1939 AAA Program Simplified for Southeastern Farmers
More than 1 000 farmers packed the Athens Methodist Church to hear Ohio AAA reps explain 1939 program changes. John B. Wilson called the program a bottom up effort built by farmers, outlining seven core points from commodity loans to surplus purchases and marketing agreements. Meetings continue in Wooster, Lima, and Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Oto
Methodist Episcopal Church
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
John B. Wilson
Wood County
North Central
GOP caravan to visit all county towns tour schedule announced
A Republican caravan led by Congressman Thomas A Jenkins and state and county candidates will tour 40 communities from Athens Thursday to Friday. The schedule lists stops in New Marshfield Mineral Carbondale Kimberly Nelsonville Deanville Floodwood Chauncey Millfield Jacksonville Trimble Glouster Hollister Murray City Buchtel Nelsonville with a torchlight parade in Nelsonville. A southern tour begins Friday from Athens with meetings in Amesville Sharpsburg Lathrop Broadwell Stewart Beebe Frost Torch Hockingport Coolville Lottridge Shade Hebbardsville Albany and ends in Albany with Jenkins speaking at the high school auditorium. A group from Glouster will sing and lunch is served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Jenkins
Athens
New Marshfield
O. F. Rowland
T. N. Hoover
Mineral
Carbondale
Kimberly
Nelsonville
Deanville
Floodwood
Chauncey
Millfield
Jacksonville
Trimble
Glouster
Hollister
Murray City
Buchtel
Jenkins
Amesville
Sharpsburg
Lathrop
Broadwell
Stewart
Beebe
Frost
Torch
Hockingport
Coolville
Lottridge
Shade
Hebbardsville
Albany
Faculty and Students Set for Ohio University Program Tour
Six members of the Ohio University faculty join the student mixed quartet and the male quartet for appearances in Athens and other cities today and tomorrow. T. N. Hoover spoke to the Athens Rotary Club, while C. N. Mackinnon addressed the McArthur Parent Teachers Association. The mixed and male quartets, with Dr C. Robinson, are to perform at Rio Grande High School today. A. A. Atkinson and L. J. Addicott with Clark Williams attended a Cleveland Bobcat Club dinner last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio University
Athens
T. N. Hoover
Rio Grande High School
A. A. Atkinson
College of Applied Science
L. J. Addicott
Clark Williams
Cleveland Bobcat Club
Cleveland
Plea Reaches Fine and Exit for Athens Drunk Driving Case
Will Avoid Athens pleads guilty to an intoxication charge before Mayor Cliff Cornell and William Jaynes. He may pay $50 and costs or leave town under agreement to never return. he chooses to stay out of Athens.
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Cliff Cornell
William Jaynes
The
Plains
Athens
Frost Audiences 3000 at Ohio University Readings
An overflow crowd estimated near 3000 packed Ohio University Alumni Memorial Auditorium to hear Robert Frost deliver a convocation address. The poet, impromptu and humorous, read early and recent blank verse including Mending Walls Birches The Road Not Taken Stopping by the Woods and Fire and Ice. He praised equality of intellect and labor before signing off with Departmental. Prof. R. G. Dawes introduced him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio University Alumni Memorial Auditorium
Robert Frost
Frost
R. G. Dawes
Practical Instruction At Guard Drill For 166th Infantry
At weekly training for Headquarters Company 166th Infantry National Guard, Monday night, First Lieutenant Harold Chadwick led sections through map reading, conventional signs, signal procedures, and cable preparation. The unit planned a shift from simmer cotton olive drab to woollen uniforms for the next drill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
166Th Infantry
National Guard
Harold Chadwick
McDaniels
Tobacco Quota in 1938 To Be Based on 35 37
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced 1938 burley tobacco marketing quotas will be set on normal marketing. States will share the national 350 million pounds quota and individual farms will get pro rated shares based on marketings during 1935 to 1937.
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Washington
U.P
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
NYU Chairman to Address Physical Education Group Here Friday
Dr. J. B. Nash, chairman of NYU Department of Physical Education and Health, speaks at 1 30 Friday in Ewing Hall auditorium Ohio University during the fortieth fourth annual Southeastern Ohio Education Association session. He will be followed by a panel, business meeting and demonstrations from Southeastern Ohio high schools and Ohio University students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Nash
Department of Physical Education
School of Education
New York University
Ewing Hall
Ohio University
Southeastern Ohio Education Association
Nash
Oakland
Cailif
California
Southeastern Ohio
N. P. Blatt
Carl T. Nessley
Rollo Brown
Harvard University
The
Christian Church
Lucille Graham
Portsmouth
Elmer E. Spanabel
Holmes School
Pittsburgh
Gale Watts
Marguerite Richebourg
Mary T. Ness
Helen C. Jackson
Nelsonville
Putnam Hall
Mary G. Colfer
Ironton
Clara Kuenzli
Athens
Ethel Mae Reese
Athens Central School
Siegfried R. Weng
Dayton Art Institute
Memorial Auditorium
Margaret Jones
Rio Grande
Speakers for SOEA event highlight multiple sessions
Dr. Brown of Harvard will discuss The New Ideal for English at the SOEA general session in Memorial Auditorium and address the English teachers’ sectional Friday at 2 p m in the Christian Church. Other sessions cover reading novels, elementary grade talks, music, and parent teacher meetings with Ohio education leaders speaking on Ohio school problems.
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Dr. Brown
Harvard
SOEA
Memorial Auditorium
Christian Church
Hoover Defends State Powers and Limited Federal Authority
Professor T N Hoover told the Athens Rotary Club that state legislatures hold many powers while federal authority is strictly limited by the Constitution. He contrasted the American system with Britain noting the absence of a written constitution and warned against using new laws to widen federal reach. He cited wage and child labor laws as examples stretching Congress powers and urged interest in state government.
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National Congress
T. N. Hoover
Athens Rotary Club
Hoover
Ohio University
Congress
United States
Six of 26 Freshmen Have Perfect Teeth at Greens Run
Greens Run High School reports six of 26 freshmen, 23 percent, have perfect teeth with no extractions, cavities, or fillings. Instructor Newman M. Powell notes nationwide 5 percent. Powell links parental nationality, noting all parents born in America while some grandparents came from Central Europe.
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Greens Run High School
Newman M. !Owell
Powell
America
Europe
Women Released After Harmony Road Resort Raid
Two Wheeling women arrested after a Harmony Road resort raid near East Bridge were released by order of the prosecuting attorney. They were instructed to leave the county.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Harmony Road
East Bridge
Public Invited To Visit Navy Station
W. H. Byers of the Athens naval recruiting office invites nearby residents to visit the navy recruiting station at the Athens Post Office on Navy Day October 27. Navy Day is marked by John DeMolet leading the local committee.
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W. H. Byers
Athens
Navy
Athens Post Office
John DeMolet
Forty six take civil service tests in Ohio cities
Forty six men and women take civil service examinations at Hotel Berry as the first of seven test series across 15 Ohio cities. The tests, spanning four days this week and three next week, aim to fill about 5 000 jobs under the Unemployment Compensation Commission and in state service, financed by a 40 000 Social Security Board grant with 20 000 more needed to complete grading and eligibility lists. E Dennis of Columbus is examiner in charge at Athens.
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Hotel Berry
Ohio
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Social Security Board
E. Dennis
Columbus
Athens
Driver Fined and Jailed for DUI Plea
Raymond Pancake aged 30 of Deanville pleaded guilty before Common Pleas Judge O F Rowland to operating a motor vehicle under the influence. He was fined 50 dollars plus costs and sentenced to 10 days in county jail with a six month license revocation. State Patrol arrested Pancake on Route 33 south of Nelsonville. A second drunken driving case saw Gerald Hashman of Athens told to post 300 dollars bond after arrest near The Plains on Route 6. Clarence Barnett accompanying Hashman pleaded guilty to intoxication and was fined 25 dollars plus costs and jailed.
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Raymond Pancake
Deanville
Common Pleas
O. F. Rowland
State Patrol
Pancake
Nelsonville
Gerald Hashman
R. D. Athens
Pendry Talks Ohio School Deficit Before Kiwanis
Harper C. Pendry Athens city schools superintendent warned of a 17 million dollar deficit in Ohio school funding carried into 1938. He blamed a law expiration that ended tax diversions funding the foundation program which favors poorer districts via wealthier counties. Dr Pedigo and Dr Nye joined the Kiwanis, while Ross Wright attends a district convention in Cincinnati.
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Ohio
Athens Kiwanis Club
Harper C. Pendry
Athens City
Pendry
Rudolph Pedigo
H. R. Nye
Kiwanis Club
Ross Wright
Cincinnati
Kiwanis
Athens Club
WPA Workers To Meet At Plains on Wednesday
Athens County WPA workers plan a Wednesday night meeting at The Plains at 7 o clock announced by Chester Parks secretary of the county group. Delegates from each project were invited to attend and a previous WPA meeting at the fair grounds featured speakers including John Cope Frank Ferrell Herman Theisen and John Wyckel.
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Athens County
WPA
Scout Troop 56 Shows Forest Fire Pictures
Three reels on forest fires were shown at Boy Scout Troop 56 in Athens last night. The films titled Good Turns for Our Forests It Might Have Been You and Forest Fires or Game were provided by the Forest Service and presented by E. S. Haller local head of the NYA. Troop 56 meets Mondays at 7 in the Methodist Church scout rooms and invites all boys to join.
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Boy Scout Troop 56
Athens
Lb: Forest Services
E. S. Haller
NYA
Troop 56
Ohio University Home-Coming Events Planned in Athens
Elaborate plans for the Ohio University Home-Coming were announced by Wilmer Schlotterbeck. Activities begin Friday night with a pep rally at Memorial Auditorium and continue through a Saturday parade led by the 100 piece band. The football game against Cincinnati at Ohio Stadium on Saturday draws 10 000 plus. Fraternities sororities and dorms compete for decoration trophies while the J Club and Blue Key support band travel to Oxford. The Women’s Athletic Association Carnival caps the weekend with booths and a Mother Goose theme plus a Delta Tau Delta serenade on Saturday night.
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Ohio University
Wilmer Schlotterbeck
Men’s Union
Ohio University-Cincinnati
Ohio Stadium
Athens
Southeastern Ohio Educational Association
Memorial Auditorium
Varsity O
Pi Beta Phi
All
Athens Armory
Court St
E. Union St
S. College St
Mill St
Men's Union
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Delta Tau Delta
Theta Chi
Beta Theta Pi
Sigma Pi
Pi Kappa Alpha
Phi Kappa Tau
Phi Kappa
Phi Epsilon Pi
J Club
Blue Key
National Honor Fraternity
Oxford
Miami-Ohio
Women’s Athletic Association
WAA
Lindley Hall
Ohio University President Backs Judicial Selection Amendment
Dr. Herman G. James, president of Ohio University, endorses the proposed amendment to appoint rather than elect Supreme and Appellate Court judges. He says it would increase democracy by ensuring impartial, nonpolitical justice and cites support from other Ohio college leaders for the November 8 ballot.
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Ohio
Herman G. James
Ohio University
James
Fred J. Milligen
Ohio Committee On Judicial Selection
Columbus
Ohio U
George Rightmire
Ohio State University
A. H. Upham
Miami University
Charles F. Wishart
Wooster College
Philip Nash
University of Toledo
Vocational Teachers Plan Southeast Association Meeting
Formation of the Southeastern Vocational Association for Trades and Industries is planned at a meeting in Room 300 University Elementary School Friday at 1 30 p m in connection with the Southeastern Ohio Education Association sessions J L Heuseh state supervisor of trades and industries will speak important considerations on vocational training instructors will be discussed The southwestern association will meet this year with the southeastern group in Athena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeastern Vocational Association For Trades and Industries
University
Southeastern Ohio Education Association
J. L. Heuseh
Supervisor of Trades and Industries
Southwestern Association
Cincinnati
Southeastern
Athena
Motion for New Trial Heard on Thursday
A hearing is set for Thursday at 9 a.m. in Common Pleas Court on a motion for a new trial filed by defense counsel for four Nelsonville youths convicted of assaulting an Athens woman. The motion alleges jury misconduct by Mrs. Serepta Barber of Nelsonville who allegedly formed an un disclosed opinion on the defendants guilt.
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Common Pleas
Nelsonville
Athens
Serepta Barber
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
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Gustave Rumrich
New York
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Quick’'S
NYU Department
C. William Duncan
Evening Public Ledger
Philadelphia
M. FE
Edith M. Johnston
A. L. Me
Athens High School
Sidney H. Fadely
Racine
F. O. McCowen
Ohio Education Association
Fay le Meadows
Shiro
MceCowen
Congregational Christian Church
Dayton
Lois Cecil Fling
McCowen
Carroll E. Amos
Ellis Hall
Floyd Dixon
Vance Springer
Rollo W. Brown
EF. O. Meccowen
Navy Station
Continental Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
New York City
Roosevelt
Scout Troop
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Te Glonial Finance Company
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