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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1945
Page
12
Point Pleasant schools face disruption as oil plant worker strikes threaten bus service. Superintendent Mrs. John W Steenbergen warns that bus suspensions could lock out over half of the district’s pupils, with many area schools affected if gasoline shortages persist.
Carl Wears a 44 year old wartime shipyard employee suffered severe burns to hands and arms when gasoline ignited during tractor cleaning in his garage near Henderson Grade School Route 2. Firemen from Point Pleasant battled a blaze that damaged the tractor wiring, a car, and the garage roof with several hundred dollars in damage.
Ravenswood High under a new coach prepares for Friday night game against Big Blacks. The unknowns on Ravenswood’s squad and unanswered letters to the school unsettle locals at the confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers as tough opponents loom.
Gallipolis Ferry School will not reopen this year after a special school board meeting. Students will be bused to Henderson Grade and Junior High schools amid transportation problems and concerns over a gasoline shortage. In Point Pleasant, New Haven PTA elected officers for the year led by president Harry Miller and other officers.
Corporal Edward Swint, T 5, on a 45 day furlough with wife at 702 Main St Mason Fort Pleasant. He returned from 19 months overseas with the 45th Infantry from Anzio to Siegfried Line. He edited for The Stars and Stripes and wrote verse. won the French Croix de Guerre.
A Kanawha County jury awarded Bayard F. Ennis, a Charleston newspaper reporter, $3,001 in damages after finding Sheriff D. Earl Brawley liable for assaulting him. Ennis had sued for $10,000 claiming Brawley may have appointed a suspended Charleston detective as deputy.
Miss Betty Jo Bourn a Charleston girl and Eastman School of Music graduate is the new music instructor in local schools. She captivated Senior High School students at Tuesday's assembly, notes Principal C H Withers. Bourn succeeded Virginia Dave Levine who resigned to teach in Hurricane schools.
Dan M Hope is erecting a six room apartment beside his store at the junction of Routes 2 and 17 near Shadle Bridge in Point Pleasant. He and his family will reside in the new apartment after the store he built a year ago. A separate note says Martha F Long filed for divorce from Frank C Long Jr in circuit court on Wednesday. they have a daughter.
Point Pleasant notes show Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Tracy Sr enjoying a two week stay with relatives in Wheeling. Edgar Tuckerman, formerly of Point Pleasant, visits his parents in Middleport after army discharge and weighs returning with local business prospects.
Sheriff Ernest Hesson visits Point Pleasant on a Mason County tour. He points out an old cabin linked to Jesse James and a birthplace log house tied to George Poffenbarger, former Mason County sheriff and later State Supreme Court president. He offers himself as a local guide for those seeking a first hand feel of Mason County.
Mrs Hart Wolfe of Union District along with her husband faced the Ma son County circuit court on a charge of contributing to the negligence of eight daughters aged 18 months to 15 years. She was released on bond with Ethel Wolfe signing for her neighbor. The children remain in State Child Welfare custody until the case is disposed of. Mrs Wolfe seeks her husband’s bond release.
A Mason County News report indicates the Democratic weekly in Point Pleasant may be sold to Charles H. Frye Sterling Dunlavy Franklin Wamsley and L H Putz though confirmation is unclear. Marriage license applications filed by James Ralph Wears and Helen Dawn Brown and by Roma Curtis King Jr and Esther Roxanna Grimm. Emma Clark librarian at Senior High School admitted to Holzer Hospital for observation and treatment with Mrs Ora P Biddle accompanying her.
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