Meigs County Teachers Hires For Next Year Announced
Meigs County schools prepare for fall opening as many resignations surface. County Superintendent C O Chapman reviews prospective hires including home economics and junior high staff. New football and basketball coach Forrest Bachtel joins Pomeroy Schools. Avis Smith Roush named economics teacher. Mae Calhoon to fourth grade. Virginia Mayes moves to Pomeroy Central. instrumental music vacancy at Middleport remains. Open dates set for Sept 3 6 and 6 with enrollments expected down. Also notice: Boyd E ter of Athens named executor of Potter estate with four month claims period.
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Board of Edition
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Joan Huck
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Middleport
Hysell
Ohio University Athens
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Mae Calhoon
Elma Smith
L. W. McComas
Gordon Harris
Linden-McKinley High School
Columbus
Maff
Grace Anderson
Patience Brandle
Carl Biddle
Virginia Mayes
Pomeroy Central School
Boyd E. Ter
Ohio
1 & Potter
Athens County
Francis D. White
Said
Meigs Men Starting Service Work
Thirteen Meigs County men depart for U S Navy assignments after passing physicals in Clarksburg on July 20 and 22. Names include Ivan Diehl, Martin Ebersbach III, Burson Westfall, Cecil Spencer, Lawrence Lewis, Harold Young, Sidney Collins, Oliver Bailey, Dale Teaford, Wilbur Hanning, Lloyd Moore, Kenneth Wolfe, and Edward Baer.
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Pomeroy
Burson Marion Westfall
R. D
Long Bottom
Cecil Wyatt Spencer
Lawrence Ralph Lewis
Harold Gilbert Young
Sidney Eugene Collins
Oliver Bailey
Dale Clair Teaford
Syracuse
Wilbur Francis Hanning
Middleport
Lloyd Marcus Moore
Kenneth Elwood Wolfe
Racine
Edward Leo Baer
Government to Cut Pork Purchases for War Programs
The War Food Administration announced it will curtail purchases of most pork items including lard for military and lend lease programs in the coming weeks as hog slaughter is expected to decline. The government has been buying about 30 percent of pork and lard produced by federally inspected plants in recent months.
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Washington
War Food Administration
4-H Club Picnic and Meetings Across Communities
A series of 4-H gatherings from July 14 to July 21 across Meigs and nearby areas featured picnics, business sessions, sewing and cooking demonstrations, and plans for future events. Members and guests attended at Cowdery Beach, advisory homes, and schools, with demonstrations on knots, sewing, food storage, and chairing lessons.
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Pomeroy
Long Bottom
Victory Sewers
Cowdery Beach
Harry Pickens
4-H Victory Food Club
Laura Lenz
Roxie Jean Russell
Bashan Victory Stitchers
Pioneer
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlight Legion Club Meeting
Elizabeth Young presided as vice president over the Drew-Webster Post American Legion Ladies Auxiliary meeting at the Legion Hall with thirty members voting to contribute 10 for Red Cross kit bags. Miss Amy Kingsland tours Mexico with peers while facing birth certificate issues aided by the U S Embassy. Local residents and travelers including Mrs George Morris and Ralph Leist are noted with a brief hospital and visit report.
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Jacob Elberfeld
Alfred Elberfeld
Tom Crow
A. V. Howell
Helen Nease
Elizabeth Young
Amy Kingsland
Mexico
Miss Kingsland
New York City
U. S
Thomas A. Jenkins
E. W. Kingsland
Pomeroy
Jackson High School
Masons To Confer First Degree Friday Night
Pomeroy Lodge No 164 F and AM will hold a special meeting Friday July 30 at 8 pm to confer the first degree on one candidate. All members are urged to attend.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Lodge
F&am
Lightning strikes harsher at low altitudes study finds
A five year study challenges the belief that mountains offer more protection from strikes. Researchers report lightning damage is more severe at low elevations, with findings based on comparative data across multiple sites and years.
Hollywood's Mission to Moscow Draws Cheer in Moscow
In Moscow crowds greeted the premiere of Mission to Moscow with smiling posters featuring former Ambassador Josep F. Davies. The film was shown last night and well received though Russians teased some Hollywood notions of Soviet life.
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Moscow
Josep F. Davies
Harvard ice experiments and local social notes
At Harvard University ice was produced at 375 degrees with 40,000 atmospheres of pressure, illustrating extreme conditions. Guests Phillip Duerr and family hosted visitors this week. Miss Gloria Lehew of Newport Kentucky stayed with Mr and Mrs Theo Lehew at their club. Mr and Mrs Herman Warner and daughter Anna Lee returned from Savannah Georgia after visiting their son Pvt William Warner fresh from basic training at Camp Stewart. They saw three Meigs County youths there Norman Spencer Bud Crew and a Bailey boy from Bashan.
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Phillip Duerr
Gloria Lehew
Newport
Theo Lehew
Fire wrecks Catholic center in Fremont with $200000 loss
Fire yesterday destroyed the Our Lady of Pines community center run by the Sisters of Mercy in the Toledo diocese. The rambing brick building housed about 75 priests sisters and staff serving Mercy Hospitals in Toledo Finn and St. Rita's in Lima. No injuries were reported.
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Fremont
Our Lady of Pines
Sisters of Mercy
Toledo
Mercy
Tiffin
St. Rita's Hospital
Lima
Estes Visit Dubious Weekend in Springfield
Mr and Mrs Gordon Estes of Springfield spent the week end with her brother Burt Dodson and wife of Chester. Mr Dodson is ill.
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Gordon Estes
Springfield
Burt Dodson
Chester
Mr. Dodson
Frogs raise lower eyelids to blind themselves
Frogs move their lower eyelids upward to obscure vision while humans wink by lowering the upper eyelid. The distinct eyelid movements illustrate different protective or communicative functions across species.
Injured bicyclist after wet brick fall in Middleport
Robert Saunders sustained a deep gash in his foot when his bicycle skidded on the wet brick and he fell to the pavement. He was taken to a physician's office by Chief of Police L. B. Higequired to close the cut.
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Middleport
Robert Saunders
L. B. Higequired
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