General Education Emphasized By Ohio University President
President John C. Baker urged 700 freshmen at Ohio University to pursue a broad general education over early specialization. He argued that an adaptable mindset and atmosphere, gained from liberal studies, will prove valuable in an uncertain future and benefit students nationwide and in Ohio. He praised the freshmen advisor system as the school’s most important program of the past decade as registration ends and classes begin tomorrow at 8 am.
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Ohio University
John C. Baker
Lerial Hall
Woctawiaw
Baker
E. A. Hansen
University College
Mrs Elva Roush Dies At Home In Athens
Mrs Elva Roush age 74 died Tuesday at the family home 80 S Shafer St Athens Funeral services will be 10 am Thursday at Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home with Rev Harold Kellogg in charge Additional services will be 3 pm Friday at the home of sister Mrs Rose Ross 4828 Sandusky St Columbus burial Greenlawn Cemetery Columbus She was wife of William Roush preceded in death by two children Leona and Charles Born Bowling Green she came to Athens 21 years ago Survived by husband four sisters Mrs Wilma H y ter Liberty Center Ohio Mrs Ross Columbus Mrs Margaret Ennis Tower Mich Mrs Vada Huffman Grand Rapids Ohio two brothers Floyd Hardy Turner Mich Roy Hardy Bryan Ohio.
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Elva ‘Roush
Shafer St
Athens
Dowler and Ferguson
Harold Kellogg
Rose Ross
Sandusky St
Columbus
Greenlawn
Grand ‘Rapids
Floyd ‘Hardy
Turner
Mich
Roy Hardy
Bryan
Walter Kieffer Dies Funeral To Be Friday
Funeral services for Walter M. Kieffer aged 68 will be Friday at 2 PM in the Murray City A B Church. Burial at Salem. Survivors include wife Myrtle, daughters Lillie Wilson Cora Campbell and Ruth Canter of Nelsonville Route 2, sons Wallard Howard Verne of New Straitsville Route 2 and Virgin in the Army.
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Murray City
Walter M. Kieffer
Here
A. B
Salem
Kieffer
Vester
Myrtle
Lillie Wilson
Cora Campbell
Ruth Canter
Nelsonville
Wallard, Howard and
Verne
New Straitsville
Virgin
Fire at Beasley Garage Sparks Brief Car Fire
Firefighters were summoned to the Fred R Beasley Garage on Car penter Street at 8 50 am when grease on a car frame ignited in the basement paint shop during torch use. The flames were under control upon arrival, and no damage occurred.
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Athens
Fred R. Beasley
Carpenter St
Radio Highlights and Dramas on CBS NBC and More
A radio schedule listing 8:00 to 10:01 PM programs across CBS NBC and local stations. Includes Ellery Queen mystery The Adventure of the Lost Soul with Shep Fields, Jack Carson on CBS, The Fresh-Up Show with Bert Wheeler and others, Man Trap on Curtain Time, Pam inherits murder in Mr and Mrs North, Prank Sinatra preview film The House I Live In, Smallpox dramatization The Human Adventure, David Harding German general escape tale, Kay Kyser Professor, and Great Moments in Music featuring Stephen Foster.
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Shep
Ellery Queen
Cbs-Wens
Jack Carson
Bert Wheeler
Ruth Davey
Dave Terry
Mes-Whkc
Amercan- Wcol
Pam
Mrs. North
Nbc-Wlw
Sinatra
David Harding
Bryson to Speak at IOOF Meeting in Athens Hall
M. M. Bryson of Glouster will speak at a Friday IOOF gathering in the IOOF Hall Athens. H. M. Bennett, Athens Lodge president, asks all county lodges to send members to the event.
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Bryson
M. M. Bryson
Glouster
Athens County Ioof
Goof Hall
Athens
H. M. Bennett
Athens Lodge
County
Solicitors Named for Athens Chest Drive Campaign
The Athens Community Chest Campaign to raise 12500 opens tomorrow led by L C Stants. Zones 3 and 4 solicitors named with district leaders and dozens of household volunteers, including Miss Josephine Garvin, Miss Lois Mulpas, Mrs Grace Tout, Mrs W H Oldfield, Mrs Ethel Dean, Mrs William Ruston, Mrs Dennis Jones, Mrs William Lee, and many more across districts 3-A to 4-K.
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Athens
Teabelle Beckley
William Lee
Robert Marquis
Frank Ayers
Geraldine Hope
Ernest Baughman
H. F. Cokonougher
Wansity
BH. Werthman
Paul
Edward Cole
FP. P. Prebeult
Rufus Hopkins
Oscar Fulton
J. B. Roberts
W. P. Porter
G. A. Banks
A. BH. McConkey
Paul Krauss
Carl Nessley
Homer Baird
Paul Dilmark
G. W. Ghenz
Edward Algeo
Ural Westfall
Dalton A. Fost
Homer Rodehaver
George Joachim
J. M Wolfe
Clark Dalley
K. Mra
F. Rost
Dailey Speaks at Pomona Meeting in Athens County
Seventy six members and guests attended the Athens County Pomona Grange session at Rome Grange Hall on Sept. 13. Mrs. Eldon Dailey discussed the health and tuberculosis association’s plans for the coming year and introduced Walter Parish of the National X-Ray Co. who demonstrated a device used to study X ray films for tuberculosis. Walter Hope presided as master.
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Rheba Marshall
Elen Clark
Wayne Wingett
Malone Sisters
Richard Hayes
Agatha Hart
Rose Named Physician At Florida University
Dr. Embree R. Rose is named full time resident physician at the University of Florida Infirmary. He comes from Ohio University where he was acting director of student health service and holds A B and M A from Indiana University. Rose pursued chemistry at Stanford and Harvard and earned his M D from Indiana University School of Medicine. His daughter Lola Jean remains at Ohio University and Mrs. Rose will spend the winter in Florida.
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John J. Tigert
University of Florida
Embree R. Rose
Ohio University
University of Florida Infirmary
Indiana University
Bloomington
Ind
Rose
Leland Stanford
Harvard
Indiana University School of Medi
Lola Jean
Wll
Florida
Mission hides danger as Sfikas joins OSS missions
Pete Sfikas a 22 year old bar worker turned OSS radio operator, parachuted into Yugoslavia Vis Island and northern Italy to aid Allied efforts against Germans. He and five teammates faced partisan warnings and German pursuit while aiding air raids and partisan operations. Born in West Virginia to Greek family, he arrived in the U.S. in 1938, later discharged, and now seeks electrical engineering study at Ohio University and to bring his 15 year old brother to Athens.
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Pete Sfikas
W. Union St
Washington
U.S
Italy
Pete
Office of Strategic Services
Yugoslavia
Vis Island
Marshal Tito
Sfikas
Slovenia
G. R. Wichenich
Ridgeway
OSS
U.S. Army Air Forces
Clarksburg
W.va
Greece
Weirton
Athens
Stefes Varnes
Jectives
Ohio University
Six Army Soldiers Discharged at Two Centers
Discharge of six men from the Army was announced today. At the Atterbury Separation Center were Gilbert W. Douglas Athens Cpl Clyde H Chadwick W Union St Athens Cpl Henry C Taylor Gallia M Set Spencer H Hayman Racine Route 2. Released at Indiantown Gap were S Sgt Harry R Adams Athens Route 3 and Arthur A Thomas 180 S Market St Logan Pfc Harley L Rood Lang Bottom and S Sgt Lowell M Donely Nelsonville Route 1, furloughed prior to reassignment.
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Atterbury
Gilbert W. Douglas
Athens
Clyde H. Chadwick
W. Union St
Henry C. Taylor
Gallia
Spencer H. Hayman
Racine
Indiantown Gap
Harry R. Adams
Arthur A. Thomas
S. Market St
Logan
Harley L. Rood
Lang Bottom
Lowell M. Donely
Nelsonville
IDAV Flower Sale To Aid Veterans Relief
The Conrath-Bean Chapter No 37 of the Disabled American Veterans will hold its annual For Get Me Not Sale on Saturday September 22. Senior High School girls will sell flowers with all proceeds for veteran relief and hospitalization. Chairman C A Parker urged public generosity noting increasing need for aid.
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Conrath-Bean
C. A. Parker
Parker
Homer Baird Spending Several Days in City
Homer Baird a management engineering officer for the Fifth and Sixth U S Naval Districts with base at Norfolk Naval Operating Base is visiting Athens for several days. He serves on the Athens City Board of Education and his wife and family are back home at 47 May Avenue after summering at Gak Lodge near Athens.
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St. Homer T. Baird
U. S
Morfolk
Athens
Baird
Freeing Materials From War Purchase Restrictions
The War Production Board lifted purchase limits on a wide list of materials and equipment. Items freed include asbestos building materials and textiles, dry cell batteries, hearing devices, forging and foundry machinery, precision measuring tools, incandescent lamps, pulp wood, metal melting furnaces and mechanics' hand tools. Also noted is a local Graham Chapel Prayer Band gathering at the Hawk home with Grace Jeffers as reader.
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Washington
War Production Board
Graham Chapel
Paul Hawk
Bob Perry
Grace Jeffers
Saint Joseph Aspirin Ad Prompted as Favorite Pill
An advertisement claims Saint Joseph Aspirin as the largest seller at 10 cents for 100 tablets, 35 cents with a trade offer. It touts value, saying nearly three tablets cost one cent and urges readers to ask for Saint Joseph Aspirin.
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Demanod &T. Joseph
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Malcolm Wilkie
Dayton
Audrey Bumgardner
the Plains
Wilie
Louise Bumgardner
St. Ann’s Hospital
Prakhen
Lydia E. Patton
Keystone Custodian Funds
Bonne Senus
Parrenaup Stoces Sanus
Coumwon
Roy E. Hawk & Co
Investment Securities Gline
New York Central
Central
Elva Roush
Walter Kieffer
Jaynes Furniture CO
Court St
Florida University
Mission
Stkas
Marshall Tito
IDAV
City
the Security Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Court Street
Athena
Ohio
Walton League
Izaak Walton
Hotel
Penetro
Asec
Martin
Pomeroy
H. R. Kelley
Zanesville
Franklin St
America
Bardin Bros. CO
Pomeroy Cement Block CO
Fairport
Grant Oak
Steater
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