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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 1954

Page

3

Logan Man Hurt in Crash

A Logan man Lester Gartier aged 51 was injured when his car left Route 328 two miles south of Route 33. The vehicle overturned and was demolished. Gartier was cited for driving left of center and to be arraigned Oct 29 in Logan. Sylvia M Seel 33 Albany Route 1 escaped injury when her car skidded on wet pavement on Route 50 and overturned east of Albany.

Logan Athens Post State Highway Patrol Lester Gartier Hocking Valley Hospital Gartier Joseph Phillips Sylvia M. Seel Albany Seel

County Teachers to Hold Monday Organization Meeting

Athens County school system teachers meet Monday at 7 30 p m in Mechanicsburg School. Officers for the year will be elected and delegates to area and state educational conventions chosen.

Athens County Mechanicsburg

Commendation for Sgt Korchak and Marine enlistment notices

The Masonic Review Digest commends Sgt John A Korchak for helping form the 38th Parallel Square and Compass Club in Korea aiding Masonry and an orphanage project. Also noted are two Nelsonville men enlisting in the US Marine Corps for three years and calls for 500 college graduates to enter the November Officer Candidate Course at Quantico with immediate assignments.

Masonic Review Digest John A. Korchak Air Force 38Th Parallel Square Compass Club Korea Far East Nelsonville Marine Corps San Diego Calif USMC Kenneth D. Bumgardner Donald R. Bumgardner Terrace St Thomas P. Pritchard Margaret L. Pritchard Chestnut St Marine Corps Headquarters C. G. Moody Quantico Cincinnati Post Office Washington D. C

Albany Woman Bitten by Black Widow Spider

Albany woman Dale Gehrig of Albany Route 3 was bitten by a black widow spider in her shoe. She is listed in fair condition at Sheltering Arms Hospital transferring from a near wasp sting. Her family identified the spider by its hour glass marking.

Dale Gehrig Albany Sheltering Arms Hospital

Youth Fined and Ordered Out of City by Court

John Cecil Robinson 18 of Perkins Hall pleaded guilty to indecent exposure in Municipal Court before Judge John F. Newcomb. He was fined 200 dollars with 100 dollars suspended and placed on probation, with orders to leave Athens within 24 hours and remain out of the city for one year.

John Cecil Robinson Perkins Hall Athens John F. Newcomb Robinson University Terrace

Last Side School Studies Described

Two hundred sixty pupils in grades one through six at East Side Elementary School are described. Principal Myrta Ashworth notes social studies are part of a flexible curriculum with grade specific themes from family to world integrated with reading and spelling.

East Side Myrta Ashworth

Rain Ends Heat as Athens Feels Cold Front

A cold front swept through Athens Friday ending a week of humid heat. C L Colmer the U S Weather Bureau observer said the rain measured about one tenths of an inch before 7 am. The temperature then fell from 52 to 51 degrees within an hour. Total rainfall for the first half of October reached 1.54 inches as a cool air mass moved in. Colmer noted a killing frost three days after Oct 12 in the area and predicted further cooling toward Sunday.

Athens C. L. Colmer VU. S Hocking River Hamsey Run Colmer Southeastern Oblowna

Driver Fined After Pedestrian Case in Municipal Court

Joan L. Ford of Athens Route 3 was fined $20 plus costs in Municipal Court after pleading guilty to failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian at the Carpenter and N Court Streets intersection. Kathleen Wegner filed the charge.

Joan L. Ford Athens Kathleen Wegner Carpenter and N. Court Streets

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