Athens' Magazine Lady Margaret McGraner honored for wartime magazines
The Athens community recalls Margaret McGraner known as the Athens Magazine Lady for distributing more than a half million magazines and card decks to servicemen on World War II troop trains. She organized crowdsourced help from multiple towns, served 24 hours, and earned national recognition and a Congressional honor for her humanitarian work.
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Pearl Harbor
Athens
Margaret McGraner
the Messenger
West Union Street
Ernest
McGraner
Kiwanis Club
Amesville
Belpre
Buchtel
Carbondale
Chauncey
Guysville
Millfield
Nelsonville
New Marshfield
Logan
Pomeroy
Middleport
Syracuse
Racine
Gallipolis
Cheshire
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Blaine Goldsberry
Roger Connor
Congress
Thomas Jenkins
New York
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Hollywood
Athens’ Magazine
State expected to keep geriatrics center in Athens
Charles Ogle, assistant deputy commissioner for mental health, told staff at the Athens Mental Health and Retardation Center that the department will make vigorous efforts to retain the 168 bed geriatrics center. The center risks losing certification by 1982 and workers fear their future if it is abandoned.
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Herb Amey
Athens Mental Health and Retardation Center
Charles Ogle
Athens Center
Athens
Geriatrics Center
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Hospitals
Mental Health Department
Geriatrics
Construction of Group Home to Start in Seventies Athens
A group home for emotionally disturbed youth will start in Athens by year end as part of nine homes planned in Southeastern Ohio to replace Nelsonville facility. The Athens home on Dairy Lane will house up to 10 youths aged 11 to 17 and be run by Clinical Services, Nelsonville. Architects will submit designs for district approval, with a director hired by midsummer to initiate treatment programs.
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Garry Goolsby
Athens
Ohio
Nelsonville
Andrea Nielson
Community Mental Health and Retardation Services
Dairy Lane
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Timothy Mortiz
Dan Schewendeman
District 78
Department of
Mental Heath and Retardation
Ms. Nielson
Children Clinical Services
Schewendeman
Children’s Services
Ohio Youth Commission
Wellston Fire Department 1976 Report Highlights Losses
Fire Chief George W. Trainer filed the 1976 Wellston Fire Department report summarizing 139 alarms by category 62 structural 33 vehicular 28 grass brush and trash 10 mobile homes six other and six arson suspicions with one conviction. Total property value 1 291 500 and losses 123 525. Five bomb threats four false alarms 39 township mutual aid fires one fire death and one carbon monoxide death.
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Wellston
Water Line Break Fixed In Radcliff
RADCLIFF Loss estimated at 4000 for the structure and 2500 for contents of Gene Sizemore trailer destroyed by fire Thursday night. Sizemore not home when fire started. Cause undetermined. Water line break fixed in New Haven and service restored after repair. similar breaks reported in Gallipolis Middleport and Pomeroy.
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Radcliff
Gene Sizemore
Vinton County Sheriff's Department
Sizemore
livedLia
Charles Pratt
Vinton Twp
New Haven
Gallipolis
Middleport
Pomeroy
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Charles Reamer
Athens’ ‘Magazine
Lady
Youth Commission
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Nielson
Timothy Moritz
Ogle
Mortiz
HEW
Center Hospital
Central Hospital
E. State ST
Poe
Am Be
America
Delmonico
Campbell’s Sanat
Bee
Ox. Bros
Foster’s
Wheatie
Wheaties
Drug & J Jewelry
Rez
Vinton
Rove
Damambening
Diamonds Are
Jewelers
Corner Court and
Union
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