Middleport Council Adopts 1963 Budget At $120,331
Middleport village council adopted a 1963 budget totaling 120,331 with expected receipts of 100,267.29, leaving a potential deficit. Officials discussed county mileage to cover the gap and planned a request to the Meigs County Budget Commission. The session also approved building code adoption to pursue insurance-rate reclassification and heard updates on recreation funding, a new police cruiser bid, and a fire department tire purchase.
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Middleport
Meigs County Budget Commission
Bernard Fultz
Gordon Caldwell
Clyde Milhoan
Lee Smith
Ohio Inspection Bureau
Ito
J. W. Rutter
Wayne Gibbons
William Childs
Middleport Board of Education
Gene Grate
Gerald Anthony
Middleport Fire Department
Twelve Bicycles Recovered. Three Teens Held in Meigs Case
Twelve bicycles stolen from Pomeroy Middleport and nearby areas were found in a Bradbury barn. Three teens admitted the thefts and will face Meigs County Juvenile Court. they also admitted stealing a wristwatch and a transistor radio from a car.
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Middleport
Pomeroy
West Virginia
Bradbury
Meigs County
H. and R. Firestone
Glen Dill
Chief Gilkey
Dill
Gilkey
Plans For Meigs County Chamber Of Commerce Move
Pomeroy chamber names committees for the new fiscal year at Ohio Power Co offices. President elect Kermit Walton leads his first meeting. Plans include forming a Meigs County Chamber with Middleport and showing a county film. Representatives will attend two area meetings on county research and the Greenup dam project in Kentucky.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce
Ohio Power Co
Kermit Walton
Middleport Chamber
Meigs County
Athens
Greenup, Ky
Meigs General Hospital Notes and Court Contempt Case
Meigs General Hospital notes list new births in Pomeroy and Minersville and admits several patients from Pomeroy, Middleport, Syracuse and Parkersburg. Discharges include Martha Robinson Norma Grant and Harold Davis. Daniel E. Crouch of Racine appeared in Meigs County Common Pleas Court before Judge John C. Bacon on contempt charges and was ordered to pay 520 in back support at 10 per week or face further sentencing.
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Mildred Fisher
Pomeroy
Raymond Justice
Middleport
Evelyn McCoy
Syracuse
Azelline Smith
Parkersburg
Sharon Duncan
Tommy Walters
Fae Rawlings
Eddie Ash
Minersville
Martha Robinson
Norma Grant
Harold Davis
Meigs County
Pomeroy News Notes Highlight Local Visits and Fines
Pomeroy residents shared visits with relatives in Fredericksburg and New Milford while families welcomed guests from Athens Ravenna and Lancaster. Meigs County judges fined two defendants for use tax seal and speeding. Emergency squad assisted Ray Justice in Middleport, and a Wiener roast plan emerged for July 22 at Fortification Hill Gallipolis. Hill-Burton aid installments totaled 47 743.86 for Meigs Memorial Hospital. Deacons, deaconesses and trustees of Middleport church prepared meetings. Razel of Pomeroy fined five dollars for intoxication. The political note mentions Goldwater and party competition with the National Committee.
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Pomeroy
Fortification Hill
Gallipolis
Citizen’s Band
Hill-Burton
Meigs Memorial Hospital
Ted Reed, Jr
Emmet Shuler
Meigs County
Gordon Caldwell
Program Is Missionaries at Middleport First Baptist
A Sunday morning program on foreign and home missions was presented at Middleport First Baptist Church by the B. H. Sanborn Missionary Society. Beulah White spoke on home missions, Rhoda Hall on foreign missions, with Willis Anthony leading the devotional. Other participants included Tony Fowler Richard Owen and Charles Bennett.
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Middleport
Middleport First
Girl Finishes WAC Course at Fort McClellan
Pvt. Carolyn S. Ferrell of Rutland completed eight weeks of basic training at the Women's Army Corps Center Fort McClellan Alabama. She learned Army history admin and supply procedures first aid and military justice and will stay for typing and clerical training. Ferrell is a 1960 graduate of Rutland High School.
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Rutland
Carolyn S. Ferrell
Clyde H. Ferrell
Women’s Army Corps Center
Fort McClellan
Ala
Ferrell
Fort
Middleport Youths Attend Baptist Conference in Wisconsin
Three youths from Middleport First Baptist Church Richard Bodimer Jack Satterfield and Theron Cruise travel by train to Green Lake Wisconsin for a senior youth conference of the American Baptist Association They will return Sunday Janet Baker and Charlene Zandel also attend a senior high Baptist assembly at Dennison University this week taken there Sunday by Mr and Mrs Edison Baker
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Middleport
Richard Bodimer
Jack Satterfield
Theron Cruise
Wisconsin
Janet Baker
Charlene Zandel
Pomeroy
Dennison University
Edison Baker
Cadet Brown On Field Study Trip Across Military Installations
Cadet David E. Brown of Waverly, after completing his first year at the Air Force Academy, travels the United States visiting Air Force, Army, and Navy installations. He will take part in jet flights and shipboard activities to deepen indoctrination into DoD operational commands. Brown is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Eugene Brown, former Pomeroy residents. Plans for Grace Episcopal parish picnic discussed and Aug. 2 tentatively set as the date.
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Pomeroy
David E. Brown
Waverly
Air Force Academy
Colorado
Air Force
Army
Navy
United States
Brown
Eugene Brown
Department of Defense
Pomeroy High School
Guild of Grace Episcopal Church
Feiger
No Action Taken On Racine Seventh Eighth Grade School
Racine residents crowded a special Racine Local School District meeting as the board postponed plans for a separate seventh and eighth grade campus. The district will seek cost estimates to repair the old Racine Grade School to house Racine first through sixth graders if the new seventh and eighth grade school is approved. A follow up meeting is planned within a week as cost estimates are finalized.
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Racine
Board of Education
Racine First T
Southern Local High School
Pomeroy Emergency Squad Answers Two Calls
Two calls reported for the squad on Monday. William Bartels of the State Department of Highways fell ill two miles west of Darwin on Route 680 and received oxygen before transport. Price Hawk suffered a heart attack but regained consciousness and was later listed in good condition at home.
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Pomeroy
Darwin
William Bartels
State Department of Highways
Meigs General Hospital
Price Hawk
Hawk
Men Fined In City Court On Fighting And Intoxication Charges
In Mayor Kenneth McElhinney's court on Monday Bryan Ed Gilmore 19 and Raymond E Klein 20 both of Pomeroy were fined 15 dollars and costs each for fighting. Forrest Johnson 40 of Clifton West Virginia paid 5 dollars and costs for an intoxication charge.
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Pomeroy
Razel
Charles Legar
Middleport
Kenneth McElhinney
Bryan Ed Gilmore
Raymond E. Klein
Forrest Johnson
Clifton
W. Va
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Beech St
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Pomeroy, Ohio
Private Ferrell
Rutland High School
Marvin Dowson
Heath Methodist Church
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