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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1969
Page
35
Obituary notices summarize deaths in several towns including Murray City Point Pleasant New Straitsville Glouster Pomeroy Logan and Athens. Recipients include Grace Dyker Fenn Casto Lawrence Young Lillian Murphy Dayle Alfred Richardson Mildred Benedick and others. Survivors cover spouses siblings children and extended family, with burial and funeral details in churches and local cemeteries.
In Reno Nevada a University of Nevada event titled Sex Week opened with a fashion show featuring an evening gown with a high neckline. About 300 women and 10 men, mostly students, attended the program on sexuality in fashion and planned later talks on birth control premarital sex and communal living.
Dolores Finch 23 and Dennis Sparring 24 celebrated their engagement with a family party in Johannesburg. The ceremony links a long line of marriages, as Dennis's mother is one of four sisters who married Sparrow brothers and Partridge brothers. The Nest is the Sparrow senior home.
Athens County School Board members spent most of a Saturday night meeting discussing appropriations made this month and methods of evaluating teachers. The session at East State Street office in Athens began at 7:30 and ended about 9:30.
New Haven resident John Kerwood, 2 years old, underwent surgery at Hotel Medical Center in Gallipolis after being accidentally shot in the stomach during a hunting incident in a strip mining area near Mason. Ward Johnson, 19, of Mason, used a 12 gauge shotgun and was about 60 feet away. The Mason County Sheriff’s Department is handling the investigation.
A two month old narwhal nicknamed Umiak died at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island reportedly from pneumonia. Captured by Eskimo hunters after his mother was killed, the calf had thrived on milk and chopped clams and was watched by a white whale as a stepmother. An autopsy was scheduled to confirm the cause.
In Los Angeles a gunman forced Joyce Trapp 22 from her car and told her to gag herself. She escaped into an alley and was uninjured though her blonde wig was knocked off. Police recovered the wig and sought the car.
Clark J. Ailstock known as Dutch of Athens died Friday afternoon at Sheltering Arms Hospital at age 83 after three weeks of illness. Ailstock served in World War I, worked as a bus driver for Ohio University and in Athens municipal service, and held leadership roles in the DAV VFW Korean War veterans organizations and the American Legion. He is survived by two daughters two grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral services Sunday at 2 pm at Hughes Funeral Home with burial in West Union Street Cemetery, veterans rites by K Crossen Post.
Rio Grande college used a spring program in a reading methods class to build a juvenile book collection at the Jeanette Albier Davis Library. A $100,000 federal grant plus $33,000 college funds funded new books as students compiled justifiable $200 purchases, turning theory into a hands on laboratory project.
Local residents hosted guests from Charleston and Columbus. Frank Deardorff returned from Camp Perry after visiting Ohio. Georgia Kilpatrick and Melva Radcliffe hosted visitors from Columbus and Pomeroy Route 4. The Winget and Dorsey families made a Florida trip visiting relatives. Fern Gault and Harris visited old friends near Toledo, with ties to Albany High School.
Court dismisses three years of litigation that pitted Ruby McDaniel against neighbors over feeding pigeons near her home in Santa Monica. The judge secured a promise to stop feeding birds, ending the ordeal. Prosecutor noted no further action would be taken if she complies. The Sherman at Bull Run reference contrasts Union officers who later rose to high ranks.
A busy roadside sale offers apples in Golden and Red varieties, peaches, cider, pears, turnips, and assorted vegetables. Local vendors advertise pre-picked fruit, fresh cider, and produce by the bushel with contact notes and directions to farms near Layton, Ohio and nearby towns.
A listing for an antiques and collectibles sale on October 18, 1969 at Maron Grange Hall near Chaney Street HY. Items include Aladdin era lamps, furniture such as walnut chests, marbles, pressed glass, silverware, a 1958 Dodge four-door, coins, pottery, china, clocks, rifles and revolvers, jewelry, tools, and household goods. Terms: cash. no responsibility for purchases. lunch served. Proceeds benefit local drive. Contact Wayne Timberlobe at 385-3725.
Owners Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wagner offer household goods and farm machinery for public sale on Saturday October 18 starting 10 30 AM at the farm south of Hetrata Sciotar Boys on the Feseigr Fu er County. Highlights include a 12 by 15 foot room, stove range, Speed Queen washer, bed and dishes plus tools, antiques, a Model T Ford and various milk cans and churns. Auctioneers listed as Bentley Sm t dAEnill Federer.
Grace Murphy estate sale notice lists antique items and furnishings including cradles maple tops and a sleigh. Terms are cash on sale day with auctioneer Engle handling the event. The listing notes bidders and responsibility for accidents at the sale site.
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