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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1963
Page
7
A skit titled Five Pointed Star depicting Betsy Ross was staged by Fort Randolph Society members at a Col. Charles Lewis Chapter DAR gathering in Mansion House. Elizabeth Jones acted Betsy Ross with a cast including Kathy Jones and George Washington, as Rebecca Goodwin offered history and benediction by Mrs. D. D. Connors.
About 350 West Virginia older 4-H delegates are expected at the Centennial older 4-H club member's conference June 24-29 at Jackson's Mill. Harley V. Cutlip said the theme Mountain Echoes will guide leadership training for members 16 to 21. In Point Pleasant T G Allen of Appalachian Power Co completed five years of service Sunday.
Mehlman On Directors Mehlman on Directors reports AEP Service Corp. operating manager production elected to the board of Central Operating Co. He succeeds W. M. Marquis who retires as vice president and director. The Central Operating runs the Philip Sporn Plant for Appalachian and Ohio Power Companies. Delegates to Ohio Conference of Congregational Churches will vote on consolidating with Evangelical and Reform Church to form United Church of Christ. About 300 are to attend meetings in Defiance.
Bev erly Ann Cottrill of Point Pleasant graduates from Ohio University with honors in arts and sciences. She studied in Marseille for two months after a Cleveland teaching interview, majoring in French. her parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cottrill and sister Ann attended.
WSCS members at the church discussed Missions in the Modern World in a Pris cilla Circle round table led by Mrs. John Kauff and others. A devotional included a solo by Mrs. Charles Lanham and refreshments were served as a nominating committee for 1963 64 was named. Lars Henningson of Sweden arrived in West Virginia to live and work with rural people for six months as part of IFYE.
TV listings show Heaven Knows Mr. Allison at 6:30 p.m. on channel 3 and 7:30 p.m. on channel 4 with a Marine and a nun on a South Pacific island. The Dakotas Mutiny at Fort Mercy and Stoney Burke Gold Plated air in prime slots, plus Ben Casey Legacy from a Stranger. Channel 4 also runs Mr Dynamite at 5 p.m. and Behind Office Doors at 1:10 a.m.
Deputy Sheriff Grant Long investigated after a bear cub was spotted in Gilbert Johnson’s cabbage patch in Guyan Two. It marked the second sighting in four days near a previous bear report. Tracks and damaged brush were noted as searches extended beyond an hour with no bear found.
Ben Spangler, a math instructor at Hannan Trace High School in Huntington West Virginia, resigns to join Auburn University as an assistant. A Greenbrier High School and Greenbrier Military Academy alumnus, he earned AB in mathematics from Marshall University in 1960 and pursued a two year advanced school administration certificate. He plans to complete a doctorate in education while pursuing college registrar work at Auburn.
A list from Holzer Hospital reports new births to families in New Haven Gallipolis Oak Hill Jackson Ravenswood Crown City and nearby areas. The column also notes dismissals including multiple names, patient updates and residents returning home after illness or stroke.
Laurel Run notes list social visits among local families. Nora Skiver stayed with Mr and Mrs Claude Brandon. Ardis Iles and Blanche Moorehead visited the Lawrence Wolfe home. Henry Todd and Velma Price households connected with Mrs Cora Smith and others in Nelsonville and Columbus areas.
Water gauges show varied conditions from Gallipolis to Huntington with several movable dams up or down. Boating movements include numerous vessels on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers with notable up and down readings at locks 15 through 35 and several dam crests in operation.
Vacation Bible School is underway at Roosevelt School, directed by Rev. Donald Lockhart of The Good Shepherd EUB Church. Nursery to junior departments are staffed by a line of teachers, assistants, and coordinators from Good Shepherd and Davis Grove churches, with music, transportation, recreation, and refreshments organizers named.
Ten new titles debut at Gallia County District Library led by Build It Yourself Science Laboratory by Raymond E. Barrett. Other nonfiction include Autobiography Sinclair Suburbia's Coddled Kids Wyden The Iron Curtain Overstreet West Side Story Bernstein and Mr. Wilson's War Dos Passos. Four fiction titles listed Hussar Honeymoon Tic kell The Big Laugh O'Hara We That Are Left Kampon Journey to the Center of the Earth Verne. Also theft report: a toolbox taken from Melvin Cook's car at Pilot Wheel Tavern Route 7 south of Cheshire.
Birth notices list: Dewey Fergu son Gallipolis. Gerald Pearson Henderson. Orville Remmey South Side. Leland Vanmeter West Columbia. Cecil McDaniel Point Pleasant. Charles Thomas Leon. Dale Carr Hogsett. Willard Jeffers Minersville Ohio. Larry Brumfield Apple Grove. Ernie Grimm Letart. Ira Hope Gallipolis Ferry. Nellie Leach Point Pleasant. Cecil Perry Point Pleasant. William Runion Buffalo. Herbert McDonald Letart. Discharges include Charles Allen Newton. Mrs Noble Milan Rio Grande and son. Mrs Holly Rhoades Point Pleasant.
Mrs. Blanche Winters of Rio Grande visits daughter and son in Pratts Fork. Mrs. Edna Steinmetz of Wyandotte, Michigan visits her mother-in-law Mrs. Lizzie Blackwell and other relatives and friends.
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