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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1973
Page
10
Mrs A B Parker shares a summer dessert recipe for Pineapple Creme de Menthe. The method combines drained and undrained pineapple chunks with Creme de Menthe, marinated overnight, then served in sherbet glasses with pound cake.
Readers share practical homemaking advice from turning turtlenecks inside out to remove soil laundering tips for campers using towels as dish racks and kitchen space saves with combined laundry and bath rooms.
Peggy Mann wrote that a few hundred dollars in flowers helped cool a tense Upper West Side street. The couple renovated a brownstone despite race frictions between Black and Puerto Rican residents and used plants as a healing gesture after a race riot.
In England born Bill Mann recalls how dozens of plastic window boxes and paint transformed a dreary row into a colorful display. Volunteers filled boxes with petunias geraniums and ivy, sparking cleaner porches new curtains polished doorknobs and even reduced racial tensions. Similar flower-box efforts by the New York City Housing Authority show vandalism decline.
A reader asks if her aversion to physical contact is normal and seeks guidance about a relationship with a 21-year-old GI. Abby reassures it is normal to want touch and urges counseling to uncover roots of her touch-me-not attitude. The column also covers a 45-year-old wife resisting her husband's push for sexy clothes and urges sticking to her taste.
About 500 women gathered for the 28th annual Steubenville Diocesan Council of Catholic Women convention at St. John Arena Steubenville Mass celebrated by Bishop John King Massie. Dorothy Langley urged abortion education and sponsoring capable legislators. Dr Edward Kilroy of Cleveland Right to Life spoke on regulating abortion. Workshops covered church communities family affairs community affairs international affairs and organizational services. Attendees included Mrs Edward Baer Jr Mrs Charles Eblen Mrs Francis Biron Mrs George Hackett Sr Mrs Don Mullen Mrs Katie Welsh Mrs Paul Casci from Pomeroy Middleport and others from Athens McConnelsville and nearby areas.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry L. Mitch of Middleport celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Tuesday July 3. Their children Robert of Wheeling West Virginia Julie Houck of Marion and Larry of Middleport host a dinner Sunday. The couple married July 3 1923 in Huntington West Virginia by the Rev H E Dial.
The Bar-30 Horsemen move their Ohio Valley Horse Show Association approved event to Wednesday July 4 at the Tuppers Plains grounds after a June 16 cancellation due to heavy rains. Judge C. E. Shorty Woodard, tied to Gallipolis area farms and now running Stinken Kirk Ranch Waterford, will preside. Halter classes start 10 am with 18 events. performance at 1 pm with 28 events. Awards include five ribbons per class and prize money for performance. Exhibitors should bring registration papers and youth proof of age. The Tack Room from Parkersburg will attend and the Tuppers Plains Community Club serves food including homemade ice cream.
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