Sandusky man sentenced for auto theft in Ohio Pen
Charles Olin McCoy 22 of Sandusky received 1 to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentary after pleading guilty to auto theft in Gallia County Common Pleas Court. He admitted stealing a 1955 black and red sedan owned by James Paul Baird of J & B Motor Sales, and was recaptured after an escape from Charleston WV hospital.
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Gallipolis
Robert M. Betz
Gallia County
Common Pleas
Charles Olin McCoy
Sandusky
Ohio
Warren F. Sheets
McCoy
Grand Jury
James Paul Baird
J & B Motor Sales
Baird
Ironton
Grant Long
Sheriff's Department
Charleston
W.va
Memorial Hospital
Pepper
Kanawha County
Denver Arbaugh
Holzer Hospital News Admits and Discharges List
Admitted to Holzer Hospital are Mrs. Gerald E. Roach Mrs. Hester Boothe Mrs. Edythe R. Hanfeldt Mrs. Clarence E. Bryant Michael Layne Michael S. Schweikart Mrs. George J. McClaskey Jr Barbara A. Adams Mrs. Arnold E. Sauders and others. Dismissals include Rose Coughenour Glen Sargent Dan Davis Sigal Callicoat Robert D. Wise Ronald Grady Zelda Wells H B Hayes Robert Ruckman Dale Richards Phillip Dye and R L Philgew and son. Blood used Wednesday six pints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald E. Roach
Gallipolis
Hester Boothe
Jackson
Edythe R. Hanfeldt
Athens
Clarence E. Bryant
Ironton
Michael Layne
Pedro
Michael S. Schweikart
George J. McClaskey, Jr
Wellston
Barbara A. Adams
Millwood
W.va
Arnold E. Sauders
Rose Coughenour
Glen Sargent
Dan Davis
Sigal Callicoat
Robert D. Wise
Ronald Grady
Zelda Wells
H. B. Hayes
Robert Ruckman
Dale Richards
Phillip Dye
R. H. Craft
R. L. Philgew and Son
K. D. Drew and Son
Four Boys Attend Camp From Gallipolis and Kyger Creek
Gallipolis and Kyger Creek FFA members returned from the State FFA Camp at Carrollton. Leo Tawney James Criner Donald Brumfield and Tom Mullahan spent four days at Camp Muskingum learning leadership conservation and recreation with scholarships from a local Ford dealer and Jr Fair Board.
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Gallipolis
Kyger Creek
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Carrollton
Leo Tawney
James Criner
Donald Brumfield
Tom Mollahan
Camp Muskingum
Leesville Lake
Carroll County
Ford
Tom Mullahan
Fair Board
TB tests offered for Gallia Fair food handlers last day
Saturday is the final day to receive tuberculin skin tests at the Gallia County Health Department for those seeking food handler status at the Gallia County Junior Fair. Tests must be passed to obtain a food handler card, with nurses stopping at 2 30 p.m.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Cited After Auto Wreck In Gallipolis
In Gallipolis on State Route 218 near State Route 7 a crash occurred at 7 a.m. Wednesday when Phillip M. Garlic 16 and Ronnie E. Kingery 20 both northbound cars collided after Garlic tried a left turn. No injuries and moderate damage. Kingery cited to Municipal Court for failure to stop within the assured clear distance.
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Gallipolis
Phillip M. Garlic
Ronnie E. Kingery
Mercerville
State Highway Patrol
Garlic
Kingery
Tuppers Plains Birthday Party for Kirk Chevalier Turned Ten
Tuppers Plains Evelyn Brickles reports a tenth birthday party for Kirk Chevalier at his home with many names listed as attendees. Also noted are funeral and picnic items including David Bardon’s funeral near Kirkersville and a Kiwanis family picnic at the Masonic Park near Marietta with a new member Loren Neal and a listed kitchen crew.
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Tuppers Plains
Kirk Chevalier
Rodney Chevalier
Dennis
Mike Benedum
Howie
Bobby Caldwell
Robert
Roger Fortney
Jimmy
Ray Watson
Grant Newland
Roger Barnett
Denver Nutt
Michael Gorrell
Billy Cole
Ronnie
Chuckie Eastman
Clarence Nichols
David Bardon
Kirkersville
Way Clark
Goodrich
Masonic Park
Marietta
Gallipolis
Kiwanis
Loren Neal
Burh D. Hood
Bob Houck
John L. Evans
Casey McKenzie
Paul E. Watson
Sewing Machines Stolen in Gallipolis Case
Gallipolis case charges Buddy Mullens and wife Patricia Mullens with stealing two electric sewing machines valued at 458 dollars. Mullens jailed for petty larceny. his wife to appear in Municipal Court with him. One machine recovered, deputies seek the second.
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Gallipolis
Ellis
Hunt
Buddy Mullens
Mullens
Gallia County
Patricia Mullens
Sheriff's Department
Contempt Warrant Issued in Racine Drunk Driving Case
Judge William H. Jones issued a contempt of court warrant for Glenover Boggess 48 of Racine after he failed to appear for a drunk driving trial in Gallia County. The case had been moved from Municipal to Common Pleas court and jurors had waited 45 minutes before dismissal and postponement.
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Gallipolis
William H. Jones
Meigs County
Gallia
Judge Fines Three Boys for Disturbing the Peace
Gallipolis juvenile court fined three teenagers twenty five dollars and costs with twenty dollars suspended and placed them on probation until age eighteen. The youths aged fourteen sixteen and seventeen faced the judge after a disturbance at Second and State Streets last Saturday. Two additional youths brought before the judge later this week. nine older suspects aged eighteen to twenty three appeared in Municipal Court and pleaded innocent with seven held on fifty dollar bonds.
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Gallipolis
John W. Howell
Second
State Sts
Howell
Invite Bands For Dinner In Gallia County
Gallia County and Gallipolis bands were invited to perform at the August 11 Bidwell bean dinner chaired by Warren Skidmore. Glen Strickland will host, Keith Tyler’s band will play, with events including baseball, speeches, novelties and a pantomime by Mrs. Henry’s GSI dramatics group. An August 6 work detail at Bush Park, the dinner site, was announced by Pres. Phil Foster of the North Gallia Pirates Athletic Boosters Association.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Warren Skidmore
Glen Strickland
Keith Tyler
North Gallia Pirates Athletic Boosters Association
Bush Park
State Highway Patrol Examiner approves dozens for licenses
Gene Mather, the State Highway Patrol driver license examiner, approved 15 applicants for temporary instruction permits and 14 for operator licenses. He gave 74 tests this week, with 62 passes. Of 41 preliminary exams, 34 were approved, and 33 road tests produced 28 license approvals.
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Gallipolis
Licene
Gene Mather
Mather
Ex Farmer of Cheshire Dies at 91
John H. Starcher 91 of Cheshire Route 1, a Gallia County farmer, died at 1 10 p.m. Wednesday at his daughter's home on Gravel Hill Road. Born in Ripley West Virginia, he married Wavie King in 1900 who preceded him in death in 1953. He operated a Cheshire area farm and is survived by three children Louise Roush Kathryn Shaver and George Starcher a university president, plus three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He belonged to Little Eggar Grange and Cheshire Methodist Church. Services 2 p.m. Saturday Miller's funeral home Rev Osborn Hoover officiating. Burial Gravel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Gallipolis
John H. Starcher
Cheshire
Gallia County
James Roush
Gravel Hill Road
Ripley
W. Va
Robert Evan
Emily Prudence Harker Starcher
Wavie King
Louise Roush
Kathryn Shaver
Athens
George Starcher
University of North Dakota
Starcher
Little Kgger Grange
Cheshire Methodist Church
Miller’s
Osborn Hoover
Gravel Hill Cemetery
E. S. Brewer Dies At 88
E S Brewer 88 a former Gallia County resident died Tuesday at the Marengo home of daughter Mrs Rhesa Wade of a heart attack Born in Lincoln County West Virginia he lived in Gallia and later Hocking counties Survived by wife Minnie Stowers four sons and three daughters 25 grandchildren and many great grandchildren Two sons and two daughters predeceased him Funeral services 2 pm Friday at Miller s funeral home Rev Brady Duncan Burial in Vinton Memorial Park Visitation 7 9 pm Thursday at the funeral home
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Gallipolis
E. S. Brewer
Gallia County
Rhesa Wade
Marengo
Lincoln County
W. Va
Edward and
Isabel Brewer
Hocking County
Minnie Stowers
Fred H
Norristown
Leslie M
Roy M
South Charleston
Leo
Columbus
Della Berry
Belpre
Milo
Rhesa) Wade
E. W
Sylvia) Pullins
Nitro
Kenneth
Ronnie
Myrtle
Vada
Miller’s Funeral
Brady Duncan
Vinton Memorial Park
River Traffic and Dam Status in Huntington District
Gauge readings on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers show varied levels with several dams on the sill and moving. Lock operations report multiple boats up or down at Lock 13 through Lock 35 and Kanawha River vessels Marmet and Gallipolis with mixed progress throughout the day.
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Gallipolis
Montgomery
Greenup
Kanawha Falls
Hinton
Point Pleasant
Kanawha River
London
Marmet
Winfield
Ohio River
Huntington
Defender
Harrison
Ovec
Woods
Forsythia
Lock
Jerry Bosworth
John J. Rowe
Bayou la
Clinois
Triple Power
J. S. Lewis
Esso Louisiana
Kanawha
O. F. Shearer
Robert W. Lea
Creditor
Solvay
Asporter
James R. Hines
Laguna
John Bell Hood
Gallia Sheriff Probes Death of Kelton Road Man
Gallia County investigators probe the apparent self-inflicted death of Homer Wesley Lemley 59 at his Kelton Road home near Gallipolis. Sheriff Oscar Baird reported a 12 gauge shotgun found in his hand and an autopsy pending at Holzer Hospital. Lemley leaves a large family and service details to be announced by Miller Funeral Home.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
National Sinks Gallipolis Towboat Near Buffington Island
The National, a towboat owned by Standard Oil Co., sank about 8 a.m. Wednesday at Buffington Island on the Ohio River after locking through Dam 21 with four empty barges. The vessel had cleared Lock 21 at 7 a.m. on a southbound trip.
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Gallipolis
National
Standard Oil Co
Buffington Island
Ohio River
Investigation Of Enterings Reported In Gallia
The Gallia Wednesday reports two breakings and enterings late Tuesday. Hamilton's Grocery and Service Station in Porter was entered with a window broken and a cigaret lighter cigarettes and ice cream stolen. Entry gained through a side window. The Casto residence on Roush Road near Route 554 was broken into via a screen door. nothing reported missing.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Fife
Judgements Returned by Gallia County Court
Gallia County Common Pleas Court entered a confessed judgment of 207.61 against Emma Woodyard in favor of Ohio Valley Bank with six percent interest from June 6 and costs. It also awarded 183.83 to John McKean doing business as Sterling Service against Kenneth Rucker with six percent interest from April 18, 1961 and costs. Charles Lambert dismissed his divorce petition from Betty Lambert and paid costs.
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Gallipolis
Gallia
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