Missing RCAF pilot Vance Cross reported after air operations
Mrs. O E Cross 112 University Terrace receives second telegram in ten weeks saying their son Flying Officer Vance Everett Cross 32109 of the Royal Canadian Air Forces is missing after overseas air operations. He previously escaped a crash in India after bailing out, surviving seven days to reach base, and later was aided by brother Captain Virgil Cross from an evacuation hospital unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. E. Cross
Unirsity Terrace
Vance Everett Cross
Royal Canal Air Forces
RCAF
Cross
Vance
Ane
India
Virgil Cross
Vance Cross
Athens High School
Ohio University
University Terrace
Royal Canadian Air Force
Dealers Face Notice on Gas Coupon Transfers
Gas coupon transfers change April 1. Dealers may no longer accept B B 1 C C 1 E R coupons issued on specific OPA forms. T coupons without 2nd quarter design and R531B R530B unaffected. Acknowledgments move to OPA R-544. Dealers have until April 10 to dispose of invalid coupons. distributors must deposit by April 20.
Sarah Carsey Dies at Union Residence
Mrs. Sarah M. Carsey, 76, died Monday at the home of her sister in Union after years of illness. Born in Meigs County she lived mainly in Athens County and was a member of the Union Methodist church. She leaves a son, two sisters, and several brothers. funeral Friday at Union Methodist Church with burial at New Marshfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah M. Carsey
Raymond Carsey
Union
Meigs County
Athens County
Union Methodist Arch
Carsey
Joseph L. Carsey
Columbus
John Withers
Milton Cooper
Portinton
William Cooper
Athens
Charles
John Cooper
Samuel A. Carsey
Union Methodist Church
Fred Fields
New Marshfield
Captain Seeks Older Men to Back Ohio State Guard Unit
Captain John Newcomb urged Athens area men over 38 to join and support the Ohio State Guard company as the Athens unit falls from 59 original to 36 current members. He warned turnover from the draft threatens local defense and emphasized Athens's history of National Guard service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Ohio State Guard
John Newcomb
Newcomb
Stewart Social Notes Honor Roll and Red Cross Event
Stewart High School announces last six weeks honor roll with freshmen sophomores juniors and seniors named. A Red Cross benefit at the school Friday March 31 features a program and box social with proceeds to the Red Cross. The article also notes recent assemblies by the Sophomore class and a tenth annual FFA and FHA party with musical performances and a dance by McKelvey's orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Esther Staats
Agatha Hart
Virginia Larimer
Joan Chesser
Carol Ashcraft
Josephine Almashy
Jessie Crawford
Jessie Simmons
Martzolff
Athens Methodist Church
Athens
Eastern Star
Wyona Moore
Eva Winner
Joan Wood
Harry Rose
Betty White
Virginia Bean
Lloyd Dilinger
Charles Walraven
Ray Kincade
Dorothy Russell
Phil Halbirt
Lloyd Dillinger
Athleen Jarvis
Earl Linton
Thor Olson
Ohio University
America
McKelvey
Meigs County
Service members' dispatches note actions and transfers
The column lists soldiers and sailors connected to Athens area families. Pfc Homer M Bolin of the 190th Par soned unit wields an anti tank gun on Bougainville and earns a bronze battle star while others, including Sgt William F Withem in Italy and Gilbert Sedwick promoted to machinists mate first class in the Navy Seabees, are stationed or transferred from Madison to Scott Field and from Fort Thomas to Camp Atterbury. Also named are Lt Charles J Armbuster arriving at Stuttgart Army Air Field and Pfc Thomas C Sanborn home on furlough from Camp Gruber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americal
Bougainville
Homer M. Bolin
Parsons Ave
Columbus
Athens
Bolin
Fiji Islands
Guadalcanal
Fiji
Gilbert Sedwick
Carl Sedwick
Amesville
U. S. Navy Seabees
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Thomas C. Sanborn
Chester Sanborn
Oak St
Glouster
Pfc
Sanborn
Camp Gruber
Oklo
Navy Radio Technician School opens to men 17 to 50
Chief Ed Shields of the Navy Recruiting Station in Athens announces that any man 17 to 50 with one year of high school algebra and eligible for military service may take the qualifying test for Navy Radio Technician School. Qualified men enlist as seamen first class and, after indoctrination, attend a nine month course in radio and electronics installation and repair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Shields
Navy
Athens
Navy Radio Technician School
Shields
Naval Service
Revival at Pearl Chapel Ends Sunday Night
Revival services at Pearl Chapel began Monday March 27 and run at 7 30 each evening through Sunday Speakers include Rev Cole Tuesday Rev Evan Edwards Wednesday Rev EF Kennedy and Thursday Rev Smith A male quartet will sing Thursday night
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Chapel
Cole
Evan Edwards
EF. A. Kenney
Smith
Rotary Speaker Stresses Obligations to Veterans
Dr. Harold Ehrensperger, editor of Motive Magazine and former Northwestern faculty member, told the Athens Rotary Club that colleges must assist returning soldiers. He described veterans seeking homes, a place in the community, financial support, education, and a lived American way, urging institutions to provide a shared vision of life they can embrace with the same fervor as their wartime service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Ehrensperger
Motive Magazine
Athens Rotary Club
Northwestern University
Ehrensperger
Church of God Will Dedicate Its Honor Roll
The First Church of God in Hocking Street will hold a 9 30 a m Sunday April 2 dedication service to honor a Roll of men in the armed services. Names include Carl Da Harold Chadwick Glenice Lenigar Jack Robinson Harry Williams Carl Williams and others. The ceremony committee is completing arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Church of God
Hocking St
Carl da Harold Chadwick
Glenice Lenigar
Jack Robinson
Harry Williama
Carl Williams
Herman Cunningham
Cletus Lee France Donovan McClain Eldred Grimes
Harry White
Carrel Davis
Earnest Conant
Donald Sama
Ernest Sams
Floyd Sams
Robert Liggett
David Timms Leonard Burgess
Robert Hooper Gerald Ramsey
Jack Sams
Robert Crawford
John Hooper Chester Riley Stanton France
Duane Townsend
Lee Beasley
Donald Burdette
Darrell Burdette
Richard Burdette
AWOL and Army Vernacular Explained
The text defines AWOL as Absent Without Leave and notes Army slang pronunciation AY WALL. It contrasts the term with misinterpretations such as weakness or mental lapse and explains that two GIs use AYWALL to indicate a comrade is absent without leave rather than impaired.
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Aywall
Victory garden plots seek plowing help in Athens County
Ross Wright, Athens County extension agent and Victory Garden Committee chairman, urges volunteers to plow one or more plots. He calls plowing a bottleneck in the program and asks for teams or tractors to assist urgently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Wright
Athens County
Victory Garden Committee
Haydenville Social Notes and Birthday Honors
Haydenville notes record many attending the funeral for Pearl Downhour at his daughter’s home in Haydenville with relatives from nearby towns. Honors are given to Larry Lightfoot for his tenth birthday and a report on local visits, travel, health updates, and a southeast Ohio military family note regarding Sergeant H Eugene McCandlish missing in action over France.
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Haydenville
Pearl Downhour
Daugher
Noah Spencer
W. E. Ewing
Sterling
Gorge Brill
Herman Hoy
Arthur Mitchell
William Briley
Wayne Johnson
Maude Sweazy
Columbus
Everett Spencer
Lancaster
John Bridgewater
Athens
Gusta Dicken
Kathryn Mooney
Crooksville
Ray Brown
James Miller
Frank Allen
Guy Dilts
Charles Briley
Logan
Jack Lanning
Rex
Shirley
New Pittsburg
James Newman
Edward Wolfe
Robert Eddy
Hammil
Lillian Bland
Wilbur Lightfoot
Colleen Carter
Larry
Pearl
Harold Skiver
Beulah
Katie Moore
Lois Ann Bailey
Mary Sparks
Margie Turner
Patty
Norma Volmer
Eloise
Shirley Swaim
Dorothy
Ruth Lehman
Raymond
Graham Swaim
Judy
Jack Clouston
Jackie Skiver
Donald Turner
Five Tons of Tin Needed for Athens Drive
Athens mayor Franz Woodworth announced a new tin collection next Monday aiming to fill a railroad freight car. Previous drives have accumulated about 20 tons stored in the former Ray-Glo building. residents urged to place all tin at curb early for city truck collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Franz Woodworth
Ray-Glo
Candidate for Governor Will Be in Athens
Mayor James G. Stewart of Cincinnati, a Republican gubernatorial hopeful, will attend an Athens open house at Hotel Berry Thursday morning. He arrives late Wednesday night and speaks in Gallipolis Thursday, then departs Athens at 11 30. A second endorsed candidate will visit Athens Saturday briefly, arriving by train at 9 30 and leaving at 11 06 for Columbus.
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Berry
James G. Stewart
Cincinnati
Stewart
Gallipolis
Athens
Athens County
Republican Executive Committee
Columbus
Corn Planting Based Now on Soil Capacity
Athens County extension agent Ross Wright notes corn planting rates should match soil yielding capacity. He cites farmer practice changes from the old rule to three, four, or five stalks per hill depending on soil capacity. Additionally, big ears do not guarantee higher yield, and kernel spacing differs between drill and hill planting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Wright
Athens County
Mr. Wright
G. H. Springfield
Agronomy Department
Ohio
Wright
Lange Honored By Boy Scouts
Boy Scout Troop 50 held a meeting at the Presbyterian Church honoring Scoutmaster L W Lange who plans to leave for military service. The group gave him a military shaving kit as thanks. A troop committee elected James Patrick scribe Bob Parry quartermaster Ben Paynter librarian Curtis Janssen bugler and Frank Dilley chaplain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
L. W. Lange
Lange
James Patrick
Bob Parry
Ben Paynter
Curtis Janssen
Frank Dilley
Troop 50
Board of Review
San-Cura Ointment and Soap Offer Skin Relief
Advertises San-Cura Ointment and San-Cura Soap as relief for various skin irritations. Ointment is antiseptic and cooling, recommended after washing with the soap, with prices 35c and 60c for the ointment and 25c for the soap.
Parents Asked To Attend Child Welfare Conference
The third training conference for probation officers of juvenile courts in southeastern Ohio will be held Wednesday March 29 at 2 p m in Rooms 6 7 of the Chubb Library at Ohio University. Judges probation officers and child welfare workers from 15 counties will join a round table and panel on probation work and supervision led by Elmer Brumbaugh Portage County chief probation officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Chubb
Ohio University
Elmer Brumbaugh
Portage County
C. H. Calhoon
A. R. Schwartz
State Bureau of Juvenile Research
E. S. Sherron
Ohio Probation Association
Scout
All Contracts Approved for Lime Program in Athens County
Irvin A. Wolfe announces that Athens County AAA has approved contracts to supply 6,500 tons of agricultural lime for the 1944 Food Fights For Freedom program. Farmers may buy lime privately and be paid 2.40 per ton for application, with orders expected to grow as supply and farmer demand increase.
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Athens County
Irvin A. Wolfe
Athens County Aaa
County Aaa
Wolfe
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Athens Messenger
Sarah Carsey
Dr. Edwards
F. M. Edwards
Livingston
Ferry
Kerr Howe. Co
William Withem
Sgt
William F. Withem
Italy
Glennis Karns
Sergeant Withem
D. E. Smith
Grosvenor St
Pvt
Lester E. D. Smith
Madison, Wis
Scott Field, I
Roland F. Williams
Nelsonville
Army
Fort Thomas
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Charles J. Armbuster
G. C. Armbuster
Stuttgart Army Air Field
Ark
Department of Training
Rose Scott
Leonard Cecil Scott
England
Pfe
Leonard Frost
North Carolina
Gloria Leighty
Betty Frost
W. Union St
Edward F. Wilsey, Jr
E. F. Wilsey
New Marshfield Road
ASTPR
Purdue University
Camp Roberts
Calif
Field Artillery
Charles Lapa
Chicago
Mary Ann Carabaris
Lapa
Rotary
Church of God
Indo-China
Social Notes
Dale Primmer
Cleveland
Walter Primmer
Ralph Taylor
Herbert Campbell
Gerald Vollmer
Ronald Campbell
Taylor
Texas
U. S. Army
C. 8
Moore
James Decker
Lincoln Swaim
Robert Smith
Carbon Hill
Jacob Ginther
Gertrude
Frank Ginther
Middleport
W. E. Bancroft
Vaughn
Westerville
Ralph Campbell
H. Eugene McCandlish
McCandlish
France
C. S. Matheny
Paul Matheny
Boy
Cers
C. Bean's
Prudential Insurance Co
Cox
Yaravan
Jan Wah
Cotter
the City Loan and Guaranty Company
Fred Sanders
Court St
Wednesday
Victory Club
Irene Tracy Dunne
Joe
Ce Mee
George Nye
Frances Ot
Henry Wilcoxon
Ai Y
Olympe Bradna
Porter
Robert Cummings
Peremeunt Pictere
Henry Hathaway
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the Purple Heart
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