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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1944
Page
6
Dorothy J. Drummond a minor acting through her next friend Lola E. Sexton sues Arthur W. Drummond for divorce on grounds of cruelty and neglect. The couple married last July and have one child. The item notes Popcorn once formed a colonial luncheon meal.
Gallipolis Chamber of Commerce directors Tuesday night adopted a resolution urging the city to back a major commercial airline. The measure supports a 17-signatory airlines policy declaring free enterprise and open worldwide competition with private ownership, urging Congress to implement policy for foreign air transportation by U.S. flag carriers under reasonable regulation.
Gallipolis reports twelve scarlet fever cases prompting City Board of Health to urge parents to keep children home from crowds and to keep ill or throat-weak kids from attending school. Strict measures urged to prevent an epidemic. The notice also references postwar air and transportation policies. A separate wartime item notes Marine Pvt Edgar R Hurd receiving a letter from parents after a Tarawa base delay.
Gallia County Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution to abolish the Morgan Rural School District. The Morgan program will be taken over by the Bidwell Springfield Board of Education. The district carries about 4800 in debt over ten years and two court judgments totaling 2500 remain unpaid. Savings from salaries may be used to cover debt, with final disposition resting with the State Department of Education.
Gallia County invites prospective inductees to a second instruction meeting at the Court House at 7 30 Thursday evening. The session will outline steps from induction through training and cover each service branch. Attorney William H Jones will answer legal questions for men entering service.
In 1943 privately operated shipyards built merchant ships totaling about 19,000,000 deadweight tons, roughly one fifth of world shipping at the war's start and about 2.5 times 1942 tonnage. Europe normally produces around 48 percent of the world’s sulphuric acid output.
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