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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 02, 1958

Page

9

Nelsonville Greyhounds honor letter winners and captains

Nelsonville high school celebrated 16 football lettermen at a dinner hosted by team mothers and the Nelsonville Athletic Association. Co captains named were Ronnie McMullen and Johnny Bob Wend. Jerry Patton received the Tribune Sportsmanship trophy. The event noted 13 lettermen expected back next season and praised the team for resilience after a 60 0 defeat at Pomeroy.

Nelsonville Nelsonville Greyhound Nelsonville Athletic Association Ronnie McMullen Johnny Bob Wend Jerry Patton Tribune Bob Sheskey Bob Penrod Logan Wellston Penrod Pomeroy Southeastern Ohio Terry Tignor Greyhounds Charlie Pickett Tom Murphy Sheskey Barbara Hotchkiss Karen Shackert Glenna Keplar Gail Maiden Sue Powell Jody Bond Dick Kunzman Patton J. K. Kinneer Lloyd C. Gray

Television Listings Show Variety Across Huntington Channels

The Messenger notes listings errors for WSAZ TV NBC and WHTN CBS Huntington schedules. Evening and daytime slots feature programs from Pine Fiddlers to The Price is Right and Wagon Train with news and weather updates sprinkled throughout.

Television Schedule for WLW NBC Columbus Evening Lineup

The listing shows WLW C NBC Columbus daily schedule with time slots from 6:00 to 11:15 featuring programs such as News Weather Dragnet Geo. Gobel NBC News Jack Paar and Wagon Train. Sports and movie blocks appear alongside daytime quiz and variety segments including 50 50 Club Tic Tac Dough and The Price Is Right style games.

Wsaz-Tv NBC Chan Huntington Geo Burns Bob Cummings NBC News Gobel Jack Paar Katie Doonan Treas Hunt Milton Betle Jim Thacker Target Union Pacific Wagon Train Price Right Wlw-C Columbus Gid Co Californians Crusader Dragnet Jack Parr Geo. Gobel George Burns County Fair Gia Cp Mat Concentrate Arth. Murray Milton Berle Weath

TV Schedule Page Full of Classic Shows and Hosts

A dense lineup lists programs from 6:00 to 12:20 with names like Cisco Kid Casey Jones Cheyenne Wyatt Earp Rifleman Naked City Mick Big 10 Hillies News Hour of Stars Byline Peter Hayes Mother's Day Liberace Life of Riley Chance Romance Great Life Beat Clock Casper Capers Santa Show Mickey Mouse Ozzie Harriet Donna Reed Sci Fi Fights Sports Nightbeat and Hour of Stars, highlighting host sequences and time slots.

Mick. Spillane Boston Black Doug Martin Chance Kom Ray Milland Peter Hayes Liberace Mickey Mouse

Television Schedule for WCHS Charleston Evening Lineup

Channel 8 presents a full daily slate from 6 PM featuring Sherlock For, The Rifleman, Naked City, and news. Evening highlights include Cheyenne, Wyatt Earp, Boston Blackie, and The Tonight Show, with weather, sports, and late programs across the night.

Wchs-Tv ABC Charleston Cheyenne Wyatt

Television Schedule Fragment for Wednesday Evening and Night

A fragmented station timetable lists programs and air times including Explorer Weather Red Skelton News This Is Alice Tell the Truth Up Kangaroo From Gibba Kindergarten Sneak Prey Godfrey World Turns Amos Andy House Party Big Payoff Verdict Yours Brighter Day Secret Storm Edge of Night Flippo Pursuit Highway Pat h Millionaire Got a Secret Steel Hour News Weather Armch Then Preview Plyhs

Miss Brooks Jimmy Dean Godfrey Explorer Weather Red Skelton Don Mack Gary Moore Chet Long D. Edwards Suvenile Judge Alice Amos-Andy Ann Reider Flippo

TV Movie Guide Highlights Evening Schedule PCs

Tuesday's guide lists multiple classic films and times including Crac up Part II with Pat OBrien and Claire Trevor at 5:00 p.m. Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring at 11:05 p.m. with Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay. Other titles feature Four Sons, Chad Hanna, Smoke Jumpers, Mrs Parkington, Buffalo Bill, Execution Night, Back in Circulation, Navy Blue and Gold, Redheaded Woman, Home Sweet Homicide, Fighting Seabees, and Bag of Oranges among the day’s screenings.

Pat O'Brien Claire Trevor Ellery Queen and the Ralph Bellamy Margaret Lindsay Robert Taylor Jimmy Stewart Jean Harlow Franchot Tone Peggy Ann Garner Randolph Scott Virginia Mayo Efrem Zimbalist, Jr Fighting Seabees John Wayne Susan Hayward Ida Lu‘pine

TV Key Previews: Moore Gibbs Lorne and Guests

Garry Moore Show features Gibbs vocalist and Marion Lorne from 10 to 11 PM on CBS. George Gobel Show with Steve Lawrence Georgia Thelma Laughton Gisele MacKenzie and the Kids Next Door on NBC at 8 PM. George Burns Show on NBC at 9 PM with Tony Martin and cast including Ronnie Burns Judi Meredith and Lisa Davis.

Garry Moore Gibbs Marion Lorne CBS Steve Lawrence Georgia George Goble Charlies Laughton Gisele MacKenzie Kids Next Door George Gobel NBC George Burns Tony Martin George Ronnie Burns Judi Meredith Lisa Davis

Catholic official denounces new contraceptive pill

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Irving A. De Blanc director of the Catholic Family Life bureau calls the new oral contraceptive pill on the market as contrary to a law of nature and adds heap ing guilt to the claim.

Washington Irving A. de Blanc Catholic Family Life Bureau

What Will We Use For Money Across The Ages

The piece surveys ancient and varied forms of money from grains and livestock to shells and fish hooks. It notes Roman salt pay giving rise to salary, lists many nicknames for money, and recalls taxes once paid with tobacco in Virginia.

Adam Eve Money Jack Moola Lucre Mazuma Chase National Bank of New York O.K Virginia

Space Age Essay Contest Opens in Nelsonville Area

The 24th annual National High School essay contest, themed The Space Age Challenge to America, will be sponsored in Nelsonville and Chauncey High Schools during 1958 59 by VFW Post 3467 auxiliary. First prize is a $25 savings bond. The contest ends March 15, 1959. State winners go on to $2000 in national cash awards, including $1000 and a gold medal for first place. All enrolled high school students carrying a full course may enter.

Nelsonville America Chauncey Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3467 Evelyn Little

Death in Illinois is of interest locally

Mrs. Gus Smith learned of the death in Tuscola Illinois of L E Ferguson husband of her niece. He died of a heart attack. Mrs Ferguson is daughter of the late Mr and Mrs R E McClain of Nelsonville and has a cousin Mrs Walter Tignor living in Nelsonville.

Nelsonville Gus Smith L. E. Ferguson Tuscola Ill Ferguson

Cage League Opener Set in Nelsonville Tonight

The winter city league basketball kicks off Wednesday in Nelsonville with games at 9 p m between Coker Distributor and Reeder Bottled Gas of Athens and at 10 p m Dick Covert’s team versus Brooks Shoe. A full schedule and roster will follow.

Nelsonville Coker Reeder Bottled Gas Athens Dick Covert Brooks Shoe

World War II veteran Chidester dies at 49

Nelsonville area resident Chidester 49 a World War II veteran and Purple Heart holder died unexpectedly Saturday night in Springfield Hospital. Born in New Straitsville he was the son of the late Delia and Reuben Chidester. Survived by his wife and two children Nancy Ath ens and Robert Bellefountain. Funeral Wednesday at 10 a.m. Morris & Son funeral home Fairborn with burial in Medway where he had lived the past five years.

Nelsonville R. Chidester Springfield New Straitsville Delia Reuben Chidester Nancy Athens Robert Bellefountain Morris & Son Funeral Home Fairborn Ohio Medway Chidester

Mrs. Gaffney Dies Monday in Columbus

Mrs. Cora Gaffney 79 former Murray City resident died Monday afternoon at her Columbus home. Widow of Richard Gaffney she is survived by daughter Kathaleen Mollenkamp and son Richard both in Columbus, sisters Bessie Bland Nelsonville Hattie Sorrells Logan, brother Lace Ayers Murray City, and two grandchildren. Funeral 2 p m Thursday Johnson funeral home burial Green Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p m Wednesday.

Nelsonville Cora Gaffney Murray City Columbus Richard Gaffney Kathaleen Mollenkamp Richard Bessie Bland Hattie Sorrells Logan Lace Ayers Johnson Funeral Home Green Lawn Cemetery

Liquor Permit Is Suspended for Veterans of Foreign Wars Post

The Ohio Department of Liquor Control announced a 14 day suspension of the D-4 liquor permit held by Nelsonville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3467 on Route 278. The post was charged with possession of gambling devices and the suspension runs from December 12 to December 25.

Columbus Nelsonville Veterans of Foreign Wars Ohio Department of Liquor Control

Dorcas Society Meeting Postponed to December 10

The Dorcas Society of Deanville Chapel has postponed its Wednesday meeting to December 10. The affair will be its Christmas party and social event.

Dorcas Society of Deanville Chapel

Shopping Through Catalog Leaves Family Short on Funds

In Nelsonville a writer recalls Advent and a Christmas catalog spree that sparked many wishes. Family members name items from toy dolls to a pony while the author notes rising orange prices could shrink gifts and the chance to buy that citrus symbol.

Mount St. Mary Hospital Notes Dense Local Names

A list of residents and patients associated with Mount St. Mary Hospital appears, naming Cecil Searls Nelsonville Billie Dean Leffler Nelsonville Mrs Ida Belle Chalfant Gloucester Route 3 Mrs Elizabeth Whyte Nelsonville Mrs Pearl Mace Athens Mrs Lacey Mace Carbondale Mrs Mildred Snider New Lexington Shelby Anders Shawnee Carlos Rutter Millfield Route Pamela Sue Hitchings Nelsonville Miss Diane Lowery Nelsonville Route 1 Mrs James Crane Logan and daughter Donald Abram New Lexington Mrs Edna Warren Haydenville Mrs Nevada Kerr Nelson Mrs Gertrude Frank Nelson Edward Slatzer New Straitsville Route 1 Mrs Janice Keith Gloucester Route 1

Cecil Searls Nelsonville Billie Dean Leffler Ida Belle Chalfant Glouster Elizabeth Whyte Pearl Mace Athens Lacey Mace Carbondale Mildred Snider New Lexington Shelby Anders Shawnee Carlos Rutter Millfield James Crane Logan Donald Abram Edna Warren Haydenville Nevada Kerr Gertrude Frank Edward Slatzer New Straitsville Janice Keith

Twig Seven to Meet Mount St. Mary Hospital Guild

Twig Seven of Mount St Mary Hospital Guild will meet Wednesday at 8 p m in the home of Mrs John Brooks Columbus St.

Twig Seven Mount St. Mary Hospital John Brooks Columbus St

Three Persons Are Treated In Mount St. Mary ER

Nelsonville residents Grace Thomas 59 Murray City fell on ice and fractured her right arm. Virginia Figgins 39 Nelsonville fractured left forearm after a kitchen fall. EK L Juniper 77 Nelsonville sustained a two inch head wound and received stitches. All were dismissed.

Nelsonville Mount St. Mary Hospital Grace Thomas Murray City Virginia Figgins EK. L. Juniper

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