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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1963
Page
2
Readers share practical thrift ideas from wedding prep to baby care. Use five yards white nylon net as tablecloth at the reception then repurpose for household tasks and doll veils. Also notes on clipping shower caps and making fitted crib sheets from torn linens. Princess Anne Marie weighs in Athens weighing joke.
The League of Women Voters discussed four urgent city needs from Mayor Raymond Shepard’s 1962 report: more off street parking, sewage plant upgrades, city hall repairs, and a new fire station. Plans include buying adjacent lots for 30 more parking spaces and funding sewage improvements with possible 50 percent federal urban renewal grants.
The university will establish an electronic computer operation center for undergraduates aided by a $25,000 NSF grant. The foundation will match the amount with its own development funds to support the project on campus.
Twenty one members attended Higley Study Circle at Mrs. H. A. Thomas home. Plans were made for the February luncheon at Baker Center on Wednesday February 20. Mrs. Ralph Camp reviewed Grace Coolidge and Her Era. Athens Grange degree practice set for Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Grange Hall.
The Tuesday listings include Athena Delphian and Senior CCL at Baker Center, WSCS church activities with Dr Harold W Brown, Progressive Literary Club in Cline Building, Good Luck Garden Club at Athens State Hospital, Athens Duplicate Bridge Club, Troy Grange degree work, New Marshfield CES lectures, Maecenas Literary Club, Albany VFW Auxiliary, Plains Home Demonstration on Soaps, and a Turkey Dinner at Rutland Methodist Church with tickets $1.25 adults 75 cents children.
The university and Ohio University Convocations present The Turn of the Screw, an Britten opera in prologue and two acts, at Memorial Auditorium Wednesday at 8 p.m. Major roles include Patricia Neway, Richard Cassilly, Bruce Zacariades, and Rita Loving. Student tickets are fifty cents. non students pay $2. reserved seats $2.50.
Speaking Personally notes Machinist Mate Ralph Rodehaver son of Mr and Mrs Harry Rodehaver Ath ens Route 4 stationed aboard the U S S Sea Robin in the Mediterranean for a four month assignment. His wife Nita Tucker and their two children Judy and James stay in Norwich Conn Rodehaver has ten years in Navy.
Advert reads a slim casual dress pattern 4982 with a dashing scarf neckline in half sizes and yardage details. It notes prices, mailing costs, and how to order from Anne Adams at the Athens Messenger pattern department in New York with a Spring-Summer catalog offer.
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