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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1962
Page
10
A party suggestion features an ice cream pie using Choco Bongo Ice Cream from Meadow Gold Dairies with a coconut crust. The recipe combines chocolate, marshmallows, vanilla wafers and shredded coconut, then chills before serving with a coconut topping. A Saturday shower for Marvin and the former Rachel Hawk Pullins is noted in the same item.
Sun and sport a quartet of seamless cottons and linens includes jacket slacks shorts and top. Misses sizes 10 12 14 16 18 20 with size 16 jacket slacks and top yardage given. Pattern 4541 costs 50 cents with 10 cents extra for mailing. Send to Anne Adams Athens Messenger Pattern Dept New York.
Two new walnut furniture groupings update the Colonial look for young moderns. A light walnut casual set features a trestle table chairs with peg pegs and upholstered seats. a formal group offers ladderback chairs and cabriole leg tables and chests. The American Walnut Manufacturers Association notes rising interest, with museum pieces as inspiration and walnut again in demand for reproductions.
Births list including a daughter to Clarence Woodall Gallipolis and a son to William Richardson Point Pleasant among others. Discharges include Neal Wilson Point Pleasant and Mrs. James Snider Pomroy among several listed patients.
Guests include D G Markins Kissimee Park Fla Myrtle Brown Jackson and Maurice Markins family Columbus. Arthur Thomas Lancaster visits Walter Woods in Zaleski as he recovers. Holden family relocates to Zaleski. Reba Pinney flies to Casper Wyo for an educational meeting. Warren Wise visits Coshocton. Everett McKibben and family host supper for Fred in The Plains. George Cavanaugh vacationed in hometown. Old Timers Day attendees include John Potter Bundy Brooks. Nellie Swisshelm now hospital patient in Jamestown after knee surgery. Keller family ties recounted. Emmett Johnson Chillicothe visits Vansky.
A state wide effort to register Democratic voters starts Wednesday with a door to door canvas set for Sept 17 to 27. Andrew J Houvouras of Huntington Plating Inc leads Operation Registration with a goal to register voters before the Oct 8 deadline. Each of 55 counties appoints a registration chair and co chair to coordinate with the county Democratic executive committee.
Point Pleasant firefighters answered a 10 15 a m alarm at Robert Bakers home 147 Park Dr. A basket of clothes in the basement burned with only the clothes and smoke damaged. Cause unknown. Rotary Governor Will Speak Wednesday at Moose Home 6 p m Rotary Club meeting and a club assembly to follow at about 7 30 p m.
Funeral services for 91 year old Fannie Board Taylor of Clifton were conducted Monday by Rev. W. S. Billups. She died Saturday at her home. Born in Wirt County, she moved to Mason County in childhood and resided there. Surviving are six sons George Mansfield Clarence Detroit Mich Harry Point Pleasant Howard Camp Conley Lawrence DeKalb Ill Robert at home. two daughters Ethel Lathey Letart Florence Sterne Point Pleasant. 15 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. Burial was in Board Church Cemetery.
West Virginia State Police investigated two holiday weekend accidents with only property damage and no injuries. On Route 33 near Letart Leo D. Warner of Columbus tried to reach a park as a Southern States truck driven by Erwin Nance of Gallipolis passed. The second crash occurred Sunday on Lower Five Mile involving Harlen Nibert and Hazel Canterberry of Gallipolis Ferry as their cars swiped on a curve. No arrests were made.
Seven people were arrested during the weekend in Point Pleasant and surrounding areas. Chester Kimberling, 38, and Sherman Jordan, 37, were intoxicated. Wilson C. Berkey, 52, Henderson. Joe Duff, Point Pleasant Route 2, cited for driving while intoxicated. Bill Devore, 54, Leon, arrested on an assault and battery warrant. Roger L. Roush, 20, charged with no operators license. Clifford Cornell, 51, Ashton, for disturbing the peace.
Syracuse weekend guests included Rog er Hubbard U S Navy Norfolk Va Mr and Mrs Harold Patterson and children Ripley W Va Mr and Mrs Ronnie Ransom and daughter Plants Mrs Della Starkey Columbus visited her mother Mrs Maggie Diddle and Grace Osler Walter Cook and Ezra Phillips family in Newell W Va they were with daughter and sister Mrs Gilbert Donovan Jeff Folmer New Haven W Va spent a week with his mother Mrs Charlotte Folmer and sisters Judy and Jeny Bobbie Hysell Middleport visited grandparents Mr and Mrs Charles Hysell
Last rites were held Monday at Bellemeade EUB Church for Will S. Rice 97 of Columbus formerly Point Pleasant. The retired carpenter died Saturday at home. Born in Mason County he was the son of Thomas and Helen Lee Rice. Surviving are daughter Josie Noble Columbus brother John Rice St Albans and sisters Sadie Rainey Point Pleasant and George Carder Point Pleasant Route 1. Burial was in Lone Oak Cemetery.
Sunday School rooms damaged in the April 29 Christ Episcopal Church fire have been restored in the church education wing and will host Sunday School on September 16 at 10 15 a.m. Regular worship remains at Appalachian Power Co auditorium at 11 a.m. Construction to restore the church is ongoing with Everett Sutton of Point Pleasant as contractor. Mrs William Rardin Sr of Point Pleasant will speak at the Tuesday Women’s Society of Christian Service meeting at 7 30 p.m in Trinity Methodist Church dining room with colored slides from her Europe trip. Guests invited.
West Virginia State Police Colonel Burchett urged drivers to slow to 15 miles per hour in school zones during opening and closing hours. He warned of hazards from children on shoulders and rural roads and advised parents of first graders to review safe routes and traffic signals. Child Safety Week runs September 5 to 12.
Apple Grove residents Mr and Mrs Bernard Wolfe and their children are home on leave from Norfolk Virginia. Mr Wolfe will soon depart for Puerto Rico where he will be stationed for three years.
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