Mason County Fair Plans Youth Participation
Mason County Fair Association advances youth involvement with equal voting rights for Junior Fair Board members and a nine member board split among 4H, Future Farmers, and Future Homemakers. Youth directors to serve three year staggered terms with alternates elected. Additional recommendations include expanded parking with 75 cent car fee, unchanged admission prices, limited Western and Country entertainment, a stall fee for livestock exhibits, and a Feb 16 board meeting at the fairgrounds office.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Fair Association
Junior Fair Board
Fair Association
Tubby Fitzrandolph
Junior Fair
Mason County
Future Farmers of America
Fitzrandolph
Board of
Howard Price
The
Board of Directors
Fairgrounds
Firm Writes Papers For College Students
New Haven report traces a Bridgeport firm Weinstein Research Agency that prints 6000 term papers yearly for Yale Connecticut University of Bridgeport and more. The venture offers 10 writers per staff and guarantees on time delivery but not grades, with past papers found at Yale and Bridgeport.
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New Haven
Ym. Weinstein
Yale Daily News
Weinstein
Miami
University of Bridgeport
Yale
Bridgeport
William McBride
Weinstien
Truck Slides and Turns Over Near Point Pleasant
A tractor trailer owned by Hennis Freight Lines of Winston Salem North Carolina jackknifed on Route 35 nine miles south of Point Pleasant. Driver Charles T. Cofort 39 of Salem NC escaped injury. The truck rolled onto its left side after braking to avoid a turning vehicle. Damages were about $8000. Sheriff’s deputies blamed slippery road conditions. No citations were issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Hennis Freight Lines
Winston Salem
N. C
Charles T. Cofort
Salem
N.C
Cofort
Lance Williams
Mason County Sheriff's Department
Vinton Social Roundup Sees Local Visits
Mrs Eleanor White notes visits in Vinton as Mr and Mrs Bill Ewing and daughter from Columbus call on Mr and Mrs Granville Casto. The Vinton American Legion Auxiliary met at Stevens Insurance Office with 11 members present. Mrs Lola Gooch returns home after weeks with the Bush family. Mrs Vernoka Waugh and Mrs Hattie Waugh of Bidwell visit Mrs Anna Higgins. Mrs Judy Glen and Susan see Mrs Sharon Tackett of Bidwell.
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Vinton
Bill Ewing
Columbus
Granville Casto
Vinton American Legion Auxiliary
Stevens Insurance Office
Lola Gooch
Dale MacMillian and Sons
Mrs
James Bush
Vernoka Waugh
Hattie Waugh
Bidwell
Anna Higgins
Judy Glen
Susan
Sharon Tackett
Mason County Sheriff’s January Activity Log Released
The Mason County Sheriff's Department released its January activity report. Officers traveled 7,850 miles on official business, investigated 23 accidents with eight injuries, and recorded property damage of 21,850 dollars. Citations for vehicles totaled 10 with 30 misdemeanor arrests and no felonies. Eighty eight court papers were served and 15 justice of the peace warrants issued. Thirty five persons were booked and four break ins were investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Mason County
Baptist Minister Urges Outreach Beyond Walls
In Dallas the Rev. Vic Jackopson, once a London gang leader and now a Baptist minister, urged a group that the church fulfills its ministry only by relating to people who would not attend otherwise.
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Dallas
Vic Jackopson
Retardation Group Reviews Education Plans at Mason County
Mason County Association for Retarded Children met at Appalachian Auditorium with Mrs. David Gainer presiding. Sally Lou Darst discussed a teen youth group and led a program on Curriculum for Special Education outlining four objectives: self realization, human relationships, economic efficiency, and civic responsibility. Hostesses were Mrs. Suzanne Henderson and Mrs. Louise Longstaff.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Association For Retarded Children
Appalachian Auditorium
David Gainer
Dis
Sally Lou Darst
Henderson Elementary
Jaycees Plan Smoker For Vremiership
Point Pleasant Jaycees revise by laws at regular meeting held at Pleasant Point Resort. Reports on the May 14 scholarship pageant with awards of 250 and 100 dollars. Admission fees for the pageant lowered. Dale Miller attends seeking membership. Gallipolis Jaycees members Bill Heider Dale Salisbury and Dick Jones present. A membership smoker is planned for February 23 at the Pleasant Point Resort, closing a two week drive starting February 9.
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Point Pleasant
Pleasant Point Resort
Car collision in Point Pleasant leaves minor damage
Gladis Irene Barrett a 33 year old from Middleport stopped at Route 27 and Jackson Avenue when rear ended by John H Caudill 38 of Point Pleasant. $50 damage no injuries no citations. In Springfield Missouri the Assemblies of God launches a $50000 Bible fund for Burma a Buddhist country closed to Christian missionaries since 1966.
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Point Pleasant
Gladis Irene Barrett
Middleport
Route 27
Jackson Avenue
John H. Caudill
Springfield
Assemblies of God
Burma
Measles Poster Winners Named in West Virginia Contest
Forty five Mason County elementary students earned local honors in a German Measles Poster Contest run with the West Virginia State Department of Education. Finalists will receive state certificates. statewide judging is set for March 10 in Charleston.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
West Virginia State Department of Education
State Health Department
Charleston
Tim Nibert
Robert Messick
Becle School
Kenneth Young
Lisa von Matre Hartford
Donne Thomas Lee
Patrick Kearns
Mason
Jeffery Clendenin
Natalie Spears
Billings
Artie Vaughan
Terese Bowser
Tammy Foriey
Cathy Young
North Point Pleasant
Valerie Durst
Roosevelt
Carla Finley
Sunnyside
Smith Named Heart Fund Campaign Chairman in 1970 Drive
J Calvin Smith of the Pantasote Co. will chair the Heart Days for business and industry in Mason County. Mrs. Lawrence Gerlach Jr. notes the campaign marks the first major activity of the 1970 Heart Fund and cites a 20 percent drop in heart disease mortality since 1950 alongside the ongoing toll and $4 billion annual economic loss from heart disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Hill Business Investment
J. Calvin Smith
Pantasote Co
Heart Fund
Lawrence Gerlach, Jr
Point Pleasant
Lawrence Gerlach Jr
Mason County Heart Fund
The
Heart Days
Smith
Ameri
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Earl Gault
Charles Chambers
Kenneth Burn
Pleasant Valley Hospital
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Gallipolis Ferry
Kimberly Deem
Pomeroy
Kenneth Gillenwater
South Side
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David Adkinson
Myrtle Davis
Buffalo
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William Short
Ferris Hill
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Ralph Mayes
Roy McCarty
Matilda Butcher
Eleanor White
Gang
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Logan, Ohio
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Jaycees
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Beale
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Broad Run
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Shawn Huffman
Central
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Tanna Pierson
Leon
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Tonya Kinneird
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Vicky Long
Terese Fisher
Sunreyside
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Michael Gibson
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