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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1972
Page
5
Abundant reader letters challenge Dear Abby with mistress wife dynamics and a caller proposing equal airtime. A wife claims permission to contact husband at work, while a mistress counters with harsh rebuttals about status and fidelity. The page also features a high school smoke-in-the-bathroom note and a reader complaint about service in stores.
Richland Garden Club hosted an open meeting April 18 at the Gas Company office. Betty Newton demonstrated spice use with slides and dishes while members enjoyed samples and a recipe book. She displayed arrangements by Mrs. Edward Mizicko and club officers reminded of the May 10 county meeting at Athens Mental Health Center.
The West Elementary School PTA announced next year’s officer slate at a Tuesday meeting. Harry Bowles announced Roy Rauschenberg as president, Bill Glover as vice president, Mrs Irene Mickmas as secretary, and Mrs Reita Shoemaker as treasurer with delegates Shirley White, Shirley Higgins, and Mary Ann Sympson.
Mrs. Norma Deyo of Ohio State University lectured about fashion and new fabrics to about 100 area women, highlighting ultra suede needlepoint and quilted materials. She advised careful fabric selection, labeling, and proper sewing methods to update wardrobes and ensure durability. The session included demonstrations and a run‑on hem stitch practice.
Detroit dispatch reports a 10 to 15 minute office sterilization method for women and a valve device to reverse vasectomies. Dr. Clifford R. Wheelus of Johns Hopkins notes portable instruments for rural use while Dr. Joseph E. Davis of New York Medical College describes a mechanical switch to toggle vasectomy between on and off, enabling alternating sterility and fertility.
At the 10th annual meeting of physicians in Athens speakers from Planned Parenthood-World Population outlined advances in female sterilization. Dr Wheelus described a laparoscopic method cutting tubal flow with electrocoagulation and local anesthesia, aiming for 10 to 15 minute operations. Dr Davis presented the bionyx control vasectomy device designed to replace traditional vasectomy pending mass screening tests.
A reader shares a method to start charcoal quickly by using a two pound coffee can with ends removed. Charcoal is packed inside and vented, starter fluid ignites it, then the can is removed to spread coals. Also includes brief reader notes on mending lace with transparent tape and a balloon inflated by a vacuum trick for a party.
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