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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1971
Page
6
AP reports Vietnam war has altered with U.S. combat withdrawal and Vietnamization. Cambodia and Laos expansions, Saigon gains in control, and fears of a renewed North–South clash by 1973 shape a complex, shifting battle landscape.
Rev W S Billups 76 of 81 Bur dette Addition died Thursday at home after long illness. Baptist minister for 50 years served at Board Church and previously Zion Leon and Graham churches in Mason. Survived by wife Eva Barnette and sister Mrs Fred Erwin. Services Sunday 2 p.m. Chapman Funeral Home burial Milton Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Saturday.
Elijah H. Davis, 64, of Gallipolis, charged with second degree murder in the stabbing death of Charles Cragg, 54. He entered an innocent plea in Gallipolis Municipal Court. A preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. July 13. Davis is held on $15,000 bond at the Gallia County jail after officers found Cragg’s body outside their cabin at Kerr's Trailer Court on Garfield Avenue.
The United Nations reports that among 80 cities worldwide, Phnom Penh has higher prices than New York for goods bought by foreigners. U.N. officials pay Phnom Penh prices about one percent higher than New York, while Ankara, Turkey, has the lowest prices at about 61 percent of New York’s.
In Ocala Florida Joe O Farrell of the Florida Breeders Sales Company and John M S Finney of Fasig Tipton sign a five year marketing pact for Florida based thoroughbred sales. The agreement takes effect at the Oct 4 7 Ocala Fall Sales.
Point Pleasant police reported one arrest in the last 24 hours. Ricky Dale Cheesebrew, 18, of Point Pleasant, was taken into custody on charges of littering and intoxication.
A Buffalo Family Court judge approved adoption of a seven year old girl by a single school teacher who had a long period in foster care. The child, then orphaned, called the teacher mother during a zoo outing a year earlier. The teacher requested anonymity.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik denied reports a gunman fired at his car in Medan, North Sumatra, saying the car ran over a bursting ball and nothing else occurred. He repeated there was no shooting after returning to Jakarta.
Los Angeles reports Gaylene Snow 37 trains to be the nation’s first woman brakeman candidate for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The company employs about 12 000 brakemen and would hire her after completing a brief training program.
Dist Court Judge Mitchel B. Johns says all 43 jury trials will be postponed until late September unless heat in the courtroom is addressed. Jurors fainted in the windowless room and in an adjacent courtroom, raising concerns about rushed verdicts due to heat.
TURLOCK Calif. Stir ling Moss, famed road racer, becomes the first professional athlete to enroll with the Medic Alert Foundation as an organ donor. His bracelet notes he wishes to donate his vital organs to medical science. Moss is among more than 4000 potential donors registered.
A 15-member Big Ten squad and staff will tour New Zealand and Australia this summer in a month-long trip to repay last year’s Australian visit. The Aussies played all ten league teams during a four-week swing through the Midwest last season.
The Freud apartment at 19 Berggasse is opened as a memorial to Sigmund Freud father of psychoanalysis. He lived on the mezzanine floor from 1891 to 1938 when driven from Vienna by the Nazi annexation and died in London a year later while continuing his psychoanalytic work at the same address.
Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr operates his own schedule with a soft drink company in the off season. Pearson, president of the firm, says Starr controls goodwill appearances and related activities.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shayne of Greenfield were guests of friends here on Saturday.
The message urges readers to consult the Heart Association for the booklet They Way to a Man's Heart, explaining how diet can risk or guard heart health. It emphasizes practical guidance and official guidance from a medical charity.
Charles Lanham outgoing president of the Point Pleasant Rotary Club was named Rotarian of the Year for 1971 at a Moose Club dinner meeting. Lawrence Mohr received 1970 honors. Lenzie Hedrick to become president. new officers listed. Guest speaker was Dr. John Barker of Marshall University.
Mrs. Eileen Blum widow of Philip Blasberg has ended affairs in South Africa and returned to Israel with her new husband Herbert Blum. She declined to reveal their exact residence saying a country house near the coast is private while newspapers seek details. Kyger Women’s Society sets a rummage sale Friday and Saturday at Jud’s Garage on Pine Street in Gallipolis.
Dublin reports Bernadette Devlin, 23 and the youngest British MP, is pregnant with a fall due date. She refused to identify the father and said motherhood would not stop her 1974 election bid, stressing abortion is a personal matter and urging focus on wages and housing issues.
Gallia County Sheriff investigates the theft of a 1961 blue Chevrolet station wagon owned by Mike Cremeans of Eureka. A John Deere riding lawn mower was also reported stolen Wednesday night from the cemetery at Vinton.
New York Robert Schnayerson a Time magazine senior editor has been chosen to succeed William Morris as editor in chief of Harper's magazine. Schnayerson 45 has spent 21 years with Time Inc including Life magazine and Time.
Three Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev were laid to rest in Kremlin Wall niches after funeral services in Red Square Presiding officials praised their flight aboard Salute the first long term space station The ceremony included U S envoy Thomas Stafford and top Soviet leaders Brezhnev Kosygin and Podgorny PMID: 0
Fair officials and Fair Association members will meet Monday night at the fairgrounds to finalize plans for the 1971 show. The 8 p.m. meeting in the chapel building aims for a bigger and better fair with more entertainment exhibits crowds and carnival. Additional events will be announced in coming days. The public is welcome at all meetings.
DETROIT AP Al Cohn a 43 year old Chicago furniture salesman was the star in the regular division of the American Bowling Congress championships during the 79 day tournament here He won the singles title with a 738 series and the All Events honors with 2063 fifth highest in the division s history Bill Lillard 43 won his sixth ABC title as a member of the five man Chester Lio team of Houston Tex Eddy Patterson 30 of Fort Worth Tex was the only bowler to roll a 300 game the 23rd in tournament history New York Points from a driver s best eight races in the 10 race Can Am unlimited sports car series will decide the winner of the Johnson Floatite trophy Denis Hulme a New Zealander living in England is the defending champion.
Gene Borek of Pine Hollow, Long Island, voted Metropolitan New York Golfer of the Year for 1970, captures his second Long Island Open title two weeks after the honor. The 34 year old pro, who also won the Metropolitan PGA crown and LI PGA titles in 1965 and 1969, receives the Paul Grossinger Award.
Point Pleasant motorist Carroll Kennedy, 49, was cited for failure to have his vehicle under control after his car struck the rear of Edwin Winters 28, Ripley, at 4 15 p m Thursday at 22nd Street and Jackson Avenue.
Three submariners trapped in the Artemis torpedo room for about 10 hours were rescued with lines and divers aiding the raise near Portsmouth. The crew including Croxon Guest and Beckett remained well after a medical check, while an official inquiry began and sabotage was ruled unlikely.
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