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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1962
Page
8
Ruth Keister outlines the first leg of her 1962 IFYE exchange from West Virginia. She details a Washington orientation, New York sights including the UN building, a London layover, and travel to Basel Bern and Morges in Switzerland before meeting her host family on May 9.
The Mason City Council tabled the sewer line project for the upper end during a special meeting and refused to accept bids. Mayor Olston Wright announced the hiring of Dale Taylor of Clendennin West Virginia as a policeman with 12 years of experience. He begins July 10. The mayor also said street oil donations are not fully collected and will be used to oil funded streets while noncontributors receive refunds. Oil work is set to begin the week after the July council meeting.
New officers including Frances Durst Gladys Hart Roberta Maynard Ruth Lamp and others will be installed by Loyal Order of the Moose members at 2 30 p m Sunday in Point Pleasant A pot luck dinner will follow and the public is invited to attend
Two women from Point Pleasant attended a kickoff luncheon in Huntington to aid the West Virginia centennial celebration. Mrs. A E Thomas and Mrs Belva Farley joined about 125 attendees from Cabell Wayne Lincoln and Mason counties led by Governor Barron and ex governor Cecil Underwood. McARTHUR DIVORCE PETITIONS FILED IN VINTON COUNTY. Edith Mac Dearth v Milford Dearth and John L Beckley attorney Betty Smith Hamden v Clarence C Smith Jr South Charleston WV M N Snyder attorney.
Point Pleasant readers learn of the dedication of the new Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Mt Jackson Ave scheduled for June 29 at 7 30 p.m. The ceremony will be led by John Swint of Wheeling with about 10 Huntington deanery priests expected. Bernard Smith and Fr. John J O Reilly will attend. a parish hall dinner precedes the service. The building seats 300, measures 36.8 by 80 feet with a choir loft and a rectory study.
Dredging begins for a 1 654 454 cofferdam as part of a 70 million Belleville Locks project on the Ohio River. Dunbar and Sullivan Dredging Co will work the area, Massman Construction Co will drive pilings starting July 8, with 180 working days planned for a 2400 foot structure extending 500 feet into the river. Special navigation lights will be used during construction.
Don Peters the bathhouse concessionaire announced free learn to swim lessons at Lake Hope bathing beach start Monday. Head Lifeguard Bill Lewis, assisted by Barry Wilson, will lead daily sessions for beginners and intermediates at 10 a m through the first week in August with full details at the beach. First aid and lifesaving lessons begin the first week of August and run through Labor Day weekend.
McArthur School board confirms Brenda Griffith Henderson will continue as an elementary teacher next year. Henderson, a McArthur High School and Ohio University graduate, will teach first grade while Mrs Blanche Howell was ill. A quirky note claims a Sevenoaks house holds 365 rooms, implying year round spring-cleaning.
Five youths were injured when their car crashed on Route 44 west of Ripley. Four were admitted to Pleasant Valley Hospital in satisfactory condition with severe cuts and bruises. John Myers of Ravenswood was released. Remaining patients are Dennis McDonald 15 David Fox 15 Jim Button 15 and Delbert Wood 19 of Jackson County.
Two servicemen long absent without leave have been captured by the sheriff's department. Bobby G. Stover aged 20 of Apple Grove is with the Marines. Thomas Edward Huddleston aged 19 of Point Pleasant has been turned over to military police in South Charleston. Bob Fisher aged 47 of Point Pleasant was arrested on a drunkenness charge and arraigned before Mayor Virgil Siders.
Lake Hope Park reported about 12 000 visitors over the weekend with 2000 paid swimmers and 1300 on the beach. The dining lodge served roughly 800 meals including 445 on Sunday. In a separate notice, Virgil Howard Edwards of New Plymouth Rt 1 faces license suspension under Ohio’s 12 point law.
Discharge list includes Mrs Catherine Thurmond of Ravenswood and Mrs James Hartley of Point Pleasant along with Mrs Arthur Whitman and others from Point Pleasant Gallipolis Rock Castle Ravenswood and Millwood areas. John Myers of Ravenswood appears among the discharged.
Three weeks of Bible school are held in the Sacred Heart Catholic parish hall each weekday from 9 to 11 30 am conducted by Sisters Irma Bernadine and Carlorita from St Joseph Church Parkersburg with Fr John O Reilly noting the session closes on June 29. The Plants reunion at the 4 H Recreation Center Sunday includes a noon picnic and a program with all Plants relatives invited. the center lies about one mile off Route 17 near South Side.
Mrs. Nancy Oldaker of Point Pleasant and Mrs. Mary Scott of Ripley were admitted to a point clinic. The brief notice lists their names and hometowns in a local health update.
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