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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1958
Page
8
Bryson reports Vinton County high schools remain first grade amid state inspections. Some deficiencies will be met this fall while others require effort. Enrollment stable, truancy linked to guidance gaps, and tests show slight scholarship gains. New testing, course development, and special classes expected to boost instruction.
Bold face color programs include 6:00 Flatt Scruggs 6:25 Weather 6:30 News 6:45 Buckskin 7:00 Union Pacific 7:30 Tic Tac Do 8:30 Dragnet 9:30 Buckskin 10:00 Price Osagita 10:30 Music HKingo 11:00 News 11:10 Weather 11:15 Jack Paar Bet Your Life.
Thursday lineup lists 6 30 News 9 30 Buckskin 6 40 Sports 10 00 Price Is Right 6 45 NBC News 10 30 Bingo 7 00 Star Story 11 00 News 7 30 Tic Tac Dough 11 10 Weather 8 00 You Bet Life 11 15 Gia Cp Thea 1 00 News 9 00 People s Choice
The listing shows a sequence of show titles with times from 6:00 to 11:15 including Brave Eagle Andy Willms Judge Bean Navy Log Union Pacific Whimlybirds Silent Service Circus Boy News Zorro Jack Paar Real McCoys. The fragmentary schedule lacks dates or network details but indicates a daytime to prime time lineup with two News slots.
A scrambled TV guide lists programs and times such as Explorer Verdict Arms Sea Hunt Phil Silvers Amos n Andy and News Weather and Armch with mixed names and stray notes. The fragmentary list reads like a station schedule with multiple repeats and unclear entries.
Fragmentary radio timetable lists programs from 6:00 to 13:00 with cartoon club news and multiple shows including State Troope Boing Boing Trackdown Zane Grey Psyches Undercurrent Pers Appeal and theater. Names and times are incomplete and may contain OCR errors.
In New York and Hollywood experts rate top programs for Thursday. Shows listed include Zorro on ABC at 8 p m with Garcia falsely accused of payroll robbery in Los Angeles. Real McCoys at 8 30 p m on ABC featuring a fisherman's duel. The People's Choice at 9 p m NBC centering on a cookie jar romance. Buckskin at 9 30 p m NBC about Jody O Connell aiding an outlaw's son. The Price Is Right at 10 p m NBC hosted by Bill Cullen. Verdict Is Yours at 8 30 p m CBS with a libel suit in Meridian. Playhouse 90 at 9 30 p m CBS Edge of Innocence with a famed attorney defending a relatives case.
TV listings for Thursday feature classic films at multiple stations. Highlights include Red Dust with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow on WLWC 4 at 5:00 PM followed by The Postman Didn't Ring on WBNS 10 at 11:15 PM and Trouble for Two with Rosalind Russell on WLW Cc 4 at 11:15 PM.
In McArthur last Tuesday evening Miss Anla Lee Chatfield hosted a pink and white themed wedding shower for Beverly Bobo Ogier. Contests and games entertained guests as she opened gifts from Theresa Turner Brenda Griffith Debby Chamberlain Janet Bobo Mary Ann Steele and several others including Mrs. Stephen Ogier and Mrs. Boyd Bobo.
Four milk cows and two calves died after a strong spray to kill weeds along a fence row at the Bay farm in Clinton Township. C M Reasor operates the large Vinton County dairy and works to save the remaining herd.
George Radekin Jr age 22 of Carpenter Route 2 farmer and Barbara Ruth Pendleton age 21 of Radcliff plus Frederick G. Smith age 20 of Hamden U S Navy and Sharon Rose Close age 20 of Hamden obtained marriage licenses.
Miss Charleene Bay attended a birthday celebration honoring her aunt Mrs. Margaret L. Sprague of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Boring visited their daughter in Columbus. Mrs. Emma Jeffers, Mrs. T. R Boring and Mr. W. W. Jeffers visited Mrs. Oscar Walker at White Cross Hospital.
Marvin J. Huston was named County Veterans Service Officer by Vinton County Soldiers Relief Commission. He succeeds Lawrence O. Thompson Jr., who resigned July 1 to rejoin the Army after 15 months in the post. Huston, a WWII Army veteran with Leyte and Okinawa battle stars, previously led the Democrat executive committee in Vinton County and worked for Standard Hardware and Supply Co. He reopened the service office in the Memorial building on July 15.
Delta Lodge F and A M members launch a cash pledge drive to buy the Hamilton Building at N Market St as a permanent home. They have half the price and pledge funds, aiming to close by Sept 1. The plan includes Delta Lodge, McArthur Chapter, Sereno Chapter 128 and the Eastern Star.
The Commonwealth Telephone Co. adds an $8000 brick North Sugar Street exchange building in McArthur. James Eberts fences the linking work as the unit expands to house dial equipment with future room for expansion and cooling filters planned. The McArthur exchange serves Dundas Zaleski Allensville Creola and surrounding rural areas.
Vin ton County recorded 3.46 inches of rain last week per the Vin ton Furnace forest weather observer. Rain fell Sunday to Tuesday with average highs of 82 and lows of 65. yearly rainfall totals reach 25.92 inches, up from 21.18 last year, as Lake Hope state park reports lower attendance with 1060 swimmers and 827 meals served over the weekend.
McArthur Development Association, now 70 members, will meet Monday at the McArthur school for its annual officer election. An International Farm Youth Exchange student from Loja, Ecuador, Miss Teresa Mora, will speak about her homeland. She has stayed with the Davis and Pleasant families for a month. The gathering begins at 6:30 p.m.
The Vinton Township Garden Club announces its annual flower show on July 27 with the theme Quips and Quotes. Mrs. George Leitch of Radcliff is president and Mrs. Daphne McLaughlin is show chair assisted by Bernadine Eberts. Exhibits due by 1 p.m. judging begins 1:30 p.m. Eight trophies will be awarded from sponsors including Vinton County National Bank Kinsel's Gem Bottling Standard Hardware Scotty's Sohio Jackson Garden Club and McArthur Supply Co.
Rosiens McArthur, band director at the Eastern School in Meigs County for four years, resigns to take a new post in Meigs County. The local board hires Robert Seibert from Rutland schools to take over duties.
The McArthur Village Council voted to hire Engineer Walter Miller to survey an unnamed street on the village plan. The street lies in the extreme west, adjoining the Leslie Rose Property, to determine the right of way as part of the annual budget work.
Vinton County highway officials announced a 5 million dollar relocation and improvement plan for U S Route 50 from McArthur west to the Vinton Ross county line for 1960 61. The project aims to remove Sands hill and several troublesome curves while Route 75 will see resurfacing between Dundas and Hamden and later centerlining and edgelining from McArthur to Hamden. Bids on other county projects on 7 22 include repaving 6 73 miles of Routes 327 and 328 in Harrison Eagle Swan and Brown townships.
Vinton county commissioners approved four road items on Tuesday. An abutment repair on the Kelly road received 1408.80 dollars, extra truck hire for patching crews got 1000 dollars, 4000 dollars was budgeted to repair county road equipment, and 2000 dollars for extra labor hire for patching crews. Jackson township trustees and Mrs. Raymond Daft sought a Jackson Township road opening and were advised on proper procedures. Henry Graves and Eagle Township trustee requested a view of a township road, which the commissioners conducted in the afternoon.
McArthur County Judge Garnet E. Sharp entertained the Vin ton County Bar association at Josephs in Wellston.
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