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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1962
Page
3
Ohio University will hold its first faculty meeting of the year Saturday at 11 a.m. in Memorial Auditorium. Eighty six new faculty members join across English, modern languages, dramatic art and speech, education, engineering, mathematics, psychology, music, and physical education, with the largest group in English and many hires listed with prior institutions.
Nelsonville's Lawrence R. Sines retires after 46 years with Chesapeake & Ohio and Hocking Valley systems. He began in 1912 as a check clerk for coal agent Charles H. Martin, with a 1917 1922 period at Ohio Collieries. He later served as chief clerk to the terminal trainmaster, then chief clerk and cashier at Nelsonville freight office on Railroad Ave.
A Nelsonville Business and Professional Women committee will hold a Sunday practice session at the junior high school to train volunteers for the Sabin oral polio inoculations set for September 23. The three dose, tasteless vaccine is given by mouth and aims to immunize residents of Athens County, with the effort described as a public service to curb polio.
Nelsonville Athletic Association held a special meeting at the high school planning Football Appreciation Day for Sept 22. Little League and Junior High football players will canvass houses from 10 a.m. starting at the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co office. A concessions stand will close the same day.
Jess J. Hobe Blosser, 60, died at 9 p.m. Thursday in an Athens hospital after living at McVey Rest Home in Logan. A former Logan Foundry truck driver, he was born in Enterprise, son of the late Abran and Lulu Mosser Blosser. Surviving are two brothers Gerald Logan and Paul Columbus and two sisters Virginia Clark Columbus and Fanchion Aurand Logan. Funeral services Monday at 10 a.m. at Leonard funeral home with Rev. D. S. Dunkle. burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Births to James McCullough of Buchtel and Raymond Taylor of Buchtel. Admissions include Novello Linn of Rockbridge Route 1, Dean Auker of Logan, Kathryn Warren of Deanville, Mona Myers of Trimble, Betty Woodring of Millfield Route 1, Almo Downey of Athens, Frank Hickman of Nelsonville Route 2, Anna Sowards and Zora Walker of Nelsonville, Michael Jerrells of New Lexington. Dismissals list include Kenneth Smith and daughter of Athens, Lawrence Raines and son of McArthur, William Vaughn and son of Logan, Pearl Henry of Chauncey, Judith Cunningham of New Straitville Route 1, Sarah McClelland of Glouster, Allen Peters of Nelsonville, Vada Strawser of Corning Route 2, Robert McLean of Shawnee Route 1.
The Nelsonville Ministerial Association elected officers. New president is Rev. Ted G. Faulconer from First Christian Church, vice president Rev. John Minsker, secretary treasurer Rev. Charles Graham. Members present include Rev. John Lloyd Evans, Rev. Raymond Sturm, and Rev. Ronald Axtell. Schedule for Thursday services at Southeast Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital discussed. Next meeting set for Oct 16 at First Methodist Church.
Seber Lehman 70 of Gore Route 1 died Thursday in University Hospital Columbus after a long illness. A World War I veteran born in Carbon Hill, he was a son of the late Warner and Catherine Lehman. Survived by four brothers and a sister, his funeral is set for Sunday at 2 p.m. in Leonard funeral home with burial in Smith Chapel Cemetery.
Nelsonville Girl Scout Troop 9 elected Sandy Koon president and Libby Dalton vice president with Rita Fields as secretary treasurer. Sheila Blevins retired. The group planned money-earning ideas and bottle-cap savings, started a “mad money” fund, and voted to make patient favors for the Southeast Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital for Columbus Day.
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