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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1958
Page
6
Logan County commissioners heard a petition with 56 signatures asking northern Marion Township road be paved or asphalted. The route connects Fairfield County Road 63 from Horn's Mill to the Hocking Fairfield line. The petition was held for advisement.
A dense listing shows weekday and weekend TV programs with times from early evening to late night across multiple channels. It names shows such as NBC News News Weather Today and sports and entertainment programs including The Thin Man Perry Como and Baseball highlights along with various cartoons dramas and movie slots.
A jumble of broadcasting slots lists many programs and times across the day. Entries include News segments at 6:30 11:00 and 1:00, sports and weather blocks, entertainment shows, and several music or talk programs. The page reads like a TV radio grid without complete show details.
A fragmented listings page presents times and outlet names for various programs and performers. Entries include Porky’s Psych, Frank Sinatra, Soid, Fortune, Mike Hammer, Rin Tin Tin, Jim Bowie, Tracers, Harbor Com, Dick Clark, Jubilee, West Theater, Lawr. Weik, Paul Winch, Looney Tunes and others across a dense hourly grid.
A scattered station listing shows 6:30 News then 9:00 TV hour with Phil Silvers, 6:45 Sports, 9:30 26 Men, 7:30 Boing Boing, 8:30 Zane Grey Theater, 9:30 Up Kangaroo, 10:00 Line Up, 11:00 News, 12:00 Lone Ranger, 3:30 Race of Week, 4:00 Sat Showeses, 5:00 Record Hop, 11:10 Late Show.
A jumbled listing shows a dense TV schedule with programs such as Popeye Thea Phil Slivers Amos Andy and The Big Show plus news and weather slots. Several host names and show titles appear in incomplete form indicating a station lineup for an evening grid with gaps and overlapping times.
Experts screen and critique top shows tracing audacious plots and star turns. Audubon intrigue on An Adventure With Audubon pairs Jim Bowie with radicals and royalists in a hunt for a missing Dauphin.
Logan Hocking County Health Department personnel will attend a district conference on June 11 at the Southeast Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital in Nelsonville. The session, the second in a TB control series, will review progress since 1957 and discuss X-ray radiation and current TB trends with speakers from state health and TB groups.
Logan reports Frank Summers 81 of New Straitsville died Wednesday at Mt St Mary Hospital Nelsonville after a cerebral hemorrhage. Survived by wife Quincie two sons Eugene Farrell three daughters grandchildren and great grandchildren brother and sister. Leonard funeral home receiving friends with services set for 2 p m Saturday conducted by Rev W H Mathias at Gore Cemetery.
Logan service begins at 10 15 a m at the First EUB Church with a children's choir and group singing from nursery through junior departments. Notables include Ginger Freeman and Deb bie Baker. Mrs Joe Wilkinson directs and a special offering funds children’s work in Ecuador and Brazil.
Veterans service officer Logan Vaughn Collins announced the courthouse office will close all next week while he is on vacation. Those needing help should contact Paul Fox at 35 W Main St. for assistance.
A bundled notice lists service times and events for Logan area churches including First Church of Logan, Nazarene, Union Furnace EUB, Union, Zion, First Presbyterian, Westminster Fellowship, and South Haydenville Church of God. Activities include Sunday school at 9 9:30 or 10:30 a.m. worship, youth meetings, choirs, nurseries, Vacation Bible School, and midweek Bible study with sermon topics and group meetings.
Mrs. Mary Thompson announces an orientation course for Red Cross and Gray Ladies work. The session begins at 1 p.m. on June 12 in the Ohio Power Co. assembly room. Instructor is Mrs. Leland Baxter, Red Cross volunteer for Southeastern Ohio. Prospective volunteers for Friendly Visitors at Athens State Hospital or Chillicothe VA Hospital are urged to enroll.
A list of afternoon and evening film pairings across stations WHTN WBNS WCHS WLW-C WLWC and WLWC with actors such as Preston Foster John Beal Gene Autry Jose Ferrer Mala Powers Randolph Scott Anne Jeffreys Dennis O Keefe Coleen Gray Tim Hick Marjorie Reynolds Van Johnson June Allyson Ginger Rogers David Niven Clark Gable Greer Garson showing titles like WER ARE ABOUT TO DIE BACK IN THE SADDLE CYRANO DE BERGERAC TRAIL STREET LAS VEGAS SHAKEDOWN CYCLONE ON HORSE BACK BACHELOR MOTHER ADVENTURE across times 11:15 p m 11:00 alm 5:30 pm and 15 pm formats in a dense station schedule listing.
Logan Charles P. Snyder 70 merchant Holder Jll. and Katie Michel 62 at home Logan Neale M. Billings 41 supervisor Athens and Helen M. Mel ton 38 sewing instructor Logan Route 1 listed in local records.
Approximately 130 guests attended a preview buffet as Donnie's Trailer Sales of Logan launched a three day Mobile Home Show at the Izaak Walton League clubhouse. The event featured lenders, press, and factory representatives with a full display from six trailer manufacturers.
Logan reports direct relief caseload steady in May while administration costs increase. Margaret Webb, Hocking County welfare director, lists 121 cases involving 384 individuals on the rolls, 33 openings and 33 closures, total outstanding obligations at 7058 with 1690.90 in medical expenses.
In Logan St Matthew Lutheran Church on June 1 at 2 pm Miss Verna Lee Wells married William E Helber. Officiant Rev Paul N Warner led nuptial rites with pink and white Majestic daisies and live palms.
Inventory and appraisal of the estate of the late Charles C. Murphy of Murray City filed in Probate Court. Valuation totals 39093.66 with 31310.68 in stocks and securities 5800 in personal goods and chattels and 1500 in real estate. Appraisers Donald Mohney John Ayers and Floyd Stiff. Agnes P. Murphy is executrix.
The wife and husband are employed by A P Market in Logan and live at 567 Church Street in Logan.
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