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Dana Walburn of Salem joins the Top Notchers and Salem Senate Aires to win the Evergreen Chorus title in Portland. The result advances his quartet to the Northwest district to face 14 top choruses for the national crown in Los Angeles in June. Walburn is a lab technician and SCAPABA member. Al Leonard mentors Middleport Cub Scout Pack 244 and calls for volunteers to avoid turning away boys. Ohio Schools awards cited include one to Sen Oakley Collins and activities noted in Grate View with village officials and staff.
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Salem
Senate Aires
Evergreen
Portland
Northwest
Los Angeles
Calif
Dana
Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
America
Raymond Walburn
Middleport High School
Oregon
al Leonard
Columbia Gas Co
Quartet Preservation Society
Middleport
Dale Walburn
Richard Vaughan
Bookmobile crash injures librarian in Meigs County
Mrs. Vilma Pikkoja, librarian for Meigs County's bookmobile, remains hospitalized at Holzer Hospital for head and back injuries from a last week accident. The bookmobile remains inoperative while repairs wait for parts.
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Vilma Pikkoja
Meigs County
Holzer Hospital
Discussion Groups Set For Teachers and Parents
West Virginia teachers and parents may join 15 weekly discussion groups to improve children’s reading skills. WVU Appalachian Center will sponsor the TV lecture series led by Dr. Eddie C. Kennedy and Carl Cook. Four TV stations will air the 45 lessons starting February with group registration at the county extension office.
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Point Pleasant
West Virginia
West Virginia University
Appalachian Center
Eddie C. Kennedy
WVU
Carl Cook
Cook
Huntington
WSAZ
Oak Hill
WOAY
Wheeling
WTRF
Weston
WDTV
County Extension Office
Births and admissions note local hospital counts
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Ronald Pooler of Chester and another to Mr and Mrs James Will of Middleport. Admitted at Veterans Memorial Hospital were Chester Clark Letart WVa Mrs Ronald Pooler Chester Margaret Call Middleport Stella Searles Middleport Robert Larkins Long Bottom Josephine Pickens Racine Minnie Hall Vinton Mrs James Will Middleport Alice Garnes Orville Arms Carl Manley Larry Laudermill Robert Pullins Emmett McCaskey Francis Douglas A petit jury for Pomeroy called for Tuesday has been cancelled per Sheriff Robert Hartenbach.
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Ronald Pooler
Chester
James Will
Middleport
Chester Clark
Letart
W. Va
Margaret Call
Stella Searles
Robert Larkins
Long Bottom
Josephine Pickens
Racine
Minnie Hall
Vinton
Alice Garnes
Orville Arms
Carl Manley
Larry Laudermill
Robert Pullins
Emmett McCaskey
Francis Douglas
Pomeroy
Robert Hartenbach
Welker seeks GOP nomination in new Athens Gallia Meigs district
Pomeroy representative Ralph Welker announced his bid for the Republican nomination to represent the new district comprising Athens Gallia and Meigs Counties. A WWII Navy veteran and former Meigs sheriff, Welker lives at 163 Mulberry Ave Pomeroy with wife Pearl Hawk and has three sons.
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Ralph Welker
Meigs County
General Assembly
Athens
Gallia
Meigs
Welker
Mulberry Ave
Pearl Hawk
Hemlock Grove
Jerry
Dayton Steel Foundary
Jack
Maple Lawn Poultry Co
Joe
U. S. Navy
Pomeroy Church of Christ
The
American Legion
Farm Bureau Federation
House
Meigs Accidents Top Figures Listed In 1964
Meigs County accidents in 1965 totaled 139 with two fatalities, versus 101 with three deaths in 1964. The sheriff’s office logged 563 prisoners in 1965, up from 428 in 1964, and December saw 14 accidents and 62 prisoners.
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Meigs Accidents
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Department of
Robert Hartenbach
Meigs Homemakers Set Achievement Day Plans
Meigs County Home makers Council outlines plans for the annual achievement day on March 23 at the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co offices. Port land Hemlock Grove Reedsville Rock Springs Syracuse representatives attend. Speaker from Lima Mrs. Dewey Cummings will address on Knowing Homemakers from Other Countries.
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Middleport
Meigs County Homemakers Council
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Portland
Hemlock Grove
Reedsville
Rock Springs
Syracuse
Trinity Church Plans School Of Missions
POINT PLEASANT The commission on missions of Trinity Methodist Church will sponsor a School of Missions each Sunday night for five Sundays at 7 p.m. starting Jan. 16. The theme is Mission The Christian's Calling. Beginning Wednesday Jan. 19 and each Wednesday through Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. the church will host a spiritual life program by Mrs. C. S. Thompson Jr. Topic: Acts Now and Then.
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Point Pleasant
Commission On Missions of the
Trinity Methodist Church
C. S. Thompson Jr
Car Theft Reported To Sheriff In Pomeroy
Deputy Carl Hysell reported theft of a 1962 Studebaker from Carroll Pierce's driveway between 8 30 Saturday night and 9 25 Sunday morning. The sheriff is also investigating a cow shooting at Dale W Dye's property reported Saturday by Sheriff Robert Hartenback.
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Pomeroy
Carl Hysell
Studebaker
Carroll Pierce
Pierce
Sheriff's Department
Dale W. Dye
Carpenter
Robert Hartenbach
Loan Approved To Expand Point Pleasant Public Housing
The Public Housing Administration approved a $10,000 preliminary loan to plan 50 additional elderly housing units in Point Pleasant. Sherwood Costen of the Point Pleasant Public Housing Authority was notified by Commissioner Marie C. McGuire. Construction expects 1967 completion with a total cost of $855,000. Planning begins soon.
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Point Pleasant
Public Housing Administration
Sherwood Costen
Meetings in Mei os and Masonic Lodge Schedule
A special meeting of Mid dleport Lodge 363 F and AM will be held Tuesday at the Masonic Temple where the master mason degree will be conferred, announced Kenneth Scites worshipful master. The Pomeroy Shakespeare Club meets Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Mrs Louis Reibel home. Theodos rus Council Daughters of America Past Councilors meet Thursday evening at Mrs Oval Diddle home.
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Middleport Lodge
F & AM
Masonic Temple
Kenneth Scites
Pomeroy Shakespeare Club
Louis Reibel
Theodorus Council
Daughters of America
Oval Diddle
Pearl Street School Break-In Reported in Weekend Entry
Middleport police investigated a break in at Pearl Street Elementary over the weekend. Entry came through a broken window and glass in eight room doors was smashed. Missing cash ranged from 2 to 3 dollars. Attempts to pry the cafeteria deep freeze were noted.
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Middleport
Pearl St
Herbert Gilkey
Gilkey
Clifton Girl Becomes Mrs Hoffman In Wise Va Ceremony
Clifton and Letart families announce the marriage of Sandra Lou Bennett to Philip William Hoffman in Wise Virginia on January 4. Sandra Lou is a cosmetology graduate and former Sandy's Beauty Salon operator in Middleport. Philip is Marshall University educated and assigned to the U S Navy Preflight School in Pensacola Florida.
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Clifton, W. Va
James Bennett
Sandra Lou
Philip William Hoffman
Robert Hoffman
Letart
W. Va
Wise
Hoffman
Ohio State School of
Movie Guide Listings For Monday And Tuesday Night Airings
Television schedule lists feature films and classics across channels including Audie Murphy in Ride A Crooked Trail and Three Coins In A Fountain with Clifton Webb and Jean Peters. Also noted are Catman of Paris World for Ransom It Happened In Naples and Paris Express among others with air times.
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Audie Murphy
Gia Scalia
Clifton Webb
Jean Peters
Dorothy McGuire
Louis Jordan
Rossano Brazzi
Maggie McNameira
Paris
Carl Esmond
Adele Mara
Dan Duryea
Gene Lockhart
Patric Knowles
Love
Claudette Colbert
Ray Milland
Jack Benny
Martha Raye
Burns and Allen
Benny Goodman
Toll Ie
Dick Powell
Paula Raymond
Adolphe Menjou
Naples
Clark Gable
Sophia Loren
Joe Butterfly
Burgess Meredith
George Nader
Gregg Palmer
Kathleen Crowley
Edward Pratt
John Lupton
Claude Rains
Marta Toran
Fred MacMurray
Irene Dunne
Vistas of Israel and World Report Air Schedule
WOUB Radio listings show at 7:00 Vistas of Israel and Love Songs, 7:15 BBC World Report The World in 1965, 8:05 Concert Stage featuring the Boston Symphony conducted by Werner Torkanowsky with works by Honegger Barber and Strauss.
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Israel
BBC World Report
Boston Symphony
Werner Torkanowsky West
Kent State enrolls Gloria Buck for second semester
Gloria Buck daughter of Mr and Mrs Gail Buck youngest senior in 1965 graduating class enrolls for the second semester at Kent State University at Kent She will major in physical education and has years as a dancer baton twirler and instructor accompanied by family will reside with Dr Robert Matson dean of men at the university. The Racine Emergency Squad asks residents to ensure an emergency before calling and notes ambulance calls affect workers leaving jobs. Rev Bill Perrin underwent eye surgery at Holzer Hospital and is expected to miss services at Federated Church for several weeks with progress toward return noted.
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Gloria Buck
Gail Buck
Kent State University
Kent
Gloria
Kent State
Jon
Robert Matson
Matson
Bill Perrin
Federated Church
Perrin
Polio Telethon Highlights Marshall Campus Talent
John Layne a Marshall student and Big Bend Minstrels veteran sang I Believe and Em braceable You around 1 p.m. Sunday during Channel 13 polio telethon. Huntington area viewers may have seen Middleport's Jim Johnson with Marshall students contributing Saturday night.
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Channel 13
John Layne
John
Big Bend
Marshall
Huntington
Middleport
Jim Johnson
Beaux Arts Ball at Southern High Enters Second Year
Southern High School student Bill Zerkle leads the second annual beaux arts ball begun last year on faculty member Eddie Lou Howerys recommendation. The semi formal event has become a social highlight and will be staged again this February.
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Southern High School
Bill Zerkle
Eddie Lou Howery
Will Hellerman Named Among Columbus Top 10 Men
Will Hellerman, son in law of Frank H Johnston, is chosen as one of Columbus ten top men. The selection cites his role in making Columbus a better place to live and notes his membership on the downtown civic committee and the citizens research committee.
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Will Hellerman
Frank H. Johnston
Columbus
Will
Citizens’ Research Committee
Surprise Party Held For Mr. Walburn
A surprise party honored Raymond Walburn on his birthday at the Walburn home in Middleport. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Walburn and family, Belore, Raymond Lee Walburn, Gregg and Jeff, Dale Walburn, Jill and Steve, Mary Walburn, and Pete Walburn on furlough from the U S Air Force awaiting reassignment to Japan.
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Middleport
Raymond Walburn
Walburn
Dennis Walburn
Sherry
Tracy
Belore
Raymond Lee Walburn
Gregg
Jeff
Dale Walburn
Jill
Steve
Mary Walburn
Pete Walburn
V U. S. Air Force
Japan
Squad Aids Two Persons In Middleport
Middleport squad answered two emergency calls Sunday. At 11 16 a m they went to the home of Mr and Mrs Paul Davis on Russell Street where Mrs Davis mother Bertha Darst was ill and a local physician was summoned. Later Sunday evening a call was answered at South Second Avenue for William Snider who was taken to Veterans Memorial Hospital by a local physician for treatment of a gunshot wound to a finger on his right hand.
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Middleport
Paul Davis
Russell St
Bertha Darst
Davis
South Second Ave
William Snider
Snider
Veterans Memorial Hospital
Pleasant Valley Hospital Dismissals and Patients
Pleasant Valley Hospital notes list Fred Starrick Point Pleasant Mrs Harry Taylor Point Pleasant Harold Blain Hogsett George Deal Apple Grove dismissed Hattie Tucker Point Pleasant Simmie Booten Point Pleasant
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Pleasant Valley Hospital
Fred Starrick
Point Pleasant
Harry Taylor
Harold Blain
Hogsett
George Deal
Apple Grove
Hattie Tucker
Simmie Booten
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