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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 05, 1960

Page

5

Ex Gallipolis Resident Injured In Car Crash

Earl Wills a 32 year old Meigs County man and former Gallipolis resident is listed in very critical condition at Holzer Hospital after a one car crash on Route 7 near Hobson. Wills suffered the loss of his right leg below the knee and multiple injuries. he was en route to Gallipolis when the 1959 wagon overturned and hit a tree. He is married to Peggy Leaper and is a former Ohio Bell employee.

Dent Hobson Earl Wills Marietta Gallipolis Wills Holzer Hospital Middleport Peggy Leaper Russell Gwendolyn Wills Lower River Road Ohio Bell Telephone Company Ohio Bell

Television Program Listings Note for Errors

The Messenger disclaims responsibility for listing errors when stations fail to provide corrected schedules. Tuesday evening includes various programs from 6:00 to 11:15 with Hitchcock Jim Thacker Thriller Weather White Paper News NBC News Weather and Laramie among others.

Hitchcock Jim Thacker NBC News Jim Backus Jack Paar Laramie

TV Schedule Snippet Listing Evening Lineup

Radio and TV guide style listing shows time slots for weather news sports and entertainment programs including Stanwyck NBC News Coronado Riverboat and OSU basketball with several program blocks across the evening.

Television Schedule Fragments for Columbus Area Stations

A listing of channel broadcasts includes WTVN TV 6 with programs such as Paradise News Peter Gunn Expedition Sports Cheyenne Surfside Six and films like Stagecoach plus later hours summarizing local weather and hourly news segments. The fragment also references Hiway Patrol McGraw Rescue Bugs Rifleman Wyatt Earp and Hour Glass in a dense timetable.

Hiway Pat News McGraw Rescue Bugs Sunny Wyatt Earp

TV Schedule Fragments From Charleston Listing

A fragmented TV lineup shows programs across channels with times for news weather sports and movies. Entries include Whirlybirds Paradise News Peter Gunn Trackdown Sports Love Bob Cheyenne Movie Surfside Six Cartoons Romper Room Court Beat Clock and About Faces with scattered air times.

Riley Casper Charleston Paradise Peter Gunn John Daly Cheyenne

Television Schedule Listing

A fragmented broadcast grid lists time slots from six to twelve including shows with host names Alice Tom Ewell Red Skelton Armstrong Chet Long and Dobie Gillis along with weather segments and a juvenile judge feature. Program order appears scattered across the day with various titles and hosts.

Alice Tom Ewell Red Skelton Armstrong Chet Long Doug Juv A’mchair Cochise Adventure Dobie Gillis

Monday TV Schedule Mix of News Weather and Dramas

A readable listing shows a Monday lineup including 6:00 News 9:00 Dan Thomas 6 15 Weather 9:30 Andy Griffith 6 20 Sports 10:00 Hennessy 6:30 Amos Andy 10:30 Face Nation 7:00 Hiway Patrol 11:00 News 7:30 Tell Truth 11:10 Weather 8:00 Pete Gladys 11:15 Movie 8:30 Buddy.

Lor. Young Dr. Malone Jack Daddy Hollywood Stagecoach 101 Alena Pres Law-Jones TV Sports Stagecoach Thea Dan Thomas Andy Griffit Hennesey Face Nation Chet Long Doug Sea Hunt Pete Gladys Buddy You Univ. Hall Cp Kangaroo Toyshop Love Lucy Horizons Ann Reider Sreh. Tomorr Andy Grifith Amos Andy Hiway Patrol Tome Ewell Red Skelton Garry Moore Amos- Andy Dobie Gillis

Lost Kingdom of Arabia and a Night of TV Previews

TV listings present Expedition in Southern Arabia on Lost Kingdom of Arabia. Home Is the Brave shows a war hero buried despite local protest. Odd Job features Ken Madison preventing a corporate take over. The Big Surf covers Surfing Championships in Hawaii. Take Five For Murder leads Peter Gunn with a Bobby Jeeter blackmail plot. Sea Hunt follows a sunken ship safe with jewels. Pete and Gladys, Bringing Up Buddy and Danny Thomas air scheduling mishaps. Andy Griffith depicts a wedding dispute. Hennesey portrays race horse betting at a Naval hospital. Coronado offers Loser Circle with a father’s murder chase. Riverboat portrays Chicota Landing siege. OSU Basketball Premiere features Buckeyes vs Billikens live. Jackpot Bowling pairs Roy Lawn and Jack Lang for a $5,000 prelims emceed by Milton Berle.

Arabia Cheyenne Cheyenne Bodie Ken Madison Stanley Williams Paradise Adam Troy Hawaii Peter Gunn Bobby Jeeter Mike Pete Gladys Gladys Coltons Buddy Violet Iris Flower Danny Thomas Danny Williams Andy Griffith Andy Taylor Hennesey the Naval Hospital Harvey Spencer Blair Nag Greg Holden Chicota Landing Holden U. S. Army Grey Lucy Bridges Buckeyes Billikens St. Louis University St. Louis Jerry Lucas St. John Arena Jimmy Crum Clark Smith Roy Lawn el Paso Texas

Crash Victim Services Set For Tuesday

Funeral services are planned for Harold Jack Johnson 24 of Gallipolis with burial at Ohio Valley Memory Gardens. Johnson died in a Route 141 crash Saturday morning involving a concrete truck and a farm pickup. He is survived by Norma Morris his wife a son and a daughter and grandparents. He was a 1954 Gallia Academy graduate and worked as a bookkeeper for Jenkins Concrete. Friends may call Monday evening at the local funeral home.

Gallipolis Harold Jack Johnson Grace Methodist Church Warren H. Wilson Ohio Valley Johnson Norma Morris Allen Jack Debra Diane David R. Altizer Rio Grande Gallia Academy High School Jenkins Concrete Products Company Wetherholt-Elliott-Sanders Funeral Home

TV Movie Guide Listings for Evening and Morning

Channel 8 offers Murder in the Flee at 11 20 p m. Channel 10 presents Exclusive at 11 15 p m. Channel 13 airs Double Alibi at 11 15 p m. Channel 4 shows Strange Cargo at 9 a m. Straight is the Way at 5 15 p m. Sterling Metal at 9 a m. Stop Press Girl at 9 30 a m.

Strange Cargo Sterling Metal

Oak Hill Man Charged With Non-Support

Gallia County sheriff's deputies arrested Glendon R. Jenkins 40 Oak Hill Route 4 on non support charges. The case goes to Municipal Court Monday. Noah H. McDade 38 Leon Route 2 was charged with auto theft after release from Holzer Hospital and waives extradition to Mason County West Virginia. In juvenile court David S. McCoy 21 Ravenswood pleaded innocent to contributing to delinquency of a minor and was released on $500 bond. Howard E. Glenn 22 Vinton pleaded innocent to bastardy and was released on $500 bond.

Gallipolis Gallia County Sheriff's Department Noah H. McDade Leon Route 2 Howard E. Glenn Vinton Glenn

Eeho Viewing Schedule for Athens Area

Washington timetable lists Echo I satellite passes over Southeastern Ohio with observation times from Dec 5 to Saturday. Each listed event shows local times, elevation angles, and azimuth directions for viewer visibility, noting north to southeast paths.

Athens Uled Echo I Ohio

Tax Office To Close Until First Of Year

Sheriff Earl C. Mohr reports the tax office will close Dec 12 and reopen Jan 1. No taxes will be collected during the closure to allow Sheriff elect Griff Durbin to assume office on January 1.

Point Pleasant Earl C. Mohr Griff Durbin

Gallia Sophomore Wins Prince Of Peace Declamation

Gallia Academy High School sophomore Joanne Ford won the Gallia County Prince of Peace contest at Calvary Baptist Church Rio Grande with her original essay Peace By All Means. She earned one of two silver medals and will advance to the district contest. Nancy Bouldin took the other silver medal, and Susie Fulton was named district alternate.

Gallipolis Joanne Ford Gallia Academy High School Gallia County Prince of Peace Calvary Baptist Church Rio Grande Miss Ford Frank R. Ford Nancy Bouldin David F. Bouldin Jackson Pike Susie Fulton Kgger Creek High School Fulton Huber Fulton Opal Lloyd Southwestern High School Bob Santo Jackson High School R. Price Ewing Rio Grande College

Columbus Man Cited On Tree Hauling Law

Gallipolis reports state highway patrol arrested Alfred R. Schall 25 of Columbus under a law banning transport of five or more Christmas trees without a bill of sale. With about 100 trees and no bill, he obtained a sale after arrest, posting a $15 bond and releasing with the trees. The law requires a signed bill of sale or notarization even for trees from one’s own land, or the truck and trees may be impounded for 48 hours. Maximum penalties reach $1000 or 30 days in jail.

Gallipolis State Highway Patrol Alfred R. Schall Columbus Schall

Kiwanis Pancake Festival Expected to Raise 1600

Fourteen hundred people attended the Kiwanis Pancake Festival at the Elks Building on Saturday. The Kiwanis club expects to clear at least 1600 for a recreational lake at Kiwanis Youth Camp, with exact totals to be finalized at Wednesday's club meeting. Aunt Jemima performed hourly with her accompanist.

Gallipolis Elks Kiwanis Tival Mills Kiwanis Club

Blacksmith Edward Green Dies at 83 in Gallia County

Edward Green 83 of Patriot Route 2 Gallia County died at 8 45 p m Saturday in Portsmouth He was born January 16 1877 in Perry Two son of Levi and Rachel Danner Green He leaves sons Charles Green Columbus and Gomer Green Portsmouth daughter Mrs Marvin Chapman Point Pleasant stepchildren Bertha Estep widow died earlier and Mrs Arthur Jones New Boston Mrs Ruth Tipton Portsmouth There are four brothers Evan Arthur Isaac and Dan Green Patriot Funeral services 10 a m Tuesday at Salem Baptist Church with Rev Ray Heinbach New Boston Burial in Salem Cemetery Friends may call at Wetherholt Elliott Sanders funeral home

Perry Two Levi Rachel Danner Green Florence Parsons Charles Green Columbus Marvin Marie) Chapman Point Pleasant Gomer Green Bertha Estep Arthur Jones New Boston Ruth Tipton Portsmouth Evan Arthur Isaac Dan Green Patriot Salem Baptist Church Ray Heinbach Salem Cemetery Wetherholt-Elliott-Sanders Funeral Home

Divorce filed in Gallia County Court for Mary E. McKee

Mary E. McKee of Crown City filed for divorce from Ralph McKee in Gallia County Common Pleas Court claiming gross neglect and extreme cruelty. The couple, married November 22, 1947, have no children.

Gallipolis Mary E. McKee Crown City Gallia County

Suit Filed for 133.50 Against A O Thomas in Gallia County

Holzer Hospital Foundation filed suit in Gallia County Common Pleas Court seeking judgment for 133.50 plus six percent interest from May 26 1958 against A O Thomas of Gallipolis.

Gallipolis Holzer Hospital Foundation Gallia County

One Minor Accident Reported On Weekend

Gallipolis city police logged one weekend traffic incident with minimal damage and no charges. Nathan H. Clay, 34, of Gallipolis Route 1, and Gwendonlyn Sheets, 24, of Gallipolis Route 2, collided at 2 27 p.m. on Bastiani Drive near the golf grounds when Sheets failed to stop after Clay had halted.

Gallipolis Nathan H. Clay Gwendolyn Sheets Bastiani Drive Clay

River Traffic and Dam Conditions on the Kanawha and Ohio

River gauges show Gallipolis and Montgomery with rollers and crests at varying feet, dams on the sill along the Kanawha River while Ohio River movable dams in the Huntington District run up. Montgomery and several locks report boats moving, with multiple up and down readings across Lock 12 through 35 and various riverboat names and tonnage changes listed.

Gallipolis Montgomery Kanawha Falls Dinton Pomeroy-Mason Point Pleasant Kanawha River Ohio River Huntington Rocket Beckford Pennsylvania Captain Harrison Indiana Marilyn M Stevenson Tradewinds Criss Jr City of Maysville Tug Chaperon Jeffboat Lelia C. Shearer Franklin Pierce Kanawha London Solvay Marmet A. V. Criss

Was 5.2 Mills Levy Needed for Gallia Schools

In Our Town Gallipolis explains how the 5.2 mill tax levy was derived from a nine mill initial proposal. The city school budget and county allocations reduced needed taxes from 6 to 5.2 mills after budget reviews and fund reallocations. The board asks voters to approve 5.2 mills on December 13 to close the deficit and sustain education.

Gallipolis Citizens Committee Superintendent of Schools Board of Education Gallia County Gallipolis City Overahe Budget Commission County Budget Commission

Mrs. Vennie M. Butler 83 Dies at Holzer Hospital

Mrs. Vennie M. Butler of Vinton 83 widow of H Kerr Butler died at 5 am Sunday in Holzer Hospital after a three week stay. Born Nov 3 1877 at Vinton she was the daughter of John and Jennie Matthews. Survived by son Dr John W Butler of Wellston sister Mrs Lee Long Columbus brother Floyd Matthews Tulsa. Burial Tuesday 2 pm at Vinton Baptist Church with ministers D H Householder and Gerald R Brown and burial in Vinton Memorial Park.

Butler Vinton Holzer Hospital John Jennie Shock Matthews H. Kerr Butler John W. Butler Wellston Vinton Baptist Church Order of Eastern Star Lee Helen) Long Columbus Floyd Matthews Tulsa Oklo D. H. Householder Gerald R. Brown Vinton Memorial Park

Health nurses administer vaccines Saturday in Gallia County

County health nurses gave 94 Salk anti polio shots 17 DPT injections 12 tetravax 11 smallpox and one typhoid inoculations in a Saturday effort.

Gallipolis

Senator Porter Returns From Council of State Governments

State Senator J Sherman Porter returned Saturday evening from Chicago where he attended the 15th Biennial General Assembly of the States of the Council of State Governments.

Gallipolis J. Sherman Porter Chicago General Assembly of the States of the Council of State Governments

Clerk Rinehart Returns From Ohio Clerks Convention

Miss Marjorie Rinehart of Gallia County Common Pleas Court spent two days in Columbus at the annual Ohio Clerk of Courts Association convention returning with insights from the event.

Gallipolis Marjorie Rinehart Gallia County

Patrol Lists Convictions in Municipal Court

Convictions were handed to Joe Vineyard 52 of Columbus and Leona Opal Taylor 52 of Kananga for drunken driving. Judge William H. Jones fined each $50 and costs, sentenced five days in county jail, and suspended licenses for six months. Opal J. McCormick 51 of Middleport was fined $5 with costs suspended for no operator's license, and Artus J. Bunch 36 of Gallipolis was fined $5 and costs for failing to dim headlights.

Gallipolis State Highway Patrol Joe Vineyard Columbus Leona Opal Taylor Kananga William H. Jones Jones Opal J. McCormick Middleport Artus J Bunch

Nimrod Fined for Hunting Without License in Gallia Court

Hubert Clay of Wayne West Virginia was fined $25 and costs by Judge William H. Jones in Gallia Municipal Court on a hunting without license charge filed by Kenneth L. Tomlinson Gallia County game protector.

Gallipolis Hubert Clay Wayne W. Va William H. Jones Cense Kenneth L. Tomlinson Gallia County Game Protector

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