Fire at Porter Destroys House and Business
A Porter blaze around 2:00 p.m. Sunday totaled a combined filling station store and residence owned by Donald Love. Mrs Love is hospitalized at Holzer. loss estimated near 10000 with 4000 fire insurance. Fire spread from residence to storefront. damage confined to front and windows at nearby Cottrell store. Fire crews from Gallipolis Pt Pleasant and Vinton fought the flames using cisterns and ditch water.
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Gallipolis
Porter
Donald Love
Gordon Fiesher
Fisher
Allen Brothers
Pt. Pleasant
Vinton
E. L. Cottrell
State Highway Patrol
Sheriff's Office
Births at Holzer Hospital Note Various New Arrivals
Birth announcements list Mrs. Thomas Burns Bidwell a son Mrs. Bob Adkins Gallipolis a son C Frank Robinson Gallipolis Joy Thaxton Bidwell Mrs Henry Roush Mason West Virginia Fred E Lindauer Wellston Mrs Artelia Layne Oak Hill Mrs Bobby Scott Gallipolis Mrs Owen Walters Bidwell Mrs Cora Myers Gallipolis Discharged names Ernest Livisay Mrs C C Richard John Robert Long Mrs Emery Perry Mrs Seldon Moore Mrs Grant Johnson
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Thomas Burns
Bidwell
Bob Adkins
Gallipolis
C. Frank Robinson
Joy Thaxton
Henry Roush
Mason
West Virginia
Fred E. Lindauer
Wellston
Artelia Layne
Oak Hill
Bobby Scott
Owen Walters
Cora Myers
Ernest Livisay
C. C. Richard
John Robert Long
Emery Perry
Seldon Moore
Grant Johnson
Winter Arrival Timed For Dec 22 In Ohio
Cincinnati report notes winter begins at 11 01 a m on Dec 22 as Everett I Yowell UC emeritus astronomy professor cites last week's weather and asks who recalls Thanksgiving and days that followed.
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Cincinnati
Everett I. Yowell
University of Cincinnati
Trio Trouble Plagues Folice
Gallipolis deputies arrested a trio for drunk and disorderly conduct and found a second group during a separate warrant sweep. John Daniel Keels Emerson A. Watson and Curtis Kermit Watson all of Blackfork faced charges. James Hamilton and Allery Clark were also in custody with bonds set or jail detention. Courtney Swango paid a fine for intoxication and disorderly conduct.
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Gallipolis
Allery Clark
Porter
James Hamilton
John Daniel Keels
Emerson A. Watson
Curtis Kermit Watson
Blackfork
Cirtney Swango
Hamilton
Clark
Keels
Watson
Teachers To Request State Minimum Pay
Ohio educators plan to ask the next legislature for a statewide minimum salary schedule. Campaign plans will be mapped during a three day meeting beginning Dec. 14. More than 900 teachers and school administrators are expected for the 29th annual meeting of the Ohio Education Association's representative assembly.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Education Association
Automats Raise Price Confusion Delights and Grumbles
In New York West 30s Horn and Hardart raises coffee price from a nickel to two nickels without fanfare causing confusion. Patrons error with the slot and sign prompting lost nickels and lines. Officials cite rising costs and a three cent jump. frustration erupts among time-killers and servers alike.
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New York
NEA
Horn & Hardart
Horn
Hardart
Philadelphia
Waldorf-Astoria
Wreck Victim Richard Lucas Service Held
Services for Richard F. Lucas 20 of Cheshire Route 1 who died Friday night in a motor vehicle crash at West Columbia were held this afternoon at Little Kigger Church. Born July 1 1930 in Mason County he was survived by his parents a widow two brothers and two sisters. Burial followed at Gravel Hill Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
Richard F. Lucas
Cheshire
West Columbia
Mason County
Normal Lucas
Noreen Swisher
Scotty
Robert
Patricia
Ruth
Shirley Wood
Cheshire Baptist Church
Gravel Hill Cemetery
Trailer overturns with four classic cars near Rio Grande
A trailer carrying four 1951 cars overturned Saturday night in Route 35 construction near Rio Grande. The tractor trailer was destroyed and one car damaged. Driver Junior Huffman, 25, Detroit, suffered a lacerated right leg. The carrier is owned by H. P. Blight of Detroit. State Patrol said he pulled off the berm to let an oncoming vehicle pass.
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Gallipolis
Rio Grande
Harold Huffman
Detroit
H. P.blight
State Highway Patrol
River traffic data from Gallipolis locks and Kanawha district
The Ohio River rose 0.2 to 0.3 feet per hour at Gallipolis locks with multiple boats listed by status and times. Kanawha River traffic included the Iron Duke up Marmet at 1:00 PM and the Semet down Marmet at 1:15 PM. Other district vessels showed various up and down movements with numerous timestamps.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Kanawha Falls
Pt. Pleasant
Winfield
Jones
Kenna
Omar
Louisiana
E. Hatfield
Solvay
Lehigh
Neville
Kanawha
Iron Duke
Java Sea
Tennessee
Old Gallipolis Post Office Beckons from 1794 Landmark
Across from Our House on First Ave Gallipolis stands one of the Northwest Territory’s oldest buildings erected in 1794. Once the first post office it passed through De Vacht family ownership and later Myrtle Norton. Early mail routes ran by canoe to Marietta. D Hebecourt led guards for Gallipolis settlers. A marker before the first Gallipolis post office notes D Hebecourt and a famed link to Napoleon Bonaparte.
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First Ave
Gallipolis
Northwest Territory
Devacht
Ohio River
Myrtle Norton
Marietta
Joseph Fletcher
Marquis Francois D’hebecourt
D’hebecourt
Napoleon Bonaparte
France
America
D'Hebecourt
Napoleon
Europe
Marquis D'Hebecourt
Marnesia
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Holzer Hospital
Trio Trouble
Plagues Folice
Automat
Wreck Victim Service
Tom” Harmon
Tom
Nita Mele
TED
Cigarette! Co
Winslop- Balem
Cam
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