Athens Veterans Day Parade and Police Training in Athens
Armistice Day observances in Athens Monday on the Ohio University campus will feature a parade led by the Athens High School band and a ceremony near the campus monument with speakers James Onseller and Wagonseller. Post activities include a post home open house, a pot-luck supper, and a Saturday night dance. Separately Athens police officers attended retraining at the university gym with FBI instruction on self defense and police procedure. next week's class will cover local court procedures and bringing accused persons to trial.
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Athens
Ohio University
James Onseller
the Legion
Wagonseller
Lancaster Real Estate and Insurance
Harper
C. Pendry
Athens High School
Leroy Shamel
Harold Young
W. Washington St
Central School
Court St
K. T. Crossen Post
National Guard
W. Union St
Legion | Auxiliary
Congress
FBI
Beryl Sacks
J. B. Grogan
Gilbert Bergquist
Bergquist
Grogan
Harold
Community Protection Aid Offered
Athens Board of Trade warns residents about door to door salesmen and costly errors. Secretary Harper C Pendry cites city licensing enforced by police. licensed solicitors should show proof. Board notes incidents involve magazine subscriptions and other rackets. urges residents to seek counsel and support license enforcement to save public money.
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Athens Board of Trade
Harper C. Pendry
Athens
Army Reserve Unit Records New Men Amid Expanding Ranks
The 332nd Infantry Regiment of the Sind Battalion reports ten new enlistees in six weeks. Transfers from other units join fresh signees including Charles Chase Albany Route 2 Floyd Barnhouse Albany Arthur Bullock Athens Joseph Bowles Albany Fredie Beard Gloucester Route 2 Robert Snyder Dayton Ronald Koleski Caldwell Clark ters Caldwell Finley Ryan and Charles L Vanlick.
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Clark Ters
Caldwell
Finley Ryan
Charles L. Vanlick
Junior Club Selling Pins At Mechanicsburg School
The Junior Hi-Y Club raises funds by selling handmade scatter pins to Mechanicsburg Junior High girls to buy a new school clock. In cooperation with YMCA World Service the group seeks cross cultural understanding with a color film on Y work in eight Near East countries. Future plans include a table tennis tournament for Athens boys aged 12 to 15 and a gym trip to the Parkersburg YMCA. Don Bennett, president, announced the current year’s membership: Lyle Munch, vice president. Bill Paige, treasurer. Danny Clyse, secretary. Jim Deardorff, chaplain. Charles Conrath. Bill Pence. Billy Butts. Alan Goldsberry. Charles Niggemeyer. Phillip Johnson.
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Mechanicsburg
Ymca World Service
Athens
Parkersburg
Prince of Peace Contests Slated by Two Churches
Announcement lists 10:30 a m Sunday Prince of Peace contests at The Plains Church of the Nazarene for The Plains School and Albany Baptist Church for Albany schools. State wide event, winners advance to the county contest.
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Prince of Peace
A. E. Beckwith
Plains Church of the Nazarene
Plains
Albany Baptist Church
Albany
Annual Athens County Farm Bureau Meet Slated Monday
The 39th annual Athens County Farm Bureau Federation meeting is set for Monday at 8 p m in the Athens Grange Hall Delegates for the 1957 Ohio Farm Bureau convention will be elected along with the county board of directors Thirteen resolutions will be voted on Main speaker is Morris Alston bureau director of public affairs Nominations for board posts include Harry Henry Jewett Parmiter Bern Township Dennis Addington Elbert Brewers Dover and others for terms of one two or three years
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Athens County Farm Bureau Federation
Athens Grange Hall
Ohio Farm Bureau
Board of Directors
Morris Alston
Bureau
Harry Henry
Jewett Parmiter
Bern Township
Dennis Addington
Elbert Brewers
Trim
East Side School Forms Gray Club With Elections
East Side School formed a Gray club led by Bill Clippinger. At the second meeting Byron Hoffee was elected president and the group now has 15 members planning a Saturday hike. A formal induction ceremony is set for the first week in December with parents invited.
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East Side School
Bill Clippinger
Byron Hoffee
Arrest of Jerry Burton for drunken driving in Athens
Jerry Burton, 20, of Athens Route 4, was fined $125 and costs, sentenced to three days in jail, and had his driver’s license suspended for three months in Municipal Court after pleading guilty to drunk driving. Police arrest records say Burton was arrested early Friday while driving in town.
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Jerry Burton
Athens
Burton
Fined and jailed in Chauncey drunken driving case
Floyd Heightland of Chauncey was fined 100 dollars plus costs and sentenced to three days in jail by Chauncey Mayor Charles Wadley on a State Highway Patrol charge of drunken driving.
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Floyd Heightland
Chauncey
Charles Wadley Ion
Bulk Tank Milking Tour Of Inspection Slated
A bulk tank milking tour of four Athens County dairy farms will inspect the county’s only pipeline milking system at the Doyt Galloway farm on the Stewart Guysville Road. Ros Wright county agent says the event starts 10 a.m. Tuesday and is open to anyone. A 1 15 p.m. discussion in Colville school will cover economics of such installations, led by OSU Extension Department representatives.
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Athens County
Ros Wright
County Extension Service
Wright
Doyt Galloway
Stewart-Guysville Road
D. W. Sams
Bertie L. Brookover
Stewart
Cecil Richardson
Frost
Brookover
Colville School
National Guard Expands Draft Postponement Policy
The National Guard announces a policy allowing men with a I-A raft classification over 18 who have not yet received raft notification to obtain an indefinite postponement through Guard service. Eligible men would serve six months on active duty, then return to the Guard and be deferred from the draft if performance is satisfactory. Pfe Robert W. Young, of Ohio University, transferred to the Athens Guard from a Toledo field artillery unit. CWO Wilson notes the change.
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National Guard
Army
Guard
Pfe
Robert W. Young
Ohio University
Athens Guard
Toledo
Cwo Wilson
Athens Man Named To C SOE Post
Robert W. Byers of Athens is named commercial supervisor of the Athens commercial office for the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. He previously worked in industrial sales and will oversee commercial activities in the Athens Gallipolis Middleport and Nelsonville divisions.
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Athens
C&soe
Robert W. Byers
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Byers
Gallipolis
Middleport
Nelsonville
ICO Denials In Two Suits
Two suits filed in Common Pleas Court challenge Ohio ICO denials of workmen’s compensation benefits. Clifford Wood of Gallipolis claims the ICO refused further aid after an injury at Ford Bros Inc on December 21, 1954. Alfred Morris of Glouster seeks reinstatement after a denial on October 11 for an injury at Drydock Coal Co on September 21, 1948.
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Austrial Commission of
Ohio
Common Pleas Court
Clifford Wood
Gallipolis
ICO
Ford Bros, Inc
Alfred Morris, Glouster
Drydock Coal Co
Real Estate and Divorce Case Listings in Athens County
Real estate transfers include Velma A. Smith filing for divorce from Edmond T. Smith with gross neglect alleged in Common Pleas Court. Properties: Lot 3327 in Hughes-Rowland Addition Ath en, 82.00 acres in Dover Township. Names include Chauncey residents Em per son Ball and Clyde Martin, and marriage license for James Stillwell and Bertha Newton of Nelsonville.
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Frank A. Vanford
Roms River
N. J
John Clark Hook
Glouster
Velma A. Smith
Common Pleas
Eunice B. Pughes
Emanuel Vorce
Gevas
Athens
Edmond T. Smith Hughes-Rowland
Chauncey
Emerson Ball
Clyde
G. Martin
James Stillwell
Bertha Newton
Nelsonville
Service News: Two Athens Natives Advance in Navy
Robert Joseph Davis son of Mr and Mrs Benson Davis of Athens has completed nine weeks of recruit training at Naval Training Center Bainbridge Maryland and awaits a report to Jacksonville Florida Seaman Davis formerly Athens High School student enlisted at the Athens recruiting office Terry O Nail 19 son of Mr and Mrs Fred O Nail Athens Route 3 left for Newport Rhode Island for Antarctic duty His parents were informed O Nail a Chauncey Dover High School graduate enlisted last year and recently graduated from Great Lakes MIL machinist mate school Promoted to machinist mate third class he serves aboard the USS Wyandotte a Navy cargo ship.
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Robert Joseph Davis
Benson Davis Athens
US. Naval Training Center
Bainbridge
Navy
Seaman Davis
Athens
Jacksonville
Flaece
Terry O'Nail
Fred O'Nail
Newport
R. I
Antarctic
O'Nail
Chauncey-Dover High
Great Lakes
Mil
Wyandotte
Ant Nap Brings Rush Ant Nap Brings Rush
Athens residents endured their coldest spell of the season with a 34 degree low and a 47 degree high by mid morning as rural Hamley Run reported 56 and 28 yesterday. C L Colmer, U S observer, noted the 11 30 a m reading and motorists lined service stations to buy antifreeze for protection against the sudden cold snap.
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Athens
C. L. Colmer
U. S
Hamley Run
Son's Auto Demolished Driver Fined
Charles R. Tucker, 48, was fined 90 dollars for intoxication after driving his son's car into the Hocking River just north of Athens. Police said he was arrested at an Athens auto shop as the car was towed into town. The vehicle was wrecked and Tucker was uninjured.
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Hocking
Athens
Mornis
Mar
Charles R. Tucker
J. W. McBride
McBride
Tucker
Youth Sentenced to Mansfield Reformatory
Onerman Schall, 20, of Glouster, was sentenced to an undetermined period at the Mansfield state reformatory after Common Pleas Judge Francis D. White revoked his probation Thursday. Schall admitted stealing scrap metal and selling it to a Glouster junk dealer after pleading guilty to an entering charge. He will be sent to the reformatory within five days.
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Onerman Schall
Glouster
State Reformatory
Mansfield
Common Pleas
Francis D. White
Schall
Sheriff's Department
Reformatory
Shelterings Arms Hospital Notes Brief Entries
Admission of Robert Slagle of Athens and dismissals including George Rutan of Athens Route 4 and Mrs Donald Barnhart of Stewart. Other entries list Mrs Orville Buck The Plains Leslie Dennis Glouster Moute Mark Radhel Athens Mrs Albert Litvinas Athens and son, Mrs Bertie Sweeney Athens, plus a new daughter for Mr and Mrs Paul Simpson of Athens.
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Mark Radhel
Athens
Albert Litvinas
Bertie Sweeney
Nel sonville Driver Fined After Passing At Intersection
Nelynville driver Chapman Woodson aged 47 was fined $10 plus costs by Logan's Mayor Francis Myers after the State Highway Patrol filed a charge of passing at an intersection. The complaint followed a two car accident near Haylenville Thursday morning causing moderate damage when Woodson tried to pass another auto.
Bound to Jury On Non-Support Count
DeVore of Albany is bound over to the grand jury after pleading guilty to non-support at Municipal Court. Bond set at 900 dollars. The Athens County Junior Fair Board will meet Monday at 2 p.m. in County Agent Ross Wright's office to select officers and plan for the year. Traffic fines: Billy G. Mellinger fined 15 dollars and costs for a yellow line violation. Mrs. Shelby Miller fined 15 dollars and costs for a similar charge.
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DeVore
Ashland
Hip
Grand Jury
Athens County
Fi DeVore
Shor- Board
Ross Wright
Barbara DeVore
Albany
At & P.m
Billy G. Mellinger
Vonville
Shelby M. Miller
Chauncey
State Highway Patrol
United Appeal drive short of goal in Athens
Athens United Appeal board reviews drive progress as contributions total 32008.68 toward a 34700 goal for six agencies. Shortfall mainly in house to house canvass with many new homes and movers causing confusion. A permanent residential directory is planned for next year and a Nov 29 meeting will assess the new study results.
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Athens’ United Appeal Boat of Directors
Drive
Frank M. Batdorff
Ohio University
Athens State Hospital
Athens High
United Appeals
Damage Suits Are Settled in Athens Court
Damage suits filed Aug 3, 1955 by Mr and Mrs Biddle against Fred J Beasley and Dave Quarrels of Athens have been settled and dismissed from Common Pleas Court per a clerk’s entry. They alleged Mrs Biddle tripped on a loose rug and fell in the Hotel Berry stairway. Mrs Biddle sought 50000 in damages and her husband 20000.
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Biddle
Fred J. Beasley
Dave
Athens
Athens CAP Commandant John Alden Athens CAP Officer Named
Lt John Alden was named commanding officer of Athens Squadron 1103 Civil Air Patrol at Ohio University Airport meeting Thursday night. He replaces Maj H T Olson transferred to Group 11 headquarters in Lancaster. Mary Olson also transfers to group HQ while remaining in Athens. Alden, a public information officer, announced a drive for new members. Meetings are at 7 30 p.m. each Thursday in the airport office.
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John Alden
Athens
Civil Air Patrol
Ohio Univerity
H. T. Olson
Lancaster
George F. Kauffman
Mary Olson
Olsons
Alden
Ath
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