Gallia County seeks monthly travel report from attendance officer
At Gallia County Board of Education, a stalemate occurred over a motion to require attendance officer Ivor W. Morehouse to submit a monthly travel report. Henry Skidmore proposed the request, supported by Superintendent T. K. Owens, with only Owens and Skidmore voting yes. Taylby Owens and Merrill Bunce voted no. Denver Walker was absent. Morehouse earns $200 monthly for nine months plus a blanket $125 monthly travel allowance.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Owens
Morehouse
Truman R. Sheets
Taylby Owens
Merrill Bunce
Denver Walker
Skidmore
Pauline A. Rife
Hannan Trace
Howard Fulks
Lawrence V. Unree
Junior Birchfield
Viola Stone
North Gallia
McKee Denney
James Campbell
Lawrence Green
Raccoon
Frank Mahan
Southwestern
Harold Prevens
Frank Ruff
David Bostic
Kathleen Bostic
Patrol Nabs Brothers With Dynamite Cargo
Gallia County officers arrested an AWOL Fort Benning soldier for parking on Route 141 and intoxication. His brother faces intoxication charges as 70 sticks of dynamite and fuses were found in their station wagon bound for Charleston, West Virginia, tied to a well digger from Charleston. The suspects, George J Swango and Courtney C Swango, await police word and court dates. A unrelated one car crash near Gallipolis left no injuries.
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Gallipolis
State Highway Patrol
Route 141
Charleston
W. Va
George Jefferson Swango
Waterloo
Swango
Fort Benning
Ordnance Committees Announced
POINT PLEASANT Elimo Freisz president of the Ordnance School PTA has announced committee chairmen for the school year. Chairmen include Mrs Mandellen Henry program Mrs S D Littlepage library Mrs Mabel Costen Mrs Hazel Carder and Mrs Mildred Ball teacher relations Mrs Lois Archer and John Hilbert building grounds and sanitation Mrs Irene Doolittle magazine and membership Mrs Janet Pickens child welfare Mrs C C Lanham publicity Mrs Polly Adkins Mrs Lonnie Safford and Mrs Gene Ashworth hospitality Betty Lynch and Mrs Jackie Durst fall festival Dallas Hall forward planning Mrs Don Waldie spaghetti dinner Mrs Charles Sperow arrangements Mrs Nancy Filkens and Mrs Dan Dawson telephone Earl Henry vice president Mrs Hazel Carder secretary and Don Waldie treasurer Mrs Patty Burdette and Henry Will represent the PTA at the Mason County PTA council meetings.
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Mandellen Henry
S. D. Littlepage
Mabel Costen
Hazel Carder
Mildred Ball
Lois Archer
John Hilbert
Irene Doolittle
Janet Pickens
C. C. Lanham
Polly Adkins
Lonnie Safford
Gene Ashworth
Betty Lynch
Woman Found in Contempt Over Visitation Order
Gallia County Common Pleas Judge Betz found Xylpha Saunders guilty of contempt for disobeying a visitation order regarding the child. She was ordered to pay court costs. Woodrow Saunders had filed the contempt charges claiming limited access on Sundays and through the week. the November 30 1962 order was modified to grant the father specific weekday and weekend custody when the mother is not at work.
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Gallipolis
Common Pleas
Robert M. Betz
Xylpha Saunders
Woodrow Saunders
Juveniles Fined by Court in Gallia County
Three youths arrested by the State Highway Patrol and two by city police were fined by Judge John W. Howell in Gallia County Juvenile Court on Saturday. Donald G. Robinette, 17, Patriot Route 2, paid $5 and costs for no operator's license. Harold L. Blankenship, 16, Gallipolis Route 2, paid $5 and costs for failing to signal when passing. Earl R. Caldwell, 16, Gallipolis Waterloo Star Route, paid $5 and costs for...
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Gallipolis
State Highway Patrol
John W. Howell
Gallia County
Donald G. Robinette
Judge Howell
Harold L. Blankenship
Earl R. Caldwell
Waterloo
List of Birth Announcements From Holzer Hospital
A long roster lists numerous birth announcements from Holzer Hospital including names of mothers and families such as Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Welker, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Scott, and many others across Gallia, Jackson, Point Pleasant, and nearby towns. The items specify newborn daughters and sons with accompanying parent names and locales.
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Jerry W. Welker
Pomeroy
Cecil K. Scott
Gallipolis
Robbery Charge Denied in Gallia County Court
Lewis P Harrison 30 of Gallipolis pleaded innocent in Municipal Court to armed robbery and is held on $5000 bond for grand jury review. He was extradited from San Jose California for the March 16 1962 robbery of Pearl Shaver Route 1 farmer who was beaten and robbed of 2400 dollars. His brother Harold Harrison 24 has also pleaded innocent and awaits grand jury action under a 2500 bond. Wanda Sargent 42 Kananga was fined five dollars and costs for intoxication after sheriff arrest.
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Gallipolis
Lewis P Harrison
Jack Owens
Harrison
San _ Jose
Calif
Ohio
Pearl Shaver
Harold L. Harrison
William H. Sowers
Wanda Sargent
Kananga
Sheriff's Department
Pleasant Valley Hospital Births and Discharges
Pleasant Valley Hospital reports births for Charles Waugh Kananga William H Patterson Henderson and Charles Flint Point Pleasant. Admissions include Charles Glenn Point Pleasant Rose Perkins Point Pleasant Mary Biffle Hogsett Shelia Rainey Point Pleasant and Mrs A E Hassell Point Pleasant. Discharges include Dewey Gay Gallipolis Richard Casto Robertburg and Elza Litchfield Gallipolis Ferry.
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Charles Waugh
Kananga
William H. Patterson
Henderson
Charles Flint
Point Pleasant
Charles Glenn
Rose Perkins
Mary Biffle
Hogsett
Shelia Rainey
George Keener, Sr
A. E. Hassell
Dewey Gay
Gallipolis
Richard Casto
Robertburg
Elza Litchfield
Gallipolis Ferry
Gallipolis Man Fined and License Suspended in Reckless Operation
Gallipolis municipal Judge William H. Sowers fined William Lee Slone 25 dollars plus costs on a city police reckless operation charge. Slone received a 60 day license suspension after a week ago Sunday chase on Route 141. His car struck a vehicle driven by Billy Joe Johnson 33 of Gallipolis.
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Gallipolis
William H. Sowers
William Lee Slone
Slone
Billy Joe Johnson
Rio Grande Receives Nuclear Detection Gear
Rio Grande College has 800 dollars of basic nuclear detection equipment. Mathematics instructor Charles E. Withee obtained the gear while at the University of Oklahoma and will use it in his atomic and nuclear physics class. The set includes a Geiger Muller tube a scaler ratemeter samples and absorbers. The NSF funded the equipment. Withee plans to buy more detectors possibly a scintillation counter system.
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Rio Grande
Rio Grande College
Charles E. Withee
University of Oklahoma
Withee
Geiger-Mueller
National Science
Seven Arrested on Intoxication Charges in Weekend Patrols
POINT PLEASANT Seven persons were arrested on intoxication charges during the weekend and one for driving while intoxicated. Homer F. Crabtree 38 of Bidwell was arrested on the DWI charge by the sheriff's department who also arrested Harold Crabtree 41 Bidwell Route 2 for intoxication. City police arrested Otho Thomas 58 Point Pleasant Harold Kenneth Brissel Detroit Mich Joseph August Marshke Detroit William A. Shreve 46 Pliny and Benjamin B. King 29 Buffalo for intoxication.
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Point Pleasant
Homer F. Crabtree
Bidwell
Sheriff's Department
Harold Crabtree
Otho Thomas
Harold Kenneth Brissel
Detroit
Mich
Joseph August Marshke
William A. Shreve
Pliny
Benjamin B. King
Buffalo
Burlingham Residents Share Visits and Reunions
A string of local visits and gatherings appears in Burlingham and surrounding homes. Notable attendee lists include the Jones and Cowen households with relatives traveling from Huntington Athens and Buffalo. A family reunion occurred at the Jones residence near Burlingham while visitors called on several neighbors.
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Earl Cowen
Burlingham - Darwin
Rob Leifheit
Floyd Buck
Athens
Ernest Cullums
Carolyn Goegline
Long Lane
Jones
Robert Jones
Burlingham
Wilbur Quivey
Portland
Ore
Ross Jones
Everett Thomas
Pomeroy
David Yates
Buffalo
W. Va
K. C. Welsh
Bonnie
Carol Jones
H. L. Anderson
Huntington
W. V
Powder Bowl Girls Game At Point Pleasant High
Gal Gridders To Meet In Powder Bowl features a Thursday girls football game at Point Pleasant High School between junior and senior teams. Coaches Bur ris and Rice lead the squads with referees Shertzer and Horton. The Big Blacks cheer squad will feature football players. Student Council sponsors the event at 6 30 p m with public invitation.
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Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant High School
Virgil Burris
Buster Rice
Robert Shertzer
Richard Horton
Big Blacks
River traffic conditions and lock listings update
The report lists gauge readings for several rivers including the Ohio and Kanawha in the Huntington district with rollers on the sill. It notes two dozen boats with their operating status and times across locks 14 through 34, detailing up or down movements and sea conditions.
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Gallipolis
Montgomery
Greenup
Kanawha Falls
Hinton
Pomeroy-Mason
Point Pleasant
Wanawha River
Ohio
Bob Renter
Elgercliff
Kanawha River Boats
Marmet
Winfield
A. E. Dyke
Lucy Jane Lucas
Sandy
Oliver
Shearer
Ohio River
Davey Crocket
Queen City
Titan
S. M. Jenks
OVEC
Miss Susan
St. Genevieve
New Martinsville
Little Edward
Western
ORCO
Colonel Davenport
Lock
Lelia C. Shearer
E' Deana Bosworth
Willam H. Zimmer
Franklin Pierce
Dixie Challenger
Bayou Lareine
Valvoline
Irene Chotin
Pamela
R. H. Bonworth II
Bingo
79 Per Cent Pass Driver Exam Tests
In Gallipolis during eight months of 1963, 75.2 percent of 950 preliminary examiners passed for a temporary instruction permit and 79.6 percent of 953 behind the wheel tests passed for an operator's license. Of 1903 applicants, 1484 passed for 77.9 percent overall.
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Gallipolis
State Highway Patrol
Gene Mather
Wellston
Mather
Children and Fire Burn Kitchen of Campbell Home
Three neighbor children alert adults to a kitchen fire at the James O Campbell residence 705 Main St. Saturday at 8 15 p m. The Campbells were away. Firemen controlled the blaze and cause is undetermined. Damages not yet estimated. Respondents include Mike Stevens Bobby Craddock Ronnie Craddock and Jeff Hartenbach.
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Point Pleasant
James O. Campbell
Main St
Campbells
Three Wrecks Reported by State Police and Deputies
West Virginia State Police logged three weekend traffic accidents with minor injuries and one arrest. In a Leon case, Art Lee Wolfe injured after his truck rear was struck while turning. Polly Ann Kimberling sustained a knee cut. Everett Badgley cited for improper passing in a second crash near Leon. A third collision near Ashton involved Densil Miller and Walter Birchfield after Miller lost control hitting a culvert and fence.
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West Virginia
Art Lee Wolfe
Leon
Kimberling
Polly Ann Kimberling
Columbus
Edith Wolfe
Mason County Sheriff's Department
Route 35
Everett Badgley
Eleanor
Badgley
Julius A. Matyney
Ashton
Densil D. Miller
Point Pleasant
Walter D. Birchfield
Brenton
W. Va
Miller
Man Gets Pen Term for Non Support in Ohio
Saturday Eugene W. Halderman 29 Gallipolis was sentenced to 13 years in the Ohio Penitentiary after pleading guilty to non support on a bill of information. Clarence E. Woodall 36 Columbus, formerly of Gallipolis, pleaded guilty to non support and forgery and faces possible probation or sentencing after waivers and indictments.
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Gallipolis
Common Pleas
Robert M. Betz
Eugene W. Halderman
Ohio
Halderman
Clarence E. Woodall
Columbus
Woodall
Woman Missing From Point Pleasant Household
John Mayes of Kanawha reported his wife Daisy S. Mayes aged 53 missing since noon Saturday. Daisy, ill, supposedly left home to seek a doctor. she is five feet four, wearing a red dress and a short black coat at the time she left.
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Point Pleasant
John Mayes
Kanawha Sr
Sheriff's Department
Daisy S. Mayes
Mayes
Wellston Youth Injured in Route 325 Crash
Jimmie Lee Dickerson age 18 of Wellston Route 1 was admitted to Holzer Hospital at 2 a.m. Sunday with multiple facial lacerations and a fractured right leg after an automobile accident on Route 325 near Wellston in Jackson County. His condition is listed as satisfactory.
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Gallipolis
Jimmie Lee Dickerson
Lowell Dickerson
Wellston
Holzer Hospital
Jackson County
Officials Respond to Ohio River Jump Report
Point Pleasant Coast Guard depot received a Sunday 10:30 a.m. report that a person jumped from the Silver Bridge. Local officials and the Coast Guard searched the area but fishermen reported no sighting and no dragging was conducted.
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Point Pleasant
Coast Guard
Lock 11
Silver Bridge
Ohio River
Teenager Hurt in Tractor Mishap at Hogsett Farm
Larry Biffle, 14, sustained a severe leg cut needing 29 stitches and burns in a tractor mishap on the Lyle Austin farm at Hogsett. He was listed in good condition at Pleasant Valley Hospital.
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Point Pleasant
Larry Biffle
Lyle Austin
Hogsett
Larry
Pleasant Valley Hospital
Girl makes unlikely parade ride using rocket
Carlisle Kentucky report tells how Becky Galyon swapped her parade pony for a Navy sea to air rocket when the pony balked. A line of spectators watched as Becky rode the rocket down the street in the community event.
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Carlisle
Becky Galyon
Becky
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Albert E. Haycraft
Cheshire
Haycraft
Ann Curtis
Elimo Freisz
Ordnance School
PTA
Holzer Hospital News
Ronald R. Coeman
Jimmie L. Dickerson
Erma M. Mitchell
Robert C. Rouse
Jackson
Howard Sheline
Aaron G. Reynolds
Herman R. Saunders
Eugene Kinger
Northupoute
Willard G. Matney
Coal Grove
Leman Cogar
Theodore Bee
Wilfred W. Robinson
Perry L. Mitch
Middleport
Gertrude L. Bechtle
Tamara L. Ewing
Wilma L. Coleman
Ironton
Lena B. Thompson
Cottageville
Malinda G. Spencer
A. Leroy Horton
Ashland
Forrest E. Jones
William J. Queen
Arthur H. Hess
Max H. Snyder
Ravenswood
John E. Sayre
George H. Garnon
Fred E. Wellborn
Donald M. Prince
Imogene McKee
Walter Jones
Charles Davis
Charles Turvey
James Frazee
Robert Chattin
John Russell
William H. Foster
Delbert KK. Swisher
David B. Sprague
Perry Mitch
Ray Friend
Marvin Siders
Sherman Kemp
Sheba
David F. Parker
Bristol
Conn
Paul Dean Parson
Central America
Emmett Jones
Reginald Compton
David and
Terri
George Anderson
Herbert Anderson
Ardis Hart
William Hart
G. G. Hart
Ralph Parker
Chester
Prafefic
Olive St
Irvin Ray Kimberling
Missile
Athens Messenger
Union ST
Athens, OH
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