Athens Council Asked to Place City on Central War Time
The Athens city council was urged by Ohio University president to adopt Central War Time in fall, with a possible October switch if approved. The university began operating on Central War Time yesterday, and a July 1 decision was sought. The council indicated sentiment for the change but might delay until October.
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Eepay
Espay
Athens Messenger
Athens
OHTO
Citertsfelder
Ohio University
Gamertsfelder
Ter
Wwe
Council
Sertsfelder
Navy Seeks Men With Police Experience for Shore Patrol
Navy Recruiting Headquarters invites men with police background to join the Shore Patrol in the Navy. Applicants must be married or have dependents, meet age limits 38 to 50, and supply employer or police chief recommendations. Petty officer appointments possible on enlistment. color vision waiver may apply. Inquiries at Athens Navy Recruiting Station, Post Office Building.
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Athens
Navy
Police Department of the Navy
Naval Reserve
Navy Recruiting Station
Busy Bee 4 H Club Elects Officers
The Busy Bee 4 H Club met at Ada Ruth Sutton s home and elected its officers President Jesse Crawford Vice President Mary Lou Miller Secretary Treasurer Mary Esther Burch Recreation Leader Erma Radcliffe News Reporter Ruth Ann Miller The sewing project was noted and the next meeting is set for May 21.
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Busy Bee 4-H Club
Ada Ruth Sutton
Jessie Crawford
Mary Lou Miller
Mary Esther Burch
Erma Radcliffe
Ruth Ann Miller
Our Men in Service Honor Man Chapman Leads Navy Aviation Path
Frank Maxfield Chapman of Guysville has graduated as honor man from U S Naval Training Station Great Lakes and will attend aviation mechanic school. His brother Bernard serves at Cochran Field, Georgia. Several locals receive Army Air Forces and Army promotions and assignments, with transfers to camps in Colorado Texas and Arkansas and a squadron band assignment at Stuttgart Arkansas.
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Frank Maxfield Chapman
Route 3
Guysville
U. S. Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Chapman
Ohio Department of Highways
Navy
Amelia Chapman
Coolville
Bernard B. Chapman
Cochran Field
Charles BE. Lawson
C. E. Lawson
N. Congress St
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Lowry Field
Colo
Army
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Canton
Fort Hayes
Columbus
Dale L. Stanford
Stewart St
388Th
Army Air Force Band
Army Air Field
Stuttgart
Ark
Alva G. Palmer
Chauncey
Fort Screvens
Camp Wallace
Tex
Owen J. Cotterill
Rutland
Charles E. Schwalbach
Laurelville
Homer D. Wolfe
Barton S. Holl
Logan
Workers Needed in Athens Salvation Army Drive
The Athens Salvation Army Advisory Board seeks volunteers at its third floor Security Bank Building headquarters to raise 3200 for the coming year. Call 719 to help. Dr. C. H. Creed leads hospital collection at Athens State Hospital, with Women’s Division captains meeting Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Room 26.
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Security Bank
L. W. Roberts
C. H. Creed
Athens State Hospital
Security Bank Building
Paul Sayre Killed in South Pacific Battle
Mr and Mrs Frank Sayre of Trimble Route 1 formerly of Second St Athens informed their son First Lieut Paul Sayre had been killed in battle in the South Pacific He had been missing for weeks Sayre a graduate of Athens High School and Ohio University was married and his widow lives in Idaho.
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Frank Sayre
Trimble
Second St
Athens
Paul Sayre
South Pacific
Sayre
Athens High School
Ohio University
Idaho
Nelsonville Men Inducted for Army Service in 1940s
Twenty six men from Ath ens County Selective Service Board No 2 including two transfers were inducted after examinations in Clarksburg W Va and left for Columbus reception center for training. Seven area men were picked for Navy and will depart Thursday. Community groups honored the selectees with New Testaments, cigars and writing paper.
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Athens County Selective Service Board No. 2
Army
Clarksburg
W. Va
Columbus
Navy
Petrified Forest Here Despoiled Rotary Told
Dr. A H Buckle of Ohio University warned the Athens Rotary Club that a regional petrified forest is badly despoiled. He cited wrecked logs used as doorstops, private neglect, and lost specimens while urging an Athens exhibit to house and protect fossils found in Lodi Township Fossil Creek and near White Mill. The Coal Period remains date back about 200 million years.
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Athens
A. H. Buckle
Ohio University
Athens Rotary Club
Blckle
University Botany Department
Fossil Creek
Lodi Township
White Mill
Blickle
Pomeroy
Lodi
Coolville-Troy track meet tops boys and girls events
Coolville led boys action with Shade second and New Marshfield third while Shade won the girls division over Coolville and New Marshfield. The WSCS gathering was set for May 20 at Mrs G R Gunder’s home. Funeral and family visits spanned several communities as relatives gathered after services for Miss Doris Aiken. Inductions and travels touched Camp Haan California and multiple visits to Pomeroy Racine Reedsville St Clairsville and Parishes nearby.
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Carthage-Troy High School
Shade
New Marshfield
WSCS
Methodist Church
G. R. Gunder
Doris Aiken
Methodist
Eber Russell
Sadie McDaniel
Glenn Gaston
Athens
Esther Swisher
Gilead
Sam Simmer
Belpre
Clarence Luzell
Parkersburg
John Davis
Little Hocking
Davis Campbell
Cutler
Maxine Folan
Pomeroy
Ned Newton
Nelsonville
Alda Larson
Clyde Parrish
Ernest Cole
Howard
Camp Haan
Calif
R. S. Henderson
Ellen Holter
Larimer 50th Wedding Anniversary Observed in Athens
The 50th wedding anniversary reception for Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Larimer was hosted Sunday at their Athens home by their daughter Mrs. Virginia Reuter.
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H. B. Larimer
Athens
Virginia Reuter
Athens magazine lady aids troops with reading materials
Mrs. Ernest McGraner of 794 W Union St known as the Athens magazine lady spoke to Athens Kiwanians at Hotel Berry about her project. She showed letters from grateful soldiers and explained how she began taking magazines to troop trains near the railroad depot. In about a year she has collected and distributed over 85 000 magazines and 40 decks of cards along with New Testaments to troops and hospital trains with local help and Messenger publicity.
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Ernest McGraner
Union St
Athens Magazine
Athens Kiwanians
Hotel Berry
New Births and Hospital Admissions In Local Area
At Sheltering Arms a son was born to Mr and Mrs Cecil Sanborn Millfield Route 2 this morning. Elizabeth Gail Giouster Route 4 and Frank Baker Jr Congress Apartments underwent major surgeries yesterday. Max Baughman an Ohio University student 13 Stewart St underwent a major operation Sunday. Franklin Calentine six year old son of Mrs Sylvia Calentine 20 S Shannon Ave was admitted Saturday night for burns from a bucket of hot water. Benjamin Robinson Athens Route 5 and Charley Bean Albany were admitted last night for medical attention. Dismissals included Mrs G E Mitchell and daughter 5 N Shannon Ave Mrs Paul M Porter and son 86 Franklin Ave Mrs Francis Pennock and son 14 Palmer St and Mrs Bertha Carr New Marshfield Route 2. There are more than 13 acres of floor area in the Library of Congress.
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Cecil Sanborn
Millfield
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Elizabeth Gail
Benjamin Robinson
Athens
Charley Bean
Albany
G. E. Mitchell
N. Shannon Ave
Paul M. Porter
Franklin Ave
Francis Pennock
Palmer St
Bertha Carr
New Marshfield
Screening Test Schedule for No 2 Area Volunteers
Sixty four men from Athens County Selective Service Board No 2 are ordered to report for screening at the American Legion Building Nelsonville on Thursday morning May 20 at 9 o'clock. Names include Theodore Lightfoot William Nye Le Roy Grose Hubert Stage Walter Tigner Paul Glenn James Johnson Leonard Reynolds Woodrow Bennett and many others from Nelsonville Athens Coolville Carbondale and surrounding townships.
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Nelsonville
Athens County Selective Service Board No. 2
Office of the Board, American Legion
Theodore Elmer Lightfoot
Jackson St
William Alexander Nye
W. Washington St
LeRoy Grose
W. Canal St
Hubert Clarence Stage
Canal St
Walter Glendon Tigner
Chestnut St
Paul Reeves Glenn
Poplar St
James Howard Johnson
Leonard Reynolds
Walnut St
Woodrow Ernest Bennett
Fort St
Lawrence Elliott
N. Jefferson St
Billy Junior Yates
Nelson Hill
Robert Lee McNamee
Robert George Jack
Scott St
Harold Eugene Hoch
Carl Andrew Windie
Adams St
Don Smith
Fourth St
Willie Emerson Wolfe
Edward Christopher Figgins
Clifford Perry Wein
Charles Eldon Mohney
Mill St
William Wesley Barron
Charles Edward Mace
New Marshfield
Leonard Jacob Gillraith
Carbondale
Robert Allen Gibbs
Albany
George Robert Dearing
Buechtel
Philip Malcolm Linscott
Trimble
Robert Franklin Lawrence
Sharpsburg Rfc
Nathan Gilbert Maytes
Tathrop
Paul George Barnes
Doren Robert Brill
Stewart
Raymond Pancake
Deanville
Ralph Hanning
William Carl Whitlatch
Athens
Vancil Hudson May
Nelson
Attu Island Landings Detailed By Navy Communique
The Navy provides details of the Attu Island landing on May 11. Scout parties landed at Blind Cove Holtz Bay and main landings occurred at Holtz Bay and Massacre Bay. U S forces fought through machine gun nests and rough terrain while Army planes attacked nearby positions.
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Navy
United States
Attu Island
Blind Cove
Holtz Bay
Attu
Holtz Bay Arca
Massacre Bay
United States Naval
United States Army
Chichagof Harbor
Hocking River Near 12 Feet After Rainfall
Rainfall of .54 inch in Athens yesterday and last night pushed the Hocking River toward the 12 foot mark early this afternoon. Yesterday’s high was 84, low 60, and at 1 pm today the temperature stood at 82. A newly arrived Red Cross group of 68 workers includes Canton’s Jessie Ruth Snyder, noted as the best looking yet by a Red Cross staffer in London.
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Athens
Hocking
London
Red Cross
Jessie Ruth Snyder
Canton
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