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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1972
Page
3
Ohio University official John Burns says no known legal action can stop firms from selling term papers to students. OSU explores legal implications as ads from Columbus and Youngstown firms appear in campus paper. papers sell at 2.50 to 6 dollars per page.
A dental product ad promotes FASTEETH Powder as a solution to denture slips while eating or talking. It claims dentures gain a longer firmer steadier hold and reduces embarrassment. It urges seeing a dentist regularly for properly fitting dentures and overall health.
Richard Eubank, 20, pleaded innocent to three marijuana related charges including possession for sale filed by Ohio University Security police. Bond set at 10,500 with preliminary hearing scheduled for March 7. Other court news reports guilty pleas and fines for several defendants in Athens County cases.
Ohio University English professor Jack Matthews will read from his fourth novel The Charisma Campaigns on Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Ellis Hall Room 111 as part of the English Department Voices 72 series set in southern Ohio. The work, due next week, follows an auto dealer during a brief summer while his wife travels Europe, and includes praise from Anthony Burgess.
The Automobile Club of Southern Ohio announces a new group tour department within its World-Wide Travel Agency led by David J. Simpson Jr. as tour coordinator. He will develop incentive travel programs and group-rate travel for social, educational, medical, religious and fraternal groups and train World-Wide staff in Portsmouth Ironton Gallipolis Athens and Jackson offices. Simpson brings four years with TWA and experience with Voyageur International Travel Master Tours Northland Tours and Bergen Steamship Lines. He has traveled globally and offers to address regional groups seeking travel opportunities.
The Athens Mental Health Center will dedicate its Mary V. Erskine Memorial Chapel the first official chapel. The former auditorium space is repurposed for ceremonies seminars and small plays. The Mary V. Erskine aide was a longtime volunteer and former president of the center’s Women's Auxiliary which serves 15 counties. The auxiliary funds education and purchases for the center through annual country fairs.
Two organizations and citizens helped raise funds for the Mary V. Erskine Chapel. St Paul Catholic Church donated the chapel seating and the Athen Club donated a framed picture titled Thanks. The AMHC program, once lacking chaplains, now has two full time chaplains with Hubert Hunting arriving in 1964 as the center’s first full time Protestant chaplain.
Bob Brinkley joined four years ago and Father Frank Patala serves part time as Catholic chaplain. Chaplain Hunting says a five member chaplain team would meet the center’s needs.
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