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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1945
Page
2
Gallipolis Rotary Club heard sergeant Rob ert Welsh of the 101st Airborne describe a 44 day Atlantic voyage after training and a June 5 eve of D Day briefing with Allied paratroopers. He recalled heat, storms, and desertion delays as the group prepared for the invasion and avoided minor irritations with Mezsans medicated powder.
Gallipolis will host a new tie-yard by Framton and Company of Pittsburgh near the Ohio Valley Livestock yards. A. W. Biffle, veteran sawmill expert, resigns from West Virginia Ordnance Works to become superintendent of the new firm. Also reports arrival of Pte John E Piatt, son of Mr and Mrs Le Piatt, on the West Coast en route home.
World War II memories unfold as Pvt. Welsh recounts Ike greeting the crew at nine p.m. on June 5 as their plane circled England. He describes landing near a hedgerow, a meeting with a cow, a June 11 truce with German medics, and his convalescence in France and England before returning to the U.S. The Rotary meeting honors show anniversaries for Tommy Thomas, Joe Miller, Bob Evans, and Barney Adams with W. R. Ingerson of Piedmont present and Harriett Davis at the piano.
Cpl Leader Steinbeck left Wednesday for Camp Campbell Kentucky after a 10 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs John Steinbeck and wife Mary Barron RN of Holzer Hospital Staff. Miss Hattie Cromley of Ohio Bell is on a three week vacation. Mrs Julia Swisher McGhee will work in Columbus during the summer. Mrs Edith Langdon is home from Hamilton where daughter Marie Langdon is recovering from pneumonia. Mr and Mrs W L Ingerick host for a few days their daughter in law Rita Kay Fitzwater and son Joe of Charleston and Rita Kay Fitzwater of Huntington. Mrs Emma Alban, back home in Columbus after visiting her daughter, Mrs Ray Bailey and family. Mr and Mrs Charles Houck and daughters Lorena and Joan of Chillicothe visit Memorial Day. joined by Orland Houck and wife and daughter Anna Belle of Athens. Mrs Cecil Brown spent past week with son stationed at Camp Rucker Alabama. returned Tuesday. Mrs William Adkins aboard trip to Alabama with Mrs Brown. both back in Gallipolis. Dr and Mrs John Lupton of Cleveland visiting relatives this week. Miss J Harriet Davis hosts cousin Almada Haves of Bexley.
In Gallipolis area churches announce funeral rites for Mrs. Mary Maddy and services across Grace Methodist First Presbyterian St Peter Episcopal Church of the Nazarene Church of God and Church of Christ. The bulletin lists worship times, Sunday School sessions, youth meetings, and mai n sermon schedules for Apple Grove Letart and surrounding locales.
Naomi Lodge No 5 Knights of Pythias honored two members for 50 years of service Ed L Mills and Martin Vollbert received veteran pins presented by A C Safford Also noted were other long time members W A Tanner Levi Rife W Gomer Jones Hollis Johnston Robert M Switzer and Wesley Swisher A chicken dinner was arranged by Claude Miller and social committee members Visitors from several lodges and state representatives attended the gathering in Gallipolis Ohio.
Stores in Point Pleasant will close at 1 p.m. on Thursdays through the summer, as the retail merchants division of the chamber of commerce polices hours. Most food stores have already closed on Thursday afternoons and the change will not affect them.
At Memorial Day exercises scouts received the General Eisenhower War Service Medal for extraordinary patriotic achievement. Medal presenters included Commander D. W. Wetzel and Major J. D. Fraser. Joe Kayser and others named received the honors. Elmer Grueser handed a $295.50 check from salvaged paper proceeds to Mrs. Lee Platt for the War Mothers Club. Four Gold Star Mothers attended on the platform.
Mrs S J and Mrs F Lestie Heck hosted the Married Ladies Bridge Club at 1902 Jefferson Blvd with guests including Mrs C O Weissenburger and others. defense stamps awarded to Mrs Miller for high score. Memorial Day visits listed. several Point Pleasant residents noted traveling to Cumberland, Gallipolis, Charleston, and Millwood with family and friends.
Point Pleasant civil defense announces waste paper collection set for Sunday afternoon. A large portion of a carload is already on hand and no carryover is desired due to lack of safe storage. Collections planned at six week intervals through the war, per Mrs Watts assistant state director. Also, Mrs J R Schirmer of Hallwood is ill. daughter Peggy has returned from Purdue. Visiting relatives include Mr. Jim Conrey of Akron and Mrs Catherine Berlin with daughter Dene Brewer from Parkersburg.
Mrs Elsie Rodgers died Wednesday at Wantington hospital. Funeral services will be Saturday at 3 PM from Main St Baptist Church, with Rev C I Billups officiating. Burial at Lone Oak Cemetery. Her son Lt Toward C Rodgers, Army Air Corps, plans to attend from a western base. sister Miss Elizabeth McDermott of Lakeland, Fla., will miss attendance. A safety period ending today marks six weeks focused on motor vehicle brakes observed by police nationwide.
Robert G. Kal of Mason Counts and Charles FB Brown of California were captured near South Side by Sheriff Neeson and Deputy Morrison at military request. They escaped Fort Jackson, D.C., where they were serving terms for AWOL from the Army and are jailed awaiting orders. Brown had five years and Kal two years. Nellie Marie Hall filed for divorce in circuit court.
A Mason County farm woman told The Messenger she receives a government allotment of 140 a month for herself and four children and earns about 180 a month in a war plant. She saves every penny for her husband's return, expecting discharge soon. She notes many wives do the same by combining allotments with wages.
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