Ohio Legislature Review Highlights Changes and Key Bills
Senator Stanley Mechem outlines the last Ohio legislature's record to Athens Rotary, noting 1073 bills offered with 207 passed and $647 million in biennial appropriations. He cites major acts like the turnpike law and unemployment compensation increases, plus failures such as FEPC and a $27.5 million annual education expansion. He remarks on party shifts and staffing changes in the Senate and House.
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Ohio
Stanley Mechem
Nelsonville
Athens Rotary Club
Mechem
Mt Tell
Conservation
Court House Repair Contract Won By Jackson Firm
The Southern Ohio Painting Co. of Jackson won a $13 942 50 bid to repaint and repair the court house and boiler room. Other bids included Dayton firm George W Hamel 15885 Parkersburg firm G R Hiehle 18190 Akron Arthur Painting Co 19867 Athens Arthur H Watkins 22844. Work includes sand blasting brick and stone, roof spouting chimneys and cornice repair, window painting, and boiler room work with weekly or twice monthly progress payments.
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Southern Ohio Painting Co
Jackson
George W. Hamel
Dayton
G. R. Hiehle & Co
Parkersburg
W. Va
Arthur Painting Co
Akron
Arthur H. Watkins
Athens
Johnson and West
Congress Street House Razed in Athens
Razing of the brick building at 8 Congress Street in Athens began under owner M D Hughes. Built nearly 80 years ago by contractor Robert S Arscott, the house near Palmer Hall housed a student boarding club run by Mary Cabeen from 1909 until Lewis Fishbaugh’s occupancy. No rebuilding plans announced.
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Athens
Congress St
M. D. Hughes
Palmer Hall
Robert S. Arscott
State Hospital
J. C. Edmundson
C. O. Pickering
Carl Porter
Ohio University
Mary Cabeen
Lewis Fishbaugh
Hughes
Mercury Peaks at 92 in Athens as Warm Spell Persists
Temperatures hardly budged in Athens with a high of 92, two below Sunday's peak. The overnight low was 69 as a light rain fell earlier. For the second day in a row the early morning reading stood near 1 degree above nine o’clock.
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Athens
C. N. France
Strouds Run Road Crash Injures Stewart Man
A head on collision on Strouds Run Road left Stewart resident Thomas Davis with forehead bruises and lacerations. Curtis A. McPeak of Athens, driving the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. truck, was charged with driving on the wrong side of the road.
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Stewart
Strouds Run
State Highway Patrol
Thomas Davis
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co
Curtis A. McPeak
Athens
James H Jarvis
McPeak
Lawrence Andrews
Glouster
Thomas Williams
Wendell Gordon Moore
W. P. Mickle
Bethel Ridge Resident Effie Ward Dies at 70 in Coolville
Mrs. Effie Ward, 70, of Bethel Ridge died Monday at her home. Survived by daughters Bertha Collins Coolville Lorena McBride Osborn and Louise Clark Coolville. son Clifton Osborn. brothers Clarence Ernest and Charles Shreeve. sister Letty Fortney. 13 grandchildren. Husband Oscar preceded her in death. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. Bethel Church with burial in Bethel Cemetery. Friends may call at home.
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Coolville
Effie Ward
Bethel Ridge
Bertha Collins
Lorena McBride
Osborn
Louise Clark
Clifton
Clarence
Ernest
Charles Shreeve
Clarksburg
W. Va
Letty Fortney
Lumberport
Oscar
Bethel Church
Bethel Cemetery
Divorce petition filed in common pleas court
Dora Burleigh Chappell files for divorce from Charles Hase Chappell whom she wed in September 1935. She alleges non-support and seeks alimony and custody of their only child.
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Dora Burleigh Chappell
Common Pleas Court
Charles Hase Chappell
Woman Jailed on Assault and Battery Charge
Lily Spencer 24 of Columbus was jailed 14 days after failing to pay $10 fines on intoxication and assault and battery charges. The case, brought by Dorothy Graham, claimed Spencer struck Graham’s daughter Ruth Ann.
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Lily Spencer
Columbus
W. P. Mickle
Spencer
Dorthy Graham
Smith St
Graham
Ruth Ann
Correction: Keating Fined in Nelsonville Crash
A clarification states James W. Keating of Nelsonville was fined for leaving the scene of a two car crash on Saturday, not Paul Lafollette as reported by Mayor Oral Daugherty. The Highway Patrol confirms Keating the punished driver.
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Messenger
Paul Lafollette
Nelsonville
Oral Daugherty
Lafollette
James W. Keating
Daugherty
State Highway Patrol
Nurse Maria Stone leaves for duty in Japan with Occupation Forces
Marie J. Stone departs California by plane for American Occupation Forces Headquarters under General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo where she will serve two years as nurse consultant and health educator for the Japanese civilian population. A former captain in the Army Nurse Corps, she has long career in health education and nursing across Ohio West Virginia Alabama and Germany.
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Marie J. Stone
California
Douglas McArthur
Tokyo
Japan
Miss Stone
J. A. Isselstein
Deanville
W. K. Kellogg
Ohio
Ohio University Health Education Committee
Nelsonville
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
Gallipolis
Ohio University
Columbia University
New York
N. Y
Holzer Hospital
Memorial Hospital
Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia State Department of Health
Buchenwald
Is National Army
Berlin
Frankfurt
Germany
Lindley Hall
Mary Evans Gillilan Dies Unexpectedly in New York
Mary Evans Gillilan 59 wife of GE engineer Paul McVay Gillilan of Schenectady N Y died suddenly Sunday night while her husband was away in Chicago. Her sister Edith Evans visited in Rexford. Services set for Rexford home with funeral 2 30 p m at Ziba's House conducted by Rev James L Hyde. Mrs Gillilan a 1913 Ohio University graduate taught in Urichsville New Lexington and Athens high schools. She lived in Schenectady and Erie with their only child Ann Elizabeth de Witt of Princeton NJ. She is survived by three brothers and two sisters. The family attended the Presbyterian Church in Schenectady and Erie.
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Mary Evans Gillilan
Paul McVay Gillilan
General Electric Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Chicago
Edith Evans
Rexford
Mills
Maplewood Drive
Ziba
James L. Hyde
Alexander Presbyterian Church
Gillilan
Griffith H. Evans
Ohio University
Alpha
Griffith L
Columbus
Niles
Ohio
Athens
Gillilans
Presbyterian Church
Erie
Exams Listed for Federal Positions
A notice lists federal examinations for VA civil service roles including industrial specialist and air force procurement inspector with salaries from 3351 to 6235 and 3727 to 4479 respectively. Other posts include contract negotiator and vocational rehabilitation adviser with up to 10305. Application blanks and details are available from W. H. Oldfield at the post office.
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VA. 5
Civil Service Commission
Air Force
W. H. Oldfield
Local men fined and jailed on intoxication charges
John Taylor, 61, of 139 Washington Street, was fined $10 and costs by Mayor W. P. Mickle for intoxication. Harley Ellis, 45, of Albany Route 2, unable to pay a similar fine, was sentenced to seven days in the county jail.
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John Taylor
Washington St
W. P. Mickle
Harley Ellis
Albany
Conrath-Bean Chapter DAV to Meet in Armory
The Conrath-Bean Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans will meet in the Armory on Wednesday at 7 29 p m J Ailstock announced.
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Conrath-Bean
Disabled American Veterans
Armory
Eoraseeese Cc
J. Ailstock
Tony
Young and Gentry Named in Athens Pair
Herbert O. Young, 19, and Anne Gentry, 18, both of Athens, are identified in connection with the local item.
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Herbert O. Young
Anne Gentry
Athens
Births and admissions at Sheltering Arms Hospital
Births include a son for Mr and Mrs Lewis Gatchel of Glouster and a son for Mr and Mrs Rolland Eastman of Flora. Admissions list Maxine Eblin Pomeroy Route 3 for major surgery Homer Howell Cutler Route 1 Mrs Blanche Rutter Nelsonville for surgery Frank Walton Racine for surgery along with Mrs Mary Bickley Chauncey medical William N Fleck Athens medical William Andrews Glouster medical Richard W Kovaleski Beckley W Va medical Im Moritz Columbus medical Discharged Irma Gene Cone Athens Goldie Fouts Hemlock and E J Williams Shade Roger Stright New Marshfield Route 1.
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Lewis Gatchel
Glouster
Rolland Eastman
Flora
Maxine Eblin
Pomeroy
Homer Howell
Cutler
Blanche Rutter
Nelsonville
Frank Walton
Racine
Mary Bickley
Chauncey
William N. Fleck
Athens
Cal
William Andrews
Richard W.kovaleski
Beckley
W Va
Im Moritz
Columbus
Irma Gene Cone
Goldie Fouts
Hemlock
E. J. Williams
Roger Stright
New Marshfield
More Bicyclists Enter Messenger Racing August Elimination
Four new Messenger boys join the national championship bicycle race preliminaries with 51 total entered in the Athens elimination and 84 overall in The Messenger seven county program. Elimination race is at 1 pm August 7 at the Athens County Fairgrounds.
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Messengers
Ignaz Schwinn
Messenger
Essenger
Athens County Fairgrounds
Athens
George Lee Weisenbach
Stewart St
James A. Garrett
W. Washington St
Bobby Dixon
EK. Mulberry
Wendell White
Sunnyside Drive
Kermit Graham
Albany
One If by Land Two If by Sea Man Fined for Intoxication in Spencer
Paul Revere Cox aged 66 of Spencer West Virginia was found on Route 56 by State Highway Patrol. He was brought to the city jail where Mayor W P Mickle fined him ten dollars plus costs for intoxication.
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Paul Revere Cox
Spencer
W. Va
State Highway Patrol
W. P. Mickle
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Illinois Liquor Control Commission
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Mrs. Gillilan
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Sheltering Arms Hospital
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Ann Page
Marvel
Meat Dept
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U.S. No
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