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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1956
Page
5
Gallipolis police report 315 traffic crashes in 1955 with 98 injured, up from 49 in 1954. No fatalities. Most accidents, 284, were two vehicle collisions. Chief Chester Leaper notes 46 more crashes than in 1954 and nearly double the injuries year over year.
The North Gallia Local School district board fought a bond issue technicality in Common Pleas Court over millage confusion on a $310 300 bond issue. The millage was corrected after a decree petition against Estella Denney Sek and Norma Carter was granted custody in a separate divorce action. Various local notices, obituaries, and court entries followed, including assignments, property notices, and village happenings among Athens County residents.
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Gallipolis Emmett Church, principal at Kanange Grade School, will resume duties tomorrow after a spell at Holzer Hospital and home on sick leave. He was treated for ulcers and then moved to his home to convalesce.
Raw river gauge readings and towboat lockage figures at Gallipolis and Kanawha River sites. Details include upper and lower gauge levels, station readings at Hinton and Kanawha Falls, and numerous towboat movements with loaded and empty barge counts across locks 2, 30, and Gallipolis.
Police investigated three traffic crashes over the weekend. One infant died in a wreck on Route 1 when a southwestward vehicle struck the child’s guardian vehicle. A second crash left a driver and a passenger injured. both were transported to Holzer Hospital. The third collision involved a car hit by an opposing vehicle near Eads Street, causing moderate to heavy damage.
The sheriff's department reported one arrest over the weekend Barton S Menig of Jallipolis Ferry for driving while intoxicated. The Highway Patrol arrested two men Joseph Le Foley 42 Dayton facing a speeding charge and Virgil Money 42 Bladen for driving without an operators license both posted bonds for appearance Tuesday.
SALLIPOLIS Gallia County Grand Jury convenes for January session listing 10 state charges against nine defendants. Presenting Attorney Warren Sheets will outline grand larceny charges against Alshe Watts Pete Elam June Johnson and Charles C Sowards and forest larceny against Fred Sherritt. Other counts include trespassing against Tanker and Clarence Ray Gilkey, automobile theft against Fred J Conkle and assault and battery against William Luther Johns. The panel meets at 9 am to decide which cases proceed to Gallia County Court of Common Pleas. The oldest Seventh Street Baptist Church in America stands in Newport established 1729 as part of the Newport Historical Society.
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