Church Preference

Article taken from the Berkshire Evening Eagle August 25, 1952.

  PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (UP) - Two Portsmouth women decided today to attend church for a year rather than spend 30 days in the Scioto County jail.  Judge Kenneth Cranston ruled yesterday that Louise Jearns, 19, and Plura Stiltner, 29, could escape the jail term by spending the next 52 Sundays in the church of their choice.  They had been convicted of assault and battery on each other.