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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1963
Page
8
George Elu Chapman 77 from Hogsett is in fair condition at Pleasant Valley Hospital after slipping on Mud Run Road yesterday. He sustained a broken hip and exposure and was found and transported to the hospital.
Deer total in Mason County for the six day buck season climbs to 46, per conservation officer Miles Darst. Four deer checked in Putnam County but bagged in Mason County, doubling last year’s 1962 count.
Secretary of State Joe Burdett of Point Pleasant has been appointed chairman of the corporate division of West Virginia's 1964 Heart Fund. Burdett, a Point Pleasant native, will lead corporate affairs for the drive.
Dr Edna Gettles spoke with slides from her Holy Land trip at a Trinity Methodist Church banquet in Point Pleasant Tuesday. W F Banks gave the devotional. Ronald White led guest recognition and invocations were by Rev L Curtis Saville. A list of attendees and program participants followed.
George E. Harper of Gallipolis Ferry and Huntington, a former deckhand for Island Creek Fuel and Transportation Co, received 65000 from a district court jury in Pittsburgh for injuries after a tow wire snapped as the riverboat Raymond E. Salvati rammed a pier near Gallipolis on December 11, 1961.
Billy Penn Fisher 30 of Harrisburg North Carolina faces a driving while intoxicated charge in Municipal Court. The case, previously set for December 10, was continued with no new date. Fisher pleaded innocent. Judge William H. Sowers cited Fisher's attorney defending another case in Gallia County that day.
In Gallia County North Gallia High School released the second six week honor roll listing freshmen Linda Blackburn Judy Gilman Karen Miles Delores Neal Pam Bickers Linda Halstead Arlene Browning Paula Saunders Jacque Rhodes sophomores Rusty Blake Marguerite Bass Lynn Lanier Phyliss Campbell Mars Callicoat Barry Bias David McCarley Joyce Burger Carolyn Lawhorn Reva Nibert Mimi Fitch juniors Joan Bradshaw Jackie Berry Billy Bush Walter Brown Jr Gary Callihan Tom Foster Patty Mays Audra Kemper Patty Stutler Nancy Russell seniors Jerry Barnes Barbara Kennedy Martha Barnes Ira Eggleton Sharon L. George Karen Martin Charles G. Smith.
Kerr Blain formerly of Mason County is a surgical patient at the Veterans Hospital in Bay Pines Florida. He owned a farm at Beech Hill for years and served as post master there. He is brother to Mrs. Earl C Mohr Mrs. Hester B Lee of Point Pleasant R O Blain of Beech Hill and Mrs. Stella Mohr of Gallipolis.
Two sisters aged 11 and 14 fled their Parkersburg home on Tuesday after their mother and 15-year-old sister ordered them out. They were found cold and hungry, taken in by Everett Thomas in Apple Grove, and later turned over to Mason County juvenile authorities awaiting placement. Their parents are divorcing, and the girls planned to meet their father in Huntington, sending word by letter they had not yet written.
Point Pleasant WV November placements totaled 44 with 2208 people registered for work at the West Virginia Department of Employment Security office serving Mason, Putnam and Jackson counties. New applications 389 with 18 females and 82 veterans. 377 initial unemployment claims filed.
Mrs. Madge Byus chair of Point Pleasant Women's Club literature announces a Friday program at 7:45 p.m. in the Presbyterian dining room. Mrs. C. L. Head presents the Christmas story while the Main Street Baptist Church children's choir performs songs.
The item lists admissions to Pleasant Valley Hospital including Rosa Coward and others from Point Pleasant and nearby areas. It notes the Fort Randolph Society of Children of the American Revolution meeting and a Christmas program exchange of gifts. Mason County schools will close December 20 for Christmas vacation, returning January 2, 1964. It also announces jurors to be drawn for the January term of the Mason County Common Pleas Court in Ohio on December 21.
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