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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1943
Page
5
The Athens County engineer reported 48 slips across the county as weeks of rain disrupted travel. Ground conditions and ongoing repairs constrain progress, with several bridges and roads already damaged or closed.
First Lieut. William R. Hutchinson a former Athens physician in the Army Medical Corps graduates at Carlisle Barracks and heads to a new station to apply field medical training. Paul E. Holter, 21, son of Earl and Mrs. Holter, graduates from aircraft engineers course at Patterson New Jersey and is promoted to corporal. Pfe. Clifford L. Stump completes Army Administration School at Huntsville Texas in a class of 300.
Ohio State Liquor Store in Athens invites residents with last names A to L to apply today or Saturday for customer identification purchase records. Cards are required for liquor purchases when sales resume June 1. Store hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Applicants must present their No. 2 Ration Book. Next week, last names M to Z register on assigned days to prevent delays.
The Marietta Band of the Salvation Army will perform at a Salvation Army Hall meeting in Athens this evening at 8 o clock. Captain Kenneth Sharp, the band director, will speak. Admission is free and all are invited. Before the meeting Captain Sharp and the band will lead an open air gathering in front of the courthouse.
The State Pardon and Patrol Commission granted paroles to 44 Mansfield Reformatory inmates yesterday, released two conditionally and continued the cases of 22 others. Among those paroled was Athens John Tippie for auto theft on July 1.
Floyd Bolin Post to hold a meeting in the Armory this evening at 7 30. Adjt. Clarence A. Parker announced the gathering for veterans.
The Navy seeks nine thousand construction workers per month for the Seabees. Youths 17 and men 38 to 50 are eligible. a new voluntary induction plan covers ages 18 to 37 with construction experience. Applicants must present letters of recommendation, pass a Navy physical, and follow a step plan to induction and trade assignment.
A House resolution in Columbus asks State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson to provide sworn statements detailing gross amounts received by him or his agents from assessments on civil service employees during 1941 to 1943. Rep. John R. Wood of Montgomery introduced the measure claiming a monthly political levy existed on classified civil service staff.
Dr. C. F. E. Bell of Steubenville was reelected president of the Ohio State Chiropractic Society at its 30th annual convention in Columbus. Dr. Zene Toser of Cuyahoga Falls was renamed vice president. New directors include Dr. J. M. Quilter of Sandusky and Dr. R. R. Gilson of Athens.
Checks totaling 70 479 14 were distributed by Athens County schools superintendent Glen Hanes to 13 districts as the county share of the second quarter School Foundation Program payment. Most funds must be used for teachers salaries with allocations based on prior year average daily attendance and list district amounts.
Twenty five members of the music department will sing at the baccalaureate exercises Sunday May 23 at the Waterloo High School Auditorium. The Rev Lloyd Evans of the Nelsonville Presbyterian Church will preach at the Alexander Church in Hebbardsville at 11 30 o clock fast time.
Athens High School seniors and juniors stage the three act comedy Young Barry by Dana Thomas tonight at 8 in the high school auditorium using cyclorama blue grey curtains. Eddie Barry portrayed by Jt Mathews navigates adolescence amid family chaos and romantic entanglements with Ann played by Wanda Quest. Tickets are 25 cents at the door for a single performance following a brief preview from Almost Eighteen.
The G. A. Roeckling Co representative will interview interested parties at the Berry Hotel in Athens on Tuesday May 25 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for enjoyable summer work at Cedar Point on Lake Erie and Hotel Breakers. Wages include food and lodging for older workers and youths, with consideration for school teachers male and female. Applicants not in essential activity or agriculture must meet the Cedar Point representative in Athens. send details to The G. A. Boeckling Co Sandusky Ohio.
Distribution of 1943 automobile license tag revenue totals 39 708 with 47 percent to counties and 25 percent to municipalities. Athens Gallia Hocking Meigs Perry and Vinton counties receive specific city and county amounts led by Athens city 3975 and Meigs county 14152 across several towns. The first partial payout amounts to about 50 percent of 1943 revenue authorized by Highway Director H G Sours and Registrar Cylon W Wallace.
Benjamin Franklin Robinson age 63 of Athens Route 5 died Thursday morning after a three day illness in Sheltering Arms Hospital. Born in Amesville he lived much of his life in West Virginia before returning to Athens County eight years ago. He leaves a brother Harrison of Leon West Virginia two sisters Gertie Parsons and Alice Morgan both of Sandyville West Virginia and a nephew Alva Robinson Harmony Road Athens. Funeral services are set for Saturday afternoon in Sandyville with burial there. The funeral party left Athens today.
An all day meeting will be held at Luhrig Pilgrim Church Sunday with the Rev D H Pugh in charge of services marking the revival’s end.
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