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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1967
Page
10
Two masked gunmen robbed the Great Southern Center branch of the Ohio National Bank at 10 39 am taking about 45238 from tellers and customers. They forced 29 inside and escaped in a stolen car found abandoned nearby. A third man may have been involved as getaway driver.
Obituaries note Monday services at Wright Memorial EUB Church Newark with graveside rites at Radcliff Cemetery. Survivors include wife Kathy son Alan Long and siblings. Hattie Bo Un Pomeroy 86 dies at Meigs General. services Friday at Ewing Chapel. burial Letart Falls Cemetery. Casby Meadows TV infant dies en route to Holzer Hospital. graveside rites Wednesday Mound Hill Cemetery. Leo Sayre 6 dies in Holzer Hospital. funeral Wednesday Mohr Stevens with burial Kirkland Memorial Gardens.
Mr and Mrs Danny Thompson and Mr and Mrs Clifford Phillips traveled to Huntington West Virginia Saturday to attend the 300 30 Ford Car Club district din.
In Tokyo the official Chinese press names Peng Chen a former Politburo member and mayor of Peking as an opponent of Mao Tse-tung. Radio Peking disclosed the May 16 1966 note as part of the purge rules during the Cultural Revolution.
The Carpenter Boys 4H Club organizes for summer with 21 members. Rex Cheadle is president, Mike Lawson vice president, Pat Lawson secretary, Rodney Jordan news reporter, Walter Jordan health chairman. Advisers include Dorsey Jordan Lavern Jordan and Bill Lawson.
The Meigs County Democratic Club meets Thursday at 7 30 p m at Salem Center Elementary School with sandwiches and cookies requested. Middleport Lodge F and AM holds a special session Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the Masonic Temple for Master Mason degree. Ohio Valley Commandry No 24 ET convenes Thursday at 7 p m for Red Cross Malta Orders. A wedding shower for Mr and Mrs Gene Romano is Saturday at 7 30 p m at Hemlock Grove Grange Hall hosted by Mrs Kenneth Romano and Mrs Bob Roush. Twilight Garden Club meets Thursday at 7 30 p m at Mrs Frank Fugate’s home Pom eroy Mulberry Ave. Syracuse Third Wednesday Homemaker’s Club holds picnic at Syracuse State Park Wednesday at 10 a m with a covered dish lunch at noon. If weather fails, meeting moves to Mrs Milton Roush’s home. This is the final meeting until September.
Seventeen Ohio universities will send delegates to the 17th semi annual meeting of the Ohio Deans of Collegiate Schools of Business at the Ohio University Inn on Wednesday. President Vermon R. Alden of Ohto University will address the deans at luncheon.
Middleport music teacher Mrs. Eleanor Welch Ceiner fell on the steps at Holzer Hospital while visiting her mother, Mrs. Lilian Welch, suffering a broken hip.
Ohio officials omit tomato juice from a state heritage booklet showing the flag seal bird and other symbols. Sen. Carney says he will write a letter to Secretary of State Brown, noting the oversight after the measure to honor tomato juice as the official drink failed.
The Middleport High School Alumni Association sets a May 27 banquet deadline, with reservations via treasurer Mrs. Jack Satterfield. Alumni pay 3 dollars, guests 2 dollars, and forms are available at Citizens National Bank Mark V Meigs Sewing Center in Middleport and Chapman Canaday Shoe Store in Pomeroy. The event at Pearl Street Elementary will be catered by Martin Restaurant with toastmaster Joe Young Jr. from Cambridge. Stardusters provide music and highlights cover consolidation school history and past events.
Point Pleasant report notes Heights EUB Church honoring three mothers during Sunday worship. The two eldest, Mrs. James Eads and Mrs. F G Musgrave, and the youngest, Mrs Gayla Halstead, received potted flowers. Upcoming week includes Youth Fellowship drive to Good Shepherd and a bridal shower for Fran Lantz on May 22 ahead of her June 11 wedding to Darvin Bloomer.
Cattle prices show steady to slightly higher trading across weight classes with hogs and sheep active or steady. Prime vealers 36 to 38 dollars, corn around 1.21 to 1.26 per bushel, soybeans 2.65 to 2.74, wheat 1.48 to 1.53, oats around 7 to 78 with regional variations.
Contributions to aid South Vietnamese children burned by napalm bombs are being collected Tuesday at Ohio University's old can gy gate. The drive by Clergy and Others Who Are Concerned About Vietnam includes ministers who met in Washington with Congress members. The group aims to fund treatment for the children and hopes local churches will contribute.
A Cleveland firm submitted the best bid Monday to renew the city note for the sewage treatment plant expansion project. McDonald and Co. offered a 3.04 percent interest with a $25 bonus on a $620 000 note, reducing from $656 000. Bonds for the project will be sold later. Other bids included Ohio National Bank 3.25 percent with $50, Ball, Burge and Kraus 3.10 percent with $16.74, Russex Wade and Co. 3.06 percent with $22, Ryan Sutherland and Co. 3.20 percent with $67, and Clark Dodge and Co. 3.15 percent with $36.
Mormon pad of Rt. Ne}, Gaysville is named administrator for Evaere O. B. Midkiff and must file claims within four months. The Tri-County Joint Vocational School District invites bids by May 17 for construction of Nelsonville Athens County Center with drawings from Von Buren and Firestone Architects, deposit and bid terms described.
The 109th annual meeting of the West Virginia Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church convenes May 22 to 25 in Buckhannon. Bishop J Gordon Howard of Pittsburgh will preside, with Rev Harry Eckels assisting, amid plans for union with the Methodist Church, hiring a superintendent and secretary, and introducing new Sunday school curricula.
Bill Pepper, chief WBNS TV announcer in Columbus, delivered a humorous talk to the Athens Rotary Club recounting mispronunciations and mixed announcements from radio and television. A Ports mouth native with 30 years in the field, he cited incidents from a seven-reel library, sponsored by State Auto Insurance Co. of Columbus as a public service.
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