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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1948
Page
5
Mayor W P Mickle announced warnings to Athens property owners under ordinance 443 to mow tall weeds or face fines from $5 to $10 for sanitary reasons. He also warned residents to keep dogs tied within city limits to prevent garden damage and rabies risk during summer.
An open letter to the Athens City Council and property owners urges passing a resolution to ask the county auditor to raise the real estate tax levy for operating and maintenance. It calls for placing the issue on the November ballot and outlines planned uses, safeguards, and annual department disclosures to reassure taxpayers.
Dr. H G Southard health commissioner for Athens Hocking and Vinton counties released polio guidance from a Dayton meeting with National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Rules urge prompt reporting rest and diet restrictions water hygiene waste control and prompt medical consultation.
Funeral services for Sgt Sam Baker Jr who was killed December 12 1944 in Germany will be held Sunday at 2 pm in the Pilgrim Holiness Church Chauncey Rev Raymond Pidcock officiating Burial will follow in Millfield Cemetery with K T Crossen Post American Legion conducting military rites Baker served in France and Germany two years in the infantry He was 23 Surviving are his father and stepmother Mr and Mrs Sam Baker Sr Millfield Route 1 his mother Mrs Fred Reber Carbondale four sisters Mrs Lucia McKee Mrs Woodrow Kellis and Mrs Raymond Harper Columbus and Bettie Jean at home a brother John Baker The Plains and grandmother Mrs Rosa Rutter Athens Friends may call at Jagers funeral home any time
Two auto accidents in the city limits, none with injuries, involved multiple vehicles. A University panel truck driven by Donald A. Gabriel, 26, Athens Route 1, was hit while turning. Robert L. Ayers, 20, of 68 E Mulberry St., started to pass and struck the truck, pushing Ayers into a parked car owned by Mrs. Fra Frost Battis. Flossie Tate, New Lexington, backed into a Court St. spot and was struck by Gilbert P. Cooper, Athens Route 2.
Six persons were initiated into Ep silon Pi Tau, the national honor society for industrial education men, including Athens resident Howard Pond Jr. from Shadyside Ohio. Laurence V. Calvin led the initiating team at the Athens Country Club with a banquet and toastmaster William Nolte.
Miss Anna M. Scott long time Athens resident died after an extended illness in Columbus where the family home had been since 1910. She was the eldest daughter of the late Winfield Scott and Frances Whipple Scott and is survived by two Columbus sisters. Burial is tentatively scheduled at W Union Street Cemetery in Athens.
James W. Merritt aged 93 former Athens resident died Tuesday at his Lancaster Ohio home. He and his daughter Greta had moved from Athens 30 days earlier after living in Athens about a year and a half. A native of Youngstown he was a master mechanic for Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co for 45 years. Brief services were held in Lancaster and burial is planned in Tod Cemetery Youngstown.
In the County Fair Edition of the Athens Messenger on Tuesday July 27 the fund goal for the Ohio 4 H Foundation Fund was misstated as two thousand dollars and should have read two hundred thousand dollars.
Special grand jury findings condemn mail censorship and dungeons used on inmates. They urge closer inmate privacy talks, background checks on superintendents, removal of Willard Simonton for cruel treatment, and adherence to inmates rights. Indictment also lists non support case for Thomas E Bailey of Washington DC.
Shelva Fulks five month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Osborne Fulks Athens Route 3 died Thursday morning en route to Shelter Arms Hospital. She had been ill several days. She is survived by two sisters Sandra Brenda and three brothers Timothy Terry and Gary all at home. Services in Poston Community Church Saturday 10 30 a m burial Augustine Cemetery. Friends may call Jagers Funeral Home after Friday noon.
List of local residents with newborns noted as daughters for several Athens area families. Major surgery patient Robert Snow and medical status for Dr. S. E. G. Pedigo. Obsrvation for Mrs. Eleanor Mays. Daughters listed for Mrs. Theodore Ahle and daughter Amesville, Mrs. John Radcliff and daughter Athens, and others including Billy Jones Amesville, James Swartz Columbus, and Joyce Herb Athens.
Ralph Stover, 34, of New England, was arrested Wednesday by Sheriff George Bateman on a warrant signed by Lloyd Merrick charging him with grand larceny. He is free on a $500 bond and pleaded innocent to stealing a tractor belt from a sawmill site on Hague Ridge. Stover surrendered after learning of the warrant and the sheriff said the belt was recovered.
U S Camera dedicates two pages in its August issue to Ohio University's photography school. The article by Robert L. Dishon notes the department's evolution from Prof. L C Mitchell to a BA degree offering program. Photographs by Art Bean depict Greda Peterich, Prof. George Starr Lasher, Vic Sherow, and Prof. Mitchell teaching students.
Temperatures in Athens climbed despite rain with a high of 89 Wednesday and a low of 65 Tuesday. Mrs C N France, weather observer, notes the Hocking River rose 5.05 feet after last night's .40 inch rainfall and at 10 am today the thermometer showed 79 degrees.
Argle Hill age 21 of Bartlett was released from Athens County jail after a shooting Monday night on Cincinnati Ridge between Coolville and Frost. Kenneth Singer of Bartlett declined to press charges, saying Hill shot at him from a car in a field. Singer accompanied by William Mayles, not hit by bullets from a .22 rifle, could not be sure Hill fired.
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