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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1943
Page
5
Fragmented OCR text references May events in a Japanese area, mentions territory, culture and stake. Key facts and participants are unreadable. no clear event, date, or organization can be confirmed.
The 50 foot Navy Recruit Cruiser, docked in front of the Courthouse, will visit Athens on Memorial Day weekend. Services aboard at 3:30 PM will be led by Rev. Frank Donaldson. The visit aims to provide WAVES SPARS information and recruit both men aged 18 to 50 and women 36 not in vital war work, highlighting Seabees and shore roles at local recruiting offices.
Mrs. Margaret Hunkerford, age death at the family home 105 Washington Street Tuesday. She is survived by sons Pearl and Herbert. Funeral services set at Pilgrim Holiness Church at 2 PM. Burial in W. Street Cemetery. Friends may call Jagers Funeral Home.
Salvation Army solicitors were to report to their team captains today with captains submitting local collections to campaign headquarters. By noon only a few reports were in and the total stood at 734 dollars of a 3200 dollar goal. Chairman L W Roberts urged prompt reporting.
Columbus fourth place Hubert Whiting Paul Jr of Ottawa Hills High School in Lucas County scored 260 of 300 on statewide high school senior scholarship tests. The Ohio State Education Department mailed approximately 7,000 Certificates of Recognition naming participants across senior and eighth grade brackets. High-ranking district-state finishers will be announced later. Athens students William Hammerle and Jauvanta Young placed 25th and 50th respectively.
The Athens County Red Cross seeks the aunt of Sea man James E Gunn of the English Navy now in the United States. He says she is his paternal aunt, born Miss Mima Gunn, first married twice, second husband killed in a 1940 auto crash. Notify Miss Ellen Biddle at Red Cross, Phone 651.
Birmingham paper reports Lieut Col Frederick W Okie of the city received an award of merit for valor under fire in Tunisia. He led a detachment to retrieve two ammunition trains abandoned before an enemy advance. Staff Sgt Kenneth Potter, son of Mr and Mrs John Potter, serves in his battalion and has been in North Africa since November. Mrs Potter received a telegram from their youngest son Jack in Alaska on Mother’s Day.
Luster Stanley of The Plains will direct a union prayer service at Townhouse on Sunday May 30 at 1 pm central war time. Sunday School will be held at noon.
Lieut. Robert E. Shank and Lieut. Ernest D. Stuyvesant head a long list of pilots who earned silver wings at the American Air Forces Gulf Coast Training Center becoming Army flyers after 36 weeks of rigorous training across nine Texas schools and Altus Oklahoma.
The Office of Price Administration issued 1943 canning sugar rules via Local Rationing Boards. Five pounds per person per War Ration Book I, with stamps 15 and 16, plus a 15 pound per person ceiling. Applicants may obtain a season's supply through form R-315, listing total quarts to be canned, with coupons usable throughout the year.
The Amesville Cemetery Association asks local men to help trim and finish mowing the cemetery before Memorial Day. President C. O. Gibson urges residents to bring sickles and meet at the cemetery on Thursday evening May 27 at 7 o'clock CWT to complete the work.
Amesville honors list shows district and state rankings for English English English English History Biology Physics. Eileen McDaniel Pauline Fleming Vern Wolfe Myron McGrew Miles Wolfe and others earned top places and honorable mentions across multiple subjects.
Georgia is the twentieth largest state by area and the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River.
The Cole Brothers Combined Circus steamed into Athens several hours early from Wheeling. The 1,000 strong show with hundreds of horses elephants tents and wagons is set for two performances. A new opening spectacle The Conquest of Coronado features Florence Tennyson and a ballet of dancing girls. The big top seats nearly 10,000 and 26 tents were erected as unloading and setup began at the fairgrounds. After tonight’s show the circus heads to Portsmouth tomorrow.
A river with a six mile per hour current has transporting power 729 times greater than a river with a two mile per hour current, illustrating how speed differences amplify flow capacity.
The text notes that the first issue of paper money by American Indians was issued by the Arapahoes of Oregon around 1840 to 1850. It presents a detail about early Indigenous monetary practices in the Pacific Northwest and places the event within the mid-19th century timeline.
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