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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1942
Page
5
Athens Ohio wartime notice announces a Wednesday drill for all Athens City Defense Corps volunteers. A practice alert starts at 6 30 and a mass meeting at the Christian Church follows at 8 00. Volunteers will patrol, wear armbands, and coordinates with city agencies during a planned incident drill.
Fred, an Ohio University instructor, told the Rotary Club yesterday that the United Nations economy will change drastically due to drought and war demands. He said Axis nations shifted to a war economy and the UN will pursue rapid material production, rationing, and centralized control, while the US must mobilize domestic resources and manpower, with women and older men drafted and the Employment Service playing a key role.
Merigo T. Portante, 25, of Karlie Street, pleaded guilty to operating an auto without a driver's license. He was fined $5 plus costs after state police arrested him Sunday on Route 50 near Bathens and Albany.
About 138 Ohio University upperclassmen will receive degrees at the summer school commencement in Memorial Auditorium. Dr. Alfred H. Upham of Miami University will deliver the address. Degrees: 110 bachelors 18 masters 10 elementary education diplomas. Procession from Ewing Hall at 1 30 pm with invocations by Rev. Edwin Arthur Brown.
Four Athens city and county officials attend a Federal Bureau of Investigation police conference in Zanesville at Rogge Hotel. Mayor Franz I Woodworth Sheriff George Bateman Chief of Police J B Groman and Dr B B Buckley join health officials for discussions led by Dr Harold J Gordon and Col Frank V Meriweather on venereal disease control and its relation to armed forces.
Virginia Josephine Fogarty of Akron a navy nurse captured by the Japanese at Guam and Frederick Mann 29 of Brooklyn former U S vice consul at Osaka were married here today after a shipboard romance aboard the Asama Maru the Japanese exchange vessel which brought them to this neutral port.
Clarence Fealty field supervisor from the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan office of the Farm Credit Administration will meet at the office of Ross Wright county extension agent in Athens on Wednesday July 29 from noon until 1 p.m.
The State of Ohio on behalf of Harry T. Wise files in Common Pleas Court to obtain a judgment for 283.74 plus interest from Dec 29 1940, in lieu of an Industrial Commission award made Dec 2 1941. The Loyal Daughters 4-H Victory Club met at Clarks Chapel Church July 24 with members naming a favorite sport and Joan Tucker as guest. plans were set for an Aug 7 ice cream social at 5 p.m. The next club meeting is Aug 7 at 1 30 p.m. The Victory Can Lid Canners 4-H Club met at the advisor Mrs Harold Straight home on July 24. an excursion to Lake Hope July 31 was planned. Betty Kenny and Myrlin Hoon demonstrated canning procedures.
Temperatures stayed in the eighties in Athens with a noon reading around 86 degrees and a nightly low near 65. The day’s warmth followed yesterday’s pattern as residents faced summerlike heat. Halley’s Comet has been traced back to year 240 B C.
The article explains Athens civil defense during a trial blackout. It urges residents to identify air raid wardens for districts and sectors, and to contact wardens in emergencies when telephone service may be limited. It notes wardens will coordinate with the defense center and that district boundaries and wardens will be published.
County commissioners weigh reimbursing Gladys Bayless about 1350 for rent and utilities paid during 32 months the jail and sheriff residence were unoccupied. They await an opinion from Prosecuting Attorney Harry Mettler on the legality of the proposed payment.
The Defense Corps outlines this week schedule with practice at the control center on Tuesday and Thursday at 4 p m and a 6 30 p m alert practice on Wednesday A mass meeting for all volunteers is set at the Christian Church Two zone and district leaders meeting is tonight at 7 in the Ohio University Men's Gymnasium Discussions include messenger service Boy Scouts and drivers corps meet this evening in the Athens facilities under supervision of W J Trautwein Carl House and H C Dorman respectively
Edward Grosvenor Ath ens Route 4 Robert Gibegp Adam sonville Mrs Vivian Patricks Northwood Drive and Bull Catley Cleveland admitted for major operations Harré Blackburn Lancaster St admitted for fractured leg Dona Marie Green 17 Central Ave emergency appendectomy Michael Parkis 56 W Union St lon s ilectomy and released Delbert Pearce McArthur parents of a daughter born Sunday at the hospital Janet James Athens released today Byron Jacoby Columbus released Monday
Anthony Vet of Akron, field representative for the CIO State County and Municipal Workers, says 75 of 86 city water department employees voted to strike unless four shop workers are restored to their jobs.
Walter T. Brahm a 31 year old assistant city librarian at Toledo won the state librarian post to replace Paul A Noon who resigned last spring in Columbus Ohio.
Funeral services for Seth V. Harris aged 65 of Westerville were held at 2:30 p.m. at his daughter Madge Draper’s home in Westerville after he suffered a fatal heart attack at Sunday School. Burial followed in Otterbein Cemetery. He was a plasterer and had been ill two years. Survived by wife Minnie Harris son Wilbur a granddaughter two brothers L D Harris and Frank and two sisters Elizabeth Hanson and Lucy Huffman all of Sharpsburg or Westerville.
A display at the Athens National Bank contrasts genuine bills from counterfeit notes ranging from five to one hundred dollars. The exhibit aims to educate the public on identifying bogus currency and notes how counterfeiters target roadside filling stations to avoid detection.
Eight Ohio University students have enlisted in the Army Air Force Reserve after passing final physicals in Columbus. Enlistees include Richard Harner, Richard Smith, John Campbell, Vernon Ginn, Charles Marshall, Harry Regula, Charles Selander, and Russell Curtiss. They remain in college with deferred active duty until they complete basic training.
Washington reports six Central American republics will cooperate with the United States to establish an emergency overland route from the United States to Panama in order to sidestep submarine threats in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
New York report states a Navy union agreement ends a strike threat after AFL influence. The deal involves naval projects in the Metropolitan area valued at $109,900,000, with employment implications for the local workforce.
The fifth U S Navy ship to carry Baltimore’s name was launched at the Fore River yard of Bethlehem Steel Company. The vessel marks a continued expansion of naval forces and honors the Maryland city.
The Athens NYA War Production and Training Shop and the Athens Mechanics School continue to train youths for war production. Thirty-nine former students are now employed in Ohio plants including Curtis-Wright in Columbus and Goodyear Aircraft in Akron, with 60 to 70 more in ongoing courses. The 160 hour program, delivered in one month, covers sheet metal plus welding aircraft mechanics or aircraft structure.
Ohio law requires relatives selling or transferring a car titled to a service member to prove owner approval. Athens County clerk Mrs. Alberta C. Grones said acceptable evidence includes a power of attorney, a reverse side title endorsement, or a letter from the owner authorizing the sale.
The Ross-Hocking 4-H Camp hosts 280 members including Junior Moore Phyllis Coldsberry and Moore along with Shade Roopy Jago Jercy Meninley and advisor Gail Fi m ing Amesville and Otha Frost with County Extension Agent Ross Wright Athens.
Berne stands as the political capital of Switzerland not Geneva, per the readable excerpt noting the official seat of government and central administration within the Swiss Confederation.
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