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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1969
Page
5
Susan Adair 20, of Sylvania and a junior at Ohio University, won the Interstate Oratorical Association contest in Detroit representing eighteen states. Her speech urged giving time and self to the needy, reflecting her nursing home volunteer work and aims to teach.
A columnist muses on the abundance of recipes found on product boxes and urges readers to improvise in the kitchen. They note boxed offerings from potatoes to gelatin and cake mixes provide ideas, while advocating personal cooking creativity over fixed instructions.
A reader explains how buying a king sized bedspread on sale and splitting it creates two matching bunk bed spreads. They angle edges to fit, note a trick to secure the bottom back corner, and urge watching ads for affordable finds.
Dear Abby advises the older man to retain distance and an impersonal stance with the attractive employee to ease his wife's jealousy. A child reader asks about teen pregnancy from a “dirty neighborhood” and is told the claim is false.
Miss Deborah Kail, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Kail of Athens Ohio, was honored with a bridal shower May 16 at the home of Alice Barstow in Athens. Prizes were won by Mrs Jo Wolfe and Mrs Thomas Hendershot. Invited guests included numerous Athens residents along with guests from Columbus Greenfield Hillsboro and Atlanta.
The Plains Elementary School pupils engage in art projects across grades from first to fifth. First graders craft Indian self hardening clay bowls and plan Indian jewelry. Second graders visit Columbus zoo and model animals in clay. Third graders create paper mache puppet heads for plays. Fourth graders study Japanese painting and make scrolls. Fifth graders finish linoleum prints to accompany poems and batik wall hangings. Commencement speaker Dr. Fred E. Luchs delivers addresses at Lebanon Peebles Chesapeake Toledo and Conneaut high schools.
Miss Janice Diane Phillis of Gallipolis wed James William Oiler of Syracuse on May 2 at the First United Presbyterian Church with Rev. Linson H. Stebbins presiding. Attendants included maid of honor Jan Davis. best men Don Hodge and Robert Willis. The couple plans a Berea Ky. honeymoon and resides in Gallipolis after wedding trips and receptions.
Miss Debra Hubbard daughter of Mr and Mrs William Hubbard of Syracuse married Clyde Triplett son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Triplett of Racine at the bride's Cherry Street home on April 26. She wore a white plisse street length dress and a white net hat with white carnations and daisies in her bouquet. Sharon Roush of Syracuse served as maid of honor in a yellow flowered voile dress.
A training program for Candy Stripers begins June 9 at Sheltering Arms Hospital on Clark St. Sessions run 7 to 9 p.m. Ramona B. Thielmann says entrants must be high school juniors, 16, with average grades. This class marks the first to volunteer at the new O'Bleness Memorial Sheltering Arms. For information call 593-6030.
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