Point Pleasant Board Approves Junior High Building Plan
The Point Pleasant Board of Education awards an architectural contract for William Frampton to design a two wing junior high addi tion with 10 classrooms per wing and facilities. Aiming for completion by next January the project would add about 45 940 square feet. The board also approved heat insulation plans and a bond issue to fund the project while exploring a Mason County trade school and employment program with 90 percent federal funding.
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Mary Hyre
Point Pleasant
Board of Education
William Frampton
S. D. Littlepage
Point Pleasant Junior High School
Frampton
Wahama Junior High
Out Board
Leon Group
Lionel Keefer
Wade Seadler
Roy McKinney
Mason County
Mason County Action Group
Wahama and
Hannan High School
Hannan
Wahama
Point Council Abandons Several Alleys
City Council opened bids for a Farmall Cub tractor and a 1951 2 ton dump truck, awarding the tractor to Wahama Athletic Boosters Association for 356.75 and the truck to J. L. Watterson for 179. The council also announced the abandonment of several alleys in a housing development and reviewed police and city finances including a 12 thousand dollar Case 1000 bulldozer purchase and a committee to seek competitive garbage truck bids.
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Point Pleasant
Wahama Athletic Boosters Association
J. L. Watterson
Decatur St
First
Second Sts
Walnut
Decatur
Ray Stewart
Stewart Equipment Co
Charleston
Charles Fowler
Arlin Hall
Tommy Holland
Holland
James Chaddock
Louis Rossi
Charles Cottrill
Sears opens Gallipolis store with local manager Krawsczyn
Sears Roe Buck and Co announces John Kowsczyn of 300 Broadway Middleport named manager of the new Gallipolis catalog sales office. Grand opening February 18 at 435 Second Ave in a new 35 by 115 foot building. Store hours, local hires, and teletyp e link to Chicago plant boost delivery speed.
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Gallipolis
John Kowsczyn
Broadway
Middleport
Sears, Roebuck and Co
J. R. Johns
Chicago
Krawsczyn
Second Ave
C. H. McKenzie
Morris E. Haskins
John W. O'Dell
Sears
Arlene Roush
Kay Vornhult
Marilene Settle
Prudence Humphreys
Joy Swain
Ramona de Sena
Ellen M. Saunders
Hazel
Heath Methodist Church
Cub Scouts
PTA
The
Athletic Association
Billie Jo Houchins
Vinton
John
David
Mary
Martha
Six Past Presidents Honored At Washington Founders Day
Washington Elementary PTA observed Founders Day with 73 attendees in the school cafeteria. Nine past presidents were recognized, and the meeting featured a color film about the PTA’s aims and achievements, a pledge, and forthcoming bi annual PTA Fair.
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Washington
Gallipolis
Parent
Miles T. Epling
Founders Day
PTA
Neil H. Sanders
Epling
Carroll K. Snowden
D. Hollis Wood
John H. Evans
Raymond Gooch
Jack Knight
B. B. Matthews
Harold Wiseman
John D. North
Keith R. Brandeberry
Edwin Edelblute
Snowden
John F. Groth, Jr
Arden Dobson
Mothersingers
Neal B. Clark
Betty Kyger
Marjorie Conley
Donald M. Robinson
T. Jay Bradshaw
Geneva Howell
Robert W. Cobb
Cobb
Principal Franklin Names Honor Roll at Point Pleasant
Nineteen students named to the A honor roll for the third six weeks under Principal Benjamin Franklin IV at Point Pleasant. The list includes Mickie Yester Geraldine Keffer Donna Darst Susan Darst Sarah Dunn Cheryl Monroe Sandra Reynolds Sharon Sturgeon Brenda Swaim Penny Proffitt Marie Mohr Sue Kapp Pamela Buffington Robert Tillis Larry Morgan Michael Bressing Frederick Schultz Kerry Jarrell Ricky Northup.
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Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant High School
Benjamin Franklin, IV
Mickie Yester
Geraldine Keffer
Donna Darst
Susan Darst
Sarah Dunn
Cheryl Monroe
Sandra Reynolds
Sharon Sturgeon
Brenda Swaim
Penny Proffitt
Marie Mohr
Sue Kapp
Pamela Buffington
Robert Tillis
Larry Morgan
Michael Bressing
Frederick Schultz
Kerry Jarrell
Ricky Northup
Appalachian Power seeks 249000 rate cut in West Virginia
Appalachian Power Co filed with the West Virginia Public Service Commission for a roughly 249000 annual rate reduction to take effect with April bills. About 174000 of the savings would favor residential customers with commercial cuts of 75000. The company also seeks reductions for electrically heated Virginia schools, projecting 27000 yearly savings to 17 schools, with a March 31 public hearing set. A separate Gallipolis report notes a deer-vehicle collision on Route 35 near Route 160 with minor damage to a Game Protector and minor traffic incident.
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Point Pleasant
Appalachian Power Co
West Virginia Public Service Commission
West Virginia
Joe P. Gill
Appalachian Power
Appalachian
Gill
Deeae
Public Service Commission
Virginia
Gallipolis
State Highway Patrol
John M
Kenneth L. Tomlinson
Holzer Hospital Founding Recalls 1910 Establishment
Dr Charles E Holzer Jr recounted his father’s founding of Holzer Hospital in 1910 at a Future Nurses of America Club meeting in David Hall Gallia Academy High School. The talk covered the hospital’s growth from a residence to a 200 bed, four story facility with 135 beds after 1926 and a 1959 expansion, plus the 1956 nurses residence and school. The FNA plans to start hospital work on February 8 in full dress uniform.
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Gallipolis
Charles E. Holzer, Jr
Holzer Hospital
Gallia Academy High School
Future Nurses of America Club
David Hall
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
Charles E. Holzer
Columbus
Ohio Hospital For
School of Nursing
John W. Rafferty
FNA
World Service Day Observed At Heights EUB Church
WSCS members led a devotional during World Service Day at Heights EUB Church with Mrs. Florence Love as leader. The church calendar announced a Friendship Class meeting, midweek prayer service, and a bridal shower all at 7 30 p m. Future events include a conference accent tour to Bellemeade Church on March 16. Harry Godfrey underwent surgery in Savannah Ga. Rev W S Bullips preached the morning service and Rev McCoy closed with a prayer.
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Point Pleasant
Heights
Eub
Women’s Society of World Service
Florence Love
Roy McCoy
Ann Cottrill
Ing
Harry Godfrey
Heights Church
South
Warren Candler
Savannah
W. S. Bullips
Come
Terry
Mary Wilcoxen
Jesus
Pleasant Valley Hospital Births and Admissions
Mr and Mrs Robert Stutler Leon welcomed a daughter. Admitted were Mrs Garland VanSickle Gallipolis Owen Plants Leon Howard Evans Jackson Ohio and Gregory Stalnaker Point Pleasant.
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Robert Stutler
Leon
Garland VanSickle
Gallipolis
Owen Plants
Howard Evans
Jackson
Ohio
Gregory Stalnaker
Point Pleasant
Clarence E. Yairchild
Gary E. Winters
Golden Cremeens, Sr
Buffalo
W. Va
James A. Conley
Ashland
Marlin A. Hambrick
Wellston
Jesse G. Johnson
Dennis J. Martin
Eureka Star
Raymond S. Barton
Reedsville
Paul M. Parsons
Racine
Owen H. Wilbur
Hamden
Larry W. Thompson
Albert Roush
Middleport
Stanley Watts
Crown City
Charles R. Duncan
Michael E. Elliott
Osa M. Thompson
McKinley McDade
Clawson Roush
Letart
Myrtle Scott
Blackfork
Charles O. Swick
Vinton
Eva L. Waters
Dundas
Bernard J. Boggs
Bidwell Eee
Laura Saunders
John Rai
Cars Collide Near Bank in Gallipolis
Nancy Bass 40 and Marie Froidiveaux 70 of Gallipolis were in a T bone collision on Third Ave in front of Ohio Valley Bank at 12 45 pm Monday. Minor damage with no injuries. Froidiveaux cited for left of center at Municipal Court on Wednesday.
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Gallipolis
Nancy E. Bass
Bidwell
Marie K. Froidiveaux
Third Ave
Ohio Valley Bank
Birth announcements from Holzer Hospital in Gallia and Jackson
A list of newborns from Holzer Hospital including infants born to Yairchild Winters and many others across Gallia Jackson Wellston and surrounding areas. The McArthur Vinton drive up window opens earlier at 8 a.m. daily with regular hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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McArthur
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