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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1953
Page
6
Peiping radio reports that workers in Tientsin transformed a former plush club and gambling den run by Italian merchants into a five story palace of culture. The complex features an auditorium for 2400 and a library with over 20 000 books.
High school seniors from Athens Logan and Racine earned honorable mention in the General Scholarship Test given Jan 30 31 across the state. Eileen May Wickline Racine scored 207 Eddie Joe Grandy Logan 203 and T Richard St Clair Athens 196 all in the upper 5 percent. Jefferson T Mitchell Lakewood High led boys with 258 while Lois Ann Reel Cory Rawson Han cock County led girls with 244.
The Metropolitan Opera plans at least three new productions next season with Faust as the opener along with Tannhauser and The Barber of Seville. General manager Rudolph Bing announced the schedule at a meeting of the opera association board and the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera Association.
The Wetzel Stone in Morgan County bears a six and three inch letter inscription by Lewis Wetzel born 1752 in Virginia. He carved his name on rocks across Ohio and starred in the novel Forest Rose. Wetzel fought Indians, was jailed near Marietta and Cincinnati, and died in Texas in 1818 after a checkered frontier life.
Births listed for James Freeman Nelsonville a son Richard Kline Nelsonville a son Arthur Everett Trimble Route 1 a son. Admitted Florence O Nial Nelsonville Rocky Pitts Nelsonville Lawrence Reeves Nelsonville Archie Harris Nelsonville Route Edna Mingus Jacksonville Mrs Ben Cooper Athens. Dismissed Charles Howard Nelsonville Route 1 Mrs John Smith Glouster Route Ernestine Wolfe Nelsonville Route 2 Charles McCray Nelsonville Mrs John Slater The Plains Mrs William Hardy Nelsonville and son Robert Lovett Nelsonville Route Miss Clara Self Shawnee Route Mrs Mary Manda The Plains.
Ohio Bell marks Ohio’s sesquicentennial with a month of radio episodes all themed on Ohio history. John F. Koch notes this first uniform month since the program began six years ago aims to deepen appreciation of the state's early pioneers and their hardships.
Wilbert W. Warren Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Warren of Nelsonville, has enlisted in the United States Navy and departed Monday for basic training at Bainbridge, Maryland.
Nelsonville George Barrows has returned from a 3200 mile motor journey to visit his two sons in the armed forces. In Albany he located Sgt. Bob Barrows at the Marine Supply Depot and in Pensacola he found Bill Barrows at the Naval Air Base while finishing aviation apprentice training. He later trained at Corry Field before coming home after a stay with Mr and Mrs A R Harmon in Sarasota Florida.
Sao Paulo Brazil a criminal courts judge ruled that one hundred fifty four Japanese still must stand trial for Brazilian security violations during World War I though a new law supplants the earlier indictment. The case centers on wartime offenses alleged against Japanese nationals in Brazil.
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