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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1960
Page
10
Hocking County commissioners approve a 1960 operating budget totaling 897,082 dollars, a record high surpassing 1959 by 64,112.66. New allocations include 328,000 general fund and 544,42 motor vehicle and gasoline tax fund with 6,640 for dog and kennel duties.
CHAUNCEY The UMWA Auxiliary elected Madeline Kish president and named Lucille Showalter as vice president Margaret Bullock as secretary Mrs Alice Shumney as assistant secretary Florence Wilson as treasurer and Marie Farley as flowers treasurer The next meeting is Jan 19 a potluck There will be committee appointments and a tuberculosis fund of 18000 The general fund contains a contingencies appropriation of 23549 49 with most of it earmarked for courthouse improvements Also listed are county and court salaries and various department appropriations plus motor vehicle and road funds totaling substantial allocations.
Television listings from WHTN CBS Huntington show a dense schedule for Wednesday and Tuesday evenings with news, comedies, dramas, soaps, and early game shows across multiple time slots. Programs include News, Susie, Do Re Mi, The Edge of Night, Love of Life, The Millionaire, and The World Turns with partial daytime continuities.
Prime time listings feature John Smith and Robert Crawford Jr in The Sherman Brothers at 7:30 p.m. on REY PREVIEWS followed by Fibber McGee and The Dean Martin Show guest spots. Westerns Bronco Wyatt Earp Rifleman and Philip Marlowe give dramatic hour long blocks with notable guest stars and suspenseful plots.
A list of broadcast times and programs appears with many entries such as Jeff's Collie Philiip Marlow McGraw Alena Prea Casey Jones and News & Late Show Sport and science fiction titles mix with variety shows indicating a rough TV guide snapshot.
Radio schedule fragment listing Frisco Beat 9 90 Philip Marlowe 6 30 News events and times with multiple programs including weather sports and late shows across a single day.
A fragmentary TV guide lists comedy, weather, and various shows across the evening. Entries include Tightrope, Skelton, Kon Mack, Garry Moore, Juvenile Judge, Shotgun Slade, Millionaire, Steel Hour, and News Weath with multiple time slots and program overlaps.
Thalia Menninger urges Dobie Gillis to run for junior class president with the White House as their aim. The program hints at political ambition and a hidden career path for Dobie amid high school drama.
The Tuesday guide lists films and show times including Angels With Dirty Faces Sam the Chief Ed Wynn A Free Soul The Invisible Man Returns The Rate Book Murder Bad Man Of Brimstone Spendthrift Take A Letter Darling Hazard Ever Since Eve Arsene Lupin Paris Interlude The Lost Heartbeat The City Of Missing Girls The Ghost Comes Home Caught In The Draft The Light That Failed Muld Of Salem Claudette Colbert with run times and theaters across the day.
A roundup of local group meetings for Tuesday and Wednesday includes WSWS Circles at Logan First EUB Church and the unit led by Mrs D S Dunkle at 7 30 p m Circle 6 led by Mrs Walter Palsley with Mrs James Rees as hostess chairman Hannah Circle of WSCS meets at 1 p m in the Methodist Church dining room Ruth Heft Bible Boosters gather at 7 p m in the Presbyterian Church library Ilesboro Farmerettes host a 11 a m pot luck at Mrs Jack Wyskiver’s home Project focuses on oven meals Logan B and P W Club dinner at 6 30 p m with guest speaker Mrs Robert Beckett at Brandt’s Mecca Room St John PTA meets at 7 30 p m in the school hall Various clubs and circles meet midweek including Among Ourselves D of A Four Seasons Garden Club Hocking Garden Club Teammates Class Logan Squaw Club Venus Chapter CBS and Venus Circle with February scheduling notes and member responsibilities.
Local birth notices list several newborns from Ashville, South Bloomingville, New Straitsville, Laurelville, Logan, Columbus, Creola, Maxville, and New Plymouth. Medical and surgical cases include Mrs. Fern Silcott and others. Logan resident Robert Lee Manter, 29, was fined $10 and costs after pleading guilty to improper backing following an alleyway accident near Cannon's Grocery in Columbus.
The Improved Order of Red Men calls a meeting at 7 30 p m Friday in Pocahontas Hall. Red A Davis records chief said the session is open to all members and ex members.
Mrs. William Brooker reads a striking section on gratitude at the Governor Worthington Chapter DAR in Brandt's Mecca Room. The program combines a paper, a film, and national defense notes with prayers, films, and a Boy Scout travel tale.
Logan General relief expenditures for December totaled 7999.40, up from 6714.45 in November. Of the amount, 468.41 paid for hospital and medical bills versus 1584.69 in November. There were 118 active cases on December 1 with 42 new and 24 closed. 136 active at month end.
The will of Mary V. Weiland, Logan, is admitted to probate. After funeral and medical expenses are paid, the remaining estate is to be divided equally among her children Thomas P. Weiland, Catherine Rose Weiland, and Magdaline T. Weiland.
Mr and Mrs George Walton announce the birth of a son on January 9 at Mount St Mary Hospital. The couple also have a daughter named Pamela Jo.
The Board of Public Affairs held its first meeting of the year electing Orville Crabtree as president and Arthur Smith Sr. as vice president. Crabtree and Leiber join the village planning committee, a water plant telephone is approved, and penalties for unauthorized meter use are set. Delinquent bills must be paid by January 30 or water will be shut off. A study with a Pomeroy firm is ordered to assess a new water softener option.
Logan man Wilbert E. Petty 84 died at 8 55 am Monday at Broadview Nursing Home in Lancaster after a 10 day illness. He worked 38 years for Hocking Valley and Chesapeake and Ohio railways, retiring in 1940 as a conductor. Survived by two sons Homer and Clarence and a daughter Lena Mack. sister Dessa Schauer. three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Leonard funeral home handles arrangements.
Logan firemen answered two alarms on Saturday finding minor grass fires ignited by burning trash at Arlene Brown’s home on E West Street and at George Geiger’s Geiger Road Gore Route 1. On Thursday they responded to Donald Lehman’s 750 West Hunter Street where an automobile fire, caused by defective wiring, was extinguished.
Logan Claude Chrisman, manager of The Ford Hack Auto Supply Co., announces relocation from the Price Building on Main Street to 49 E. Hunter Street, former Logan Buick Sales site. The firm, started in 1915 with branches in Nelsonville and Athens, will move within weeks after leasing from R. E. and Maude Stevenson of Lancaster.
Logan correspondent Cleon Tucker was transported by ambulance Sunday from Doctors Hospital in Columbus where he had been treated since December 10. Doctors order an extended period of rest to aid his recovery.
The Chauncey Dover Exempted Village board organized with Ralph Brown elected president Arthur Nicholson as vice president and Frank Lewis as clerk treasurer. The clerk treasurer bond was set at 25 000 dollars. Regular meetings fixed for 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday each month.
Logan Route 4 is linked to 19 year old William Frederick Hemrick and 16 year old Judy Kaye Rollins in a reported workplace related incident. Hemrick is described as a shoe factory employee and Rollins as a student.
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