hospital
Columbus
Arnold Franklin Cooper
Porter
Cooper
New York
Ed Evans
Perry Township
Landon Burnette
Gallia County
Oty M. Stewart
Dickey
Special Session Adopts Gallipolis Budget and Bids
Gallipolis City Commission held a special session to approve the 1958 budget totaling 144 004.80 with a projected year end balance of 9.85. The meeting also advertised sealed bids for active city deposits up to 80 000 and bids for a new pumper or tanker truck for the fire department with bids due by Sept 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Otis Drummond
Drummond
Blankenship Granted 10 Day Plea Window In Jail Break Case
Gallia county judge arraigned 42 year old Vinton resident Blankenship on three counts stemming from an August jailbreak attempt. A ten day period was set for a plea of not guilty while attorneys review the case. Bond was set at 5000 dollars on the attempted murder charge and 500 on non support. no bond on the first degree murder count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Bell Blanken
Vinton
Common Pleas Court
Robert M. Betz
Betz
Blankenship
Gallia County Free Anti Polio Shots Total Reaches 7055
The Gallia County health nurse reports 7055 free Salk anti polio shots have been given since January 1 1957. In Saturday’s clinic 69 shots and 24 triple vaccine shots were dispensed along with patch tests and registrations handled by a team of nurses and volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Pearl Hatfield
Hatfield
Helen Spriegel
Opal Magnussen
Harriet Thomas
Patty Holbrook
Dr E Robert Chable to Join Rio Grande College Faculty
Dr E Robert Chable of Hillsdale College Michigan will join Rio Grande College this fall as director of student personnel and professor of philosophy. He holds degrees from Fenn College Colgate Rochester Divinity School University of Rochester and Columbia University and studied at Union Theological Seminary and Princeton. He served as minister in Rochester Palmyra Wyckoff and New York and had a sermon published in the Congressional Record and broadcast coast to coast on NBC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Robert Chable
Hillsdale College
Hillsdale
Mich
Rio Grande College
Chable
Cleveland
John Adams High School
Fenn College
Colgate - Rochester Divinity School
University of Rochester
Columbia University
Union Theological Seminary
Princeton University
Uate
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Colgate Rochester Divinity School
Brighton Presbyterian Church
Rochester
First Baptist Church
Palmyra
New York
Wyckoff Reformed Church
Wyckoff
New Jersey
Park Avenue
Congressional Record
Arlington National Cemetery
National Broadcasting Company
Gallia County 4-H Advisers to Convene for Congress Delegates
Gallia County 4-H Advisory Council members meet at 10 a.m. Friday August 30 at the county extension office to select delegates for the Ohio 4-H Congress September 14 to 18 and to choose county winners in the 1957 national award program. Older 4-H members are reminded that simplified Ohio 4-H report forms are due August 28 at the extension office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
4-H Advisory Council
Jan Peters
Gallia county personals note weekend visits and travels
Mrs Clyde Mitchell hosts in Hedgewood Drive while visits extend from Hinton West Virginia to Marietta and Nitro. Claudia Miller joins from Hedgewood Drive for a week's stay. Other locals host or travel for business and leisure including Kris Kringle Village shopping and health office duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Holyrod
Sandra
Hinton
W. Va
Clyde Mitchell
Hedgewood Drive
William Johnson
Hill Top Addition
Marietta
Harry Gibson
Nitro
Claude Miller
Claudia Miller
Gladys Wigner Hughes
Huntington
Clay Chapel
Frankie Lyons
Pbutler
Naomi Rose
Gallia County
Dan O. Taber
Columbus
Kris Kringle Village
Taber
Carrie Williams
Crown City
Lonnie Thompson
Fourth Ave
Bessie Gardner O
Accidents 500 Yards Apart Monday in Gallipolis
Two traffic crashes in Gallipolis Monday about 500 yards apart were investigated. Floyd D. Rife 49 and James D. Rutt 28 were involved in the first rear end on Fastern Ave. A car carrier hit Joyce Ann Wheeler 17 causing a demolished right front and a broken front tooth. Jerry Yates 20 was fined sentenced to jail and license suspended for driving while intoxicated. Elsie Scott 41 was fined for intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Fastern Ave
Floyd D. Rife
Evans Drive Inn
James D. Rutt
Joyce Ann Wheeler
Bidwell
Jerry Yates
Yates
Elsie Scott
Bob Evans Farms Buys Grand Champion at Ohio State Fair
Bob Evans Farms of Gallipolis bought the Grand Champion 200-pound Yorkshire barrow sold by J Elva Litt & Sons of Belleville at a record state fair price of 2 dollars per pound. The barrow will stay on display in fair grounds swine barns during the fair. The firm also purchased the 4-H champion pen of three Hampshires and the FFA champion Spotted Poland China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Evans Farms
Gallipolis
J. Elva Litt & Sons
Belleville
Hampshires
FFA
Poland
China
Assault Charge Filed to Wife Brings Arrest
Sheriff Oscar Baird reported the Monday arrest of Grover Monroe Sheets 49 Crown City on an assault charge filed by his wife. He was released to appear Tuesday. Also arrested was Darrell Carl Racer 38 of Vinton Route 2 on a probation violation. released by Probate Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Oscar Baird
Grover Monroe Sheets
Crown City
Darrell Carl Racer
Vinton
Five Bonds Forfeited In Gallipolis Court
In Gallipolis on Saturday, municipal court cases included John H. Smith of Muskegon Michigan forfeiting a $25 bond for speeding. Lee Lewis of Gallipolis forfeited a $15 bond for intoxication. Robert Dray of Gallipolis fined $5 and costs for intoxication. O W Owens J T Yoakum and David W Barrows of Ravenswood forfeited $25 bonds for intoxication and disorderly conduct. Lewis Campbell of Gallipolis, 17, had license suspended 30 days for speeding. Case heard in Juvenile Judge John W Howell's court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
John H. Smith
Muskegon
Mich
Lee Lewis
Robert Dray
O. W. Owens
J. T. Yoakum
David W. Barrows
Ravenswood
Lewis Campbell
John W. Howell
River Traffic and Dams Update Across Ohio and Kanawha Regions
The bulletin reports gauge readings for Gallipolis Montgery Kanawha Falls and other river sites with several dams on the sill and moveable dams raised on the Ohio. Boat movements at Locks 13 through 34 show mixed up and down statuses including several down at 12:35 p.m. and up at 1:20 p.m. In Kanawha River ships London R H Bosworth and others noted with several vessels up or down at specified times. Also a note explains albinism eye coloration differing from normal pink iris masking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Montgomery
Kanawha Falls
Hinton
Liberty
Ovec
Betty Moran
Mr. Criss
Paul Blazer
Robert G. West
Omaha
Reliance
Louisiana
Queen City
O-Kan
Atlas
Nina F
Keeley
Cincinnati
Price
Sam Houston
Kanawha River
London
R. H Bosworth
Winfield, Solvay
Helen Z
Alan R. Merrill
Cypress
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Federal Land Bank
The
United
National Farm Loan
Association
A. C. Gibson, Sec'v.Treas
Ohio Valley Bank
Gallipolis, Ohio
E. Robert Chable
Rio
DR. Chable
H Council
Christy Ann
Complete Auto Transit of
Albert W. Masterson
Bob Fitzsimmons
Primo Carnera
C. Thompson
Edith Mansfield
Clarence Dicken
Chauncey
Hocking Valley Sportsman’s Association
Ome
Athens
Radford
Hocking Valley Sportsman Association
Hocking Valley Sportsman's Association
Ohio
Radford Road
Athens Cash Feed Store
N. Court Street
O.E.S
Thomas Pitts
Athens Route 2
Harold Goddard
Marietta Chemical Products Co
W. E. Dicken
W. Union St
Florence Dicken
Amesville
Clet Hart
Millfield
Dodge
Plymouth Belvedere
Buick
Specia Platt
Hudson Sales
Kinneer Motors
Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge
FORD
Customline
Clifford Auto Sales
Columbus Road
Plymouth
Algeo Motor Sales
E. State St
E. Carpenter
Bill Lee
Vore Ridge
Sears
W&h Chevrolet
Logan
Metropolitan
Middleport
Farmall H
Willys
Gail Watkins Equipment CO
E. State Street
Dannie's
Elmer Poston
Avon
Bill Irwin
Hollister
Landis Gulf Service
N. Call
Auto Service
N. Court
Parker Tire Shop
Cushman
Whizzer Motor
Schwinn
C. R. White
Union Dial
W. O. Rose
Miller’s Sanitation
Guysville
Coolville R. D. No. 2
Car
Brookhart
R. M. Cowdery
Long Bottom
Coolville
Maytag
W. State Dial
Elmer W. Sutton
Walter Fowler
Athens Building Material CO
Acme Cleaners
Mahaffey Motor Service
Centred Ave
West Roofing Co
Depot St
William J. Sycks
Temale
P. O
Meigs County
Fuller Brush Company
Point Pleasant
Nickles Bakery
Main Street
Pomeroy
National Motel Training, Inc
the Messenger
Automobile Insurance Baughman’s Agency
Albany
D. M. Goddard
RAPP
Sherwin-Williams
Sol Rosenberg
Utah Place
Messenger
Pt. Pleasant
Hem
Athens Messenger
Harry Davis
Pettibone Kennels
Stockport
Vivian's Aviaries & Aquarium
Norwood
R. S. Myers
Shade
Garden Road
Suffolk
AMS
R. R. Gilson
Rock Riffle Farms
Harry Bowles
John Hardy
Harrisonville Road
Nay Care Center
Pony Farm
Denver Queen
Carpenter
John Schoonover
Mike Dinsmoor
New Marshfield
John E. Wandling
Clinton St
the Plains
J. B. Hohmann
Trimble Route 1
Roy Noland
W. H. Battrell
Nelsonville
Roger Sean Athens Chevrolet
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