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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1948
Page
3
The City Council is scheduled to meet next Wednesday evening. The floodwall project has reportedly been taken over by the U S Engineers. Bids for the first section are to be opened June 22, and completion of the vast project is expected.
Trooper R C Dilley and Sergeant Dallas G Wilfong report checking about 250 cars on state highways in recent weeks, issuing tickets to roughly 100 drivers. Tickets call for repairs to ensure safe driving as checks continue through the summer to cut West Virginia highway deaths, which run slightly below 1946 levels for the same period per automobile bureau reports.
Point Pleasant firemen announce a possible toll exemption for July Fourth on the Silver Bridge after a reply from Governor Meadows remains indefinite. Chairman Carl Smith notes the letter offers hope but no firm commitment.
Point Pleasant James Medley Gray son of Mr and Mrs James Gray Hogsett is a patient in Jones Hospital Huntington for leg injury from a bicycle accident here last fall while in high school.
Street Commissioner William G. Durst and assistants repaired a sliding door at the Point Pleasant fire station after flood damage. While returning to answer a fire alarm, the door fell on the truck but caused no damage.
A daughter was born Thursday at the Point Clinic to Mr and Mrs Beaman Cogar of Point Pleasant Route 2 in a family announcement noting the birth.
Miss Mildred Chapman Mrs Frank Poling Otis Rice and Miss Patsy Yester work in the county board of education office checking reports and teachers registers of attendance. They prepare a statistical report for the recently ended term.
Mrs. Harold E. Somerville reports the birth of a second son and fourth child to her brother and sister in law Dr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Cady of Sayre Pennsylvania.
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