Food Crisis Looms as OU Enrolls Record Students
With Ohio University’s largest-ever student body, Athens grocers, restaurants, and university officials face severe food shortages. Dining halls will feed 265 more than planned, leaving about 1400 students to be fed outside campus. Fraternities and sororities scramble to accommodate overflow while shifts and new grill facilities aim to ease congestion.
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Margaret Davis
Maurel Hawkins
Men
Wen
Dean Hawkins
Q 101 Rheumatic Pain Remedy and Campus Food Shortage
An internal medicine remedy Q 101 promises pain relief by targeting rheumatic neuritic and neuralgic pain while aiding uric acid elimination and blood alkalinity. The article also reports widespread shortages on campus with rising meals and boarding needs as students queue at the Student Union Building to sign up for boarding clubs and dining options.
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Quick’s
Postoffice
Marshfield Man Fined After Stop Sign Crash
Charles J. Sherman, 21, of New Marshfield, was fined $15 and costs after pleading guilty to driving through a stop sign on Carpenter Street and causing a collision with Willard Homer Brown of 44 Stimson Ave. Sherman sustained a minor hand laceration and his car overturned, damaging both vehicles. Brown testified Sherman failed to yield at the Carpenter Lancaster intersection.
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Charles J. Sherman
New Marshfield
Carpenter St
Carpenter and
Lancaster Streets
Sherman
Lancaster Street
Carpenter Street
Willard Homer Brown
Stimson Ave
Copper Site
Brown
Mrs Ella Shutz Dies Monday in Port Clinton
Mrs Ella Echman Slutz age 82 died Monday in a Port Clinton hospital friends learned today The Athens family had been away all summer and cause of death was not learned Funeral arrangements have not been announced She was widow of Rev W L Slutz former pastor of First Methodists Church in Athens from October 1903 to April 1907 Survived by five stepsons Raymond M a former Q U professor and Merril Slutz of Cincinnati two daughters Mary Ann Slutz Cincinnati and Dorothy Garrison Blanchester a granddaughter Mary Lee Garrison A stepson the late Rev Earl Slutz a prominent Methodist minister died in Cincinnati during the summer
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Ella Echman Slutz
Congress St
Port Clinton
Athens
Slutz
W. L. Slutz
First Methodists
Raymond M
Q. U
Merrill Slutz
Cincinnati
Mary Ann Slutz
Dorothy Garrison
Blanchester
Mary Lee Garrison
Earl Slutz
Intoxication Charged In Court On Evening Incident
Denton Cooper of 33 Carpenter Street was fined five dollars and costs and sentenced to five days in jail after a hearing before Mayor Franz Woodworth in Mayor's Court. He was picked up yesterday on an intoxication charge after reportedly staggering in front of a car. The incident occurred in the city. An executive board of the CIO Congress of Women's Auxiliaries urged the country to follow the sincere foreign policy of the late President Roosevelt and called for an investigation into the meat shortage.
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Denton Cooper
F. Carpenter St
Franz Woodworth
Roosevelt
Cleveland
J-P
The
CIO
Congress of Women's Auxiliaries
Ohio University enrollment spike sparks OPA protest by restaurant owners
Swamped by record enrollment, Athens restaurant owners sent telegrams to Washington objects to the OPA price roll back plan. They warn closures would devastate feeding 4,300 students and that 60 to 70 percent of their food is no longer under price ceilings while meat ceilings rose after June 30 under the new rule.
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Ohio University
Athens
Washington, D. C
OPA
Truman
Taft
Jenkins
Paul Porter
C T
Doctor Hudson to Lecture at Guam Navy Medical Center
Dr. E. Herndon Hudson, director of Ohio University Health Service, granted about two months leave to lecture at the Navy's new medical center in Guam. A Tropical diseases expert, he will address medical officers from Pacific island bases. He will be commissioned as a Naval Reserve captain, leaving next week. Dr. Frank B. Moore leads Health Service in his absence.
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E. Herndon Hudson
Ohio University
Health Service
Navy
New Medical
Guam
Hudson
Tis
U. Island
Pacific
Night Classes To Be Given By University
A meeting to organize extension classes on the Ohio University campus will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in Room 101 Ellis Hall. Director J Flord Dixon announced many fields will be offered for the night courses including English history education music art speech correction foreign languages commerce secretarial studies sociology government journalism physics and others. All campus evening classes yield residence credit toward bachelor or master degrees. A class requires at least 10 enrollees. Most courses carry two or ten hours of credit. Two education courses Evolution of Educational Thought and Problems in School Administration are scheduled as evening courses. A night class in athletic officiating seems likely due to many requests.
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Ohio University
Ellis Hall
J. Flord Dixon
Dixon
Masters Royal Arch Masons To Meet
Athens Council No 18 Royal Select Masters will meet Wednesday at 1 30 pm Following the Council meeting Athens Chapter No 39 Royal Arch Masons will confer the Past Masters degree on a class of candidates Visiting members welcome announced by O G Houck Secretary Also Mercury Hits Thermometer reached 84 then fell to 45 for a September night
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Athens Council
Royal & Select Masters
Athens
Royal Arch Masons
O. G. Houck
Marshfield Lodge
New Marshfield
Constitution Lodge No
R. L., Dinsmore
Navy and NSLI insurance cautions and service notices
Dwight Sarjeant Hines of Shade High School passed into Navy apprenticeship at Portsmouth and Navy training at Great Lakes. Veterans are urged to designate contingent NSLI beneficiaries after new rules since 1946. Other notes cover advances, discharges, and opinions on upcoming Army and Navy uniforms including blue and bell bottoms.
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Dwight Sarjeant Hines
Hines
Guysville
U. S. WN
Portsmouth
Shade High
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
NSLI
Naval Training Centheir National Service Life Insurter
Bainbridge
NSLIL
Bureau of Naval Personnel
Naval Uniform Board
Bureau
First Lieutenant Wilbur Swank leaves for U S from Manila area
Paranaque Luzon reports Lt Wilbur W Swank Infantry son of Mr and Mrs Harry W Swank Mill Street Athens processed at Replacement Command Distribution Center near Manila for return to the United States and release from the Army in June 1943 Lt Swank arrived overseas on Okinawa in July 1941 to serve with the 96th Infantry of Okinawa and Mindoro Pfc Dean E Haskins Trimble receives Army Commendation Ribbon for meritorious service at Fort Benjamin Harrison Albert Franklin Reiver son of Mrs Esther Olive Carson Athens Route 3 reported for recruit.
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Paranaque
Luzon
Plt
Wilbur W. Swank
Infantry
Airs
Harry W. Swank
Mill Street
Athens
Replacement Command Disposition Center
Manila
United States
Swank
Okinawa
96Th Infantry
Mindoro
Dean E. Haskins
Trimble
U. S. Disciplinary Barracks
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Albert Franklin Reiver
Esther Olive Carson
Recrui
Historic Elms Not Part Of McGuffey Elms On Ohio University Campus
Two elm trees removed on Ohio University campus amid Dutch elm disease fears are not part of the historic McGuffey Elms. J F Wooten of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology confirms the trees were cut as a precaution. alumni secretary Clark Williams notes they are unrelated to McGuffey Elms.
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Ohio University
J. F. Wooten
U. S
Bureau of Entomology
Clark Williams
Athens City School Costs Detailed for 1944 45
Pendry, superintendent, told Rotary Club that Athens per pupil cost was 123.90 for 1944 45, above the 2 average of 113 across Ohio cities. He said a 2 mill levy to be sought in November will fund operating expenses not debt service, and noted the tax rate fell from 10 mills in 1944 to 8.80 in 1946.
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Athens
Ohio
Harper Co
Pendry
Rotary Club
Board of Education
Meetings at Coolville Listed for Week
COOLVILLE The WCTU will meet Thursday evening at the Coolville Methodist Church. Officers will be elected for the coming year. The LTL will meet Sept 21 at 2 p.m. in the Grange Hall. The Methodist Sunday School Class 5 meeting scheduled for Sept 17 has been postponed with date to be announced.
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Summit Grange
Grange
Esther Whitlock
Coolville
WCTU
LTL
Grange Mail
Methodist Sunday School
Speeder Fined on E State Street by Mayor's Court
Forest 3 Metcalf of Guysville was fined $10 and costs by Mayor Franz Woodworth after police said he was one mile per hour over the limit on E State Street Wednesday.
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E. State St
Forest 3
Metcalf
Guysville
Franz Woodworth
Zoning Talk Continued By Council
Council continued zoning talks at Monday’s meeting and discussed forming a five member planning commission. The idea, revived after a protest by 15 property owners on State Street over a frozen food stocker plant, was deferred to Oct 7. Mayor Franz Woodworth suggested using county reappraisal maps to avoid new costs. Transfers of 750 within city departments were approved by EuroCup.
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State
Franz Woodworth
Woodworth
Oscar Fulton
New Kiwanis Club Inducts Three New Members
Three new members Robert Bullock Don Jones and Frank Cones joined the Kiwanis Club at a Berry Hotel meeting. All 1946 entrants received plaques with the club Code of Ethics. Delegates to the Columbus state Kiwanis convention October 15 to 18 are Fred Sands C B Nye and Charles Bachman. Guests L Frank Nye Robert Wren Howard Rolsten and Rev Henry L Carr attended. Rolsten is Logan Kiwanis secretary and Carr pastors Logan Presbyterian Church. The meeting featured a quiz led by Dr L C Staats with Clarence Kelch as program chairman.
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Kiwanis Club
Robert Bullock
Don Jones
Frank Cones
Berry Hotel
Kiwanis
Columbus
Fred Sands
C. B. Nye
Charles Bachman
L. Frank Nye
Robert Wren
Howard Rolsten
Henry L. Carr
Rolsten
Kiwanis Club of
Logan
Carr
Logan Presbyterian Church
L. C. Staats
Clarence Kelch
Custody Sought in Child Custody Case in Athens
Judge Oliver F. Rowland heard a writ of habeas corpus in Athens Common Pleas Court on Saturday as Ada Belle Workman seeks custody of six year old Robert Raymond Pyle from his maternal grandparents Robert and Myrtie Palmer of Trimble. The grandparents were given until Sept 20 to file an answer. Court records show Workman was granted custody in the divorce and later lived with her parents.
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Oliver F. Rowland
Athens
Woman Confessed Slaying Husband to Lima State Hospital Transfer
Mrs Elizabeth Willie, of Strouds Run, self described killer of George Willie, is en route to Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane after Athens State Hospital staff judged her mentally ill. Dr C H Creed says a ten day observation confirmed insanity with delusions and voices, motive from inner voices, with state approval for transfer.
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Elizabeth Willie
George Willie
Lima State Hospital
C. H. Creed
Athens State Hospital
Iisitiz
Willie
Lima
State Welfare Department
Creed
Strouds Run
Athens
Wil
Mrs Mansfield Dies at 66 in Athens Home
Mrs Clyde Mansfield 66 died Monday evening at her home on Mulberry Street after a 10 week illness. A life long Athens resident, she belonged to the Martzolff Class of First Methodist Church. Survived by husband Clyde Mansfield Sr and son Clyde Jr of Columbus, sister Elizabeth E McPherson Parkersburg W Va, brothers William R Brown Toledo and Harry W Brown Duncan Falls. Parents and one son predeceased her. Funeral Wednesday 2 pm at Dowler and Ferguson funeral home with Rev Harold F Kellogg officiating. burial in West Union Street Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home any time.
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Clyde Mansfield
E. Mulberry St
Athens
Martzolff
First Methodist Church
Clyde, Jr
Columbus
Elizabeth E. McPherson
Parkersburg
W. Va
Liam R. Brown
Toledo
Harry W. Brown
Duncan Falls
Mansfield
Dowler and Ferguson
Harold F. Kellogg
W. Union St
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