Point Pleasant Parents Protest School Discipline And Extortion
An 11 member delegation of Point Pleasant Junior High parents asked the board of education to address alleged discipline failures and extortion by students and poor supervision by Principal Manford Blessing and staff. Four students face extortion investigations while the board plans better gym supervision, committee outreach, and ongoing talks. Superintendent Walden Roush announced resignation effective July 1. updates included hiring at Hannan schools and bids on Wahama ground floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Board of Education
Manford Blessing
Blessing
Walden Roush
Mason County Schools
Roush
Bill Pack
Hannan High
Edward Gose
Glenville
Wahama Junior High School
C. H Jimison and Sons of
Huntington
Stark Electric Co
R. H. Holtzworth
Boarch
Earl Keefer
C. P. Stout
Paul Wedge
Robert Adkins
Keith Arnold
Four cars collide in Route 7 pileups in Gallipolis
Four cars were involved in two rear end collisions at Route 7 in Gallipolis at 2 45 pm Monday injuring three people. Lyda Johnson suffered arm bruises and a sprained shoulder and was treated at Holzer Hospital before release.
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Gallipolis
Kananga
Holzer Hospital
State Highway Patrol
Lyda Johnson
Cleddith R. Harper
Ripley
W.va
Lydia M. Reithmeier
Saginaw, Mich
Weel's Activities Planned for Heights EUE Church
A week of activities at Heights Evangelical United Brethren Church begins Tuesday with the Friendship Class meeting at 6 30 PM hosted by Mr and Mrs Raymond Musgrave. The program includes prayer services Wednesday evening and a Bible reading, a children’s open house, a junior fellowship picnic Friday, and church softball games against local Baptist groups. Administrators approved half the camping costs for youths attending Ev Un Brethren camps at Buckhannon.
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Point Pleasant
The
Heights
Harmony Baptist
Council of Administration
Ev-Un-Breth Acres
Buckhannon
Student’s Car Hits Dog Warden’s Auto
A 19 year old student, Carolyn Guindon, Waterloo Star Route, failed brakes and collided with the back of a vehicle driven on First Ave by Gallia County dog warden Stanley R. Evans, Patriot Route 2, at 11 23 a m Monday. Evans’ car had no damage. Guindon’s car sustained minor damage.
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Gallipolis
First Ave
Gallia County
Carolyn Guindon
Waterloo
Stanley R. Evans
Hannan Trace Board hires four new staff at elementary
Tallipolis Hannan Trace Local Board of Education approved two new cooks Ella Mae Cox and Webster Sheets and two janitors James Halley and Buell Swain at the elementary school. They also hired district secretary Denver Swain. Three bus drivers Claude Dray Howard Fulks Junior Birchfield received one year contracts. Dayton Williams and Lester McGuire got two year contracts. Architect George Walters said bids on the water filtration and purification plant would be ready in a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallipolis
Hannan Trace
Dayton Williams
Lester McGuire
Dennis M Murdock
George Walters
Point Clinic Adds a Son to Mr and Mrs Denny
In Apple Grove Mr and Mrs George Denny welcome a son. Discharges list includes Sue Ann Livingston and others from Evans Streetsboro and Gal I lipolis. Point Pleasant notes a City Planning Commission meeting set for Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the city building with R Flemming as chair.
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George Denny
Apple Grove
Sue Ann Livingston
Evans
Brenda Kay Livingston
Hugh Burris
Pliny and Daughter
Margaret Bell
Streetsboro
Ohio
A. O. Thomas
Gallipolis
Point Pleasant
City Planning Commission
R. Flemming
Police Detachment Officer Breaks Leg on Vacation
State police officer S P Vandevender, while on vacation in Franklin West Virginia, fell and broke his leg. Details of the accident were not learned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
S. P. Vandevender
Franklin
W. Va
City hires Milan engineering firm for Victory Heights paving
Council approves hiring Milan engineering firm Dunbar to design Victory Heights paving at 26th and 27th Streets Garfield Avenue Mossman Circle and Simpson Place at no city cost with residents covering obligations. A boundary committee is named and annexation plans for Sandy Heights Burdett and Bellemeade discussed. stray dogs complaints persist and fluoridation cost is reported at 2600 with cemetery graves sale tabled.
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Point Pleasant
Milan
Dunbar
Victory Heights Adda
Virgil Siders
Siders
26Th
27Th Sts
Garfield Ave
Mossman Circle
Simpson Place
Sam Fowlkes
Louis Rossi
Siram Daugherty
Sandy Heights
C. J. Hyer
Pleasant Valley Hospital Births And Admissions
Birth announcements list a son for Mr and Mrs Harold Russell of West Columbia and a son for Mr and Mrs Robert Watkins of Middleport. Admitted patients include Mrs Harold Russell of West Columbia Donald Roush of Millwood Keith Shinn and others from Point Pleasant Gallipolis Ferry Ravenswood.
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Harold Russell
West Columbia
Robert Watkins
Middleport
Donald Roush
Millwood
Keith Shinn
Point Pleasant
Ralph Larson
Gallipolis Ferry
Randall Rice
Gallipolis
Club Events Planned for Homemakers Groups in June
Miss Vanda R Stemple announces June gatherings for Leon, Cherokee, Pocahontas, and Avalanche Homemakers. Meetings run 7:30 p.m. on June 12, 19, and 20 with hosts Mrs. Leon Roush and Mrs. Harold Lewis, plus a 3 p.m. lesson leader training June 21 at the extension office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant — Coming Homemakers
Vanda R Stemple
Leon Homemakers
Leon
Pocahontas Homemakers
P.m
Harold Lewis
Cooperative Extension Office
The
Avalanche Homemakers
Lyle McCormick
North Gallia hires three teachers amid resignations
North Gallia Local Board of Education hired three elementary teachers on one year contracts: Barbara Purdy of Gallipolis, Betty Swisher of Cheshire Route 2, and Louise De Lille of Rodney. The board accepted resignations from James Hineman after 39 years teaching, Mary Evans for a Bidwell-Porter third grade post, and bus driver G R Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
North Gallia
James L. Hineman
North Galha High School
North Galha
Mary Evans
Bidwell- Porter
Evans
Springfield
G R. Brown
Vinton School
Chanter Will Meet On Tuesday Night at DAV Hall Mason
Chanter 27 of Mason will meet Tuesday evening at the DAV Hall in Mason. Bob Henkey of Huntington Chapter No. 2 will speak. Refreshments will be served after the meeting. All members wives are welcome to attend interested in joining the Women's Auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Dav Chanter
Mason
DAV
Bob Henkley
Huntington Chapter No. 2
Women’s Auxiliary
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