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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1958
Page
9
Leonard A. Fry, 38, of Middleport, was arrested by the Gallia County Sheriff’s Department and charged with driving while under the influence. In County Court he was fined 150 dollars and costs and sentenced to five days in jail. Noah McDade and Paul D. Brinkley received 10 dollar fines with costs suspended.
H M Parsons of Huntington pled guilty to driving a getaway car in the May 4 break in robbery at Brough ton's Dairy. Leslie Henson of Ashland and Chalmer May of Paintsville had also pleaded guilty in May. all three remain free on bond for a January sentencing date.
The Messenger disclaims responsibility for errors when stations fail to provide corrected schedules. The page lists programs from 00:00 to 11:15 with titles such as Today Tonight Romper Room Jack Paar Kraft Theatre The Price is Right and News.
A schedule of television films and time slots including THER WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER PART II with Irene Dunne and Peter Lawford and later titles such as BODY SNATCHER, ALLEGHENY UPRISING, EVERYBODY'S BABY, MAIN STREET TO BROADWAY, and more across Tuesday and Wednesday noting actors like John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Bela Lugosi, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Gene Autry and Robert Mitchum among others.
Readable fragments show a sequence of news sports weather and film slots across channels. Listings include 00 Gid Cp Msi .36 Bom Cummings 6 30 News 6 40 Sports 10 30 Studio 6 45 NBC News 11 00 News 7 00 All Star.
The listing shows a dense lineup for WTVN ABC Columbus with local and network programs. Entries include Casey Jones Frontier Die The Falcon News San Fran. Bt Cheyenne Wyatt Earp Jack Paar Topper Movie Awards Cartoon Kor Casper Capers Mickey Mouse Farmer Alt Fights Col. Bleep News Tomb Terr Mystery Is Top Tunes News Uzzle Harriet Jack Paar with multiple news blocks and late night features.
A crowded broadcast slate lists programs from 6:00 to 11:10 PM across stations and times. Notable items include District Attorney segments, colorfully titled shows, weather updates, news briefs, and late-night options with music and dramas.
A garbled list presents a day’s TV and radio slots with show titles and hosts such as Tell the Truth Don Mack Spotlight, News Weather and Adamg Eve, plus children’s cartoons and soap operas. The schedule includes multiple time stamps and program names in a messy layout.
Local schedule lists Jule Rivlin at 6 15, Truth at 9, News at 6 30 and 11 00, Playhouse 7 00, Silent Service 7 30, Bid n Buy 10 00, World Turns 1 30, Guiding Light 12 45, News at 11 00, plus various dramas and game shows across the day on Channel 13.
TV listings highlight Cheyenne The Angry Sky at 17 30 on ABC with a nurse healer plot. Broken Arrow Cochise is captured in War Trial at 9 p.m. ABC. A Guilty Woman stars Jan Sterling and Virginia Grey at 10 30 p.m. ABC. Don Mack Outdoors features Burr Oak Lake camping and a snake hunter. Mr Adams and Eve airs at 8 p.m. CBS and Highway Patrol at 10 30 p.m. CBS with a truck bomb plot.
The Point Pleasant clinic records births for several families including Charles Waugh Kananga and Forest Fisher Crown City. Other newborns include Bert Rainey Gallipolis Ferry and Herbert Eskew Gallipolis. Admission Gayle Parson Letart. Discharges include Rose Lawson Letart and others.
Funeral services for Albert Knapper 40 Wellston Route 3 will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the EUB Church near Wilkesville. The Rev A B Maloy and the Rev Holley will officiate. He will be buried in Franklin Cemetery at Alice.
Grace Moser files suit for 33,499.49 against Sherman Osbourne and William Moser sues for 10,435.03 against Osbourne in the Circuit Court. Norway is described as covering 124,556 square miles with a peninsula-like county reaching the Arctic Ocean.
Funeral services for Melinda Ann Robinson four months old daughter of Dr Donald K and Joan Gatewood Robinson will be held Wednesday at 2 p m at Wetherholt Elliott Sanders funeral home Gallipolis with Rev Warren H Wilson officiating. Burial in Mound Hill Cemetery. Melinda born May 10 1958 in Columbus Memorial Hospital. Surviving parents reside Rochester New York. Three brothers Donald Keith Jr James Scott and Jonathan David. Paternal grandparents J Donald Robinson Gallipolis and maternal Melvin E Gatewood Crown City.
GALLIPOLIS The Meigs Gallia Development Association will hear Carl V Hoover of the division of geological survey Ohio Department of Natural Resources at 730 Wednesday evening in theKgger Creek High School cafeteria. If time permits a film from Gallia County District Library Centralization and Decentralization will be shown.
Lester O Gibbs sues Colene F Gibbs for divorce on cruelty grounds alleging marriage on February 27 1954 at Cheshire. They have two children and Gibbs seeks custody of the children.
Seventy three descendants of P G and Jessie Layne gathered at the New Haven Garden Club Roadside Park for the annual Layne reunion. After a potluck dinner Edgar Layne presided, officers were elected, memorials read, and readings performed. The youngest attendee was 8 month old Jack Glendenning and the oldest was Mrs J C Layne. Next year’s reunion will be at the same time and place.
NEW HAVEN descendents of George and Suzanna Roush held their annual reunion at Broad Run home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ord. New officers were elected: Jack Ord president George Reed vice president Mrs. Maxine Arnold secretary Kenna Roush treasurer.
Report lists water levels on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers with dam statuses and boat movements. Entries include gauge readings for Gallipolis Kanawha Falls and Point Pleasant, dam conditions at Marmet London Winfield and up rivers, and numerous boats at locks with speeds and times.
In Gallipolis a 75 attendee meeting of Tri-County Community Concert Association officers and workers gathered at the Lafayette Hotel Palm Room after dinner. Dr Oscar W Clarke Jr led introductions while Irene Straub outlined member recruitment. A Columbus Boys Choir concert is secured with three more to be chosen. a goal of 500 new memberships or 1200 total aims to fill the Gallia Academy High School auditorium.
Athens Messenger reports Point Pleasant council approves bumper to bumper parking from Second to Sixth Street to start after the new municipal lot opens. The body also grants free parking to fire department on calls and plans changes to curb signage and traffic lights.
A Friday stork shower for Mrs. Robert D. Miller was hosted at the Moose Home with green, orchid and white décor. Daughters Cookie and Dana Stephens Young sang a duet with piano accompaniment by their mother, as a list of hostesses and guests filled the program.
Mrs Irene Bolling presided at the regular meeting in the Legion home. Mrs Ora Higgins reported on state council activities Bluefield. A picnic at Harmon Park was reviewed. Two members in poor health Lettie Jennings and Leta Gill attended the outing. Get well cards were sent to J W Kapp Louis Mueller Maxine Williams and Oda Crooks.
Mrs Manda Crandall of 2125 Chestnut Street celebrated a surprise birthday dinner on Sunday after illness kept her at home since June 28. Family and friends from Henderson Point Pleasant New Haven Athens Gallipolis Gallipolis Ferry and Gal llipolis joined gifts and well wishes. Also noted were Charles Wayne and Randall Garland entering West Virginia University and Girl Scout Troop 5 meeting plans at the Presbyterian Church with leaders and church sponsorship.
The U S battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor Cuba in 1898, triggering a war with Spain and shaping U S imperial policy for years.
In Point Pleasant area a nine year old boy Roger Dale Schoolcraft missing since Monday afternoon was found by a neighbors and friends search party in TNT area north of Point Pleasant. He said he became lost in a wooded area. His mother is Louise Schoolcraft. Earlier in March five year old John Wayne McKinney died after six days lost. found on a hill miles from home from exposure.
Marriage license applications list several couples from Ohio West Virginia and Point Pleasant. Names include Ceisick Crawford Gleason Garrett James Thomas Buck Rhodes and their varying ages with parental references provided. Applications filed in the county clerk's office indicate forthcoming marriages in 1960s era record.
Thomas G. Clemson, founder of Clemson College in South Carolina, was the first U. S. superintendent of agriculture in Washington in 1860.
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