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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1957
Page
5
Athens Local School Districts boards met to decide on transferring Mechanicsburg students to Athens High School. Population study and finances drive delaying action as Johnson prepares to assume duties and tuition shifts raise costs for Mechanicsburg.
Earl E. Halliday 57 of 248 Richland Ave died Friday morning after years of ill health. He worked 33 years for the state at Athens State and Toledo State Hospitals retiring in 1954. Survived by wife Effie Crawford Halliday two sisters Vona McKnight Langsville and Fern Sweeney Pomeroy. Requiem high mass Monday 9 am at St. Pauls Church with burial in West Union. Friends may call Dowler Ferguson Hughes funeral home Sunday with Rosary at 8 pm.
Ruth Elizabeth Smith is granted a divorce from Frederick Smith on grounds of gross negligence. The court orders the defendant to pay support and gives the plaintiff custody of their two children.
The Hock-Hocking district conducts a three session Cub Scout basic training course at First Presbyterian Church led by Clarke Daily Roger Wiseman and D D Montoya. Leaders must attend all sessions to receive a certificate with district adults invited to join any of the sessions.
Bertha Fultz 84 died early Friday at her son Carl's home in New Marshfield after four days of illness. Born near Bristol West Virginia she lived in New Marshfield 21 years and was a member of the Union Methodist Church. Surviving are son Clarence Athens daughters Wilma Romine Athens Route 1 and Mary MacFadden New Marshfield a sister Myrtle Myers Burns Kansas ten grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren. Funeral Sunday 230 pm at New Marshfield Methodist Church with Rev. Huff and Rev. Chesser. Burial in New Marshfield. Friends may call after Saturday noon at Carl Fultz’s residence.
Walton League local chapter to hold a combined work party and monthly meeting Sunday. Ralph Kyle says the skeet range shelter house framing and concrete footers near completion. insulation and kitchen work underway. new walks and steps being laid. Members bringing hammers and saws invited. dinner served at noon.
Three men were fined $25 and costs in Municipal Court Friday on intoxication charges filed by city police. Charles J. Sherman 30 of New Marshfield Lawrence Oliver 47 of Nelsonville and James R. Hammond 48 of Delaware pleaded guilty. Sherman was also cited for resisting an officer and fined another $25 and costs.
Jimmie A. Carter 22 of 542 Richland Ave was fined 10 dollars and costs in Municipal Court for failing to stop at a stop sign per a State Highway Patrol citation.
Cincinnati area prices for eggs poultry and potatoes at farms reported with consumer grades US A and B jumbo values. Notes include large white brown and medium egg sizes and fryers hens and potatos price ranges from 2.40 to 4.25 per unit.
Docket of individuals including Betty Murphy Athens Route 2 Frank Andrews Glouster Route 1 Mrs Charles Kussaul Athens Harold Douglas Athens Route William Blythe Jacksonville and others with several dismissals including Mrs Claude Burton Coalville Route 1 and daughter along with Deborah Barton Athens and Albert Burleigh Zaleski and more.
Five drivers were fined in Municipal Court on state patrol charges. Ruth E. McConkey 22 of 1 Spring St paid 20 dollars for speeding. Donald W. Chapman 33 of 304 Highland paid 15 for failing to stop within a clear distance causing a minor accident. Charles F. Bond 23 of Frost Route 1 paid 20 for unsafe operation. Clarence W. Blackford Jr 28 of Chauncey paid 15 for speeding. Dorothy Walker 37 of New Lexington paid 15 for improper passing. Each case included court costs.
Gerald R. Hannahs of Nelsonville faced an unsafe operation charge in Municipal Court. The State Highway Patrol filed the case. the judge set a $35 bond with a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
February saw 26 marriage license applications in Athens County, the highest in seven years, with January at 18. Among applicants one in seven males was in the armed services and one in eight females a student. Ages ranged from 15 to 50 for females, while Probate Court lists February averages of 22 for males and 20 for females. Occupations included farmers, factory workers, merchants, truck drivers, cashiers, secretaries, pipe liners, bronze workers, tree experts, tool dressers, and furniture workers.
Irvin Wolfe of the Athens ASC outlines 1956 wool incentive payments for shorn wool and unshorn lambs. Eligible producers must file by April 30 with payments issued this summer after the average price is known. Emphasizes accurate sales documents and penalties for false information.
Public sale of Glouster Moose Lodge 1197 is confirmed and ordered recorded by Common Pleas Court. The lodge property was purchased by plaintiffs in a suit over promissory notes. Plaintiffs and buyers include The Glouster Community Bank Bank of Corning Ray Sanborn and Henry Ley executor of the James Carey estate.
Thomas Schall, 22, of Athens Route 3, had probation from Common Pleas Court revoked by Judge Francis D. White. He was taken to the Ohio Penitentiary after a breaking and entering case last year and was convicted for trespassing with intent to steal on the Hocking Mine property of FEA Cottingham.
Sheriff’s deputies report a rash of gasoline thefts from farm tanks and scrap yards in the county resolved. Two juveniles confessed to thefts from Howard Woodyard Floyd Hartley and Jesse Brown while three other youths face juvenile court for taking gasoline from the C C Neely farm and Howard Bros trucks. An AWOL airman, Donald Burton 17 of Athens Route 4, admitted involvement as deputies matched tire casts to his car loaned by his father in law. One suspect remains on BIS probation and another is connected to an auto radio theft from Fred Landis.
Athens High School elected Dick Life junior as president of the student council for 1957 58 alongside Tom Evans as vice president Mollie Moore as secretary and Jim Kyle as treasurer All officers are juniors except Kyle who is a sophomore The vote aims to permit next years leaders to attend the state student council convention April 5 6 Life is junior class president and active in football Boy Scouts Evans is treasurer and baseball letterman Moore previously served on the council and is active in music Kyle is a reserve basketball player and varsity baseball hopeful
A 17 year old Dayton sailor AWOL from Norfolk was picked up by city police for auto theft and taken to Ashland Kentucky by the Navy. Federal agents relinquished authority to the county juvenile court which placed him with Chief Petty Officer Howard W. Fortney for return to Norfolk to face Navy court proceedings.
Weather summary reports a rain event dropping .07 inch in Athens and Hamley Run. Morning low temperatures were 44 in Athens and 42 at Hamley Run with a 11 am rise of 9 degrees. Highs Thursday reached 72 at both stations.
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