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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1960
Page
3
Gallia County sheriff arrested Victor Mason Poston 23 Huntington W Va after a fight with a 17 year old outside a Kanauga tavern. Poston to appear in Municipal Court Monday on charges.
Gallipolis residents enjoyed a sunny Ohio River afternoon with water skiers riding on stools and a canoe parade near the Riverview Hotel. The Delta Queen steamer passed upriver, drawing crowds as it paused at Walker's Landing light before heading toward Point Pleasant. Also noted were a tavern incident and a jail arrest involving Michael Lyons and a deputy’s warning shot.
In Gallipolis Municipal Court Judge William H. Janes fined Eugene Goff 50 dollars and costs for drunken driving with a six month license suspension and five days jail. Goff also charged five dollars for no operator's license. Ruby E. Trout fined five dollars for failing to yield. Eural Houck forfeited 30 dollar bond for overload and Clarence A. Wood 25 dollars for speeding. Charles H. Jordan fined 10 dollars for crossing a yellow line and Richard Wyant 25 dollars for overload.
Notice announces a parole hearing for Stanley Nicholson, prisoner at Ohio Penitentiary, convicted May 1959 of Forgery and Uttering a Forged Check, serving 120 years. Hearing before the Parole Commission on or after July, with clerk’s signature. Also includes a separate contractor notice from the Ohio Department of Highways dated June 3, 1960 for multiple county road improvements and bid details.
John D. Cook 72 formerly of Bidwell died suddenly Saturday at his sister Mrs. Marie Kiggins home in Pickerington. A World War I veteran who served in France and Belgium, he was a charter member of Vinton Post 161 American Legion and a former auto mechanic. He is survived by two brothers and three sisters. Funeral at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Vernon McCoy funeral home Vinton with burial at Calvary Cemetery Rio Grande.
Gallipolis Judge William H. Jones in Municipal Court fined Hal S. Borden 55 of Bidwell and Orin W. Hana 34 of Gallipolis Route 2 fifty dollars and costs for drunken driving. Both were arrested by city police, and they received five days in jail and six months operator's license suspension. Charles Haam 24 of Pomeroy, arrested for speeding, entered a nolle contendere plea and was fined ten dollars and costs.
A list of births at Holzer Hospital including Calvert Dynes Pyke Ghearing and others. Names of admitted patients Gordon, Dorsey, Fellore and Brewer among many others. Several individuals were discharged and noted with accompanying relatives and addresses. Blood used Saturday two pints.
Gallipolis officials delay the final hookup of the 24 inch outfall sewer at First Ave and State St by about two weeks. An 18 inch storm sewer crossing the intersection blocks the connection and crews will relocate it two feet deeper from the intersection to the river before completing the link to Vine Street and the pumping station on Chickamauga Creek.
Charles A. Schoonover 26 of Rutland was admitted to Holzer Hospital with a compound fracture of the left elbow from an auto collision. His condition is good. Three year old Joseph Vicaro of Nutley New Jersey was treated for a head injury and released after a bump and a fall at his grandmother’s Thurman home.
The report lists gauge readings on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers, noting roller dam statuses and crests. It details schedules and positions for boats on the Ohio, Kanawha, and Gallipolis routes with vessel names and times of movement or stoppage.
Gallia County vendors bought nine additional 1960 cigarette licenses last week, bringing the year’s total to 136, per County Auditor Morton L. Dickey.
The notice lists John C. Hale 19 of Oak Hill and Geraldine A. Newman 19 of Patriot along with Larry E. Stewart 21 of Cheshire and Claudette F. Darst 16 of Cheshire indicating local civil or personal status entries.
Gallia County residents bought six more dog licenses last week, bringing the 1960 total to 3695, just 355 short of the 4050 sold in 1959.
Kanauga residents Mrs Berkley Wright and Mrs Joe Litchfield visited Mr and Mrs Junior Coleman in Rutland. Mrs Cora Black stayed with Mr and Mrs Robert Onley in Columbus. The Roush family visited Cora, and Mrs Harry Brownell with son toured Georgia. Derry Adams and Liana visited Portsmouth relatives. Walter Bulmer and children of Point Pleasant visited Roys Russell. Walter Schoonover is on vacation from his river boat.
Preliminary census figures show Ohio will gain one seat in the reapportionment of congressmen. The state now has 23 representatives and is expected to have 24 after reapportionment.
The County Board of Education hired Thomas K. Owens of Jackson as superintendent by a 4-1 vote in a special Saturday session. Owens began teaching in Gallia County, graduated from Rio Grande College in 1922, earned a masters from Ohio State in 1930, and has extensive experience as a principal and superintendent. He will serve a one year contract at 7200 dollars plus an eight cent per mile travel allowance.
Over 300 teenagers attended Teenville's first summer outdoor session on the blacktop behind Washington Elementary. Chaperons were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Elliott and Mr. and Mrs. Max Elliott. A summer committee meeting is set for Thursday at Kyle A. Hill's home.
Health nurses at a weekly Saturday clinic at the court house administered 143 Salk anti polio shots. The total polio shots for Gallia County residents this year reached 2682, 303 fewer than the prior year at the same date. Nurses Naomi Rose Pearl Hatfield and Madeline Rees administered 34 DPT 14 tetravax 23 smallpox and one typhoid vaccinations. DPT shots since January totaled 514.
Mr and Mrs John Paul Porter of Cleveland visited over the weekend with relatives and friends. Mr and Mrs Allen Zinn and children of Lancaster were here Sunday to visit Mrs Porters parents, Mr and Mrs Clarence George. Mr and Mrs Charles Lee Stevers and son Richard of Columbus arrived Friday to visit his parents, Mr and Mrs F L Stevers of Mercerville and will return home Tuesday. Frank E Wetherholt and Mrs J S Clark attended the baptism of Jon Clark Wetherholt at the First Presbyterian Church in Marietta. Jon is the son of Frank Clark and Betty Wetherholt. he is the grandson of Frank E Wetherholt and Mrs Clark is the maternal great grandmother.
Gallipolis and Gallia County saw no reported traffic accidents over the weekend according to the State Highway Patrol and city police. No injuries or incidents were recorded.
Juvenile Judge John W. Howell fined Alvin Johnson 16 of Gallipolis Route 1 five dollars but suspended the costs on a State Highway Patrol charge of driving left of center.
Emerson A. Spires, 52, of Cheshire Route 1, was arrested by the Highway Patrol for drunken driving over the weekend. A hearing is scheduled for Monday in Municipal Court. Venus, mythic goddess of love, is traced to her origins as the Latin goddess of spring and vines.
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