Ice-Laden Trees Cut Power and City Roads Halted
Athens shut off from electric service for several hours as ice froze on tree limbs snapped lines. Big feeders from Godwood Plant were broken at two locations causing outages from 4:30 to 6, brief 7:30, and 9:20 to 10:50. Streets blocked by fallen limbs. crews cleared branches overnight and into the day. Road conditions were slippery statewide. no Athens accidents reported. Hocking River rose to 7.52 feet. mild crop damage expected to fruit trees already in bloom.
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Athens
Godwood
Thens
Plains
Albany
McBee Co
Metrt
Western Union Co
Lash St
Col . Mill
Morris
Wood
E. State
State Highway Patrol
J. B. Grogan
State Highway Department
City Service Department
Mercury
Hocking
Ross Wright
Record Set by Hospital Herd at Athens State Hospital
The Athens State Hospital 102 cow Holstein herd posted an average butterfat of over twice the national mean, with 380 pounds of butterfat and 10,805 pounds of milk per cow annually. Milking occurred three times daily. Top producer was Ripple T Verda with 564 pounds of butterfat and 15,561 pounds of milk.
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Athens State Hospital
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Athens Ripple T Verda
Aspirin Sale Ad Promises Pure St Joseph Tablets
An ad touts dependable genuine St Joseph Aspirin for 10¢ per tablet and a 100 tablet size for 35¢. The text emphasizes purity and low price to attract buyers.
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Epite
St. Joseph
Ohio Division Kills Japs By Hundreds
Report from the front recounts intense fighting as Japanese forces attack American lines. Accounts from Lt Glenwood Broyles and Capt John Guenther describe heavy Canadian and allied firepower mowing down large Japanese forces at Hill 700 and Cannon Ridge, with estimates of hundreds killed and a failed advance.
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Douglas MacArthur
Glenwood Broyles
Fostoria
Dennis Warner
Africa
Middle East
Tobruk
John Guenther
Columbus
Beightler
Hill 700
Tarawa
Local World War II Navy and Army service updates
Seaman First Class Donald M. Palmer returns to New Orleans base after five and a half months at sea aboard a merchant ship. Weimann enlists at 17 and pledges to “swat a Jap,” with a brother in the Army in Ireland. Various other servicemen from the Messenger area receive postings or promotions across the Pacific, Europe, and U.S. bases, including Jefferson Barracks and Camp Wolters. Major Burnelle leads dental services for a new Parma Heights Army hospital, while Pickens breaks an ETO aircraft repair record in England.
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Donald M. Palmer
Robert J. Palmer
Plum St
Trimbie
New Orleans
Brazil
Ascension Island
Caribbean
Sherman Weimann
Carl Weimann
Pacific
Weimann
Gallipolis
Portsmouth
Leonard Weimann
Ireland
Thomas Pickens
Doris L. Pickens
Kananga
Eighth Air Force Service Command
England
Pickens
Racine High School
Marriage Licenses Granted in Athens County Probate Court
Marriage licenses granted include Max A L Lent 26 Nelsonville in the Army and Mary Virgene Glass 22 Athens Route 1. Also listed are Samuel Christo-Scott 52 farmer New Marshfield and Norah M Harvey 52 clerk Athens.
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Athens County
Max A. L. Lent
Nelsonville
Mary Virgene Glass
Athens
Samuel Christo— Scott
Newarshfield
Norah M. Harvey
Yale's Prodigy Merrill Wolf to Graduate at 14 in 1946
Merrill Kenneth Wolf, a Yale sophomore at age 12 from Cleveland Ohio, may graduate in 1946 if Western Reserve credits are accepted. He studies government with wide cultural interests and is the son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Wolf.
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Western Reserve
Merrill Kenneth Wolf
Yale
Herbert Wolf
Cleveland, D
Turn In Those Old Tin Tubes At Drug Store
Athens County salvage leaders urge residents to turn in collapsible tin tubes by April 15 at drug or variety stores. With 90 percent tin content, the tubes are no longer needed for exchanges and the drive aims to rebuild the national tin stockpile. Citizens are also asked to salvage empty tin cans as part of the program.
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War Production Board
W. H. Wakefield
Athens County Salvage
C. C. Bird
Wakefield
CAPC NEWS Mobilization At Local High School
CAPC announces a Wednesday March 22 mobilization event at 7 30 p m to be held at the high school Cadets will wear uniforms and participate in drills and demonstrations with program details to follow
Four Year Old Charlotte Garon Recovered After Train Abduction
A well dressed young woman took 4 year old Charlotte Garon from her mother on a train last week. The search crossed several states and a witness who saw the girl on the street led to her discovery in a New Jersey home where she had been taken for a visit. The mother resides in Bristol Pennsylvania.
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Charlotte Garon
New Jersey
Bristol
Attorneys of Area To Meet In Zanesville
Lawyers from Athens to Washington counties are invited to a Muskingum Bar meeting at the Rogge Hotel Zanesville on Saturday March 25. Registration starts 2 PM EST with sessions at 2 30 PM and a 6 PM banquet.
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Athens County
Ohio State Bar Association
Muskingumity Bar Association
Rogge Hotel
Zanesville
Carl L. Bumiller
Cincinnati
Xavier University
University of Cincinnati
Common Pleas
Carl A. Weinman
Steubenville
Weinman
Athens, Berry Hotel
Auto Crash Injures Pomeroy Woman on Icy Route
Mrs. Gladys Cuckler, 49, of Pomeroy, sustained severe shoulder and leg bruises in a collision on State Route 7 two miles south of Tup ters Plains Sunday around 5 p m. She and her husband John H. Cuckler, 56, were in a car that skidded on the icy road and struck a state highway truck driven by Floyd Ridenour, 55, of Chester, which was being used to spread cinders. She was taken to her home by ambulance.
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Gladys Cuckler
Pomeroy
Tuppers Plains
Portland Society Plans April 7 Benefit Sale
The Women's Society of Christian Service met at Mrs. Ida Carney's home and planned a charity social and sale for April 7 in the church basement. The hostess offered home made candy. Military and community news follow: Cpl Kenner Walbrown has returned to Camp Rabaul after a furlough with his parents in Lower Portland. Charles Alfred Hilton, F2C, graduated from the University of Illinois March 6 and is on six day leave with wife Cora Blosser. he is stationed at Little Creek. Mrs. Hilton joined him in Parkersburg as he rejoined his unit. The week featured visits and promotions among local families, with Lt. Moser in foreign service and B-25 pilot duties, and several relatives visiting in Parkersburg and Columbus. Emerson Johnson, James Middleswart to Kentucky for work. Wilkie Larson returning from the Reliance. Eris Price back with his wife. Local residents Charles Cornell of Calcutta visited his parents.
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Portland
Women's Society of Christian Service
Ida Carney
Cpl
Kenner Walbrown
Camp Rabaul
Calif
Momm 2-C
Little Creek
Cora Blosser
J. S. Hilton
Long Bottom
Parkersburg
W. C. Moser
Columbus
Harry Swan
Moser
Marvin Swan
Sgt. Swan
Tennessee
Ira Blosser
Salineville
Eva Blosser
Wilk Larson
Emerson Johnson
James Middleswart
Richland
Wilkie Larson
Str. Reliance
Eris Price
Annie Price
Ben Price
Dayton Fields
Charles Cornell
Calcutta
Ohio
Robert Cornel
Truck Operators Ordered to Review Second Quarter Rations
The Office of Defense Transportation requires all truck operators and commercial vehicle drivers to appear at local Rationing Boards before March 31 for a second quarter T rations review. Operators must bring their Certificate of War Necessity to compare gasoline allotments with records. no coupons issued at the visit.
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Office of Defense Transportation
Board
Office of Price Administration
Army Appeals for Musical Instruments Campaign
Coca Cola Bottling Co. in Athens leads a nationwide drive for the War Department to collect small musical instruments for troops overseas. Donors may drop items at any Coca-Cola dealer and trucks will collect and forward them to the Army. David Darst says music offers comfort in foxholes.
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G. I. Joe
Athens
Coca Cola Bottling Co
War Department
Coca-Cola
Army
David Darst
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Mercer men and Kapple fined for intoxication in Athens area
Samuel Mercer 62 James Mercer 63 of Athens Route 1 and William Kapple 72 of Canaanville were fined five dollars plus costs today by Mayor Franz a on charges of intoxication.
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James Mercer
Athens
William Kapple
Canaanville
Franza
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