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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1952
Page
3
County teachers principals and supervisory staff members concluded spelling is a key subject. Pronunciation word meaning and dictionary use were urged as aids to spelling. Spelling should be integrated with other subjects and practiced in oral and written drills.
In POINT PLEASANT Mrs. C. P. Stout president of the Mason County Tuberculosis Association urged that 1952 Christmas Seal returns are still welcome though the sale closed. The sale ran Nov 17 to Dec 25 with a $1750 goal and $1445 raised so far for 1953 TB control efforts.
A Meigs County period overview lists April through May happenings including school performances by Racine Glee Club and Middleport High School, parking meter talks, local fire damages at Farmers Feed and Supply, fatal auto accident involving Hazel Tucker, Tommy Justis rescue by Pomeroy Emergency Squad, May Queen selection, senior girl banquet, albino foal birth near Harrisonville, spring concert, stolen auto report, area voter turnout, leadership updates in the Meigs Junior Chamber, scholarship rankings, awards days, and multiple high school graduations and memorial services.
The Point Pleasant Chamber of Commerce will stage its annual dinner meeting on Tuesday February 3 at the Moose Home. Dr Arthur E Beckett of Huntington First Methodist Church will speak. President Roy W Ehenaur will report the board, new directors will be installed, and a program of work for the incoming administration will be outlined.
Mrs. Edward Engel of Pliny and Mrs. Fred Long of Apple Grove are listed for surgical procedures. Mrs. John Cheesebrew of Point Pleasant Route 2 and Mrs. Robert Nowline Jr of Pliny are noted, along with Stephen Smith of Leon.
Mrs. Neil Connors, chairman of American Indians for the Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter DAR, asks members to bring clothing and household articles to the January meeting at 902 Main St. for assembling a care box to ship to Bacone Indian Orphanage in Oklahoma.
Meigs county draft officials announced six local men will undergo physicals for the armed forces in January. On January 6 two men receive medical exams and on January 8 four men will be inducted.
Ramon Frederick Grady 38 of Elmwood and Virgie Buck 38 of Grimm's Landing. Charles Staats 25 of Letart Route 2 and Leota McDade 22 of Leon. Clmo Lee Cundiff 23 of Mason and oe Ann Russell 17 of West Columbia. Kenneth Jess Stewart 22 of West Columbia and Arizona Browning 21 of Hartford. Parker Chapman 48 of Ashton and Augusta Ball 26 of Ashton.
New Haven hosts a influx of relatives and servicemen for Christmas. Marion Dingy Columbus a guest of aunt Mrs Pud Hubbard after two years in the Air Force. Several locals and travelers including Lt Bill Harrah Fort Benning and H M Baldwin Jr Gallipolis visit, with other families hosting and students returning from colleges for the holidays.
POMEROY Three men were fined 25 dollars and costs plus one dollar per mile over the limit under a new crackdown on speeders in Pomeroy. Rudy Strauss Wheeling WV was fined 35 dollars and costs along with Richard Schaffer Tea WV Frye Rutland and John Arnold Racine were fined 30 to 35 dollars and costs. Mayor Canaday said the new ruling will be imposed on all offenders to stop the highway slaughter.
George Nichols of Mossman Circle won first prize of 25 dollars in the Christmas outdoor lighting contest co sponsored by the Point Pleasant Jaycees and Point Pleasant Register. Harry Snead of English Court took second with 15 dollars and Mrs. H. E. Costen of Park Drive earned third with 10 dollars. Honorable mention of 5 dollars went to Mrs. A. E. Thomas of Park Drive, Tommy Kirk, and Edgar Roberts.
Dr. Rogers W. Harshbarger sues Marquarete Dawley and Waldo Smith for $25,000 over a shooting and wounding at Carmar Farms on Shadle Road during a fall visit. Plaintiff's attorneys are Poffenbarger and Bowles of Charleston.
A record lists patients from Meigs General Hospital including Rickey Stupeck Middleport and Frances Simmons Rutland with several others. It notes a birth to Mr and Mrs Robert Hawley Pomeroy and multiple discharges including Perry Durham Rickey Stupeck Eugene Smith J A Allen and others with babies among the released.
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