Women Priests Recognized Amid Mixed Episcopal Reactions
The Associated Press reports three women may be priests under church rules changes. Jacqueline Means faced a smaller Indianapolis service with about 75 attendees. Patricia Merchant Park became Virginia’s first ordained woman priest, watched by 800 as Bishop Hall officiated in Alexandria. Nancy Hatch Wittig was formally recognized in Newark after defying church law in 1974.
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Associated Press
Episcopal
Jacqueline Means
Episcopal Church
Indianapolis
Means
Patricia Merchant Park
Episcopal Diocese of
Virginia
Robert Bruce Hall
Alexandria
Park
Coalition For the Ordination of Women
Donald J. Davis
Erie
Multiple New Year Fires Claim 45 Lives Across Seven States
During New Year weekend fires across seven states killed at least 45 people and damaged Boston's Old North Church. In Brookfield Illinois five children and an unidentified woman died in a southwest side apartment fire that began with two gasoline cans. Chicago also reported a northwest side blaze killing nine with undetermined cause. Other fatalities occurred in Shamokin Pennsylvania Dyson Louisiana Grand Rapids Michigan New York City and Union City.
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Associated Press
Boston
Old North Church
Chicago
Brookfield
Michael Fanta
Ronald Fanta
Theresa Fanta
Kevin
Kenneth Fanta
Shamokin
Walnut Towers
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
John Luckens
North End
Tennessee
Springville
Pat Childs
Teresa
Mimi
Sandy
Union City
Richard Cradeur
Tragic Ohio double tragedy mother and three children
Betty Lee Tracy despondent over her divorce and home remodel failures caused a triple fatality in Miami Township. In a closed garage she and her children Teresa 11 Patty 9 and Curtis 6 died from carbon monoxide poisoning after placing the children in the car and letting it idle. Police say she left a note and a will, and the family had eaten out the night before.
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Loveland
Ohio
Clermont County
Frank Capurro
Miami Township
Harry Snyder
Betty Lee Tracy
Patrick
Branch Hill
Snyder
Tracy
Jean Young
Michael
Capurro
Teresa
Patty
Curtis
Carter Focuses on Government Reorganization Plans
President elect Carter meets with Bert Lance and House chairman Jack Brooks to push a plan to cut federal agencies and create a Department of Energy and Natural Resources. He also visits his mother in Americus and attends Plains Baptist Church with Rosalynn and Amy, alongside the church’s first notable number of Black attendees since integration.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
Plains, Ga
Carter
Thomas B
Bert’ Lance
Office of Management and Budget
Jack Brooks
Dtex
House
Government Operations Committee
Brooks
Senate
Abraham Ribicoff
Dconn
Americus
Lillian Carter
Rosalynn
Amy
Plains Baptist Church
William D. Johnson
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Archery
Ford to Shape Final Weeks Policy Amid Transition
Ford plans to press the end of gasoline price controls and send Congress a roughly $10 billion individual tax cut while Carter nears inauguration January 20. He weighs amnesty for Vietnam era draftees, Puerto Rico statehood, pay raises for top officials, and will complete key budget and economic reports. The GOP also drafts a leadership transition as Mary Louise Smith steps down.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Congress
Puerto Rico
Carter
Republican National Committee
Mary Louise Smith
Fire damages trailer in Nelsonville area
Firefighters say an electrical short caused a trailer home blaze on Wolfe Bennett Road Sunday night. Dennis Wilkes’s trailer suffered heavy damage after Nelsonville and The Plains units battled the fire, with Murray City sending a standby unit and a township tanker-pumper out of service for repairs.
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Nelsonville
Dennis Wilkes
Wolfe-Bennett Road
Plains Department
Murray City
Nurse Receives Mary Scully Thomas Scholarship
Gallipolis freshman Sharon Marie Woolum at Holzer Medical Center School of Nursing received the $500 Mary Scully Thomas Scholarship for 1976. Dr Homer B Thomas presented the award in memory of his late wife. the scholarship aids nursing students with academic achievement and financial need.
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Gallipolis
Sharon Marie Woolum
Holzer Medical Center School of Nursing
Mary Scully Thomas
Woolum
Homer B. Thomas
Thomas
Pamela Sue Heading
Wellston
Miss Woolum
Benjamin Franklin Woolum
Southwestern High School
Holzer Medical Center
Meigs Senior Citizens Plan multiple programs in Pomeroy
Meigs County senior citizens center in Pomeroy schedules nutrition education January 19 with health nurse Mary Myers. knitting classes start weekly led by Irene Busch. creativity contest details, cash prizes, and entry rules announced with February 1 deadline. health workshop January 21 on mental outlook death and dying. Heimlich Maneuver demonstration January 12 by Tom Magoto. multipurpose community building project hiring architects with plans expanding to 1 million dollars funded by mental health program.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Mary Myers
Irene Busch
Lucille Loy Kuch
Ohio
Corporation For Health Education In
Appalachian Ohio
Appalachian Regional Commission
Tom Magoto
The
Department of Health
Eleanor Thomas
Wight-Keske- Kritschgau- Rosen-Buchanan, Inc
Logan Girl Cited Over Left-of-Center Crash
A 16 year old Logan girl, Valerie L Wolfe of 1162 Church St, was cited for driving left of center after a four car collision at 1 19 pm on Church Street. Her vehicle struck a parked car owned by Carl Helber at 53 Bowen St causing damage to another parked car and a third vehicle before stopping. Wolfe is to appear in juvenile court.
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Logan
Valerie L. Wolfe
Church St
Church Street
Miss Wolfe
Wolfe Auto
Carl Helber
Bowen St
Kula Collison
North St
Wilbur Lightfoot
Merchandise Taken From Service Station in Nelsonville
The Mobil Service Station on Chestnut Street and Route 78 was broken into between 1:00 and 1:30 a.m. Friday. About $400 in merchandise disappeared including four tires on chrome rims a large battery charger anti-freeze and cigarettes. An attempt was made to steal the cash register. Ronald Smith 20 of 1000 Canal Street was arrested on breaking and entering charges and was to appear in Athens Municipal Court today. The station is owned by Ralph Chub Davis with a new manager appointed the next day.
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Nelsonville
Mobil
Chestnut Street
Route 78
Ronald Smith
Canal St
Smith
Athens
Ralph
Chub) Davis
Vandalism and Theft Reported in Nelsonville
Nelsonville police investigated vandalism and theft Friday to Saturday. Shane Mender reported two tires and a mirror damaged on his car, valued at $180. Edna Adams said a .38 caliber revolver was stolen from the Friendly Tavern.
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Nelsonville
Shane Mender
Edna Adams
Friendly Tavern
West Columbus Street
Glouster Christmas Visits Highlight Local Families
Glouster residents hosted multiple holiday gatherings with relatives from Columbus Malta Starkville and Sandusky. Families such as Hague Fitch Teater Gamwell and Rarick exchanged dinners and visits across Ohio including Kettering Pickerington Athens and Pickwick.
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A M Gamwell
Glouster
Jack Doller
Phillip
Kurt
Sandusky
Smoke scare at Lawrence Wycuff residence investigated
Firemen checked a smoke scare at the Lawrence Wycuff home in Dorr Run at 7 p.m. Saturday. Smoke issued from the attic and investigators were unsure of the cause.
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Nelsonville
Lawrence Wycuff
Dorr Run
Attorney Starts Vinton Practice
McARTHUR a weekend visit to Ohio years ago gained Vinton County a new attorney last June Michael Brame started his practice at 121 No Market St because he and his wife Nancy Jane wanted to live in the area Brame was born and grew up in western Kentucky in a little town between Possum Trot and Monkeys Eyebrow While serving in the Air Force he visited the area one weekend in 1969 and decided Southeast Ohio was for him He lived in the Logan and Nelsonville areas while a student at Ohio University and operated the transmitter for WOUB radio He attended the University of Toledo Law School and moved back to the area because its a beautiful place to live He and his wife now live on what they call a 40 acre heart breaker in the wilds of Vinton County because even McArthur is a little too big for Brame His practice is general because Brame says dryly Its hard to specialize in Vinton County.
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Vinton County
McArthur
Brame
Vineton County
Special Course Set for Nurses at PCC
Parkersburg Community College offers a pharmacology course for nurses in the second semester. Limited to 30 students the Thursday 7 to 10 pm class is taught by David Bell from Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital with three transfer credits toward WVU nursing bachelor degree. Miss Minnie Keller urged interested staff to call 304-424-8243 for details.
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Parkersburg
Parkersburg Community College
Minnie Keller
PCC
Allied Health Programs
David Bell
Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital
Miss Keller
Ohi University
Department of Nursing
WVU
West Virginia Society of Pharmacists
American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
American Management Association
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Trinity Cathedral
Newark
Nancy Hatch
Tig
Philadelphia
George Rath
Mrs. Young
Sharon Woolum
Meigs
Ohio Mental Health Program
Maxine Plummer
Robert Hague
Jimmy and
Clyde
Columbus
James Fitch
Thei
Hague
Richard Ross
Roberta Hague
Richard Lee Hoss
Malta
Dorea Ross
Dan Teater
Lisa
Danny Tom
Mark
Springboro
Timothy Teater
Adam
Nathan
Starkville
Teaters
Gene Staubus
Kettering
Cynthianna Ky
Archie Pierce
Kenneth Eberts
Robert Eberts
Ovid Eberts
Main Street
Vinton
Viren
Hardware and Building Supply
Putnam Howe Drive
Belpre
DIAL
Pratt’s Market
Pleasanton Processing, Inc
Pomeroy Road
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Ohio State Dept. of Ag
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