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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
12
Marietta Manufacturing Co. in Point Pleasant seeks workers in welders, tackers, fitters, chippers and carpenters. Howard Price reports a need for 100 or more welders. Local training school has produced many welders. it will accept more students and pay transportation for distant applicants.
Lieutenant Colonel A. H. Blake will be relieved of command at the West Virginia Ordnance Works and transferred to an unspecified post. He will depart early next week and Mrs. Blake will remain at the commandant’s residence until new quarters are secured.
The steamer Gordon B. Greene entered the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant at 11 o clock Tuesday night and continued its Cincinnati to Charleston run. It will make regular trips until September when it is contracted for a river cruise. Captain Mary B. Green, the rivers only woman pilot, was aboard with her son Captain Tom Greene.
Lt. Commander H. H. Pullem of the Coast Guard Marine Inspection receives a commission upgrade during a stay in Cincinnati. He has headed the local marine inspection office for years and will remain stationed near his Jefferson Boulevard home, saying he hopes not to be transferred.
Baptist Youth Fellowship plans a wiener roast at 7 30 this evening. They meet at the church then travel to the Charleston Road outing site with chaperones Mrs. Alice King Miss Marian Withers and Mr Lilly supervising.
Stephen K. Vaught, former Mason County prosecuting attorney, is in critical condition at a Montgomery hospital after being moved there from his home earlier in the week.
At Point Clinic several patients were admitted yesterday including Point Pleasants Russell Nowlin of Pliny for an appendectomy Mrs Sidney Bauer Route 2 had a major operation. Discharges followed for Mrs John Stevens and infant children John and Joan to Gallinolis Ferry. Mrs Elizabeth Litchfield went home from Letart and Mrs Juanita Herdman to her home in Leon.
Enters University POINT PLEASANT Miss Anna bel Lee daughter of Mr and Mrs Rolfe Lee of Gallipolis Ferry has entered Miami Florida University for the summer term Mrs Lee accompanied her daughter to Florida
Mrs. W. H. Morgan hosted a bridge luncheon for guest Mary Chadwick of Huntington with high score prizes. Leon birthday dinners honored Miss Sarah Frances Adkins and Miss Alice Marie Fry. Charleston and Huntington visitors, honeymoon returns, hospital updates, Coast Guard duty, and local social visits are noted as communities share celebrations and travels.
Point Pleasant reports the skating rink on Lower Vland Street is expected to open this Saturday, inviting residents to enjoy public skating.
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