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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1950
Page
3
The U S Embassy cautioned all American citizens in Czechoslovakia that they may be expelled at a moment's notice and could be held incommunicado for an extended period if arrested. The warning was issued in a circular to registered citizens detailing foreigners' treatment in the communist state.
J A Blain, a Gallipolis Ferry farmer and cattleman, was taken to Holzer Hospital after a recent illness. Other local notes mention Junior Crump of Leon at Holzer, and several residents ill with flu or ailments, with social notes from Jackson Ave and Leon gatherings.
Seven arrests were reported by Point Pleasant police over the weekend. Byrd O. Jackson of Crab Creek was charged with felonious assault on his wife at home. Others jailed include Gus Fielder for drunken driving and felonious assault warrants, D B Hill released after a polit court bond, and Bill Patterson held on non support charges. Police, state troopers, and deputies assisted at the Crab Creek residence and Point Clinic.
Sleepers awakened when three shots were fired into the second story sleeping quarters of the W. E. Kirk residence in Hogsett. Two bullets pierced walls with one passing over a bed where Marie Kirk lay. Sheriff Morrison suspects Route 2 as the firing point. two steel jacketed bullets were recovered. Kirk, president of the Mason County Farm Bureau, has no known enemies. State Police Trooper Dilley assists investigation.
Mr and Mrs Chester A Roush of Mt Vernon Ave return from Columbus Ohio where their son Okey C Roush received a Bachelor of Science in Air Transportation from the College of Commerce and Administration at Ohio State University He will join the Columbus branch of the Equitable Life Insurance Co Alice Anne Roush attends Ohio University and acted in Song of Norway during the visit Okey now Lt JG in the Naval Air Corps Reserve attends a two week flying course at Port Columbus.
The piece jokes about the Elder tender birthplace mix ups between Marietta Ohio and Point Pleasant while noting local business chatter at Marietta Manufacturing Co. It also references Tubby Morrison seeking a manager for Point Pleasant in the Ohio Valley Association and a 4-H health slogan about dental care.
The Soviet zone East mark sank to about two cents on Saturday causing widespread trade disruption in the Russian sector of Berlin.
A Patuxent Naval Air Station board probes the deaths of two sailors and poisoning of four others from methyl alcohol. One man Floyd R. Hack of Mansfield Ohio reportedly recovered. Cause of poisoning and source of the alcohol remain undetermined.
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