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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1964
Page
9
Mason County Board of Health tentatively approves a 32 026 dollar budget for the Health Department an increase of 3136.64 dollars from last year. The rise funds additional personnel expansions programs and merit pay. Seventy percent comes from county and city sources with the state supplying the remaining forty percent.
Miss Emma Sue Kincaid daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayne Kincaid was installed as worthy advisor of Assembly 23 Order of Rainbow for Girls in a ceremony Monday evening at the Masonic Temple Installing officer was Janet McDaniel marshal Betty Thomas chaplain Lois Jean Monroe recorder Mrs Janett Capehart and musician Francis Kooken Jeannie Casto was installed as worthy associate advisor Other officers installed were Opal Rose Charity Nancy Uhl Hope Joyce Stewart Faith Janet Daniel secretary and Sue Kapp treasurer Appointed officers installed included Linda Thomas chaplain Diane Stevens drill leader Marjorie Head Love Judy Holmes religion Darlene Nibert nature Sheila Smith immortality Sally Redman fidelity Nora Litchfield patriotism Linda Bailey service Marie Mohr confidential observer Elizabeth Burcham outer observer Francis Kooken musician Carla Greer choir director Judy Greenlee rose lecturer Becky Nelson choir member Mrs Janett Capehart is the mother advisor and members of the advisory board are Mrs Leona Wells Mrs Betty Thomas Mrs Lois Monroe and Harry Chambers Members of the advisory board served refreshments Mrs Wayne Kincaid was a guest.
New Haven Bend Area ministers gathered at Rev. David Fields Jr home. Devotions by Rev. Charles Yoho and prayer by Rev. Ach sah Miller preceded focus on church mission and cooperative ministry. Rev. Martin Beris ford to lead a history of ministry study next meeting set for March 17 at Mason Methodist Church.
Rev Nyle Borden chaplain of Gallipolis State Institute will address the Mason County Association for Retarded Children at 7 30 p m Friday in the Appalachian Power Co auditorium He will discuss the chaplain’s role in an institution for the mentally retarded Dr R E Walden superintendent of Lakin State Hospital is the program chairman Mr and Mrs Risden Miller are co chairmen The public is invited.
Pleas ant Valley Hospital notes list admitted Grant Sayre Robertsburg Mrs Mearl Neal Point Pleasant Harry Dabney Henders on Linda Hobbs Hogsett Mrs Christine Lewis Point Pleasant Della Rayburn Point Pleasant Adella Deal Point Pleasant Mrs Allen Sayre Point Pleasant Mrs Cecil Minton Parkersburg formerly of Point Pleasant returned home from Camden Clark Hospital She is Nancy Sayre Mother Mrs John M Sayre Ashton spent weekend with Mr and Mrs Minton Mr and Mrs Norman Berry and son Charles of Parkersburg returned home after visiting their daughter and her husband Mr and Mrs Charles Stephenson Point Pleasant Route 2 Birthday dinner honored Mrs Dorothy Mitchell Point Pleasant Mrs Hester Lee Point Pleasant and sister Mrs Stella Mohr Gallipolis returned home after visiting Kerr Blain patient at Veterans Hospital Bay Pines Fla They also visited Mr and Mrs Mel Withers Istanbul noted as Constantinople until 1923 when it was incorporated in the new Republic of Turkey.
Members of Orpah Rebekah Lodge No. 210 met Tuesday evening at the Odd Fellows Hall on Main Street. Door prizes were won by Mrs. Nora Edwards Mrs. Laura Vickers and Mrs. Garnet Schwartz. Hostesses Mrs. Ethel Rainey and Mrs. Garnet Schwartz served refreshments to ten members.
Rex Garrison and wife announce the birth of their second daughter Kathy Jane at Holzer Hospital on Tuesday at 4 40 am. Grandparents are Robert and Barbara Adkins and Raymond and Virginia Selby. Great grandparents Eli Vansickle. Other named relatives listed.
Cub Pack 254 held its annual Blue and Gold family dinner at the Presbyterian Church Friday. MGM district commissioner Paul Werner presented the pack charter. Cubmaster Robert Wolfe led the ceremony awarding Bobcat pins to Carl Kebler III Larry Dillard and Jack Sheline Wolf badges to Bobby Darst Timmy Fuller two year pins to Billy Walker one year pin to Scott Morgan and Bobby Darst denner badges to Ken Wolf and Scott Morgan. The program closed with Cub kerchiefs presented to each boy.
Point Pleasant C. C. Hall of the Urban Renewal Authority signed a contract with Candeub Flessig and Associates of Wheeling to provide pre planning and surveying for downtown improvements. The firm has 45 days to complete the work, with downtown property owners underwriting the survey costs.
El mer Huddleston 59 of Point Pleasant pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated at arraignment before Mayor Virgil Siders. He received a $50 fine plus costs, six month license revocation, and a one day jail sentence.
Mrs. Donald Fowler hosted a birthday dinner at her Letart home on Sunday for her husband Donald Fowler turning 31. Attendees included Delano Jackson Jerry Dale Monte Harry Bass David Ronnie Jeffery Susie Donald Lee Ricky Fowler Robert Cornell Edward Bass Holly Kay and Donald Fowler.
Mason County records show Charles and Lidgard transferring town of Hartford real estate to Samuel and Rose Anderson. Frederick and Mary Ann McGowan move Clendenin District property to Opal Froideveaux McDermitt. Virginia and Bliss Wilson transfer Town of Mason real estate to the Town of Mason. New Haven notes cover dish dinner for Win Won Class at EUB Church. Marriage licenses issued for Day Ray Nitz and Betty Jo Blankenship.
In an 1893 Word of Works ad a booklet titled Don t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away claims to cure tobacco habits and promotes No To Bac as truthful and guaranteed. A 1912 Mason Republic item notes Mason County court denying a license spurring Point Pleasant in an uproar over county commissioners action.
The Past Noble Grand Club of Orpah Rebekah Lodge will meet Friday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mrs Urana Smith 2113 Main St.
The county court again refused saloon licenses despite strong business and citizen support in Point Pleasant. Critics argue the decision will force about 20 families to relocate. A Mason Republic note claims voters split 50 to 49 with two thirds residents support.
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