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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1957
Page
10
Logan schools will begin summer rehearsals for senior junior and grade school bands next Monday according to Armand Houk director of instrumental music. The announcement notes start times and locations for each band level and invites student participation.
Royce and Genene Dixon resigned from South Bloomingville duties to join Standard Oil. A two week plan by 72 band members under Houk includes rehearsals at the high school and a concert at Chillicothe Veterans Hospital, two ice cream socials, and a trip to the Ohio State Fair.
The Central Ohio Council Boy Scouts of America announced the purchase of 1126 acres near Logan to be called Green Hills. Former owner was A W Marion. The tract will serve the nine county area as a camping site for activities beyond Camp Lazarus space, with development plans involving the national engineering service and a capital campaign. Camp Lazarus will continue as a training reservation.
The Abraham Blum family held its tenth annual reunion Sunday July 7 at Rachelmacher Park. Attendees included Howard White and families Ellinger Rauber Reuber Shannon Sickles Miller Lindsey Ellinger and many others with a social hour and refreshments for 24 members. A separate event celebrated Judy Blankenship’s 14th birthday with a wiener roast games dancing and gifts at E Main Street.
Logan County commissioners authorized Mrs. Margaret Webb to approve salary certifications to the Civil Service Commission to speed the process. They informed the Civil Service Commission and the Ohio Welfare Department, and approved bills totaling 55.60 auto gasoline, 2526.78 county funds, and 1979.50 tuberculosis fund, plus welfare grants of 1868.66 for general relief and 834 for administration payroll, and placed Pat Reichley’s June dog warden report on file.
Preliminary plans for a county wide teachers workshop were drawn up by a committee in the office of James Frey county schools superintendent. The September event theme is Community Resources and How They Can Be Used in Our Educational Program.
Plans for an 18 county Civil Defense alert center in Logan next Sunday. The 21st Mobile Support group will mobilize at 6 am with about 300 men and firefighting and rescue vehicles arriving by 10 am at the county fairgrounds. Demonstrations of firefighting and rescue techniques will be held and a mass feeding unit from Marietta will provide noon dinner. William Morgan, Logan Hocking Civil Defense director, leads local planning.
Reports show gauge readings for Gallipolis Montgom ery Kanawha Falls and Hinton with up or rising levels. Dams on Kanawha River are on the sill and Ohio River movable dams are up. Numerous river boats and locks on Ohio and Kanawha listed with up or down readings and times through the day.
Dan N. Gill 84 of 161 Dean Rd Temperance Michigan and a former Athens County resident died Monday while hoeing his garden death attributed to a heart attack Services were held at Farnham Funeral Home in Temperance with Rev William Harrington officiating Burial was in Bedford Memorial Cemetery He was born February 30 1873 in West Virginia son of Jacob and Martha Welch Gill He married Bertha Mae Hurd on July 3 1900 and moved to Athens County in 1904 working in mines until 1940 Retired in 1940 and moved to Temperance in 1943 Survived by widow four sons three daughters two sisters two brothers twenty seven grandchildren and ten great grandchildren with one son and one daughter predeceased
List of patients and dismissals at Mount St Mary Hospital shows several residents by surname and hometown including Julia Ann Zimmerman New Marshfield Route 1 Gary Ennis Albany Osa Hoisington Glouster Route 3 Wendell Jordan Carpenter Maxine Barnes New Straitsville Edna Gibson McArthur Route 2 Regina Cable Logan Albert Hoffman New Lexington Route 1 Louise Bowen New Lexington Edward Fisk Lancaster and a set of dismissals for Sharon Lee Sutley Dania Florida Donna Allbaugh Zaleski Clara Hutchison Albany Route 1 Nellie Huntley New Plymouth Don Snyder New Straits ville.
Seaman and Mrs. Frank Cook are the parents of a couchter born June 18. Mrs. Cook is the former Doris Fife, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Fife. The Cooks reside at Green Cave Springs, Florida, where he is stationed with the Navy.
Sgt. 1-C John A. Mercer of Kananga, after 16 weeks of Fort Knox training, graduated from Getty Hall in the non commissioned Officers Training School with a class of 117. He returns to Fort Polk and continues a military career spanning eight years including Korea service and duty at Fort Clayton as an honor guard member.
Franklin Kin nison of Murray City was bound over to the grand jury on a shooting with intent to kill charge filed by James Vasko in Mayor Earl Hilleary’s court. The alleged incident occurred about midnight Wednesday in the Sylvania Electric Products parking lot when Kin nison fired a shotgun at Vasko from about 30 feet, barely missing the employee. He was transferred to Athens County jail awaiting bond posting.
Logan Churches presents a slate of weekly services across congregations. Details include pastors, Sunday schools, worship times, sermon topics, and midweek activities for First EUB Nazarene Wocking Valley Tabernacle Haydenville and other area churches.
In 1947 Shannon airport near Limerick Ireland becomes the first duty free airport. Airport shops offer Swiss watches German cameras and whiskey without import or export duties.
The South American nation now called Colombia was known as New Granada during its Spanish colonial era prior to independence in 1819. Supporting details recount the colonial nomenclature and transition to a republic under leadership seeking emancipation.
A dense listing of worship times, sermons, and church leaders for Nelsonville area congregations. Includes First Methodist, Union services, Epiphany Ogden Ludlow, First Presbyterian John Lloyd Evans, Dorr Run Doanville, Pilgrim Holiness E F Ledingham, Murray City Evangelical United Brethren, Zion Lutheran Ray Mann, Nazarene Adams St Langley Gullett, Reorganized Latter Day Saints 643 Jackson St, Carbon Hill Methodist Circuit Lewis E Buell, Liberty Hill and Carbon Hill services with times and study details.
Deaths in Hocking County outnumber births in June per Mrs. Lorena Larimer, registrar for the county health department. The report tallies 19 deaths, 11 in Logan and 8 in the county, and 17 births, all at Hocking Valley Hospital. Multiple Logan couples welcomed boys and girls, with names and routes listed.
Twelve 4 H Junior Leadership Club members were named junior superintendents for county fair duties at the courthouse auditorium meeting. Assignments include Bob Miller dairy cattle Bill Johnson beef cattle Eddie Blackston swine Harry Risch sheep Ralph Wyckoff poultry Mike Jones rabbits Jim Windsor electricity and woodworking Karen Armstrong vegetable gardening and crops Jim Palmer colts Helen Heigle boys booths Linda Kay Poling girls booths Lenore Sater home economics. Program on demonstrations was presented by Lenore Sater Laverne Jordan and Jim Davis covering four points of a good demonstration. Miss Sater demonstrated good posture. The club enjoyed games square dancing and refreshments after the meeting.
Funeral services for Mike Kranick 83 of New Town near Murray Cry will be held Saturday at 10 a m at the family residence Reverend Edward Jones will officiate and burial will be in Green Lawn Cemetery The body has been moved from Johnson Funeral Home to the residence where friends may call at any time
In Nelsonville Mayor Earl Hilleary's court Gordon Wend, address unknown, had assault and battery charges withdrawn and was released after paying court costs. Lawrence Reeves Jr of Logan was found guilty of driving left of center and fined $15 plus costs.
The Murray City Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will host all District Four Aeries Sunday at 2 p m for the monthly meeting and initiation. Aeries from Athens Pomeroy Marietta Corning Glouster Jacksonville Nelsonville Logan and Murray City will be represented.
William E. Azbell, by his mother Andaline Azbell, seeks a divorce from Vera F. Azbell through her father John Jackson on grounds of gross neglect of duty. The case involves minors and asks for custody of a child.
Tevis Circle of the Dorr Run Chapel sponsors a rummage sale on Saturday at 8 a m in the basement of the First Presbyterian Church in Nelsonville.
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