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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1965
Page
6
George Romney of Michigan outlines Progress Sharing as an alternative to President Johnson's Great Society at an Associated Press luncheon before 1300 members. He argues automation and hardcore unemployment demand consumer powered reform, promises to replace wage battles with consumer guided policy and tax changes to boost opportunities.
Excerpts from a Hoover address accuse the Communist Party USA of being part of an international Kremlin-led conspiracy financed and directed by Moscow. The FBI director denounces communist speakers on campuses as parroting the Moscow line under the banner of academic freedom.
The Committee for Economic Development proposes a metro government plan to extend rapid transit and rail lines funded by a tax on commuters near the lines. Business leaders, especially retailers and property owners, push for cross-boundary planning bodies to curb outward urban sprawl and attract city-dwellers back toward the core.
A Tampa writer compiles a fourteen page critique entitled one hundred and thirty four insults to our country. The piece contrasts U S aid to foreign nations in 1964 with the costs of diplomacy and military aid. It questions the value of dollar diplomacy and argues that true friendships arise from shared values, not cash.
The Penn State Ogontz rally featured a Viet Cong propaganda film shown by a campus CORE unit. CORE Philadelphia did not authorize the event, and James Farmer condemned Viet Cong material, noting no official CORE stance on Vietnam. The episode signals a widening overlap of civil rights and antiwar activism within militant circles.
The piece analyzes SNCC activists led by Robert Parris and James Forman linking civil rights with antiwar aims. It contrasts radicals who see U.S. imperialism as the core issue with liberal ADA figures who separate race equality from Viet Nam policy. It notes tensions between Negro militants and white liberals.
Rebels seized the official radio station in Santo Domingo and claimed they had taken over the government. The story describes the Gateway Arch project in St Louis, its cost, design, and the workers building the tallest memorial in the United States, with details on its curved structure and ongoing construction challenges.
Dear Abby resolves a Christmas tie issue, a daughter’s parental control crisis, and reader questions about maternity wear. A husband’s gift and inlaw dynamics test a marriage, with Abby urging firm parenting and boundaries while noting consumer fashion trends.
The piece by Robert Peterson extols jet travel as a thrilling milestone accessible to modern life. It contrasts youthful familiarity with jets to older observers who recall rough early flights, praises comfort and scenery aloft, and argues that many elders have yet to fly and miss a grand experience.
Dennis Lee Royle profiles the Nameless One in Kampala, official strangler to Buganda’s king. The man wears a gaudy orange smock and ferries a bamboo reed strangling device within the Forbidden Palace compound, serving Kabaka King Freddie I amid royal intrigues and wary public.
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