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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1958
Page
10
The Logan Board of Education last night extended a five-year contract for Wallace E. Blake, the district superintendent, signaling continued leadership and program stability for the school system.
The board approves a five year superintendent contract with 9500 dollars annual salary plus expense allowances up from 9100 and 500. Two change orders boost school program costs including a science demonstration area and a future television system with fixed and additional cameras. They also authorize conduit work for coaxial cable in the junior high annex and the superintendent’s office. Summer recreation items were deferred pending April discussion.
Rep Rolland Bright of Hocking County outlined the 102nd Ohio Legislature with 34 senators and 139 representatives. He noted small counties like Hocking benefit from a Mark Hanna backed constitutional amendment and cited park funding and visitor statistics while urging broader citizen involvement.
Carl Pico of Pico Wholesale Co. Glouster is hospitalized in Columbus with a broken right arm head wounds and broken ribs after a two car crash near McConnelsville while returning from Marietta. He was treated at Memorial Hospital in Marietta before transfer to Mount Carmel.
A discussion on chemical weed control is set for 8 p.m. Wednesday in the courthouse auditorium. Principal speaker Harold Shumkare, extension agronomist from Ohio State University, will headline. The event is part of a lecture series by the Hocking County Extension Advisory Council, inviting all county farmers to attend.
Miss Ethel Bower announced the annual Hocking County home economics demonstration achievement meeting will be April 17 at Logan First Presbyterian Church. Luncheon reservations are due April 14 in the extension office, with reservations through council members or the extension office. All homemakers are welcome to attend.
Laurelville 4 H Club invites members to an organization meeting on March 19 at 7 30 p m in the Laurelville Community Hall. The gathering sets plans for activities and projects.
The Goodwill Farm Bureau Advisory Council will hold its March meeting on Wednesday March 19 at the home of Mr and Mrs Albert Dean. A 6 45 p m potluck supper will precede the meeting.
The Union Furnace Home Demonstration Club will meet Wednesday March 12 at 1 30 p m at the home of Mrs Glen Ward An election of officers will be held during the business meeting.
In Glouster March meeting at Republic Ave home Mrs. Iva Price led a business session noting plans to sponsor a Junior Garden Club. The Plains hosts county meeting April 7 at 10 a.m. Missed speaker Mrs. Vaughn. Daffodils and ferns centerpiece. St Patrick color refreshments served.
Fans in Trimble Township can watch Trimble High School host a basketball evening featuring intra mural champions runners up junior high and sixth grade teams. Games start 5 30 p m continuing hourly 6 30 7 30 with the intramural final at 8 30.
Donald Hines 21 of Lancaster was freed on a $300 bond after a County Court hearing. He pleaded not guilty to a warrant charging failure to provide for minor children, with the case bound over to the grand jury by Judge Vaughn Collins. Compliant filed by Ruth Barnes, his mother in law.
GLOUSTER Father Jan B. Kish of St. Pauls Athens was guest speaker for Holy Cross Church women and nearby parishes at a Day of Recollection. Father Anthony Nickle offered the benediction and Father Gardner of Athens led the deanery meeting in the church hall. Lunch honored St Patricks Day with Our Lady of Lourdes centerpiece and Mrs Charles Patton coordinating decor. Women from Buchtel Chauncey Athens Nelsonville Middleport Pomeroy Jacksonville Columbus and Corning attended.
Logan Roxie Miller sues Howard Miller in Common Pleas Court for divorce and seeks temporary and permanent alimony. Alton T. Hunt files for divorce from Verna Hunt of Stoutsville on grounds of gross neglect of duty.
Lawrence Dicken 20 of Logan arraigned in County Court before Judge Vaughn Collins. Dicken pled guilty and was fined $10 plus costs. He was cited by a state highway patrolman at 3 45 p m Sunday on Route 75 north of Logan.
The Loyal Daughters Class of the Church of Christ will meet Wednesday evening at the Gladden home on Braun Street hosted by Mrs. Delmar Gladden and Mrs. Harley Kittle.
Members of American Legion McCann Frederick Post 414 gather at the legion hall at 1 30 Wednesday afternoon to attend the funeral of John Ching Dyer.
A Boy Scout committee will hold a meeting Thursday at 7 p m in the old fire house, inviting members to attend and discuss upcoming activities.
Logan services were held in Lancaster for Carl E. Oberle 67 of Thornville fatally injured Friday night when struck by a car while crossing a Lancaster street. A former Logan resident, he ran the Logan Opera House in early days with his father Charles, later owned an appliance shop and retired after 30 years with Ohio Power Co. Survived by wife Evelyn mother Henrietta Oberle a son Fred and one grandchild. Rites at St John Episcopal Church conducted by Rev Sydney Waddington. Burial in Hampson Cemetery Pleasantville.
Paul M. Sawyer, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph E Sawyer of Glouster Route 3, completed nine weeks of boot camp training and graduated March 15 at the Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Michel of Union Furnace welcomed a son. Mrs. Frank Donaldson of Logan, and Mrs. Harold Mundy of Logan Route 4 are admitted for medical care. Mrs. Samuel Eby of South Bloomingville and Mrs. Donald Roop of Enterprise also admitted for medical reasons. Some relics note mastiff dogs thriving as early as 300 B C.
Trimble Township Home Demonstration Club met at president Eva Zimmers home with ten members to discuss Better Breakfasts. Leaders Jane Wintersteen and Wahneta Exenkemper demonstrated coffee cake and scrambled eggs. A breakfast was served, and the April meeting will be hosted by Mrs John Penrod.
Logan Hocking County Teachers Association plans a Thursday evening gathering at Laurelville school with a 6 30 p m dinner, a tour of additions led by C B Chilcote, a short business session, and an entertainment program by Edward A Wright of Denison University Granville.
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