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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1950
Page
10
Logan Chillicothe district intermediate Work Shop set for Sunday at 2 p m at the First Methodist Church led by Rev R B Wilson pastor with Dr Lester Norris Ohio Conference director of religious education attending the session.
Washington School PTA hosts a faculty dinner in Gallipolis where Mrs. FE Payne Hunting ton outlines alleged communist influence in schools through textbooks and training. She urges revival of American values with four antidotes Bible Constitution McGuffey’s Reader and Ray’s arithmetic as PTA allocates 250 for teacher equipment.
Dr. G A Boles of Ohio State University advised at the Southeastern Ohio Regional Council meeting in Wellston that a clay testing laboratory could boost the area's industry. He outlined lightweight building materials from clays and underdeveloped Lawrence County reserves, with future plans for a January 18 McArthur meeting to discuss legislative recommendations and a pasture improvement award.
List of riverboat movements at Gallipolis and Kanawha locks with vessel names and times handling upriver or downriver. Upper and lower gauge readings noted as 18.0 and 12.0 feet, eight feet at the rollers.
Local church listings detail weekly services at First Methodist St Pauls Episcopal Nazarene Trinity Lutheran American Lutheran Parish Gore U E Circuit Otterbein Oreville including prayer meetings, Sunday schools, morning and evening worships, and special Thanksgiving observances led by ministers such as Rev R B Wilson Rev Rollin S Polk Jr Rev Roy Klingler Rev Paul Holtzen Rev Paul N Warner and Rev Earl W Miller.
Gallipolis three more of six hunters arrested before hunting were fined on intoxication and disorderly charges. George T Clark 20 Peeples Ohio fined 5 dollars. Harry L Clark 33 Peeples fined 5. Hugh F Hill 32 Gallipolis fined 5. Hubert L Cundiff 24 Middleport injured in crash fined 50 for reckless operation. Alfred W Hussell Point Pleasant charged with intoxication fined 5.
A U S Public Health Service survey identifies accidents tuberculosis heart disease pneumonia diphtheria and appendicitis as the six most important causes of death for children aged five to nineteen.
Notice lists parole hearing eligibility for Victor Wetzel and Floyd Gabriel, inmates from Athens County, with dates after January 1, and a separate invitation to bidders for stage equipment installation at Ohio University Speech Building with bid deadline November 20. Proposals require a 100 percent performance bond.
Logan High observes Seniors Night during halves of the Logan New Lexington football clash. The 100 member band will salute graduates with a formation and musical program. Final games include Billy Voris quarterback Kenny Bail left half Walter Nelson full back Jim Richards tackle and John Cottrill end.
St Matthew Lutheran Church joins a nationwide American Lutheran Church effort to reach 100 percent Sunday attendance. In 1949 ALC churches averaged 85 percent of 496 000 confirmed members. St Matthew reported 326 attendees or 90 percent. The service features a sermon on Watchful Waiting and choir music.
GALLIPOLIS The State Highway Patrol reported two convictions for traffic offenses Thursday. James L. Slack 23 Portsmouth was fined 20 dollars and costs for driving left of the centerline and Homer A. Hall 45 Wheelersburg was fined 20 dollars and costs for passing on a curve.
An answer has been filed in common pleas court by Matilda Hansel denying the charges in Olive B. Neibling's suit. Probate Court of Athens County suspends hearings on multiple estate accounts to December 11 1950 with exceptions noted. various executors administrators guardians accounts listed and deadlines set for objections.
John E. Kline 56 of Gore Route 1 driver of a car sustained minor damage to the left front fender and headlight in a 1:35 p m wreck on State Route 278 near Carbon Hill. A beverage truck driven by Charles Phillips 26 of Shawnee also involved. No injuries reported.
Hospital notices list admissions for Mrs. Carl Justice Logan Howard Rhoades Mansfield Route 1 and Mrs. Creighton Lehman Haydenville. Birth joy at Logan Route 3 as Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mohler welcome a son. Reynolds visitors include Mrs. Thomas Carpenter and son as well as Mrs. Mohler and child. Continuous travel mentions relatives in Washington D C and Melvin Jayjohn with daughter.
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