Athens Ohio News Brief Apr 19 1962
Brief report from Athens Ohio dated April 19 1962 notes local happenings. Details are limited in the OCR fragment.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1962
Page
10
Hudson County Tax Reform Sets Example for State
Hudson County New Jersey cut tax growth from 10 per cent statewide to five per cent in 1959. By 1960 and 1961 the county reduced levies by 443000 and 364000 respectively, totaling an 807000 decline and a 3.3 per cent tax drop. The Hudson County Tax Research Council aided by officials and citizens achieved this savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson County
New Jersey
Frank Hague
Hudson County Tax Research Council
Louis W. Webster
Council
Hudson
Millionaire Alumni Gift Aims To Endow Chair At Columbia
Abraham Traub, longtime pharma chemistry professor at Columbia University’s College of Pharmacy, announced he has amassed $500,000 and plans to push the pledge to $1,000,000 for a new Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He began investing $1,000 monthly 20 years ago, expecting the fund to reach a million in ten to twenty years depending on life and taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University’s
College of Pharmacy
Emotional factors drive accidents and off the job risks
Industrial safety experts told a Safety Council meeting that 80 to 90 percent of accidents stem from unconscious emotional factors. Dr Matthew Brody said treatment is possible and management must foster a healthy emotional environment. W Eugene Stuffing noted off the job accidents caused more productivity loss than industrial ones and urged expanded programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safety Council
Matthew Brody
W. Eugene Stuffing
Syracuse
Canada considers age limit forcing Senate retirements
A proposed Canadian law would set 75 as the compulsory retirement age for Senators, affecting about 30 members after the next general election. In the United States the idea would touch only three current senators, with several nearing or surpassing 70s, while the Senate overall shows fewer septuagenarians than the House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Theodore Francis Greene
Rhode Island
Senate
United States
Carol Hay
Den
Arizona
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Harry Flood Byrd
Virginia
Dennis Chavez
House
Food Stamp Program to Expand to Four Million
The food stamp plan will reach four million people over five years after a pilot in eight areas showed higher diet quality and increased purchases. Needy families receive higher value coupons, averaging $63.37 spent per $100 of food, with a $7.50 per person federal subsidy. projected cost for 400,000 is $360 million. The report notes work as a better solution but supports expansion while relief persists.
Steel modernization costs press U S industry to compete
The piece reviews 1957–1961 modernization spending by major steel firms including United States Steel Bethlehem and Inland Steel, totaling billions funded from earnings and capital. It argues obsolescence harms national industry, urges a broad nonpolitical economic review and coordinated modernization without government aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel
Bethlehem
Europe
Japan
United States
Inland Steel
Dear Abby readers share tales of love and sleep
A collection of Dear Abby letters covers infidelity and deception with a man who courted multiple women, a wife’s daytime sleepiness blamed on diabetes, and a wife seeking small gifts from her husband. Abby urges disclosure, medical checkups, and reassurance. A final plea asks for Abby’s personal reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abby
Dallas
Back Row in Church Breeds Social Ice Breakers
A pastor shares Art S s tale about seating and sociability in church crowds. The rear pews foster shyness while front seating and a welcoming wife boost friendly interactions and church integration.
Tuppers Plains Social Roundup Includes Visits From afar
Mrs Evelyn Brickles notes visitors in Tuppers Plains as Thomas Perrin and family from Lexington Kentucky call on friends. Delasalsh mutt and George Lemley families from Plain City and Gallipolis spend weekend with Carl Lemley. District 13 Daughters of America holds annual lodge meeting. Delaware guests visit the Smiths and Arbaughs for the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuppers Plains
Tom Perrin
Lexington, Ky
W. R. DeLashmutt
Plain City
Ohio
George Lemley
Gallipolis
Carl Lemley
District 13
Daughters of America
I. C. Russell
Arley Converse
Delaware
Delbert Smith
Red China sticks to hard line after reported errors
The Red Chinese leadership admits past calamities and urges harder work to fix the economy and food shortages. Chou En-lai outlines a 10 point program to raise daily necessities while maintaining communes and foreign policy against imperialism. The West and Russia should expect no retreat or softening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chou En-lai
Russia
Chou
Mao Tze-tung
Mao
Congress
China
Khrushchev
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Our Readers' God and the costs of progress
A lifelong civic essay and letters page voice laments growing materialism amid spaceflight, industry, war readiness, and social costs. It warns of misused power in government and business, urges curbing large operators, and notes steel disputes and price trends while calling for community reliance and moral accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Messenger
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George Sokolsky
Colorado Fuel and Iron
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Inland
Jesus
Pree
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Sweet Sue
Dr. ¢Seorge
W. Crane
Art
Art S
Ladies ‘Aid
Wallflower Row
Mr. Coolidge
Mrs. Coolidge
Mrs
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James Marlow
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