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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1972
Page
4
Gallup interviewed 1 478 adults nationwide March 24 27 about fear in their neighborhoods. The share of people, especially women 50 and older, who fear walking alone at night has risen from 44 percent four years ago to 58 percent now with urban areas and smaller cities showing large increases.
The Athens Messenger chronicled the Messenger Publishing Company's long history in Athens Ohio. It lists founding figures and editors including Frederick W Bush Gordon K Bush G Kenner Bush and Fred W Weber as circulation director with Charles W Reamer as managing editor and M W McDargh as advertising director along with Richard R Paynter as assistant to the publisher.
Johnnie M. Walters, commissioner of internal revenue, says a new auditing program will catch close to one million taxpayers claiming illegal deductions. Casualty losses under the first 100 dollars are non deductible and errors include overstating dividends and medical deductions. Average extra tax paid is forty five dollars, with an expected forty million dollars more in recoveries.
The Athens Messenger lists daily and Sunday prices, mail rates for Ohio West Virginia and other regions, plus subscription terms. It includes a Gallup crime worry survey noting 35 percent fear more crime, 42 percent say about the same, 11 percent less, and commentary on crime as a political issue with reasons cited by respondents.
HAL BOYLE offers a punchy checklist of midlife signs in New York. The column notes changes in speech, work relations, street reactions, family terms, exercise habits, dating and dental familiarity, aging jokes, and a restless sense of missing purpose, ending with a hopeful caveat.
In the Messenger letter, 16 locals deride middle class gatekeeping on student freedoms. The writer challenges the self-appointed guardians, urges face-to-face dialogue, and imagines a polygraph shielded discussion to reveal true moral deeds and motives.
Secretary of State George C. Marshall departed Moscow as the Big Four talks dissolved amid sharp disputes over peace treaties for Austria and Germany. On Ohio University campus a temporary recreation facility with snack bar and juke box was built to relieve overcrowding at the student center. Northwestern University faculty formed a publicity committee to curb coverage of university activities and student reporters amid complaints over photos of coeds knees. Logan polls show daylight savings time unpopular. majority prefer keeping current time.
This publication invites readers to share opinions on today’s matters of public interest. Preference will be given to letters that fit within one page, encouraging broad participation and open civic discussion.
Buckley argues with Jack Anderson over access to confidential papers and the press’s role in revealing government documents. He contends Anderson lacks a clear theory of his right to disclosure and accuses him of self serving sensationalism while calling for independent review of publication decisions.
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