Point Pleasant Board Awards Heating Contract
Point Pleasant The Board of Education awarded 22 675 to Columbus Heating Co for gas heat at the old junior high being remodeled to a grade school. A bid of 14 412.26 by an electrical firm was discussed with Ted Stevens helping approve the Columbus bid. Dr. Leonard Brown voted no. Ralph Sayre was hired as a Wahama teacher, Benjamin Franklin IV to teach at Point Pleasant Junior High, and substitute teachers for 1968 69 were approved, listing many names.
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Point Pleasant
Board of Education
Columbus Heating Co
Bill Frampton
Columbus Heating
Ted Stevens
Harry Siders
Earl Keefer
Leonard Brown
Wahama
Benjamin Franklin, IV
Judith Corriveau
Leta Foglesong
Wilbur Plants
Cary Howard Rayburn
Russell Crawford
Larry Phillips
Mildred Lucille Smith
Gerald Rupe
Marian Sayre
Homer W. Walters
Kathryn Alexander
Alvin Gore
Asa Hoskins
Selah Jane Powell
Harley Cloud
Marie Smith
Orpha Ohlinger
Ethel Sayre
Goldie Beattie
W. S. Bullips
Carl Dabney
Lena Gibbs
Ruth Folley
Sally Lou Clark
Jane Bailey
Lillian Perry
Lula Jiiden
Norma Perry
Jack Welch
Jean Bing
Edith Forrest
New Haven
Mildred Hawley
Alice Roach
Mason
Katie Lines
Alice Rulen
Sunnyside
Louna Jones
Roosevelt
Madge Byus
Woods
Leon Putz
Lawrence Steele
Point Pleasant High School
Mabel Blessing
Ordnance
Elizabeth Mattox
Beale School
William Blaine, Jr
Sunnywide
Elwood White
Point Pleasant High
Carol Ann White
Mason Elementary
Gary Conley
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Dorothy Newell
Beech Hill
Elmer Brannan
Pearl Roush
Lucy Smith
Cook
Ida Wray
Mt. Olive School
Elsie Crawford
Point Pleasant Boosters Seek New School Facilities
A delegation from the Big Black Backers of Point Pleasant High School asked the Board of Education last night to approve a combined dressing and shower facility with public restrooms. They proposed a cement block building about 40 by 180 feet on the east side of the current athletic field, estimated at 42 000 dollars, with spokesman James Staats stating the group would contribute 10 000 dollars toward the project. The board advised the boosters to proceed with plans and seek funding details.
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Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant High School
Board of Education
James Staats
Staats
Dick Ware
Sander
Memorial Field
Uni- Point Pleasant High School
Heights Church Plans Men's Work Session in Point Pleasant
In Point Pleasant on Saturday heights United Methodist men are invited to a work session at the Union Campgrounds near New Haven with tools to report by 8 a.m. Preparations continue for a two week outdoor camp meeting July 21 to August 2 and a Friendship Class picnic at Krodel Park after Sunday services. Teachers and officers urged to attend a Mason Church workshop July 18 reviewing Sunday school materials.
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Point Pleasant
Heights United Methodist Church
Union
New Haven
Krodel Park
Heights Church
Mason United Methodist Church
Clair Lee Cottrill
Tina Wilcoxen
Lorie Harrie
Roxanne Cottrill
Annette Cossin
Yvette Cossin
Debby Nibert
Rhonda Tucker
Patty McCoy
Gary Stover
Jeff Hatfield
Chris Swann
Little Mister and Little Miss Mason County Contest
The Point Pleasant Junior Women's Club will sponsor the Little Mister and Little Miss Mason County Contests at the Mason County Fair on August 7. Co-chairs are Mrs. Russell Holland and Mrs. Ray Musgrave. Contestants must be Mason County residents born between August 6 1960 and August 6 1962. A winner and two runners-up will be chosen. Out of town judges will officiate. Registration at the main show building starts at 4 p.m. All contestants receive a participation ribbon.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Russell Holland
Ray Musgrave
Guy Vinson
Shelly Pyles
Mason Health Dept Immunizations and Staffing Update
Mason County Health Department reported 128 immunizations against diphtheria tetanus whooping cough smallpox polio measles and typhoid. Seventy five home and office visits and two school visits were made. Nine children were examined in the child health conference by Dr Aaron Boonsue and Dr Pedro Obregon. Fire chief Walter Werry was appointed to replace Fred Taylor who has resigned.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Health Department
Aaron Boonsue
Pedro Obregon
William Carder
Mason
Mason City
Walter Werry
Fred Taylor
Werry
Wahama High names Barnett head football coach
In a regular meeting the Wahama Board of Education voted after an executive session to appoint Grant Barnett as Wahama High School head football coach. Donald Van Me was named Wahama Junior High seventh and eighth grade coach and assistant high school coach. John Lang becomes ninth grade football coach and head basketball coach at Wahama High, with Donald Upton as assistant basketball and junior high coach.
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Point Pleasant
Board of Education
Wahama High School
Clyde Foley
Grant Barnett
John Lang
Donald van Meter
Barnett
van Meter
Wahama Junior High
Lang
Donald Upton
Black Army Reenlistments Decline in 1967
A Pentagon report shows Negro re-enlistments in the Army fell sharply in 1967. Officials call the drop puzzling and have ordered a study to determine the reasons behind the decline.
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Washington
Pentagon
Only Slight Negro Movement Expected
Housing experts anticipate gradual integration into white neighborhoods after a Supreme Court decision and the open housing law. A DHUD source cites affordability as the main barrier and warns against expecting a large influx. The piece also notes a drop in first term re-enlistments among Black service members compared with whites, with factors including risk of death or injury in Vietnam.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Vietnam
Navy
Army
Marine Corps
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Point High Boosters
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Norman Miller
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Gary Casto
Sheriff's Department
Pleasant Valley Hospital
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Roger Schumacher
Jack Bostick
Racine
James Light
Pliny
Gerald Higginbotham
Buffalo
J. R. King, Jr
Ray McCoy
Leon
Ira Potts
Apple Grove
Patricia Cowger
Henderson
Anthony Thompson
Phyllis Buck
Elizabeth McIntyre
Boyd Ramsey
Lawrence Eschenauer
Harrett Layne
Marilyn Gibbs
Becky Gilmore
Mike Jones
Junior Artis
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Canaan Township
Canaanville
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