Scouts Are Honored In Athens County Board Rites
Six Athens Scouts were honored Tuesday night at the Methodist Church as the Athens County Board of Review approved their elevation to higher ranks. Joe Levine of Troop 55 received the silver palm, to be awarded at the next Court of Honor. Phillip Nye and John Gibbs of Troop 55 earned bronze palms. Richard Robe was promoted from second class to first class, Skippy Dent from Troop 55, and John Evans from Troop 56 moved from tender foot to second class.
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Athens
Athens County Board of Review
Joe Levine
Levine
Athens County
Phillip Nye
John Gibbs
Richard Robe
Skippy Dent
John Evans
Kovach Sentenced To Pen Grade School Children To Heart and After Plea Is Retracted
Richard W. Jones, 80, Athens Route 1, died Thursday in Grant Hospital after a two day illness. He was a retired farmer and coal miner, survived by multiple relatives and buried in W Union St Cemetery. Mike Kovach Jr of Glouster was sentenced to 1 to 15 years for attempted criminal assault after pleading guilty. Other court actions include suspended forgery sentences for Dale Patton and George Devore and ongoing cases from the May grand jury. The Athens High School band plans a children's concert Friday at the high school auditorium with readings and instrument demonstrations for West Side East Side and Central elementary pupils.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Kovach
Richard W. Jones
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Meigs County
Athens County
Jones
Constitution Lodge 426
F&am
David J. Jones
Helen Morgan
McArthur
Mattie Jacoby
Flossie Davison
Rachael Steinmeyer
Margaret Jackson
Mattie Cox
Mary Jones
Gallipolis
John of
Alvan Mack
Johnson City
Mike Kovach, Jr
Glouster
State
O. F. Rowland
Rowland
Dale Patton
Athens Route 2
George Devore
the Plains
William Badwell
Nelsonville
George Gilkey, Jr
Common Pleas Court
Mansfield Reformatory
Gilkey
Sam Reeves
Arthur Long
State Penitentiary
Reeves
W. C. Fingerhut
West Side
East Side
Central
Ketelby
Al McClelland Chauncey Resident Dies at 71
Al McClelland 71 longtime Chauncey coal miner and Athens County resident died Thursday after a five month illness at Sheltering Arms Hospital. He is survived by two daughters Mrs Marie Wilbur Chauncey and Mrs Vera Mae Andrews Athens Route 4. three sons Leslie and Allison Akron and Farel Powhatan Point. two half brothers George Glouster and Mort Trimble. a half sister Mrs Ida Lantz Glouster. 13 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Sunday 1 p.m. at Chauncey Church of Christ by Rev Gilbert Courtney. Burial at Glouster. Friends may call after Friday noon at Mrs Wilbur's Chauncey home.
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al McClelland
Chauncey
Athens County
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Marie Wilbur
Vera Mae Andrews
Athens
Flora
Chauncey Church of Christ
Gilbert Courtney
Glouster
Wilbur
Albany Seniors Present Miss Ginny Class Play
Albany High School senior class stages a three act comedy Miss Ginny in the school auditorium Friday May 16 at 8 p.m. The cast features Frank Woodward John Carbaugh Bill Shingle Mary Alice Wingo Helen Ryan Rachel Friedenmaker Eileen Buck Perry Adda Belle McAste and Edith Boggess with June French as promoter and James Hutchison as stage manager.
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Albany
Albany High School
Ginny
Frank Woodgerd
John Carbaugh
Bill Shingler
Mary Alice Wingo
Helen Ryan
Rachel Friedenmaker
Eileen Buck
Perry
Adda Belle McAste
Edith Boggess
June French
James Hutchison
Athens Man Indicted in Biggest Sugar Ring Case
In Huntington West Virginia a U S district court grand jury indicted 16 persons on conspiracy to violate sugar rationing rules. Francis X Rauch 67 of Athens Ohio pleaded guilty and was deferred to June 2. Federal officials called the case the nation s largest sugar black market operation with more than 2 000 000 pounds moved in a five state market.
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Huntington
W. Va
U. S. District Court
Francis X. Rauch
Athens
Harry E. Watkins
U. S
Philip A. Baer
Nazarene pastor to address Ashland youth rally
The Rev. Galal Gough of the First Church of the Nazarene Ashland Kentucky will speak at a zone rally for young people Friday at 7 30 pm at the Nazarene church.
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Galal Gough
First Church of the Nazarene
Ashland
Nazarene Church
OU Dean to be Guest at RONS Meeting Sunday
Capt. E. J. Taylor USN Ret., new dean of Ohio University's College of Applied Science, will be guest at Athens County's Reserve Officers of the Naval Services meeting Sunday at the Cottage Tea House in Athens. The gathering launches Naval Reserve Week May 18 to 25 and will discuss the Navy's Civilian Reserve and enlistment drive.
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E. J. Taylor
USN
Ohio University
College of Applied Science
Athens County
Naval Services
Cottage Tea House
Lancaster St
Navy
Truman
Industrial Experts Favor Small Town for Industry Location
A group of industrial experts argues small towns offer better housing, pleasanter living, and more wholesome recreation, making them ideal sites for new industry over large cities.
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Chillicothe
America
Greyhound Terminal
East State St
Richard Jones
Altha
William
Walter
Bessie
Mr. Jones
Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home
Harold F. Kellogg
W. Union St. Cemetery
Suppe
King Cotton
Sousa
the Klaxon
Fillmore
Long
The
Three Bears
King
Barnum and Bailey
Fingerhut
Paul Lehman
Margaret Scott
Harry Graham
Roy Sams
Lee Enlow
Barbara Warner
Dane Miskel
Robert Wakefield
James Carter
Alice Smith
Nature
Doan
Laundries, Inc
Stimson Avenue
Carpenter & State Sts
University Cleaners
U.S
RONS
Joe Marsh
Doc Walters
Mill
Dee
Constitutional
United States Brewers Foundation
Jimmy Weiner
TIP Top Rangers
WHKC
Columbus, O
Cub
Southeastern
Club 433
Jimmy Weiners
Bob Rood
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Wineburger
Athens, Ohio
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