Valentine Party Staged by Point Pleasant Women
The Women’s Association of Point Pleasant hosted a Valentine party with hostesses Miss Helen Oseland and six others. Guests played games and won prizes for several players. Refreshments were served.
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Point Pleasant
Women’s Association of
Helen Oseland
Wilma Jarvis
Donna Hern
Ruby Pendleton
Sue White
Nancy Watson
Miss Oseland
Lillian Swisher
Oseland
Lillianda Scarberry
Opel Beckner
Hazel Ewing
Stella Rose
McArthur Student Honored by Ohio State University
Donna Chesser of McArthur will join 385 other OSU honor students at the President's Scholarship Recognition dinner on February 24. She attended McArthur High School and made the honor roll in both 1963 spring and autumn quarters, while living at 306 North Sugar Street with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Chesser.
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McArthur
Donna Chesser
N. Sugar Sr
Marvin Chesser
Ohio State University
OSU
Chesser
Pythian 591 Sisters Elect New Officers
Wilkesville Pythian Sisters No. 591 met February 7 with the newly elected officers presiding. Robbie Good as Excellent Chief Betty Poun Excellent Senior Mabel Wood Excellent Junior Zelda Hall manager Neva Metz secretary Jeurell Strong treasurer Thelma Campbell Protector and Oran Cottrill Guard. They set meetings for the first Friday of each month and donated to the Heart Fund and March of Dimes.
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Wilkesville
Wilkesville Pythian Sisters No. 591
Robbie Good
Betty Poun
Mabel Wood
Zelda Hall
Neva Metz
Jeurell Strong
Thelma Campbell
Oran Cottrill
Makes His First Parachute Jump by Navy Apprentice
McARTHUR Airman apprentice Roy D. Waldron, U S Navy, made his first parachute jump with a self packed chute. He attends the parachute rigger school at Lakehurst NJ and learns to pack chutes and maintain survival gear for aviators. McARTHUR Villages in Vinton County received 1774 in gasoline excise taxes from the state with townships getting 1200 each and the county 20000 in the first 1964 distribution.
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Young Waldron
Charles Waldron Jr
Hamden
Navy
Naval Air Technical Training Unit
Lakehurst
N. J
Mcarthur
Vinton County
Helium Found in Sun Before Earth Detected
The element helium was first observed in the solar spectrum in 1868, appearing years before its identification on Earth. This solar discovery marked a key step in recognizing a new noble gas.
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Earth
City Offices Move as New Municipal Building Planned
City water works and Mayor Virgil Siders offices relocate to Fifth Street while a new city hall and central fire station are built on the current site. The project costs about 400000 dollars with 300000 from a federal grant. Fire equipment has moved to Carpenters Hall on Jackson Avenue. The completed building will house water works council chambers fire equipment sleeping quarters for firemen and city offices. Kimberly Most Famous: There is a wider open diamond mine than the Kimberly Premier near Pretoria.
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Point Pleasant
City Water Works
Virgil Siders
Fifth St
City Hall
Carpenters
Jackson Ave
Kimberly
Kimberley
Pretoria
Nancy Blain Engaged To James V. Blevins
Nancy Blain daughter of Mr and Mrs H O Blain of South Side becomes engaged to 2nd Lieutenant James V Blevins son of Mrs Ida Blevins of Gallipolis. Blain is a Point Pleasant High School and Holzer Hospital School of Nursing alumna now nursing instructor. Blevins a Wheelwright Ky native, Ohio University BA in 1963 and Air Force ROTC distinguished graduate, stationed at Elgin AFB Florida as manpower officer. May wedding planned.
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Point Pleasant
H. O. Blain
South Side
Nancy
James V. Blevins
Ida Blevins
Gallipolis
Virgil Blevins
Miss Blain
Point Pleasant High School
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
School of Nursing
Lieut. Blevins
Wheelwright High School
Wheelwright, Ky
Ohio
the Messenger
Athens
Page 7 University
Air Force
Elgin Air Force Base
Fla
Richmond Minister Returns for Tri State Preaching Mission
Dr. R Stuart Grizzard of Richmond Virginia will speak Wednesday night as the fourth presenter in a week long cooperative religious effort. The sessions at Trinity Methodist Church begin 730 PM with Grizzard joined by Dr John H Leith Dr G Curtis Jones and Dr Wallace Cappell in afternoon chapel meetings at Rio Grande College and evening services in Point Pleasant. Grizzard has held leadership posts in Virginia Baptist groups and served on Southern Baptist Convention boards. Sargent Shriver was sworn in Tuesday as special assistant to President Johnson to direct the anti poverty campaign.
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Point Pleasant
Wallace Cappell
Rio Grande College
Grizzard
Baptist General Association of Virginia
Southern Baptist Convention
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Vinton County Board of Elections
Saratoga
N.Y
French Lick
Ind
Hot Springs
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Pythian
Sisters
Heart Fund
March of Dimes
Nancy Blain
Richmond
Shriver
Washington
Sargent Shriver
President Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Caroline
John
Federal City
J.F.K
Jacqueline Kennedy Eoritic
Glouster
Hanley
George
Group
No. Il
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