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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 19, 1960

Page

6

Murray City Firemen Seek Funds for Used Pumper

Murray City volunteer firemen launch a 16 week fund drive to raise 1200 dollars for a used pumper to replace their 1929 Model A Ford. Coin cards are in households with nozzles and a quarter slot at noon each Saturday. If funds fall short they will upgrade the old rig and add gear for expanded service beyond Murray City.

Murray City Firmen Paul Dixon John Simon George Gill Ronnie Six John Huston Jack Wooten Don Swyers Messenger Newsphoto

Television Listings for WSAZ Huntington Evening and Friday

The page shows NBC channel 3 Huntington schedule with programs such as Flatt & Scruggs Bach Family Weather Ford Show Bet Your Life Whirlybirds Journey to the Unknown Rescue 8 Producers Jack Paar News and Weather plus Saturday and Friday daytime blocks listing Classroom Today Movie Katie Doonan Doctor Malone The Price Is Right Concentration and more with notes on possible errors in listings.

Wsaz-Tv NBC Huntington Bat Masterso Jack Paar Katie Doonan Lor. Young Dr. Malone Concentration Steamboat Bi Ernie Ford NBC News

TV PREVIEWS 7 P. M. TONIGHT

A list of 7 p m to 9 30 p m programs includes Manhunt with Victor Jory as Lt Finucane, Bat Masterson with Gene Barry and Elisha Cook, The Last Rodeo with Robert Horton and Nancy Olson, Bachelor Father with John Forsythe and Noreen Corcoran, and Ernie Ford featuring Frankie Vaughan.

Bat Masterson Gene Barry Thorne Elisha Cook Masterson Robert Horton Nancy Olson Bentley John Forsythe Noreen Corcoran Sammee Tong Ernie Ford Frankie Vaughan Britain

TV Schedule Fragment with Evening Lineup

A fragmented listing shows a dense day of TV and radio slots with programs like Hiway Patrol Pat Boone The Untouchables and News Weather Ding Dong Day in Court Gale Storm Morn Show Beat the Clock Restless Gun Susie Love That Bo Casper Caper Rin Tin Tin Life of Riley Glencannon The Detective Not For Hire TV Sports TV Home Show Shock.

Gale Storm Susie Casper Caper Rin Tin Tin Riley Joan

Broadcast Schedule Fragments

TV listing snippet shows varied programs including San France Pat Boone News Weather Sea Hunt John Daly News Flight Pres Mission Sports Donna Reed Real McCoys San France 77 Sunset Stripes The Detective Black Saddle B Starcher Walt Disney Man From Black Lateshow with times and network slots interrupted by repeated blocks.

Hiway Patrol Pat Boone Hokibry Untouchables Whirlybirds U. S. Marshal Black Saddle Weath Donna Reed TV Sports Real McCoys San France John Daly B. Starcher Walt Disney Man Fr. Black

TV Listings for WBNS Columbus Evening Schedule

WBNS TV in Columbus shows comedy Thea at 6:00 then John Ringo at 8:30 followed by weather at 6:25 and 11:10 and programs Zane Grey at 9:00 Jim Bowie at 6:30 Electra Play at 9:30 Chet Long at 7:00 News 11:00 Doug Edw 7:15 Honeymooner 7:30 Armchair The 8:00 Betty Hutter.

Jim Thacker Bowlin Jerry NBC News Pioneers Man Dawson Jack Paar Troubleshoote Wbns-Tv CBS Columbus Thea John Ringo Weather Zane Grey Jim Bowie Electra Chet Long Doug Edw Armchair Betty Hutter Com Eyewitness Roy Rogers Pers Don Rawhide Arm Jule Amvin Amos Andy U.S Lockoe Betty Hutto

Television Schedule Fragment From Channel 13 Listings

Partial broadcast log lists programs for WHTN CBS Channel 13 including News at 11:00 and 6:00, Weather at 8:30 9:00 nightly, plus entertainment blocks such as The Theater 13 and Twilight Zone. Entries are terse with several time slivers and program names.

Four From Stillwater and The Jake Lingle Killing

TV schedule listing late evening dramas. Black Saddle features Culhane pursuing four accused of murder. Real McCoys has a matchmaking plot. The Untouchables presents a federal case over a killer.

Untouchables Bill Hagan Eliot Ness Jake Lingle

TV Tonight Features Betty Hutton-Candy Briskin and Ringo Show

TV listings outline Betty Hutton’s 11 year old daughter as a waif in a late episode, Johnny Ringo with a gloved stranger using Karate to defend a dance hall girl, and Electra Playhouse with Ernest Hemingway’s The Gambler the Nun and the Radio starring Eleanor Parker Richard Conte and Charles Bickford in a Montana hospital drama after a barroom shooting.

Betty Hutton Candy Briskin Johnny Ringo Electra Playhouse Eleanor Parker Richard Conte Charles Bickford Ernest Hemingway Montana

TV Movie Guide And Graduation Omission Noted

TV guide lists May 19 and 20 listings including Strange Bargain Act of Violence Birthday Present Laura Under The Southern Cross The Bugle Sounds Death on the Diamond Man From Down Under I Doed It Hidden Guns Dragonwych Million Dollar Manhunt Golden Mistress. Logan High School graduate Harold Michael Mickey Frazier missing from Wednesday Messenger list.

Laura Logan Harold Michael Mickey) Frazier Logan High School the Messenger

Starr Washington School Operetta Planned by Grades Four to Eight

An operetta directed by Miss Grace Orr will be staged Friday at 7 30 p m by Starr Washington School first four grades with music by the band Mothersingers Chorus and performances by fifth through eighth grades. Room mothers host a bake sale afterward to fund PTA playground equipment with officers for the coming year named.

Grace Orr Starr- Washington School Mothersingers PTA Sidney Kapple John Halsworth James Leffler C. H. Claire Treasur Bill Sparks, Jr

Celebrate 55th Wedding Anniversary in Logan

Logan announces the 55th wedding anniversary of Rev. P. O. Householder and Mrs. Householder on Sunday May 22 at 1196 Fourth Street. Married May 21 1905 by Rev. Abraham Weatherby near Maxville. They have four living children thirteen grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Both belong to Salem U B Church and he is a retired minister and hospital chaplain.

Logan P. O. Householder Householder Fourth Street Abraham Weatherby Maxville Harley F. Householder Junction City Elsie Nutter New Lexington Maudie Householder Paul R. Voris Salem U. B U. B. Church of Scioto Hocking County

Hospital admissions and discharges in Hocking Valley

The Hocking Valley Hospital reports admissions including Mrs. Stanley Phillips of Logan Route 4 and Mrs. Hubert Baker of Logan. Discharges include Mrs. Frank Roddy of McArthur and son and Mrs. Perry Bethel of McArthur. The record notes locations in Logan, McArthur and Laurelville. The final line mentions Portland’s first steam sawmill built in 1850.

Stanley Phillips Logan Hubert Baker George W. Johnson Frank Roddy McArthur, and Son Charles Rinehart Logan, and Son Donald Hopkins Clint Ledford Lloyd Leffler Beman Danner Laurelville Perry Bethel McArthur Portland, yPre

Route 1 Woman Jailed On Child Neglect Count

Betty Hedges Guess 22 was found guilty of neglecting her four children aged 10 months to four years. Judge Rhea Bangert Brown sentenced her to 60 days in the county jail with 30 days suspended. Also charged, Ethel Hedges faced a separate school out-of-session delinquency claim, which was dismissed.

Logan — A Laurelville Betty Hedges Guess Guess Rhea Bangert Brown Ethel Hedges Hedges Brown

Laurelville Man Bitten By Canine

Logan The snapping season continues in Hocking County as Glen Mahoney of Laurelville Route 1 was bitten on the right leg by a dog owned by Pearl Harper. County dog warden James Leonard said Harper shot the dog and the head was sent to the Nelsonville lab where rabies tests were negative. Mahoney received treatment at Berger Hospital Circleville.

Logan Hocking County Glen Mahoney Laurelville Pearl Harper James Leonard Mahoney Harper Leonard Nelsonville Berger Hospital Circleville

Community notices from Logan area clubs and schools

A sequence of local events lists parties, meetings, and installations at St. Johns school hall Ohio Power Co auditorium Glenview Party House Womans Relief Corps Logan Duplicate Club and other groups with times 6 to 8 30 p m plus a note about a Louvre Paris panel portrait of King John the Good during his captivity in London at the start of the Hundred Years War

St. John’s School Hall St. John’s PTA Logan Ohio Power Co Glenview Rochester No Woman’s Relief Corps James Barker Lake Logan Rd West Pta West Maxville Pto William Jones Women of the Moose Marion Grange East Pta Louvre Paris John the Good King John London

Miss Swartz and Armstrong Wed in Logan

Patricia Ann Swartz became the bride of Robert Dean Armstrong on May 12 at the First Methodist Church Logan. She is the daughter of Ralph and Lila Swartz of Zanesville Avenue and a Logan High School graduate employed by Logan Clay Products. He is the son of Perry Armstrong of Junction City and a Straitsville Brick Co. employee, a Junction City High School graduate. The couple will reside on New Straitsville Route 1.

Logan Patricia Ann Swartz Robert Dean Armstrong J. Carl Plummer First Methodist Church Ralph E. Swartz Zanesville Avenue Perry Armstrong Junction City Robert Steward

Techau Estate Filed In Court

Inventory and appraisement of the late Lucy Bowen Techau of Copenhagen Denmark filed in Hocking County Probate Court. U.S. assets valued at 19053.50 with stocks 13902.50 and real estate 5000. Executors include Miss Mary J. Bowen and appraisers Lester Risch Dayton Schultheis and J R Young. Also estate of Elizabeth Hansley Logan appraised with executor Lloyd Hansley and appraisers H M Brown Dayton Schultheis and R B Perkins.

Logan Lucy Bowen Techau Copenhagen Denmark Hocking County

Italy Leads in Exports of Foreign Cheeses to United States

Italy remains the top supplier of foreign cheeses to the United States with steady shipments reported across multiple months. Trade figures show increased volumes from key producers and distributors, signaling strong demand for imported dairy varieties.

Italy United States

Three Hocking County Men Lose Driving Privileges

Three Laurelville and Logan area men had their driver licenses suspended for one year by Common Pleas Court after the Bureau of Motor Vehicles showed each had at least 12 penalty points in two years. Melvin Garret Weldon Swackhammer and Robert P. Swaim faced multiple driving and reckless operation citations. Judge Harley Meyer ordered payment of costs.

Logan Hocking County Common Pleas Court Bureau of Motor Vehicles Melvin Garret Weldon Swackhammer Laurelville Robert P. Swaim Logan Route 4 Garret Circleville Swaim Lancaster Harley Meyer

Lady Golfers Plan May Activities At Local Club

Logan paper notes a Women's Golf Association day at Hocking Hills Country Club with a noon luncheon. Plans include a Saturday night dance, a mixed two ball foursome tournament on Decoration Day, and a blind bogey competition with prizes. Tickets for next week's clubhouse dinner will be taken by Monday.

Logan Hocking Hills Country Club Women’s Golf Association Claude Chrisman Viola Frasure William Brooker Bridge Warren Johns Kenneth Acker Chrisman Frasure Carl Johnson Duane Shipley Walter Jurgensmier Brooker Robert Pugh William Landis Roscoe Mowery John Hammon Myers Richard Faulkner William Keynes Robert Mc C. R. Reelhorn Pataskala

Bridge Club Farewell Party For Mrs. Cherrington

Mrs. M. H. Cherrington was guest of honor at a surprise birthday and farewell party hosted by the Monday Night Duplicate Club and the Inter-city Bridge Club at Glenview Party House. She leaves for Lakeside then travels abroad this summer visiting ten foreign countries. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. J. R. Hankison Mrs. Faye Bingman and Mrs. Anne Harmon for five tables of bridge. A sailing vessel centerpiece with spring flowers framed the dessert area.

Anne Harmon

Alumni Association Banquet and Dance Planned

Union Furnace and Tresboro alumni group schedules its fourth annual banquet at Union Furnace High School on May 21 with a 6:30 p.m. dinner in the cafeteria and dancing at 9 p.m. Dinner reservations cost 1.50 per plate paid in advance, while dancing is 1.00 at the door. Mail reservations to the Alumni Association by May 18.

Logan Alumni Association of Union Furnace Tresboro Union Furnace High School Alumni Association

New Officers Named for Logan Square Dance Club

Logan Dean Collison was elected president for the coming season at the final meeting of the year in the Logan Clay Products recreation room. D O Davis became treasurer and George Clayton Shaw was named secretary. About fifteen couples attended the dance led by Charlie Ziegler, with refreshments and social hour after. Special guests included Mr and Mrs James Gault Mr and Mrs Armound Houk Mr and Mrs Wayne Whitcraft Mr and Mrs Wilbur Lanning Jr and Mrs Edith Huston mother of Mrs Edmund Lange. Mr and Mrs Marion Allen invited the group to their country cabin for a September get together prior to the October dance session.

Square Dance Club Logan Clay Products Recreation Room D. O. Davis George Clayton Shaw Charlie Ziegler James Gault Armound Houk Wayne Whitcraft Wilbur Lanning Jr Edith Huston Edmund Lange Marion Allen

Ministers Meet McArthur at Vinton Church

A special meeting of Vinton county ministers will be held Monday evening May 23 at 7 p m at the McArthur Christian church. All ministers are urged to attend.

Mcarthur Vinton County McArthur Christian Church

Also Mentioned on This Page

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