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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1969
Page
8
A fragmented TV guide entry lists Julio Merv Griffin Love Lucy News ABC News Frank Reynolds and a Music segment in a shuffled schedule. The readable items hint at a mix of talk shows entertainment and news blocks for an unspecified date.
A dense drift of program listings shows morning through evening lineups with shows including Today Show, CBS News, Captain Kangaroo, Captain Kangeroo, Lucy Show, Jeopardy, The Days of Our Lives, Match Game, Perry Mason, Gilligan's Island, Merv Griffin, and more. Credits indicate network slides, host names, and time slots across broad midday to night hours.
TV schedule highlights include Ohio State vs Purdue basketball on channel 4 with CBS news segments on 6 and 13. Other programs feature Mod Squad 13 and Jerry O’Neil, Red Skelton, The French Chef, and Moe Luddy special. Stations listed: WSAZ NBC Huntington WLWC NBC Columbus WTVN ABC Columbus etc.
A late night cinema guide lists showings from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. including Beer Geste with Stockwell Nielsen and Savalas, Moloya with Spencer and Hodick, The Breaking Point with Garfield, Five Against the House Part 2, Cost Long Shadow, The Restless Breed, Written on the Wind, Any Second Now, Fired Bayonets, The Reven, and The Wrong Arm of the Law with cast members such as Hudson Malone, Granger Campanella, Sellers Jeffries and Lugosi in assorted drama, western, and comedy features.
A color prime lineup features Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In with Davy Jones as a game show contestant, Romeo and a Columbus ship sailor, and Mad Mad World saluting Valentine’s Day with the cast performing Hello Love and Marriage. At 10 p.m. ABC News presents Heart Attack narrated by E. G. Marshal detailing four cardiac patients and the hospital staff at Good Samaritan Los Angeles.
White Fury a color adventure film about the world's largest bear runs daily at Athena Theater with showings at 2 3 50 5 40 7 35 and 9 30 p.m. Candy a satirical adult comedy stars Eva Aulin with Burton Brando Matthau Coburn Starr Azavour Huston showing at Varsity Theater weeknights 7 30 9 30 weekend 2 7 30 9 30. Mason County sheriff investigates one car crash at 2 55 a m Sunday near Hartford. driver Charles W Hargraves 23 Mason sustained a broken arm. no citation issued.
Mason County Health Department reports a drive on dental hygiene with 172 elementary students screened across 23 schools and 49 referred for further check. Immunizations totaled 116, 54 attended the X ray clinic, and 104 home visits supported county health needs.
Point Pleasant Mason County Chamber of Commerce directors finalize plans for the annual banquet at Pleasant Point Resort Tuesday at 6 30 p m Carl Cook and Wendell G Mardton of the West Virginia Extension Service discuss enhanced business management courses with sponsors A candidate for the Strawberry Festival queen at Bukannon is to be sought and the chamber will sponsor the 1969 Mason County Fair queen contest
Mason County Sheriffs Office reported two arrests by Point Pleasant City Police James Leonard 39 Hogsett arrested for intoxication and Cecil Dishman 31 Point Pleasant arrested for intoxication One arrest was made by Mason City Police Wesley Gibbs 20 Mason arrested for intoxication All arrests occurred on a Saturday night.
A Sunday morning blaze at Pleasant Ridge Church in Point Pleasant caused about $500 in damage. No occupants were inside. Cause undetermined as three Point Pleasant firefighters and one truck responded at 10 a.m.
Mason County Postmasters Association met at the Tu Endie Wei Manor to plan a Washington Birthday Dinner and social hour on February 22 at Pleasant Point Resort. They urged rural patrons to mark boxes with owner name and box number and keep flags painted red to ensure prompt delivery amid possible substitute rural carriers. Attending postmasters included Nina Bowles, Elma Higginbotham, Edward Rickard, Rosella Stewart, Ann Blake, Audrey Blessing, Margaret Lambert, Stephen Moore, Blain Mohr, Dallas Walker, Edyth Rogers, and G. A. Biggs.
The Mason County Democratic Womens Organization met in the Mason County courthouse to review a year of social events. A Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner was tentatively set for April 19 with a bake sale planned for February 22 at Point Service. Betty Gill will visit Point Pleasant Club in March to discuss the Federated Democratic Women charter, with a dinner at Gene Ball's restaurant to follow. Plans also include a teenage group named TADS and door prizes at meetings.
West Virginia state police and Mason County Sheriff's Department investigate two hit and run accidents Friday night. An unknown driver struck a sign and damaged the Pleasant Point Resort grounds at 3:50 a.m. Saturday. Ronald J. Maezullo of New Kensington Pennsylvania reported a sideswipe on Route 17 near Point Pleasant Friday with no stop.
The 1944 Point Pleasant High School graduating class holds its first planning committee meeting for a 25th reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G Mohr 3105 Ratner Lane. All class members are invited.
Robey Shep herd, 30, of Shelby Route 3, was returned by the sheriff’s department on a non-support charge. He was held to the grand jury in Municipal Court and bond set at $500. Charles Cragg of Bidwell and Chris Anderson of Gallipolis were fined $30 and costs on intoxication charges and sent to jail for non-payment of fines.
Mason County Tuberculosis and Health Association will hold a special board of directors meeting Monday at 2 p.m. in the Point Pleasant city building. A January committee nominated officers, and a February meeting will elect board members with expiring terms and appoint committees for the fiscal year. All members are urged to attend.
Admitted list includes Ben Kesterson Pomeroy. Mrs Rose Perkins Point Pleasant. Howard Greenlee Point Pleasant. Mrs Paul Roush Point Pleasant. Mrs Manford Hutton Middleport. Homer Gardner Point Pleasant. Mrs Jack Henricks Point Pleasant. Andrew McCallister Gallipolis Ferry. Patricia Dodger Point Pleasant. Melanie Rollins Point Pleasant. Worthy Jeffers Clenwood. Mrs David Mullins Point Pleasant. Walter Donahue Charles Fluhrdy. Delmar Dawson. William Oldaker. Mrs Orville Williams. Mrs Jerry Searles and son. Mrs John Elliot. Dolph Hill. Mrs Randall Woodall. Henry Reitmire. Mrs Russell Patterson.
Flora B. Null 86 of Route 1 Scottown suffers a hip fracture from a February 7 fall at her residence. She is hospitalized at Holzer Hospital for treatment.
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