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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1972
Page
5
Community events include CBC meeting and May dining outing, plus visits by families to Chevalier and Williams Balderson homes. PTA Rutland and DAR meetings set, WSCS program planned, Grange sewing contest results, and church group activities with auctions and rummage sale goals.
The annual event will feature a parade led by the Federal Hocking band at noon before the race. Boy Scouts Girl Scouts churches and other groups are invited to participate. Those marching should contact Jim Perkins cubmaster at 667 3365.
At the 21st annual national convention of American Women in Radio and Television at the Stardust Las Vegas Joan Ganz Cooney received the Silver Satellite award. Cooney, Phoenix native and University of Arizona alum, created Sesame Street and The Electric Company after leading a Carnegie study on preschool television.
Pomeroy Ohio. At 10 55 p m Saturday a car driven by 17 year old William Clark ran off Route 33 near the Lanning property and struck a bridge abutment while adjusting the radio. No injuries or citations reported.
Racine Mrs. Steve Badgley and daughter visited Charleston with Mrs. Badgley’s parents Mr. and Mrs. George Simpson. Families from Rochester Pa and Mason joined uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McKenzie for a recent visit. Jack Sharpnack has re entered Veterans Memorial Hospital. Miss Marabelle Sharpnack, working in Columbus, spent the weekend with her parents. Charles Stewart and sons from Albany visited his aunt and uncle. Kyger Ladies Aid met at Kyger Lodge Hall and tied rugs for sale.
Beulah Jones writes about grandma’s travel, shopping malls, and traveling lore from the East to the Midwest. She notes expensive designer shops, a Dior dress, and crowded dressing rooms while contrasting Easterner and rural tastes, then describes the plane ride home and springtime in Ohio.
Point Pleasant Women’s Club schedules an installation dinner on May 12 at Moose Hall with Dr. Samuel T. Habel of Marshall University as guest speaker. Buffet at 6 30 p.m. Tickets are 2.40 with reservations due by Wednesday. Home Life Department chaired by Mrs Lewis Wiley handles arrangements.
RACINE Names of 35 students have been listed on the honor roll for the fifth six weeks grading period at Southern Junior High School. They include eight graders Bill Bush Keith Circle Paul Cross Molly Fisher Denise Hendrix Brady Huffman Kosie Hysell Tim Jenkins Irene Knighting Steve Nease Sandra Norris Lee Ord Pam Parsons Corena Rhodes Paula Rowe Rebecca Sayre Rhonda West Bryan Robinson and Paul Schultz. Seventh graders Patricia Auterson Bobbi Chapman Rodney Childress Darrell Drake Eric Dunning Anna Frank Steve Hendricks Dreama Jenkins Carl Johnston Brenda Lewis Rick Sellers Timothy Smith Tim Smith oa Weese Kevin Willford and Scott Olfe.
Frederick Donald Fenton Jr. will graduate among 134 at Parkersburg Community College Sunday. He commutes from Marietta 233 Third Street while his father lives at 226 Madison Avenue Athens. The ceremony starts at 2 p m with Julius Jay Stern chairman of Wood County Bank as featured speaker.
Pomeroy police report two arrests on Friday. Michael Grate of Rutland faces speeding charges. Donald Lovett is charged with intoxication and disturbing the peace.
Members of the Pomeroy Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution conducted grave marking ceremonies Sunday for three deceased members. Miss Bess Sanborn, former chaplain, and Mrs. William Bradford (Helen Powell) were honored at Middleport Hill Cemetery, and Miss Mary Lawhead at Beech Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Edward Foster, chapter regent, assisted by Mrs. Margaret Parsons, chaplain, spoke of the trio’s service and patriotism as a bronze marker was placed at each grave.
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