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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1956
Page
2
The YMCA board approved a policy drafted by Rev. Drell Goff to serve males nine years and older regardless of economic, racial, or religious status. The policy states the new member pays a fee and enjoys one year of membership benefits.
Store promotes price cut on All Wallpaper V3 with two for the price of one offer. Discount applies to single roll purchases with attractive lower rate per unit. Shoppers urged to act quickly as stock limited and sale ends soon.
Chesser Albany announces enrollment fees for members 18 and older, a Thursday meeting at Park suggesting a youth committee topic on April 2. Nominations for seven vacancies will be decided by mail vote. officers McBride and Taylor will attend a council meeting April 7.
The Plains residents plan an 8 p.m. meeting at the school auditorium to discuss incorporation after Athens Township trustees received a petition March 3 requesting a community election. Trustees must validate signatures, pass a resolution, and submit it to the board of elections. Three motorists were fined in Municipal Court for traffic violations filed by the State Highway Patrol. John Hemsley, 41, of Glouster, paid 10 dollars and costs for driving left of center. Ohio University students George Yoakam, 19, Reed Hall, and Ray Bethel, 24, from Eliot Street, Frankfort, were fined 20 and 10 dollars plus costs for speeding. Mrs. Mabel Nickoson, Depot Street, pleaded innocent to an intoxication charge filed by her husband, Rexford. She posted 9 dollars bond after an April 2 hearing was set. her husband had his probation revoked Tuesday by Judge JF Newcomb.
At the monthly Pack 56 gathering, scouts Phillip Collins James Kanter Buck John Newcompr Pratt John Curry and Sam Leach received one or more Silver Arrow Wolf Badge Fold Arrow and Bear Badge awards. The Bear Badge went to the oldest group nine to ten year olds. The session included movies and a parent meeting with Maj Theodore Rothwell, shown by Floyd Pool.
A set of brief hospital and social notes lists several admissions and births. Names include Mr and Mrs James Bruce Perry Route 4 and Route 1, Athens residents, along with Mrs Russell Van Dyke, T H Scott, Athens Route 3, Mrs J J Walker, Athens, Mrs Joseph Martin, Athens, Mrs Ronald Owens Athens, Mrs Hazel Burton Athens, Walter Young The Plains, Mrs Alfred Walsh Carpenter and son, Mrs William Sycks Millfield Route 1, and son, Charles Hanning Athens, Grover Hall Athens, Dana Hutchinson Jr Athens, Kenneth and Donald Keck Albany Route 1, Hubert Whaley Shade, David and Joan Hudwell, Mrs Roger Connor Athens, Lucille Stinson Albany, Mrs Jay Stiles New Marsh, held.
A Lima woman was fined 10 dollars plus costs by Logan Mayor Prancis Myers for unsafe operation after her car struck the side of a semitrailer on Route 33 just south of Logan Tuesday at 6 45 p m. Annie Calla, driving a car that veered, collided with a northbound semi driven by Marvin Frey 31 of Columbus. No injuries reported.
Parking violator on Route Street paid fines plus costs after a highway patrol charge. Ohio University student David P. Chapman of Youngstown was fined for having an open bottle on a city street. Clyde C. Bennett of Columbus paid ten dollars and costs for crossing a yellow line. An emergency squad was summoned to Hotel Park. Sunrise Easter service set for 6:30 a.m. at Coolville Methodist Church.
Heavy rain drenches Athens as 5900 Ohio University students evacuate for spring recess. Classes end at noon and resume April 4 while Athens city students finish Thursday and return April 9. Observers report near halting precipitation by 11 am with steady rain, river at 55 feet and temperatures around 43. River water 45 degrees. Hamley Run yesterday high 58 and 2 pm 41.
Dr. waxer, president of Ohio University, will discuss Russia's new foreign policy and its effect on world economics and American business at an 8 p.m. meeting sponsored by the Toledo Harvard Business School Club. The event, in the Elks Toledo, involves business leaders and Toledo Council in World Affairs members. Baker formerly taught at Harvard and has an honorary doctor of commercial science degree from the University of Toledo. Divorce from Oliver B. Hen is granted amid custodial and alimony questions unresolved due to publication service.
Dr. Paul B. Sears of Yale University warns the Ohio University Club that trial and error are costly, urging reliance on learned conservation principles. He cites soil erosion, drought, and economic crises as warnings ignored until crisis forced action, and stresses responsible use of forests and rivers alongside human ingenuity.
A court ordered sheriff sale of two Glouster lots owned by Moose Lodge 1197 is set for April 30. The High Street parcels 137 and 168 are appraised at 127,000 and will be offered at the courthouse under Sheriff George Batel an's office.
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