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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1967
Page
5
Obituaries report deaths across Belpre Athens Nelsonville Pomeroy and surrounding towns. Caskets and services include Arnott Wade Townsend Bengal Geen ter Geenter and Crew, with church rites at First Methodist Belpre, Hughes Funeral Home and Warren Funeral Home. Burial plans poverty.
A workshop for 130 teachers from the Alexander and Trimble school systems will be held Wednesday at McCracken Hall. Classes begin Thursday for many, but teachers in the Federal Hocking system with Wednesday start cannot attend. The session covers the Ohio Survey Test for next year and runs from 8:30 a.m. registration to 9 a.m. start, with group sessions 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Ohio State Patrol reports bus driver Clifford D. Jones backed a bus into the left side of James K K Polley s car while attempting to park between two vehicles on the Nelsonville York High School grounds at 5 30 p m Monday. There were no injuries and moderate damage to the cars.
County commissioners favor a single building plan for the Athens County Children’s Home to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Auble Mitchell Burgess and Association will prepare preliminary plans. $2,500 to $3,000 is slated for the project. A new home may be built on county land along Route 13 after the current E State Street site is razed for the Route 33 bypass.
Nelsonville York Board of Education formally hires six teachers already on duty and discusses salary schedules, substitute pay, and payroll funding. They consider transport for football players and band members, boosters involvement, and bus/Scout bus options. Budget items include a red lunch fund, nurse hires, X rays, and modest fee changes.
NELSONVILLE The annual Sand Run Homecoming takes place Sunday at Sand Run Lake Picnic Park between Carbon Hill and Greendale. Access via State Routes 278 or 595. If rain interrupts, the event moves to Carbon Hill gym. Phillip Mays, Ward Township trustee, Sand Run, may be con-tected.
A suit to set aside the Pleasant Point Resort furniture sale was filed in U S District Court in Huntington by Rolfe and wife of Gallipolis Ferry. They allege improper advertisement and that the only other bidder was discouraged, noting North Central Development Co withdrew after time limits changed. The SBA bid $40,000 for furnishings at public auction Aug 10, while the resort’s construction loan stood at $1 042 million. The case seeks to void the auction and claim furniture value at $75,000 with hearing not yet scheduled.
Judge Harley Meyer overruled two defense motions and sustained a third in the August indictments against John Sappington and Sterling Lewis linked to irregularities at Hocking Valley Community Hospital. Neither defendant appeared. pleas are set for Wednesday at 10 a.m.
A girl was born to Mr and Mrs Andrew Guy Jr of Millfield. Admitted were Mrs Charlotte Hubble Nel sonville Master Daniel Peyton Albany Route 3 William Guess Nelsonville Mrs Carrie Courtney Nelsonville Miss Beverly Levering Nelsonville Route 2 Miss Mary Frances Stephenson Portsmouth Mrs Pearl Jones Albany Route 4 Gilbert M Graham Logan Route 3. Discharged were Mrs Roberta Wright Robert Riley Mrs Harmon Huntley and daughter Mrs Josephine Kesterson Mrs Deanna Poston Master Christopher Collins Mrs Christina Godfrey Mrs Billie Ann Freer Mrs Eva Mae Thomas Mrs Mary Ann Whitman Robert White.
Athens police investigated a breaking and entering at Michael and Sons Brickrete on E State St. Sometime between 5 30 p m and 8 30 p m yesterday the door was pried open and keys were taken. A nearby building was unlocked and entered with keys removed from a wall.
Michael Disko, son of Mr and Mrs Michael Disko of 16 Briarwood Drive, returns home from an eight day YMCA Trailblazers canoe journey of 160 miles with ten youths. The group traveled from Uhrichville to Marietta, passing eight locks on the Muskingum River, and stayed at Camp Tippecanoe sponsored by the Canton District YMCA.
Mrs Clyde C Campbell of Nelsonville Miss Mabel Lowes and Mrs Pauline Miller of Columbus have returned home after visiting their sister Mrs Catherine Boring and family of Richmond California They also visited Lake Tahoe Carson City Virginia City and Reno Nev and Ashbury Park in San Francisco Parade of the Hills guests of Miss Treva Shaw Fayette St were Miss Helen Shaw Fort Wayne Ind teacher in the Paulding County school system Antwerp and Miss Grace Ritson Girl Scout Executive Director Gary Ind
Col. Robert M. Chiaramonte announces Lt. Roger C. Wilson is promoted to captain and will stay at Jackson District Headquarters where he has served since March 1965. A Murray City native, he is a Murray City High School graduate and U.S. Navy veteran of three years. He joined the patrol in November 1946 and is married to Mary Sorrell with two children, Michael and Gregory.
Nelsonville school officials announce minor changes to bus schedules after first day operations. Several buses arrived early while an about equal number were late on Monday morning. The adjustments aim to correct the slight timing difficulties.
In Columbus, Ohio, the Ohio Dept of Agriculture issued a grain prices update. No 2 red wheat fell 2-3 cents to around 1.24-1.29 per bushel, mostly 1.25-1.28. No 2 yellow corn was steady to down 1 cent, about 1.05-1.10, mostly 1.07-1.10. No 2 oats held largely, 67-75 cents, mostly 70-72. No 1 soybeans slid 2-5 cents to 2.70-2.80, mostly 2.75-2.76.
Charles V Carlson coordinator of the Ohio University Resource Center for Speech Education in Secondary Schools and three other specialists are preparing a curriculum development study that could change secondary speech training nationwide. The four, named by the Speech Association of America, are drafting a modern communications theory based course addressing intra and inter personal communication for secondary education. The first drafts were written at a conference in August 2024 at Western Michigan University Kalamazoo. The Speech Teacher journal will publish the study this fall, possibly in October.
In Cincinnati the livestock section notes cattle, calves, hogs, sheep and slaughter prices with various weight ranges and yield grades. Separately in Nelsonville, Democratic Club members plan a 7:30 p.m. meeting at Odd Fellows Hall for York Township residents, and Twig 3 at Mount St Mary Hospital guild announces Miss Stella Krotche as quilt winner from the Parade of the Hills festival.
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