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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1956

Page

3

Adult Education At New Ryger School Study

In Gallipolis Ohio a proposed adult education program tied to the Ohio University extension service could use the Cheshire high school complex. Ruth Thomas drafted the idea as a response to a $1,750,000 bond issue and ongoing interest in expanding education beyond traditional high school. Alva T. Grover announced the plan at Kgger Creek Association meeting, noting OU as a potential partner and predicting a year before implementation.

Gallipolis Ohio University Extension Service Cheshire Ruth Thomas Wea Noricr Charles Russell Athens Ohio Hones Ose Kgger Creek Association Alva T. Grover Thomas Ohio University Kgger Creek Grover

Bidwell Man Serves With Artillery Unit

Pvt. John A. Howards of Bidwell Route 2 serves with the Army's 32d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion in Japan. Howard, a battalion mechanic, is a 1946 graduate of Raccoon Township High School, Rio Grande.

Bidwell John A. Howard Mary E

Ewington Soldier Reported For Duty In Germany

Ewington area man Pte Billie B. Sowards 20 son of Mr and Mrs Willie Sowards Ewington Route 1 recently reported for duty with the 11th Airborne Division in Germany Sowards entered the Army in April 1955 previously at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri.

Ewington Billie B. Sowards Willie Sowards 1Th Airborne Germany Sowards Army Fort Leonard Ood

Miss United States crowns a new winner in Iowa

Last year's Miss United States Darlene Johnson of Rutland Vermont handed over her crown to Carol Morris of Iowa in a ceremony. Johnson warned that glamour and pressure accompany a title and urged contestants to see beauty contests as door opening opportunities while choosing the right path.

Long Beach Johnson

Test Operation Alert maps 75 centers for A bombs

Washington 75 centers to be hit in Operation Alert. The civil defense drill spans a full week starting Friday with 58 production centers nine air bases and ten coastal sites to simulate a large scale attack. Presidents staff evacuates to a secret HQ while Congress stays in place. Task forces face emergency problems to gauge resource survival and distribution.

Washington NEA America San Francisco D. C Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico Ter Eisenhower U. S Nixon White House Congress Ned Arthur S. Flemming Office of Defense Mobilization Val Peterson Federal ‘Civil Defense ‘Administration

Battelle Creates Cobalt Research Information Center

A cobalt information center is established at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus to supply technical and economical data for users across metallurgical chemical ceramics electronics pharmaceutical and nucleonic fields with support from major cobalt producers.

Columbus Battelle Memorial Institute

Wheat Fails In Ukrain e Cites Moscow Secrecy

Cleveland reporter Doris ODonnell says Ukraine wheat crop fell by about 50 percent this year and Moscow censored wheat coverage. She sourced remarks from American farmers in Kiev who noted fields replaced with oats barley and peas due to severe winter.

Cleveland Ukraine Doris O'Donnell Cleveland News Soviet Union Moscow Russia Miss O'Donnell Kiev

Taken To Hospital After Heart Attack

J B Wetherholt of 130 State Street was taken to Holter Hospital at 7 p m Thursday by ambulance. Doctors diagnosed his poor condition as the result of a heart attack.

Gallipolis J. B. Wetherholt State St Holter Hospital

Aid to Management Developed at BG

Bowling Green State University professor Dr. Mearl R. Guthrie has developed a management aid test to identify workers with undesirable traits. The test rates employees on cooperation, interpersonal skills, accuracy, honesty, initiative, dependability, loyalty, ambition and courtesy to help maintain workplace harmony and peak production.

Bowling Green Bowling Green State University Mearl R. Guthrie

First plastic invented by John Hyatt in the 19th century

The passage notes American scientist John Hyatt created the first plastic by combining camphor with nitrated cotton cellulose and fat celluloid during the late 1800s. It emphasizes Hyatt as the innovator and identifies the material as an early plastic.

John Hyatt

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