Blood Bank Faces Closure If Donor Quota Not Met
Athens County Red Cross warns the local blood bank will close unless Nelsonville June 21 and Athens June 22 visits meet a 140 donor daily quota. Dr. A. A. Baldwin urges residents to register, noting past shortfalls and life saving value of donations.
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Athens County
A. A. Baldwin
Red Cross
Columbus
Nelsonville
Athens
Baldwin
Dr. Baldwin
Athens County Red Cross
Coolville
New Marshfield
Earl Mathews
Five New York Doctors Endorse Laxative Habit Break Plan
Five New York doctors prove a plan can break the laxative habit by using Carter's Pills. The regimen strengthens natural regularity with eight glasses of water daily and a nightly pill routine, leading to lasting natural digestion without habit-forming drugs. Purchase price is 33 cents per bottle.
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New York
Carter
Ur Carter
Births and admissions at Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mr and Mrs Thomas Sanders of Athens welcomed a daughter and Mr and Mrs Harold Pleimen of Athens Route 2 welcomed a son. Admissions include Mrs Edna Smith Albany Route 3 and others for major or minor surgery, accident, or medical care. Dismissals list Mrs Ray Bullock and son Millfield Route 1 and others.
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Thomas Sanders
Athens
Harold Pleimen
Edna Smith
Albany
Flossie Hart
John Cunningham
Glouster
Mabel Beverage
Elsie Brooks
Wendell Wright
Paul Metcalf
Guysville
Elmo Scott
Ray Bullock
Millfield
Lawrence Bowen
Lulu Curry
Arm Injured at Work Confined to Sheltering Arms Hospital
A farm worker, Wright, is confined at Sheltering Arms Hospital after an incident at work. Hospital attaches say his arm was caught in a hay binder but no bones were broken. District authorities cautioned on-site safety.
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Wendell Wright
Athens
Wright
Driver Cited After Crash Near Chauncey Route 33
A near head on collision on Route 33 north of Chauncey damaged two cars about 12:15 am Wednesday. Richard M. Gladfelter 22 Lima was driver of one car and W Freeman 22 Route 3 was the other driver. Freeman was cited for unsafe operation. A passenger in the Gladfelter car received minor injuries and was treated by a Nelsonville physician.
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Chauncey
Richard M. Gladfelter
Lima
W. Freeman
Freeman
Nelsonville
Earl Hilleary
Gladfelter
Funeral of Relative Attended by Kelleys
Mr and Mrs J L C Kelley of 32 Elliott St attended the funeral in Joliet Illinois for Mrs Dessie Kelley Gaydos widow of John Gaydos and daughter of the late John and Mrs Kelley of Lodi Township. She was born and raised in Athens County and had lived in Joliet for 43 years leaving husband three sons and a granddaughter.
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J. L. C. Kelley
Elliott St
Joliet, IL
Athens County Man To Be Paroled
Athens County man Ralph Dailey of Pratts Fork is listed for parole from the Ohio Penitentiary effective July 13. Court records show he was convicted of sodomy in October 1943, pled innocent on October 15, later changing to guilty and receiving a sentence of one to twenty years.
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Ralph Dailey
Pratts Fork
Ohio
Dailey
Cool Weather Persists After Hot Weekend In Athens
Contrastingly cool conditions persisted in Athens on Wednesday with a 61 degree morning as a 90 degree weekend high faded. Tuesday's high reached 78 and a 43 degree low followed, with 11 straight rainless days and the Hocking River at 2.95 feet observed by Mrs. C. N. France.
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Athens
Hocking
C. N. France
Parked Vehicles Involved in Two City Accidents
City police reported two separate incidents of parked vehicles being struck. In the first on N Court Street Elva L McCune of 323 East State Street tried to pass a double parked Railway Express truck. Gailard Scott of 32 Second Street had damage to his parked car in front of his home by an unidentified driver.
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N. Court St
Elva L. McCune
E. State St
Gailard Scott
Second St
Scott
Bible school opens Monday under local and university leaders
Amesville Bible school will open Monday directed by Fred Braden an Ohio University student Emily Deeter a Princeton Seminary student and the Rev Harold Jeffers local minister Officials said the school is open to all children of the community Masons to meet New Marshfield Constitution Lodge 426 F and AM will meet Thursday 730 pm announced by E W Allen Jr master
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Amesville—Bible School
Fred Braden
Ohio University
Emily Deeter
Princeton Seminary
Harold Jeffers
Masons
New Marshfield
Constitution Lodge 426
F & AM
E. W. Allen, Jr
Driver Fined After Driving On Left Side
Rual Stover aged 27 of Stewart was fined 20 dollars and costs by Mayor W P Mickle after arrest by the State Highway Patrol on a charge of driving on the left side of the road.
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Rual Stover
Stewart
W. P. Mickle
State Highway Patrol
Athens High Class Day Awards Recipients Named
Athens High School held its class day ceremonies with student entertainment and scholastic awards. Principal Wood announced letters and scholarships for the 1949 athletics team and honored top students, with many recipients across music, academics, and attendance achievements.
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Athens High School
Robert Shouse
Flora Armbruster
Adams Bells
St. Mary's
Suzanne Gooding
Waits Enchantress
Vivier
Ronald Ridenour
Earl Funk
Lawrence Walmsley
Sam Henderson
Clark
Roadways
Moya
Frank Dilley
Howard Buerman
Jerry Tolliver
Lindley Jones
Connie Herbert
Carol Nessley
Ohio University
Rose Gelvand
Miss Herbert
Fred Swearingen
Ted Cunningham
Richard Leach
Norman Dupler
Gerald Evans
Thomas Allen
Dale Leach
Watson Burnfield
Rollin Gaskill
Ronald Cox
Roger Allen
Charles Orr
Hubert Kokar
Russell Smith
O. L. Wood
Wood
Miriam Clippinger
Jewish Hospital
Cincinnati
Margaret Scott
Miss Armbruster
Miss Scott
Capitol University
Columbus
Barbara Hope
Alice Gaskill
Athens
Megaphone
Robert Staneart
Richard Guthrie
John Smith
Jack Algeo
Jean Baird
George Starcher
Lewis Oadis
David White
Joan Blair
Barbara Chesser
Bonnie Herron
Carol Neasley
Rosemary Palmer
Ruth Blaker
Dorothy Clutter
Jean Vance
Barbara Allen
Jeanne Francis
Theresa Josten
Connie Koehler
Harriet Linscott
Zoe Baird
Helen Dunn
Shirley Miller
Virginia Spears
Jan Clark
Donna June Smith
Betty Wagner
Martha Yeager
Robert Frost
Charles Krauskopf
Charles Hunsicker
Robert Jones
Jesse McGrath
Paul Lehman
Bill McKee
Lawrence Wamsley
Bob Nida
Don Shafer
Jack Vickers
Athens Women’s Music Club
B. A. Renkenberger
Girls’ Glee Club
Ursula Green
Arion Foundation
Kappa Kappa Psi
Sicilly
Jack Brown
Phi Mu Alpha
William Miller
Robert and
Mar. Jorie Johnson
Don Graham
Rosa Mae Dewey
Donald Shater
Patricia Laziman
Robert Nida
Emma McCrum
John Allen
Pauline Fierce
Nina White
Future Homemakers of America
Athens High
Joseph Steiff
Robert Heidler
Charles Frank
Richard Taylor
Marriage Licenses Listed for Area Couples in Athens County
A list of marriage licenses includes Dana M. King Jr and Emma N Black both of Athens, Harold Hanson and Peggy Copeland of Athens and Guysville, plus multiple other couples from Athens, Coolville, Nelsonville, and surrounding towns. George Roberts, 63, of near Amesville, was fined $10 and costs by Mayor Mickle after pleading guilty to intoxication following a Monday morning arrest on W Washington Street.
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Dana M. King, Jr
Emma Neale Black
Athens
Harold Edward Hanson
Peggy Ann Copeland
Guysville
Robert Marshall Finley
East Liverpool
Patricia Ann Connor
Lewis W. Vaughn
Mary Ann Bounds
Lloyd Harvey Merrick
Stewart
Melba Virginia Jarvis
Cutler
Paul Remus Morris
Betty Evelyn Norris
Columbus
Norma Jean Slatzer
Nelsonville
Benjamin Junior Taylor
Buchtel
Ethel Louise Taylor
Millfield
Edward Hall Sycks
Goldie June Beal
George Roberts
Amesville
William P. Mickle
Roberts
W. Washington St
Theater Marquee Hit by Truck on Schine's Athena
A large semi-trailer rammed the marquee of Schine's Athena Theater early Wednesday. The impact damaged bottom lettering glass and neon tubes, denting the right corner at about 5 am. officials could not estimate the total damage.
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Schine
Athena
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Ralph Ellett
Keystone
Roy E. Hawk & Co
Cline Bldg
E. Main Pomeroy
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Gail D. Fisher
KELCH
W. Union Street
Athens, Ohio
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Rardin Bros
Pomeroy Cement Block CO
Omera Plymale Wagner CO
Gallipolis, Ohio
Kelleys
Ames Bible School
Sigma Alpha Ieta
Katherine Enlow
Girls’ Athletic Association
Regina Altman
Delma Bahr
Pauline Bowles
Helen Edgar
Nona Jean Green
Jeannine Gottfried
Jean Kay Hartley
Jane Morgan
Mary Patrick
Llewellyn Robe
Joan Schwartz
Alice Winning
Patsy Wolfe
Joanne Blair
Marjorie Johnson
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Jay Raterman
John Newcomb
Gordon B. Gray
Harry Risley
Harold Shields
R. A. Morris
Robert Dickens
Carl Neff
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Dwight Robinson
Geo
Ford
Denver Gooding
Geo. Rutkoski
Lions
Cleveland
Robinson
Club
Charles Hayes
Richard Dent
Gardes M. Coulter
First Methodist Church
Oak Park
Til
Coulter
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American Legion
the Security Bank
Court Street
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Hamburger
East State St
Stewart, Ohio
Marietta
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Griffin
Pe Wu
Aie Chaon
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