White Oak Bridge Bid Won by Brown County Construction Co
Brown County Construction Co of Georgetown Ohio was the low bidder for a 26 foot bridge over White Oak Creek and paving 850 feet of Route 554 in Morgan Two. Bid totaled 54 400 under the state estimate of 59 000. Six bids were received with a top bid of 69 377. The project includes grading and asphaltic concrete paving and guard rail painting in seven counties.
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Gallipolis
Brown County Construction Co
Georgetown
Ohio
Columbus
White Oak Creek
Morgan
Gallia
Meigs
Vinton
W. P. & H. Painters
Flushing
Gallia County
Meigs County
Vinton County
Circle Is Rotarians Speaker Urges Individual Responsibility
Gallipolis Ohio Rotary Club heard President Dean Circle condemn political apathy and urge a return to individual responsibility for national greatness. He traced free enterprise decline from World War I to postwar internationalism and big government, praising Harland T. Martin and noting Harold Wiseman to become president July 3. Dick Roderick will preside next Tuesday.
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Gallipolis
Rotary Club
Dean Circle
Farmers Hotel
President Circle
United States
America
Harland T. Martin
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Russia
Harold Wiseman
Rotary
W. Joe Brown
Lake Hope
Dick Roderick
Pre-School Registration Planned for Washington School
Gallipolis announces pre school registration for kindergarten and first grade for the 1962 63 year in the Washington building foyer on June 7. I J Miller says registration runs 9 12 and 1 4 with health cards birth certificates and immunization records required.
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Gallipolis
Washington
I. J. Miller
Kindergarter
Washington School
Mothers Club Officers Are Installed in Gallipolis
The Ted diers Mothers Club met at the Mills Village home of Mrs Norman Stewart voting $5 to the recreation commission and Kiwanis Youth Camp. An installation dinner is set for Saturday at Tyes Restaurant with officers led by Mrs Harold Walker as president and Mrs Lester Plymale as vice president.
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Gallipolis
Teddiers’ Mothers Club
Mills Village
Norman Stewart
Recreation Commission
Kiwanis
Carl Gillespie
Nancy Eidson
Tye
Harold Walker
Lester Plymale
George Garland
Arthur Rupe, Jr
Bill Brown
James Swain
Glen Ward
Brown
Barcus Completes Disaster Control Instructor Training
Staff Sgt. James A. Barcus of Gallipolis has completed the USAF course for disaster control instructors at Lowry AFB Colorado. A Gallia Academy High School graduate, he is married to Anna B. Sutton of Knoxville Tennessee and they have one child Lisa.
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Gallipolis
James A. Barcus
Homer H. Barcus
Route 2
USAF
Lowry Afb
Colo
Gallia Academy
Anna B. Sutton
Knoxville
North Gallia High Alumni Banquet Set for May 26 at School
The North Gallia High School Alumni banquet will be at 7 p.m. May 26 at the school with graduates from Vinton and Bidwell-Porter High Schools invited. The event includes a program and a dance. The Gallia County VFW Auxiliary’s Buddy Poppy Sale raised 295 dollars, announced by Mrs. Myrtle Queen.
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Gallipolis
North Gallia High School
Old Vinton
Bidwell- Porter
Women’s Auxiliary of
Gallia County
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Myrtle Queen
Gallipolis Felons Sentenced In County Court
In Gallia County Common Pleas Court Judge Betz sentenced Rex Roberts and Charles Sowards of Gallipolis to 1 to 15 years in the Ohio Penitentiary for breaking and entering. Miles Carpenter and Betty Herrell also faced penitentiary terms or county jail on related charges. Woodyard was arraigned on grand larceny with prior non support sentence, and Charles Lamm faced malicious entry charges with counsel appointed.
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Gallipolis
Robert M. Betz
Gallia County
Common Pleas Court
Rex Roberts
Charles Sowards
Ohio
Betz
Sgt
John Taylor
Roberts
Sowards
Russell Bibbee
Lakewood Dr
Miles Junior Carpenter
Vinton
Carpenter
Betty Herrell
Wellston
Marysville
Woodyard
Charles L. Lamm
R. Willam Jenkins
Lamm
GAHS Graduation Speaker Named for 1962 Commencement
Harold J. Bower assistant superintendent of public instruction State Department of Education will deliver the principal address at 8 p m June 1 for Gallia Academy High School 1962 commencement exercises. He is a Ohio Northern University graduate with a 10 year teaching and administrative background and 22 years directing teacher education and certification for the state. He has held his present post since July 1 1958 and serves as a trustee of Ohio Northern University and chairs the Ohio North Central Committee and the Ohio Fulbright Scholarship committee.
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Gallipolis
Harold J. Bower
State Department of Education
Gallia Academy High School
Ohio Northern University
Bower
Ohio North Central Committee
Ohio Fulbright Scholarship Committee
Top 7 8th Grade Council Leaders at Gallia Academy
Robert Ford and Connie Leedy were elected president and vice president of the seventh and eighth grade student council at Gallia Academy High School. The announcement came Tuesday. Ford and Leedy will be eighth graders next fall. Ford is the son of Louis R. Ford Jr. and Leedy is the daughter of Willard Leedy.
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Gallipolis
Robert Ford
Connie Leedy
Gallia Academy High School
Ford
Louis R. Ford Jr
Miss Leedy
Willard Leedy
Gallipolis Pool Opens Officially June 3 After Tentative May Start
Gallipolis officials plan a May 30 pilot pool opening, with a full opening on June 3 and seven day operation through Labor Day. Lifeguards Darnbrough, Miller, Lusk, Mossman hired. pay set at 37.50 for senior guard and 35 for others. Kiddie pool guard still to hire.
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Gallipolis
Kermit Mick
Duke Darnbrough
Claudia Miller
Mary Ann Lusk
Gretchen Mossman
Darnbrough
Miss Miller
Red Cross
Fifteen Gallia Volunteers Practice Hose Lay
Fifteen Gallipolis Fire Department volunteers practiced a hose lay on the Park front Tuesday night. Time ranged from two minutes and 15 seconds to six minutes, directed and timed by Fire Chief James A. Northup. Assistant Chief Silas J. Hamilton assisted and water was pumped from the plug at First Ave. and Court St.
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Gallipolis
James A. Northup
First Ave
Court St
Silas J. Hamilton
Pvt Wilbur Williams Becomes Signalman
Pvt Wilbur E. Williams of Crown City completed an eight week lineman course at Fort Gordon Ga earning the rank of signalman. He entered the Army in 1961 and did basic at Fort Jackson S C after graduating Mercerville High School in 1957.
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Crown City
Wilber E. Williams
Charles W. Williams
Signal Training Center
Fort Gordon
Fort Jackson
S.C
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Rotarians
Patriot Clinic
Patriot
Gallia County Junior Fairgrounds
Rodney
Foster B. Cornwell
Cline Ridg
South Court St
Athens
Maybelle M. Baker
Athens County
Harold J. Rose
Said
Howard C. Rhodes
Edna P. Rhodes
Edna P Rhodes
West 13Th
Junction City
Kansas
Court of Common Pleas
R. W. Finsterwald
Ronak
Bae
Public Service Safety
State OF
Fred W. Weber
Gates
Mothers Club
Ohio Child Conservation League
Grace Methodist Church
Barcus
Lyndon Johnson
Seattle
Wash
GAHS
Olcott
Lt. Miller
R. William Jenkins
Washington Pta
Gallipolis Band Boosters Club
PTA
Stanley L. Evans
Elizabeth B. Gibert
Third Ave
Gatewood
Cleve H. Thivener
Holzer Hospital
Thivener
Pvt
Wilbur Williams
Plaidland
Plaid
SAVE
Asp
Knowles
International
Syroco Federal Eagle
Vogue
Tifton
Rug
Vermeer
Libby
Philco
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