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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1976
Page
7
Testimony begins in the aggravated murder case of 18 year old Joseph Vickroy of New Lexington Route 1. Logan police describe the scene at Leroy Poling’s trailer and the evidence including a butcher knife shotgun and blood stained clothing.
Memories and leftovers filled homes as 1976 ended while millions sought post holiday bargains. Pope Paul VI delivered a Christmas message urging compassion. IRA hinted at holiday truce. Lebanon saw a Palestinian leader killed amid regional calm. Ford enjoyed skiing in Vail as 400 die in holiday traffic. Carter’s daughter Amy brought cheer with a doll house and white telephone.
A detailed forecast notes yesterday’s high 37 and low 10 with precipitation 0.07 inches and total yearly rainfall 40.98 inches. Light snow possible tonight across southeast Ohio with 50 percent chance, and a 30 percent chance Tuesday. Central and lake shore areas show 1 to 3 inches by evening with varying snow chances and wind speeds 15 to 25 knots.
Ida Hays, sixteen, reported her Christmas was great after a 10-hour operation to correct severe orbital hypertelorism at NYU Hospital. Surgeons removed the deformed bone moved her eyes closer together and used hip bone to fill gaps. total costs funded by Eastern Oregon fund drives totaling over 10 000 dollars.
A hospital notes page records numerous births in Athens Chauncey and Nelsonville including a son for Mr and Mrs Cochran and for Mr and Mrs Rieff. multiple other families from Glouster Guysville Albany and Logan. Dismissals include Roger Cade Steven Dyla and Mrs Huffman with Mount St Mary. admissions list Mex Amy Monk Nelsonville Nedra Smith Logan Ernest Showborn Glouster and several others.
Obituaries report Bette Upton Chaffee of Reedsville Route 1 dying December 17 in a Bremerhaven Germany hospital after a brief illness. Survives include husband Kenneth, daughter Kenda, parents Benjamin and Iva Upton, siblings, and grandparents. Services Tuesday 1 PM at White Funeral Home Coolville. Burial Meigs Memory Gardens Chester. Also noted are deaths of John A Fisher in Pomeroy, Ethel Jeffers in Pomeroy, and Arnold Ray Jividen in Gallipolis with funeral arrangements and survivors listed.
Terry Dane Richie 31 of Crown City Route 2 died Christmas morning in a fire aboard the Dr. Johnson anchored along the Alleghany River in Pittsburgh. Cigarettes found in his cabin may have started the flames. He was a Campbell Barge Lines employee and member of the Gallipolis Eagles Lodge. Survived by three brothers and four sisters with several relatives. Services set for Tuesday at 1 pm. at Waugh Halley Wood Funeral Home. burial in Swan Creek Cemetery.
Mr and Mrs Robert Finney appear with Logan residents Mrs Giladys Lehman Mrs James Barnhart George Ruff Charlies Hoops and Mrs Helen Riddlebarger. Also named are Logan residents Raymond Smith Mrs Lawrence Davis and Mrs Irwin Gortney and son.
Local clubs and meetings include Glouster Kiwanis at 6pm and Al-Anon at 7pm at Hotel and Church of the Good Shepherd lounge. Paramathia Lodge 25 F&AM hosts Entered Apprentice degree at Athens Masonic Temple. Boy Scouts and OES chapter meet in Glouster Masonic Temple.
Charlotte Gull of 1249 Charlies St and Zandra La Form of 38 E Second St face actions for extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty respectively. Harold KR Gill and Donald LaForm appear as the filing parties from 1249 Charles St and Columbus. DISSOLUTIONS: Cormna Fain and Michael Fain at 38320 Price Road.
Senior Mo Sgt Harold F Halley son of Emmett Halley of Gallipolis has graduated from the Air Force Senior NCO Academy at Gunter AFS and returns to Wright-Patterson AFB as superintendent of Computer Operations with a unit of the Air Force Logistics Command. Sgt Halley is a 1953 Gala Academy High School graduate and attended Minot State College. His wife Jule is the daughter of Mrs A Volk of Minot NU. The Air Force Commendation Medal was presented to Sgt William K Dickson son of Mr and Mrs Wilbur C Jackson of Point Pleasant in Little Rock AR for meritorious service as an avionics Navigation systems technician now at Little Rock with a Military Airlift Command unit. Dickson is a 1969 Point Pleasant High School graduate. his wife Joy is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Miller of Hawthorne CA. T Sgt Searle L Nelson son of Mrs Bertha L Nelson of Charleston has been assigned to KI Sawyer AFB MI after serving at Aviano AB Italy as a ground radio communications equipment technician with the 2001st Communications Squadron. His wife Carolyn is the daughter of Mrs Marie Shaw of 2905 Meadowbrook Drive in Point Pleasant.
About 500 swimmers braved 46 degree temperatures at the 18th annual Boxing Day polar bear swim in Departure Bay Nanaimo. They received two silver dollars each, heard Hawaiian music and dancers, and watched by roughly 2,000 spectators as ice and bonfires battled the cold.
Emergency runs reported by the Athens Fire Squad on Sunday at 12.0 percent amid an incident involving Zachary Clemons and a medical emergency referenced at Mewart and OBlenes Streets.
Authorities in McArthur Vinton County pursue the shooting death of Tommy R Thompson 18 on holiday furlough believed to be either self inflicted or accidental The investigation by Sheriff Jerrold Martin has no arrests and awaits autopsy results from Harriton County and lab tests from the Southeast Ohio Regional Crime Laboratory at Hocking Technical College Readings at the scene were performed by technicians from the lab.
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