Road Work Slowed By Labor Costs in Mason County
Dunn, Mason County highway superintendent, cites higher labor costs since 1941. Payroll dropped from about 200 workers to a few over 100, with semimonthly payroll exceeding $4,000. A Parkersburg contractor was hired to repair a 250 ft Route 2 section undermined by flood waters, involving three casings sunk 40 feet. Repairs continue on Sliding Hill between Hartford and New Haven, a troublesome stretch in the county.
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Point Pleasant
C. E. Dunn
Mason County
Henderson
Sliding Hill
Hartford
New Haven
Enmine County
Walden F. Roush Named Mason County Campaign Chairman
Walden F. Roush was named chairman of the Victory Loan Campaign Committee for Mason County. The drive opens November 1 and runs through year end. The county has not announced a quota. He notes past loans totaled over $100,000 in 20 years and says no further loans will be floated in this manner after the Victory Loan. The report also covers road and bridge work delays in Magon County due to equipment shortages and supply delays, with partial completion hoped for Route 17 and bridges on the Henderson to Winfield segment.
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Point Pleasant
Walden F. Roush
Mason County
Rous
Ashton-Upland
Ohio
Dunni
Onder Shadle
Ripley
Dunn
Henderson
Winfield
Berm
Magon County
Point Pleasant Man Home From Pacific Visit
Lt Wayne Barnette USNR and Mrs Barnette arrived from Seattle to visit his mother Mrs Lorena Barnette and Mason County relatives before reassigning to Norfolk. He met his wife in Seattle after Marshall College where he studied chemistry and pre med. He was commissioned a year after joining the Navy.
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Point Pleasant
Wayne Barnette
USNR
Barnette
Seattle
Lorena Barnette
Couch Apartments
Mason County
Norfolk
Victoria Janet
Pacific
Alaskan
Navy
Marshall College
Board of Education Appoints Teachers at Pleasanton Meeting
The Board of Education met Monday evening with delegates from Mt. Pleasant School in Hannan District and Mason City Parent-Teacher Association to discuss school problems. Mrs C D McGarry was employed as primary teacher at Ordnance School and Mrs Mayme Ferguson to teach at North Point Pleasant Grade School. The board approved use of school buses for transportation tied to athletic and band activities per state law. Superintendent Steenbergen reported two one room schools over 50 pupils Mt Olive in Hannan District and Arbuckle in Union.
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Point Pleasant
Board of Education
Mt. Pleasant
Hannan
Parent-Teacher Association of
Mason City
C. D. McGarry
Ordnance School
Mayme Ferguson
North Point Pleasant
Steenbergen Tt
Mt. Olive
Han‘nan
Arbuckle
Union
Mayor Denies Rumored Bus Line Cancellation
Mayor B. Walter Krode, a bus line owner, denies circulating rumors that the city bus service would be cancelled. He states the City Bus Line is very much alive and serving the public, and invites those seeking information to contact him or an official of the Bus Lines.
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Point Pleasant
B. Walter Krode
Krodel
Less Spending Noted in District
In Point Pleasant traders report trade declining over the last two to three weeks. The drop is tied mainly to tightened purses rather than to population loss. Only a few homes are vacant in older districts, while Country Club Addition remains largely occupied. Workers in wartime industries are drawing unemployment compensation and spending sparingly.
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Point Pleasant
the Messenger
Dax
Country Club Addition
Wari
Decontamination Started At War Plant After Japan Surrender
Major J D Fraser commands West Virginia Ordnance Works and says decontamination of the large explosives plant began the day after Japan’s surrender. Lumber from explosive buildings must be fully cleaned to avoid hidden blasts when salvaged. Experts assist from the Ordnance Department safety division to keep postwar safety and the plant’s record intact.
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Point Pleasant
J. D. Fraser
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Japan
Fraser
Ordnance Department
United States
West Virginia
Point Pleasant Personal Notices
Mrs Arden Mitchell returned home from Fort Bragg with Corporal Mitchell as he moved to Fort Shelby Mississippi She will spend winter with her parents Dr and Mrs M J Lilly Lt Ben B Stout was ordered to report to his camp in the south cancelling a 15 day extension of leave Andy Wilson of Charleston Road and Miss Nancy Yerges headed to Columbus to enter Ohio State University Mrs Edwin M Brown en route to Washington was joined in Charleston by Mr and Mrs George Sprenger and others They were guests of Misses Martha and Dorothy Springer in Charleston Mrs K A Peck Charleston visits her father Dr A G Arnett and daughter Mrs S F Fisher J W Kirk and children returned home after a month with her parents Dr and Mrs Thomas P Haslem Council Grove Kansas
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Arden Mitchell
Corporal Mitchell
Fort Bragg
Fort Shelby
Mitchell
M. J. Lilly
Ben B. Stout
Andy Wilson
Charleston Road
Nancy Yerges
Howard Yerges
Park Drive
Columbus
Ohio State University
Edwin M. Brown
Washington
Charleston
George Sprenger
Laula Lewis
Betty Lou Bell
Jack Kuffner
H. E. Thomas
South Point
Martha
Dorothy Springer
K. A. Peck
A. G. Arnett
8. F. Fisher
J. W. Kirk
Thomas P. Haslem
Council Grove
Kany
Mason PTA Benefit Planned In Point Pleasant
Mason Grade School PTA announces a benefit party for Friday evening in the school gym. Activities include a fishing pond and other games with cakes pies cookies and vegetable soup for sale. The group has already completed roof repair wall plastering and ceiling painting with members scrubbing walls floors and bleaching last week. The first PTA meeting of the year will be held Tuesday Oct 9 in the grade school building.
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Mason’s
PTA Point Pleasant
Parent-Teacher Association
Mason Grade School
Navy Citation Honors Gunner Hart As Navy Crewman
POMEROY Thomas Bernard Hart a gunners mate first class in the Naval Reserve has been commended by the Seventh Fleet For distinguished service as gun captain on a vessel in the Southwest Pacific Area He manned his battle station during numerous actions with the enemy and helped extinguish fires aboard a burning ship He is credited with assisting in the destruction of an enemy firecraft and contributed to the shipboard response during perilous conditions Meanwhile in POINT PLEASANT Mrs Emmons McConihay announces Tu Endie Wei Council No 3 Daughters of America will meet Thursday Oct 4 at 7 30 PM for ceremonial Draping of Charter A potluck supper will follow the meeting And at BIG BLACKS Point Pleasant a game with Barbourville Pirates was scheduled for Monday night
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Point Pleasant
Emmons McConihay
Tu-Endie-Wei Council
Daughters of America
Pomeroy
Thomas Bernard Hart
Is. Naval Reserve
Seventh Fleet
Southwest Pacific
Hart
Middleport Club Second Anniversary Social Notes
Middleport notes record the P M Club second anniversary event held last week at Mary Jane Cof. The brief item mentions a social gathering and celebrates the club milestone with local residents in the town.
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Middleport
Mary Jane Cof
Pomeroy Airman Recounts 35 Missions and Homecoming
First Lt. William Reed, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Curtis Reed, returns to Columbus after completing 35 bomber missions over Germany aboard the Queen Mary. He plans to remain in the Army Air Service, having survived many narrow escapes and based in England.
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William, Reed
Columbus
Germany
Theodore Reed
Young Reed
England
Army Air Service
D. Curtis Reed
Robert “Reed
Pom Jeroy
Clair Karr
Martha Jane
Mar Igaret
Ouerr
Patty \Karr
Holzer Hospital
Miss Karr
John Schmitt
Norma Goodwin
Albert Durst
Abe Massar
Norman Klees
Elizabeth Huber
Gilbert iMees
West Main
St. Ason
Mason’ Clinic
James Richard
Albert Mees
Ann St
Sgt
Maynard Raybourn
Robert Arnold
Condor St
Frank Rayburn
Little Rock
Ark
Charles McNamee
Lois Ann Neutzling
Ohio University
Athens
Ben Neutzling
Betty Mae Couch
Ellen Cauch
Millard Jones
Clyde Jones
Indiantown
Charles Gordon
American Express
G. E. Conroy
Kate Kerby
Akron
New Lincoln School Planned for Gallipolis
Gallipolis city board of education heard a colored community and civic leaders group push for a new Lincoln School to replace the inadequate building. They urged an auditorium gym, swimming pool, kitchen, and two acres, contingent on a $260,000 bond issue passing in November.
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Gallipolis
Emmett Church
Anne G. Hill
Ner
Will Go to Pacific For Red Cross
Miss Jerry Evans, daughter of Mr and Mrs Mia Stanley, plans an overseas assignment with the Red Cross in the Pacific for eighteen months following training. She reports Oct 7 to Washington. Her parents hosted an open house at the Evans Matted Milk Shoppe with over forty friends, music, dancing, and a sumptuous supper.
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Gallipolis
Jerry Evans
Mia Stanley
Tvens ix Pring Welfare Cross
Evans
Pacific
Ares
Washington
Jerry
Evens
Pax
University Women Meet in City
GALLIPOLIS The local branch American Association of University Women held its first meeting of the year at the Lafayette Hotel with a three course turkey dinner for twenty two. President Mrs Ben Bachus presided as Miss Anna Simmerman reported on the Columbus state meeting. The group approved the bond issue for schools and plans two study groups on drama and international relations open to all women.
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Gallipolis
American Association of University Women
Lafayette Hotel
Ben Bachus
Anna Simmerman
Columbus
Septtember
Association
Peters seeks divorce in Mason City circuit court
Mrs. Virginia K. Peters of Mason City sues Paul E. Peters for divorce on cruelty grounds. She seeks restoration of her maiden name Virginia K. Nease. They wed in 1942 and separated in April 1944.
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Point Pleasant
Virginia K. Peters
Mason City
Paul E. Peters
San Francisco
Peters
Virginia K. Nease
Fifth Ave
New Jrent
Soldier Billy B. Cape Hart Joined First Cavalry in Tokyo
A report notes Billy B. Cape Hart, assigned to the Fifth Cavalry Regiment of the famous First Cavalry Division, stationed in Japan. The item mentions Syracuse connections and early entry into service with details incomplete.
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Pomeroy—Pfe
Billy B. Capehart
Fifth Cavalry Regiment
First Cavalry Division
Imperial
Syracuse
Tne Kag
Extension Class Recitation Meeting Noted
A Thursday evening session on October 4 at the Pier Ot. & Ger tificate hall announced extension class details. Eligible attendees include graduates with bachelor and master level certificates seeking administration support for books and supplies at the annual meeting in Mason County and Point Pleasant.
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