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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1953
Page
3
The Gallia County Rotary Club backs the Red Cross bloodmobile visit on July 7 and 8. Two hundred donations are sought, requiring about 400 potential donors to sign blanks due to deferrals. Wayne Foster outlined the donor drive and the need for reserves for local banks and military use.
Miracle Cushion denture re liner promises snug comfort by keeping plates in place. It claims quick application and long lasting softness without adhesives. Two liners for upper or lower plates priced at $1.50 with money back guarantee.
Readings show lock gauges on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers with multiple locks at River levels near 9 feet and rising or falling. Listed boat movements include numerous vessels such as Creditor Brandt Randolph Pennsylvanian and Casablancas with times across 11:50 am to 4 pm and Kanawha Marmet Marmet Marmet with several upriver and downriver entries.
Gallipolis Ohio executive committee of the American Red Cross met at Second and Locust to propose a slate of officers and directors for the annual meeting next Monday night at the Methodist Church. Service requests for the month totaled 20 service men three veterans and no civilians. Lynn Brown has qualified as a life saving instructor and teaches at the city pool. Dorothy Mohr of the Huntington blood center will be principal speaker at the meeting with music by Kimball Sutter and his high school band students. Junior Red Cross members are invited to attend.
Births include a son to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pollitt Jr Bladen and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stout Bidwell. Admissions list numerous patients with surgical and medical needs from Bladen to Gallipolis and Jackson. discharges include several individuals and infants.
Gallipolis Holzer Hospital School of Nursing announces Mrs. Charlotte Cremeens RN supervisor of obstetric department has earned a one month University of Colorado course in nursing premature infants. She is among eight nationwide recipients and will depart July 4 by plane. Anne Burns of the Ohio Department of Health arranged the program. Next fall Holzer will start obstetric experience for juniors in house. Cremeens plans two weeks vacation after the course and will report back around August 15.
The report notes his attainment of the rank of full four star admiral upon assuming the newly assigned post, marking a historic elevation in the chain of command.
Josephine Federici is named operating room supervisor at Holzer Hospital replacing Grace Kouns who leaves in mid July to marry. Federici, a Mount Auburn School of Nursing graduate from Springfield Mass, will lead seven graduate nurses plus staff and oversee OR technique training. She recently completed post graduate OR service at Graduate Hospital University of Pennsylvania and previously worked as a surgical nurse at Mount Auburn Hospital.
The State Highway Patrol reports two speeding arrests with fines of 10 dollars and costs for Jack Thomas 24 Oak Hill and Ralph L Fry 18 Asheville.
The Holzer Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association sets up a tuition grant for an accepted candidate. The student may borrow 75 dollars for year one 50 dollars for year two and 25 dollars for year three. Applications go to Mrs. Charlotte Cremeens R N Holzer Hospital Gallipolis.
James Randell Roush three year old son of William Roush Hartford was taken by ambulance to Holzer Hospital Tuesday evening after falling ill at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Waldron visit the Terry family in Springfield while Mr. and Mrs. Richard Woodall and children spend a weekend with grandparents and aunt in Winfield. Peggy Killin assists an ill relative as Edward Parsons and son travel to Winfield. Father’s Day plans include A O Woodall with Marion McGhee and Janet.
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