Route 33 Site Picked For New Meigs School
The Meigs Local Board of Education recommends Carman property along Route 33 near Salisbury Elementary School as the site for a new comprehensive high school. Negotiations to obtain the land will proceed with Carmans and adjoining owners, while a reduced price offer for adjacent land is discussed. The district plans May high school events and continues inquiry into a $3,520.30 Rutland Elementary gas bill.
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Route
New
Meigs School
George Hargraves
Ohio Department of Education
Fred Crow
William Soulsby
Carman
Carmans
Meigs County Infirmary
John Welsh
New Band
Welsh
Hargraves
Athletic Board
Terry Ohlinger
Pomeroy High School
Ohio University
Pomeroy
Middleport
Rutland
Mrs Clarkson Elected During Yale Dinner
Officers were elected at a Christmas dinner of the Catholic Women's Club held in the Sacred Heart Church Auditorium. Elected: Mrs Charles Clarkson president, Mrs Catherine Welsh vice president, Mrs David Ohlinger secretary, Miss Olga Pierotti treasurer, Mrs Thomas Hennessy Jr historian, Mrs George Har graves auditor. Plans were made for serving.
Mrs Luella Preston Returns Home After Brother’s Death
Mrs. Luella Preston returned home from Jackson Michigan after being summoned by the death of her brother Albert Lairson. Guests at the home of Mrs. Rhoda Oliver and Clarence Oliver included Mr. and Mrs. Harry Oliver and daughter Sandy of GroVPOrt.
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Luella Preston
Jackson, Mich
Albert Lairson
Harry Oliver
Sandy
Groveport
Rhoda Oliver
Clarence Oliver
Vinton County Court Notes Highlight Property, Estates
Court notes show appropriation by the State Highway Department of about four acres for a Route 328 bridge. Several estates filed wills and tax matters, with Tom Bethel and C. M. Bethel appointed. Local events include Scotty Saladean closing the Point Pleasant liquor store early on holidays and a golden wedding anniversary in Pomeroy.
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State Highway Department
Harold A. Crow
Syracuse Group Holds Yule Meal at Methodist Church
The Syracuse Loyal Helpers Class at the Syracuse Methodist Church hosted a holiday dinner in the church social room. Christmas corsages were given as favors. Mrs. Damon Farrell and Mrs. Melvin Grimm led decorations and arrangements. Marcia B. Karr chaired the program with carols scripture and readings by Carl Weese and others.
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Pomeroy
Syracuse Methodist Church
Damon Farrell
Melvin Grimm
Marcia B. Karr
Carl Weese
Dan Rizer
Ralph Robson
Point Pleasant Chorus to present Christmas carols program
The Point Pleasant High School Chorus directed by C. L. Head will perform a Christmas carols program at an assembly in the high school auditorium on December 21. National Bank of Charleston has filed a civil action against James Durbin Mason seeking $361.05 plus costs and attorney fees on a promissory note.
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Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant High School
C. L. Head
National Bank of Charleston
James Durbin
Mason
Schools Plan Recess for Christmas Holiday
Mason County and Point Pleasant schools will close December 21 for Christmas vacation and reopen January 3, as announced by school officials. Italy endures its worst floods in nearly a thousand years, causing greater damage to Florence than World War II. The USSR north of Minnesota note indicates most of the Soviet Union lies farther north than Minnesota.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Italy
Florence
Soviet Union
Minnesota
Village funds in Middleport total 62341.16 at month end
The Middleport village clerk reports total funds at November 30, 1966 amounting to 62341.16 with receipts 10481.48 and disbursements 27098.19. Of disbursements 10435.27 came from sewer construction for lagoon contract.
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Middleport
Richard Bailey
General Fund
Planning Commission
Albany News From Community Notes and Visits
Mrs. Bernard Withrow returned from a weeklong visit with her sister in S Charleston and traveled to Belle and Charleston West Virginia to see relatives. Coast Guard seaman Steve Hamill is on 40 day leave with his parents after a year in Alaska. Pearl Goodin heads to Fort Gordon Georgia for son Johns graduation from Military Police School. Albany Garden Club planned Christmas table arrangements with Mrs. Jesse Hines as hostess.
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Melva Radcliffe
Albany
Bernard Withrow
Mary Malcom
S. Charleston
J. C. Crouch
Belle
W. Va
M. C. Simpson
Charleston
Foster Barnett
Dunbar
Bob Grinstead
Sadie Worth
New Haven
Donald Thompson
Tony
Letart
Steve Hamill
U.S. Coast Guard
John Hamill
Alaska
Pearl Goodin
Fort Gordon
John
State Hospital
Albany Community Garden Club
Jesse Hines
Second Monday Club Hosts Christmas Dinner
The Second Monday Sewing Club held its annual Christmas dinner at Bailey's Restaurant and moved to Miss Cora M. Joachim's Pleasant Ridge home for a party hosted by Mrs. Grace Holter. A gift exchange took place.
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Pomeroy
Twilight Garden Club
Bailey’s
Cora M. Joachim
Pleasant Ridge
Grace Holter
Mrs. Kennedy Moves to Halt Look Magazine Book
Mrs John F Kennedy serves summons on Look magazine and Harper Row to block publication of Death of a President by William Manchester. Editor Attwood says serialization will continue as Manchester returns from Europe puzzled by the disturbance. Objections claim the book implies the Kennedys disliked President Johnson, risking tensions between political clans.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
Look Magazine
Harper & Row
William Manchester
Europe
William Attwood
Look
Kennedy
Manchester
White House Fetes Culture Leaders In Snowbound Night
President Johnson hosts a Christmas dinner for the National Council on the Arts as snow delays travel. Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, Gregory Peck and others arrive late after cross country taxi, train, and car delays. Mrs. Johnson smiles amid the festive gathering.
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Duke Ellington
Stanley Young
Mike Nichols
Mrs. Johnson
National Council On the Arts
Leonard Bernstein
Lynda Bird Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Gregory Peck
Peck
Ronald Reagan
California
Stanley Youngs
New York
White House
Youngs
Washington
Ellington
Bluefield
W. Va
Nichols
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
New Jersey Turnpike
Elizabeth Carpenter
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Clarkson
Yale
Chauncey
Vinton County Court
Mary Tripp
John E. Bethel
Addie B. Bethel
C. M. Bethel
Charles E. Saunders
Floyd L. Benedict
Scotty Saladean
Point Pleasant Liquor Store
William J. McClain
Racine
Veterans Memorial Hospital
Syracuse
Robert Hartenbach
Elias Stiles
Athens Road
Bloodmobile
National Catholic Council
Paul Casci
James Diehl
George Hackett Jr
Thomas Hennessy
Charles Clarkson
Homer Gordon
John Turel
Father Turel
Theodore Beegle
Charles Radford
Susan
Sally
Syracuse Group
Ussr
Minn
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