Ohio University Committee on Conservation to Discuss Southern Ohio Problems
A January dinner at University Grill will host the Ohio University Committee on Conservation for Southern and Southeastern Ohio. Members plus invited faculty will discuss regional deterioration, inventory of resources, and remedial measures in soil erosion water resources forestry and other fields to aid long term planning.
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Southern Ohio
Ohio University Committee On Conservation
Southern and
Southeastern Ohio
University Grill
B. T. Grover
A. H. Armbruster
C. L. Dow
Carl A. Frey
H. T Gier
P. B.lGullum
O. E. McClure
Carl Nessley
G. C. Parks
W. S. Gamertsfelder
Committee On Conservation
Ohio University
Ohio
Southern
Dow
Plan Travel Promotion in Postwar Ohio Meeting
Ohio Development and Publicity Commission calls leaders from hotels restaurants auto clubs and convention bureaus to a January 15 Columbus Vir ginia Hotel gathering. The aim is to prepare a postwar travel promotion plan as travel dollars in Ohio dropped after Pearl Harbor. Ohio ranked third in travel revenue before the war, now nearly wiped out, with 36 states expanding their promotions.
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Ohio
Ohio Development and Publicity Commission
Virginia Hotel
Columbus
Pearl Harbor
U.S. Travel Bureau
Convention Bureau
Ed Harbarger dies at 75 in Akron home
Ed Harbarger aged 75 died at his Akron home on January 5 after a career in the city. Born near Carbon dale, he retired after years in Akron. He is survived by wife Cora Harbarger and three sons Fred Frank and Dr A L a daughter Mrs Florence Mason two sisters Mrs Clarence Strawn Athens and Mrs Charles Kennard New Plymouth a brother James Harbarger of Logan and a niece Mrs E J Shannon of Athens attended the funeral in Akron.
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Athens County
Ed. Harbarger
Akron
Harbarger
Carbondale
Cora Harbarger
Fred
Frank
A. L
Florence Mason
Clarence Strawn
Athens
Charles Kennard
New Plymouth
James Harbarger
Logan
Strawn
Kennard
E. J. Shannon
Akro
Athens men in service and war front notes
Athens residents and relatives are reported across services in Europe and the Pacific. Sgt. Myron L. Yaw flies B-24 missions in Italy. Major Merwin R. Chappel serves at a German field hospital. several Athens County men receive promotions, complete indoc training, or report recent combat actions with the 15th Air Force, Navy, and Fifth Army units overseas.
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AAF
Italy
Myron L. Yaw
Otto Yaw
Morris’ S Ave
Athens
Yaw
15Th Airr Force
Lyons
France
Salonika
Greece
Biechhammer
Ohio University
Air Forces
Harlingen Field
Texas
Truck Knocked Off Road Near Nelsonville
An unidentified truck sideswiped Robert Taylor of 116 Adams Street Nelsonville early today on Route 33 three miles north of Nelsonville. Taylor’s truck went into a ditch causing major damage but he had no injuries. The other driver fled the scene. Milo Bean, 63, of 20 Wolfe Street, pleaded guilty to intoxication before Mayor Franz Woodworth and was fined five dollars plus costs.
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Robert Taylor
Adams St
Nelsonville
Taylor
Milo Bean
Wolfe St
Franz Woodworth
Deductions Made Easier in New Income Tax Rules
This second of ten explanatory articles guides readers through radical changes in the year’s income tax. It highlights a $300 per person personal exemption, revised dependency tests, removal of the earned income credit, altered medical credits, and a broad sweep of deductions now disallowed.
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Simplietty
NEA Service
Peehoo
Athens Man Is Wounded in Italy Dec 26
Mrs Genevieve McDonald of Shafer Street reports her husband Pvt Stanley C McDonald was wounded in Italy on December 26. He is in the Heavy Artillery and has been overseas nine months, son of Mrs Minnie Miller of Riverside Drive.
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Harlan Johnson
Helen Linscott
Richland Ave
Johnson
New York City
Genevieve McDonald
Shafer St
Stanley C. McDonald
Italy
McDonald
Minnie Miller
Riverside Drive
Mollie LeFever Dies. Funeral Wednesday
Miss Mollie LeFever aged 1? died Monday night in Athens. She leaves brother Manning of Glouster and sister Mrs Ella Weaver of Alfred. Funeral services set for Wednesday at five o clock in the Methodist Church.
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Coolville
Mollie le Fever
Athens
Manning
Glouster
Ella Weaver
Alfred
Methodist
Soldiers and Local Allies Feature in 1940s War Role Notes
A local man befriends a nonnative snake in Albany while an Army officer candidate recalls training after an infantry school. Veterans connected to Athens High School and Ohio University serve in England, with Cpl Lawrence G. Helwig a sheet metal specialist at a bomber base and Pfc William T. Losey earning the Good Conduct Medal while supporting Eighth Air Force operations overseas.
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Infantry School
Ft. Benning
Swank
Athens High School
Ohio University
Army
IRTC
Camp Wheeler
Eighth Air Force
England
Lawrence G. Helwig
Pearl W. Helwig
Curtiss Wright Corp
Columbus
Maydelle Hamilton
AIR Force Service Command
William T. Losey
Harvey Losey
Shuster
Strategic Air Depot
New York Central Railroad Co
Losey
Armed Forces
Keeser Field
Miss
Jefferson Barracks
Gas Company Warns About New Shortage
The Ohio Fuel Gas Co warns that an expected cold wave may trigger gas shortages. Domestic use for water heating space heating and non essential heating could be curtailed. Commercial deliveries and non war related industry will be reduced if cold weather lasts. Local managers report industries already shut off. gas use has risen in defense plants to support wartime production.
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Ohio
The
Gas Co
Frank Phillips
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Columbus
Dayton
Toledo
Cincinnati
Athens Group Tops in Sales in War Bond Drive
The Athens distribution employees of The Ohio Fuel Gas Co. led the Columbus Group War Bond Sales Contest, finishing 1944 in leadership. For the 12 months ending Dec 31, total sales by the employees reached $493,200, averaging $7,600 per distributor based on payroll. The Gas Company has been an authorized distributor for Series EY Bonds since the program began.
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Athens
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Columbus Group
Foster Soldier Wounded in Germany Foot in France Hospital
Mrs. Louise Kelley Foster of Mound Street received a letter from her husband Sergeant Robert Foster stating he had been wounded in his right foot while fighting in Germany on December 19. He serves with the Army Engineers and has been overseas since October, now convalescing in a French hospital.
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Francis Efaw
Lotus Elkins
State St
Marines
Solomon Islands
U. S. Marines Corps
San Diego
Calif
Camp Elliott
B. A. Dodson
Pvt
D. H. Conroy
Seventh Army
Hisife
Memphis
Tenn
Louise Kelley Foster
Mound St
Robert Foster
Germany
Foster
Army Engineers
France
Ohio University to Return to Two-Semester Year with Summer Terms
President W. S. Gamersfelder announced Ohio University will resume a two long semester schedule starting with the 1945 summer session. An eight week summer term begins June 11 followed by a three week post session opening in August. The fall semester starts September 17.
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W. S. Gamersfelder
Ohio University
Snowfall and Cold Snap Report in Athens Weather
One-half inch of snow fell in Athens today with colder conditions. Yesterday’s high reached 35 and the low last night was 24, as reported by Mrs. C. N. France, weather observer. By noon today the temperature dropped to 20 as the Hocking River began to recede.
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Athens
C. N. France
Hocking
Father of Gallagher Dies in New York City
Mr and Mrs James A Farrell Richland Aye received word of the death of Dr L W Gallagher in New York City father of their son in law Lawrence W Gallagher Scarsdale NY Surviving are his wife Florence and two sons John in the Army and Lawrence W II and two grandchildren Lawrence IV and Mary Sue Lawrence W Gallagher attended Ohio University His father was a dentist in New York City
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Gallagher
New York City
James A. Farrell
Richland Aye
L. W. Gallagher
Lawrence W. Gallagher
Scarsdale
N. Y
Florence Gallagher
John
Lawrence Wi
Lawrence IV
Mary Sue
Ohio University
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Molly
Eugene Pallette
Gordon Oliver
Barbara Whaleton
Douglas
Elyse Knox
Rick Vailin
Tokyo
Spencer Tracy
van Johnson
Ed Harbarger
Merwin R. Chappel
Belgium
Holland
Chappel
Esta
Buck) Fox, Jr
Cpl
Elmer R. Foster
Camp Ho
Pirate Fox
Aldine Fox
Mickey
John Leffler
Millfield
Fox
Corporal Foster
Huntington
W Va
Fort George Mead
Charles Vasko
John Vasko
Marine Corps Air Station
Cherry Point
N. C
William Hawk
Alice Loper
Murray City
Roy J. Beulah Hawk
Hawk
Miss the
Carl F Starlin
C.F. Starlin
Stewart
Fort Dix
N. J
Sgt. Starlin
Alaska
Ward
North Urma
United States
Lawrence Johnson
Ernest E. Johnson
Calcutta
India
James R. Lambert
R. B. Lambert
Harrisonville
Lambert
I. BR. Neyland
War Department
Raymond Maxwell
Neasley Maxwell
52Nd Station
Haydenville
Pfc
Howard J. Cubbison
Mrs
Joe Cubbison
U.S. Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Charles Theodore Williams
Patricia Wiliams
Spring
St., Glouster
Jack Junior McGlaughlin
Williard McGlaughlin
Sharpsburg
Byron Charles Skinner
Goridon Bennett Skinner
Trimble
Fifteenth Air Force Service Command
Harold R. Kimes
St. Athens
U. S
15Th Aaf
James £. Simpson
Racine
15Th Air Force Flying Fortress
Sergeant Simpson
Union Barge Line Co
RAF
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Balkan
George Simpson
Earl Miller
Dave I Miller
Army Air Forces Pilot School
Ariz
Glouster High School
Clyde E. Juniper
South Pacific
Marine Forces
Jack Juniper
Medical Department
Robert Juniper
Grace Juniper
Oregon Ridge
John West
Frank West
Route 2
South West Pacific
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Wiliam M. Nuzum
Fort Benning, Ga
Milton Nuzum
Guysville
Wilbur H. Parmiter
Blanche Parmiter
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Earl Parmiter
Clifford
U. S.army
Clyde Shipley
Mm-C
Grace Shipley
Mans‘field
Ed. Shipley
Grosvenor St
Orville G. Nice
Cleo, Meek
Navy
Fifth Army
Leo B. McBride
Stella E. McBride
Moore Ave
338Th
8Th
Custer
Edwin T. LaVelle
Amesville
Wilbur Wilson Swank
Harry Swank
Mill
Om George Tobias
Jack Carson
Alan Hale
Everett Hortons
Saral
Hattie McDanier
Spike Owes
David Butler
Banett
Aylin
Chicago
Thomas Lyons
Bernice Cionek
Burton Heath
NEA
Mollie LeFever
Snake
Thomas Blower
Blower
State Highway Department
Albany
Gas Company
Ohio U
Parene
Kerr's
Edwards
Edward Eee
Ken Powell
W. P
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