Athens Announces 10 Week City Recreation Program
City recreation director Harry Lackey says a 10 week program starts Monday for Athens youths featuring softball baseball swimming dancing and free play. Registration runs 1 to 8 p m at the high school field with two other centers opening next week for student directors from Ohio University summer session to help supervise and run activities through the summer.
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Athens
Harry Lackey
Lackey
East Side
West Side
Ohio University
Wallace for President petition circulation advances in Athens
Ohio University student Keith Eldridge and others collected signatures to meet a quota for Wallace for President. Athens County Board of Elections, via clerk J. E. Barker, furnished data after contesting requests for precinct listings. Some individuals showed violent reactions while circulating petitions not under the club name.
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Wallace
Athens County Board of Elections
J. E. Barker
Barker
George S. Houston
Secretary of State
Keith Eldridge
Ohio University
Cleveland
First St
Eldridge
County 1 H Training Conference Held For 148 Members
A county wide 4 H Club Officers and Advisors Training Conference of 148 members from 26 clubs met Thursday at Mechanicsburg School for officers training. Ross Wright, county extension agent, announced results Saturday. Group session leaders included Villa Tipple of Athens advisors assistants and parents H C Ruggles of Logan presidents and vice presidents Mrs Van Fossen of Logan secretaries and treasurers Mrs Ernest Grosvenor of Amesville news reporter and Ross Wright of Athens recreation and health leader.
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Mechanicsburg School
Ross Wright
Villa Tippie
Athens
H. C. Ruggles
Logan
van Fossen
Ernest Grosvenor
Amesville
George Parks retires after four decades at Ohio University
After nearly 40 years of service, George C. Parks retires as business manager and secretary to the Board of Trustees of Ohio University. President John C. Baker announced the retirement effective Sept 1 with Parks aiding his successor. He joined the faculty in 1904 and oversaw campus growth from 550 students to over 5 500 and payroll growth from about 60 to more than 600.
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Ohio University
George C. Parks
John C. Baker
Parks
Hopedale
Commerce
Imperial Ice Cream Co
Cutler Hall
Ewing Hall
Fine Arts
OU Elementary School Lists Summer Plans
The University Elementary School will run a summer session from June 14 to August 6 with classes 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon for kindergarten through sixth grade and special education. Students stay in their current grade, and vacancies may be filled by summer applicants. Bus routes and staff are announced, listing names such as Janet Wilson and A. H. Rhoads among the summer teaching team.
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W. A. Yauch
Howard Hall
Shannon
Elmwood
E. Union
Second St
Library
Mechanicsburg
Children’s Home
E. Union St
Janet Wilson
Esther Starks
Mabel Olson
Alice O'Shaughnessy
Helen Evans
Agnes Eisen
Viola Nelson
Mary Ward
Irene Elliott
Clara DeLand
Grace Morley
Carleton I. Calkin
Charlotte Bell
A. H. Rhoads
Spires Completes Four Year Training at Local Service Shop
Robert Earl Spires completes a four year on the job training program at Electric Motor Service 102 W Union St and becomes shop foreman. Wendell O Rose proprietor and approved trainer notes Spires is the first man in 15 southeastern Ohio counties to finish the four year program sponsored by the federal government for ex GI's.
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Robert Earl Spires
Electric Motor Service
W. Union St
Wendell O. Rose
Spires
Ohio
Carbondale School To Open Monday At K of P Hall
Vacation Bible school for all children will start Monday at the K of P Hall in Carbondale. Eleanor Gifford will lead the program with classes set for kindergarten 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., juniors and intermediates 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and primary 1 to 2:30 p.m.
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Carbondale—Vacation Bible School
K of P
Eleanor Gifford
IOOF to Meet in Marshfield at High School
IOOF Association of Athens County will hold a meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in the high school. The session is open to members wives and Rebekahs, announced Saturday.
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IOOF
New Marshfield
Athens County
Ioof Association
State Patrolman Transferred from Local Post to Chillicothe
John W. Brooks, attached to the State Highway Patrol post here for two years, is transferred to his native Chillicothe. He began duty in Athens after training. Brooks and his wife and child will be replaced by Patrolman F. A. McKerrick of Marietta, previously in Medina. Both are World War II veterans.
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John W. Brooks
Chillicothe
Cpl
R. E. Henderson
Athens
Brooks
F. A. McKerrick
Marietta
Medina
Converted Army Plane Brings Trustee Here
A converted Army B 23 owned by John W Galbreath of Columbus landed at the Ohio University Airport Saturday morning as he attended a meeting of the OU Board of Trustees. Roger Shook was the pilot of the two engine craft built as a Douglas medium bomber.
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John W. Galbreath
Columbus
Athens
Ohio University
Galbreath
OU Board of Trustees
Roger Shook
Athens Masons to Elect Officers at Annual Meeting
Athens Chapter 39 Royal Arch Masons will hold its annual meeting Monday at 7 30 p m when new officers will be elected. Ernest E Hart high priest announced the plan.
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Athens
Royal Arch Masons
Ernest E. Hart
Vacu matic Carburetor Promises Gas Savings
Wisconsin inventor offers the Vacu-matic Carburetor Co unit to reduce fuel use by automatic supercharge based on a vacu mating principle. Easy installation, fits cars trucks tractors. dealers seek installers by mail or penny postcard for full particulars.
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Wisconsin
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