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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1966
Page
6
POINT PLEASANT The Point Pleasant housing authority moves to set admission policies for the Point project as part of the development program. Details on eligibility and limits are anticipated as officials outline the plan.
Two Lakin area men were injured in a crash near Logan West Virginia on Sunday. Jimmy Byrne operator of a state owned furniture truck swerved to avoid a bicycle rider before leaving the highway. A passenger Buddy Tomgstell suffered minor injuries. Damage was estimated at five thousand dollars.
George McCoy of Buffalo and Mrs Donald Humphrey of Point Pleasant and Mrs Nannie Bunion of Robertsburg are noted as discharged. Julia Lee McComb of Point Pleasant is also listed as discharged from Pleasant Valley Hospital.
Readable fragments show a dense schedule of daytime and early evening programs including The Captain Kangaroo Show, Ben Casey, Mike Douglas, The Rifleman, News segments, and various soap operas and cartoons. The list includes program titles with overlapping times and channel cues.
Channels 3 4 6 8 10 13 15 18 list programs with time shifts ahead by one hour due to Saving Time. Huntington Charleston Parkersburg viewers see earlier airings. Ohio stations on Eastern Standard Time. The Messenger disclaims schedule errors. color programs noted with C.
A list of late shows includes It Started With a Kiss with Debbie Reynolds and Joseph Cotten, Blood on the Moon with Robert Mitchum, April in Paris with Doris Day, Fury at Smugglers Bay, If Be Seeing You with Ginger Rogers, and Our Hearts Were Yes and Gay among others. The schedule notes multiple 11:30pm and 11:20pm starts and features stars such as William Holden, Gin ger Rogers, Humphrey Bogart, and Lex Barker across drama, adventure, and romance offerings.
NEW HAVEN the 15th annual flower show by the New Haven Garden Club and Nehacima Garden Club showcased the theme The Beauty of the Good Earth. Co chairs Mrs Lee Gibbs and Mrs William Crow led awards across artistic division and horticulture with multiple winners including Mrs L C Roush Mrs Pa trick Riley Mrs F A Batey Mrs John Powell and Mrs Ann Legg and special honors for Clements Tree Nursery and Gibbs hand painted pictures.
Mason County Action Group president Rev Charles A Pitzer announced a 7 50 p m Wednesday directors meeting at the association office 219 Sixth St Millard Mott of the Mid Atlantic Regional Office will attend and discuss with each board member The agenda includes selecting a permanent monthly meeting date a status report by Robert Rickard and a Mason Jackson Labor Council update on labor activities in the poverty program plus a report on a multi county group involving Mason Putnam and Lincoln counties.
A long roster shows admissions at Holzer Hospital including Mrs. Lawrence A Morton Albany Route 4 F Keith Don ley Stockdale Mrs Richard Higgins Point Pleasant George Floyd Wheeler Mount Alto Joe Delwander Bidwell Virgil Swartzwelder South Point Turley George Vinton Mrs Theodore Whittington Cheshire Clarence Chapman Cheshire John R Priddy Leon Mrs Donald Wood New Haven Elijah Delong Middleport Mrs Everett R Howett Pomeroy Mrs Harold Winnings New Haven Clifford Montgomery Crown City Mrs Kenneth Clark Mason Mrs John Howard Ashland Mrs Stanton Fellore Gallipolis Chris Williams Jackson Glen M Sayre Sr Point Pleasant Andrea L Stricklen Jackson Mrs Vernon M Henry Gallipolis Mrs Nellie M West Coal Grove Mrs Bob McGuffin Point Pleasant Charles Lee Hively Gallipolis Tammie Jean White Gallipolis Mrs Hazel Davis Coolville John Dillon Mrs Osa Halley Maryland Isaac infant male Kauffer Mrs Tony Kauffer Eli Lambert Sr Kimberley Jo Neville Luther Pit tenger Mrs Louise Shull Mrs William Smith and son Mrs Joe E Thompson Mrs Boyd Wellington and daughter
Dix-Saw addition and Prosecutor S. D. Littlepage will attend a three day state prosecutors conference starting Thursday at the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs.
Recent visitors to residents include Glen Milhoan and Wilfred Milhoan of Parkersburg. Boring and family from Columbus. Young and Balderson of Belleville West Virginia. Curtis Raines Neff party from Akron. Edleblue and family from Gallipolis. Deeds and Tim from Cole Grove. Montgomery Reynolds and family from Springfield. Edna Stewart and Edna Deeds hosted numerous guests visiting from Akron Belpre Belleville and Springfield.
Miss Arlene Spurlock, Baptist missionary from Nigeria, spoke at Heights EUB Church morning worship. The summer Christmas tree program, led by Mrs. Mary Wilcoxen, featured primary and junior departments with songs by children directed by Mrs. Carolyn Morrison and Miss Beverly Wood. Church activities this week include Bible study at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and a church work night Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Robert Tillis of Mount Vernon Ave suffered a third degree burn from a grease fire, treated at Holzer Hospital. Point Pleasant fire dept. responded to a 6 p.m. blaze.
Miss Judy Garrett daughter of Mr and Mrs William Garrett of Point Pleasant has graduated from St Marys Hospital Nursing School in Hartington and accepted a position at the hospital She is a 1962 graduate of Point Pleasant High School.
In Mason County a theft ring has stolen antique dinner bells from lawns. Sometime Saturday night thieves cut the top from a pole and took a bell from Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Chick in Mount Alto. The sheriff's office investigated Monday and reported other bells missing. the bell was valued at $35.
A large crowd gathered on the courthouse steps in Point Pleasant for a public auction of Mason County school property no longer in use. Prosecutor S D Littlepage said he spent four months verifying legal owners, with Mil ton Burdette, county superintendent of schools, aiding. Deeds will be issued to buyers once the board of education approves the sales.
A general contract for the Pleasant Valley Hospital expansion was signed with Raymond Holland of Ripley as the contractor. The project total is $1,178,981.
Hollywood opinion piece argues TV violence is exaggerated and labels it frontier justice rather than real violence. It cites U N C L E and Batman scenes as camp while noting network schedules push mandatory action and frequent fist fights and gunplay. Actor Andrew Prine discusses censor scrutiny of violence content.
Civil action filed in Circuit Clerk's office seeks judgment for $975 rent owed from Jan 1 to Jul 15 1966 plus interest and costs. Plaintiffs D. W. Rothgeb of Point Pleasant names defendants Charles William Pickens Leonard Pickens and Pickens Cab Co DBA as Pickens Cab Co at 517 Fifth St Point Pleasant.
The Charley Stephenson family on Greer Road may claim the world’s smallest pony title after a Shetland foal weighing about 10 pounds is born on their Mason Farm. The mother is a three year old registered animal owned by Charley Berry of Parkersburg.
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