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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1973
Page
4
Fred W. Weber serves as Circulation Director with M. W. McDargh as Advertising Director and G. Kenner Bush as Publisher. Charles W. Reamer is Managing Editor and Richard R. Paynter serves as Assistant To The Publisher.
The New York Stock Exchange reports a drop of 800000 individual shareowners in American stocks, lowering total investors to about 31 million. Analysts blame 1969 to 1970 market losses, reduced trading, mutual fund redemptions, inflation, and policy uncertainty for the retreat from equity ownership.
The Census Bureau plans a first middecade survey in 1975 surveying about 1 million households or 1.5 percent of the population to update social and economic data since 1970. Estimated total cost is $45 million with $6 million in the 1974 budget and the balance in 1975.
The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education says for 1972 and 1973 the job market for graduates improves after a 1970–71 recession but long term risk remains from a growing pool of educated workers. Teachers and faculty may struggle while health care, managers, computer, and recreation fields show gains. Women gain more in health care, and black women are likely to be favored hires as minorities aim for fuller representation.
A conservative view notes Nixon appointees Burger Blackmun Powell and Rehnquist form a bloc on major school finance cases. Powell’s opinion in Serrano favored judicial restraint, denying a classroom funding equal protection claim while urging respect for state legislative authority.
R Wilson Neff Ohio public works director resigns by personal choice effective May 1 after 30 years in public service. Gov Gilligan proposes merging Public Works Personnel and Finance into Department of Administrative Services to save money and improve management. Neff cites time to break and family matters and says he would not oppose the merger.
The League of Women Voters calls attention to errors on the Sixteen Month Voter Information Appointment Calendars sold in Athens. Correct dates include April 9 registration closes, May 3 and May 5 deadlines for absent voter applications, May 8 primary election, May 19 registration resumes. Residents outside Athens City vote May 8 in a statewide special election on Constitutional Amendments with April 27 registration close. Registration hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays at the Athens County Courthouse Board of Elections.
The page invites opinion letters on current public concerns and explains editors will select concise pieces one page or less. Names and addresses must be supplied for publication and editor reserves right to edit for space and clarity.
Washington insight notes a pronounced conservative reaction to Watergate. Kilpatrick Royster and de Toledano criticize the White House while Sirica McCord Ervin and Weicker push the inquiry. The piece argues the right’s fury highlights a moral vacuum and shifts Nixon’s political leverage.
A Athens County Commissioners meeting draws protests from non smokers as cigarets fog the small basement room. Anthony J. Sargenti notes the heated air and fumes hinder non smokers while pondering county truck specs.
Athens Ohio newspaper notice lists daily and Sunday edition prices, carrier and mail delivery options, and postage rates. It notes weekday and Sunday single-copy costs, subscription rates by region, and mailing addresses for The Messenger Publishing Co.
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