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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1945
Page
3
Private Swartz returns from 23 months in New Guinea and the Phitogenes, after a long furlough, with arm and shoulder wounds described as shrapnel injuries, remaining at home for treatment and recovery.
Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easley assistant commander of the 96th Infantry Division was killed in action on Okinawa Tuesday his wife informed by the War Department. He was a 13 year World War I veteran and the second high ranking officer to die on the island this week following Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. killed Monday. War Department offered no further details. Electric storms caused by m?bs cited.
Private Danny S. Dunn paratrooper from Racine died March 13 1945 in a collision between his ship and an aircraft carrier during a severe storm. He had been patrolling his post when the carrier struck, enabling many crew to escape. Dunn born April 1 1925 Syracuse is survived by his mother Ada Dunn Van Meter and several siblings.
Middleport hosts a birthday party at The Roadside Perk for Carolyn Wilson with games, ice cream, and a decorated cake as friends attended including Billy Gibbs, Lary Tracy, and many others. Auxiliary of the United Spanish American War Veterans met at Mrs James Murray’s home. Philathea Women of the Church of Christ held a June meeting with a patriotic program and a plan to sell Christmas cards. P M Club and W C T U activities noted, plus numerous Middleport personals and local visits, hospital recoveries, and travel updates.
POMEROY The Ohio War History Commission is collecting letters from those in service for cataloging and preservation at the Ohio State Museum in Columbus. A. V. Howell chairs Meigs County and pledges 1,000 letters with a hope for double. Parents are urged to mail or leave letters at local offices. copies may be used if originals are unreliable.
The heirs of Mrs Helen Moorehead Taylor present the 20 room Kingdom mansion at Zena to the Joseph P Foody Past Mo 95 of Zenia. The home features a basement of several rooms a solarium three baths a large entrance hall electric elevator vapor heating and a two story garage with front porch and landscaped grounds. Furnishings may accompany the transfer prompted by Mrs Taylor granddaughter of JF King industrialist and banker who built the showplace.
Middleport Rotary meeting feature had each member give a two minute biography to the club president C E Blakeslee. A Nazi sword display from Edgar Tuckerman via his father R Tuckerman drew interest while the club plans to continue hosting Heath Methodist Church groups for dinner meetings on Fridays. Guests Jim Rees and Rev H A Rothrock attended and Westminister University senior Jia has medical discharge from the USINA. Harry Surface injured hand when a car he was working on fell on it.
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