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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1958
Page
5
GALLIPOLIS The move of the high school students into the new yallia Academy High School will not take place tomorrow. Gallia District Board of Education adopted a nearly 546000 budget to end the year with a balance above 51000.
The Gallipolis Chamber of Commerce fixed March 10 for the annual dinner at Grace Methodist Church with Attorney John A. Epling billed to provide entertainment. Women’s circles will serve and a garden club will furnish flowers. Nominating ballots were mailed for a board of directors with 150 names. five will be elected for three years. Epling reported on industrial development needs and lighting costs for highway signs.
Pfe. David E. Wickline, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell A. Wickline of Rio Grande, serves with the Eighth U.S. Army Headquarters in Korea. A Racoon Township High School and Rio Grande College graduate, he previously worked for Detroit Steel Corp., Portsmouth, in civilian life.
William Wirt holds the longest term as attorney general serving from 1817 to 1829 under Presidents Monroe and Adams.
Ethel Simmons of Northup files a $10,000 damage suit in Common Pleas Court alleging permanent injuries from a Jan 13 1956 crash on Cremeans Rd Green Two. The defendant Henry Sheets allegedly drove at improper speed and on the wrong side, causing Simmons to be thrown and injured with a crushed chest and broken ribs.
Gallia Ohio report notes a Monday DWI arrest after a single wreck on Chillicothe Road near Route 588. James R. Whittington, 32, Charleston, jailed on a motor vehicle under the influence charge. A. C. Whittington, 68, and Ernest Layne, 32, both of Gallipolis, also charged with intoxication. Patrolman Nibert described Whittington losing control and veering into a ditch as he neared Route 588. The right side of the car was badly damaged. In County Court Judge Betz fined Harold E. Whitt 26 for driving left of center. Warren J. Salisbury 37 forfeited 15 bond for failure to yield. John W. Beam 58 forfeited 15 bond for failure to register.
Mrs Emerson S Sherow of Athens portrayed PTA as a vital community element before 59 at the Washington School PTA meeting in Gallipolis. She outlined the local to national structure, emphasized school collaboration, and noted no raffles or gambling in fundraising.
A series of birth announcements lists a number of couples in Gallipolis and nearby towns welcoming sons and daughters. Medical and surgical cases include patients in Point Pleasant Ironton Ashland Crown City Harrisonville and other locales with several dismissals noted.
Larry D Canaday 23 son of Mr and Mrs Golden R Canaday Northup is stationed in Korea with the 1st Cavalry Division. A 1952 Gallia Academy High School graduate and former Ford Motor Co Bedford employee he entered the Army in December 1956. After basic at Ft Knox he arrived overseas last June as an automatic rifleman in Company B of the division's 4th Cavalry.
Lexington report: Dr. Howard E. Short, former Hiram College instructor and Ohio pastor, will become editor of the Christian Evangelist, the weekly magazine of the Christian Disciples of Christ Church, starting July 1.
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