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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1952
Page
3
Mason County voters support the Christmas Seal drive to fund TB control and research. The sale continues through December 3 with proceeds aiding transport to sanitoriums and X-ray clinics, while 1 percent funds tuberculin research and educational materials. Mrs. Connors urges participation to curb the preventable disease.
Cowboys ride with feet deep in stirrups and high boot heels to prevent feet slipping through during rough riding and uncertain mounts.
Stata Point Pleasant reports the Presbyterian Church Senior Choir will perform the Christmas cantata Followers of the Star by William H. Neidlinger at the 11 a.m. service next Sunday. The nine part work features local choir members including Le Mas Charles Gammon and Mrs. Cary H Rayburn among sopranos altos tenors and basses. Also noted: Col Richard C Stickney, 63, retired judge at the war trials in the Philippines, died Sunday in Stoneham Massachusetts.
More than 150 people attended the annual Christmas party Saturday evening at Mason County Motor Co for employees of Gallipolis Pomeroy and local firms and their families. The event featured motion pictures humor skits by Gallipolis Motor Co gifts for children from Santa Prizes and dancing. The Ruth Bible Class of Trinity Methodist Church will not meet Thursday evening as scheduled.
A Wesley Circle WSCS gathering at Trinity Methodist Church was set for Tuesday evening but has been canceled. The notice calls members to await rescheduling details.
Joye Skidmore and Nancy Burton of Webster County led 66 vegetable demonstration teams to win high honors in New York City. Barbara Nottingham and Patricia Nottingham from Pocahontas County claimed top in vegetable marketing and finished second in all demonstrations. James and Eleanor Pinnell of Upshire County placed fourth in vegetable marketing among 11 teams.
Ravenswood council discussed final arrangements to obtain power for the proposed Ravenswood plant of the West Virginia Black Rock Co. Two Charleston company representatives attended the meeting. The plant is to be built on the Rose and Ritchie property behind the old power plant near the railroad and is scheduled to begin next month. Routine business and bill payments were handled by council members George Bennett, Claymore Rowley, Kenneth Rector, Kenneth Hutchinson, Sterling Miller, P. B. Harris and R. R. Ward.
Leon Baptist Church in Point Pleasant plans a Christmas program Sunday at 7 30 p m. The junior high and children's groups will perform. A candlelight service begins at 11 p m Christmas Eve and continues past midnight.
The Civil Service Commission on Monday named three eligible candidates for the Chillicothe postmaster position: Paul Frederic Ralston, William Franklin Immell, and Charles ay McCarthy. McCarthy acted as interim postmaster amid 22 applicants.
The Leon Homemakers plan a potluck dinner and Christmas party for members and families at 6 30 p m at the Leon Town Hall. Local residents and visiting relatives, including the Greenlees from Dunbar and the Littles from Dunbar, were seen over the weekend. The McCormicks bought a home on Liberty Avenue in the Country Club Addition and will move soon. Velva Mae and Violet Cossin, Charleston workers, visited Leon parents. Diane Buxton, six, missed school in Leon due to illness.
West Virginia schools spend an average of 76.6 cents per pupil per day, far below the national $1.12. Otto of the state Education Association cites overcrowded classes needing 800 more teachers and calls for broader funding, supplies, transportation, and staff development.
Mason County's newly elected sheriff Charles Roberts announces deputies and staff. Chief office deputy is Charles Osher, with clerk Mrs. John Aten. Griff Durbin Sr. serves as chief deputy and Gary Kapp as deputy. Roberts will assume office January 1 after defeating Ernest Hesson on November 4.
The notice lists multiple adult pairs including John Purnell McGhee 26 of Lakin and Bobbie Lee Amos 25 of Lakin. Paul Edgar Monroe 21 a U S Navy member and Lois Jean Rose 18 of Point Pleasant. Sherwood Yonker 25 of Le tart Route 1 and Evalee Miller 18 of West Columbia. Cris Jackson Adkins Jr 28 of Lockbourne Ohio and Gracie Susan Rainey 22 of Point Pleasant. George Raymond Riley 58 of Chesapeake Ohio and Ira Edith Pinkerman of Point Pleasant.
Point Pleasant Chamber of Commerce voting closes Wednesday. Executive secretary Warren T. King reports 33 of 55 ballots returned. In the six seats for one year, leaders have 22, 21, 20, 19 and two candidates 18. In the two year term, top totals reach 21, 20, 19, 18 with four candidates tied at 17.
Odd Towns list includes Pinch and Comfort in West Virginia Aiken in Texas Payne in Minnesota Little Medicine in Wyoming Doctor Phillips in Florida and Worry in North Carolina, reflecting unusual U S place names.
Hollywood entertainer George Jessel underwent an emergency gallbladder operation today. Reports from Los Angeles indicate the procedure proceeded without complications and he is resting in a private hospital.
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