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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1964
Page
6
Morrison Elementary PTA members heard Ivan Romine describe the Plan for Educational Progress campaign to push a 1965 school finance bill. The effort seeks 93,590 signatures by December 1 to require a 4 percent state sales tax raise to fund education.
Mrs. Robert Finnearty received two stork showers, hosted at the Kastely home in Chauncey by Miss Rosemary Kottyan and Mrs. Bela Kastely, with prizes won by Mrs. James Wallace and Miss Marilyn Dew. A second shower was hosted by Mrs. Dow Bridgewater and Mrs. Chester Baughman at the Bridgewater home, Chauncey, with prizes to Miss Kathy Wallace and Mrs. Mildred Pendergrass.
Pupils from Ohio University Elementary School staged a Thanksgiving program on Wednesday led by fifth and sixth grade bands under Miss Catherine McCoy. Students placed food items at the stage foot for donation while third grader Ann Alden led with a prayer and fifth graders Steve Smith Jason Ryan and Gretchen Keller narrated. The American Legion hosts a free dance for members and guests at 9 p.m. Saturday with entertainment by the Buckeye Ramblers.
The WSCS will host an annual bazaar on Saturday December 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the First Methodist Church Athens featuring handmade doll clothes pup items knitted goods candies jams jellies fruit cake house plants and Christmas cards with a luncheon served 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. including soup sandwiches pie and coffee. Local volunteers coordinate booths including coffee shop decorations sewing center candy and baked goods Tots and Teens Wesleyan Service Guild and African violets with Kappa Phi members offering abroad gifts. Families invited to shop and chat.
A 17th century link sauce Mornay used to flavor fish and vegetables. The recipe heats milk with cheese sauce mix and mustard, adds thawed king crab meat, then simmers briefly and serves over patty shells or toast with parsley or paprika. Serves six.
Troy Grange hosts State Delegates Report and potluck supper with a needy family drive at 6 30 p.m. Junior Women’s Club holds 8 p.m. gathering with Mrs Ralph Wigal as hostess at Clearview Hotel. Summit Grange meets 6 30 p.m. Grange Hall collecting food for Thanksgiving supper. New Marshfield CES installs officers at Masonic Hall at 8 p.m. Albany Grange meets 8 p.m. at the grange hall with cookies or fruit salad for refreshments. Athens Moose Lodge dances 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. at Riverside Drive lodge home with Rhythm Ranch Boys.
Miss Betty Newton demonstrated and hosted a buffet dinner for Albany Wednesday Club in the lounge of Columbia Gas of Ohio on State Street Athens. The next gathering is set for December 2 at Mrs C E Stout's home with time to be announced. Donna Lee Barkie and Judy Bently, Ohio University students, visited Miss Barkie's parents Mr and Mrs Tony Barkie of New Marshfield. James Rogaski Sr. is a patient in St Joseph hospital room 235.
A reader shares cleaning a bird bath with paper towels and household bleach to kill algae and fungus for weeks. Also notes a pan of bleach for ponds, plus a cake pan butter and flour trick, and a girdle patching method.
Eric Salmon and Janet Crowder perform a program of acted scenes from ancient and modern plays on December 1 at 8 p.m. in the University Theater. The recital, open to students and townspeople free of charge, features works by Shakespeare, Osborne, and others.
Santa Claus arrived in Logan at 2 p.m. Friday led by the Logan High School Band. The procession moved along Main Street from Rochard to Spring Streets and returned to the courthouse market street side to hand out candy with help from LHS Key Club members. He then visited patients at Hocking Valley Hospital before Logan’s Christmas lights are turned on tonight.
Mr and Mrs Charles Lehman of Millfield spent Thanksgiving with relatives in Parkersburg West Virginia. Don Forsyth learned of his father William Forsyth’s death with services held Friday at 2 p m.
Chauncey CYF plans Sunday meeting at 6 pm in Chauncey Church of Christ. Parish evening service at Trimble Church of Christ Sunday 7 30 led by Dr Herald Monroe. CHAUNCEY Family night set for Greens Run Church of Christ Saturday at 6 pm.
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