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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1939
Page
4
Local notice lists subscription prices by carrier under Act of 2016. Rates shown include one year four dollars fifty cents and six months two dollars fifty cents, ten weeks one dollar, and weekly fifteen cents, with extra postage in other counties on application.
J Ralph Pickell argues cycles of liberal and conservative rule reflect public wants and warns against “abundant life” promises. He says depressions stem from top‑level failures and that peace rests in meeting basic needs like food and shelter, urging self‑reliance and honest work.
The piece argues Congress funds flood protection including Muskingum Valley Conservancy District. It critiques shifting local costs to national taxpayers while noting broader Ohio River Valley benefits and compares it to public street paving paid by the nation for tourism. It concludes by calling for federal funding to protect agriculture and other states from flood damage.
Ernie Pyle records a river trip with Norman Nevills down the San Juan and a quick swift through Gyp Creek. The cast includes Nevills, two newspaper men, and a sunlit canyon day ending with a triumphant landing and boastful rowing.
Bruce Catton reports Tennessee Senator Kenneth McKellar’s drive to oust J Ross Eakin from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park shifts to a public lands committee inquiry. The panel will examine Eakin’s management, political affiliations, and a disputed 1926 Roosevelt London vote, with insiders noting the probe diverges from McKellar’s original plan.
Information column from The Messenger outlines bureau address and stamp reply policy. It answers common inquiries on literature science art history and card play including Peter Pan carbon dioxide slave nails and black light with concise facts.
Poet's Corner contribution from Marguerite Moore offers a tribute to Mrs Lizzie Stevens of Vincent Ohio. The poem speaks of a garden of flowers blessed by kindness and faith and praises the friend for her goodness and cheerful smile.
Charles R. Larson of Portland Oregon argues in a signed Public Forum letter that Communism is near and dangerous. He urges electing public officials who uphold democracy and cites the Junior Order of United American Mechanics as a merit-based criterion. He concludes by urging Americans to vote to defend democracy and oppose communism.
Mr and Mrs Francis P Frebault and son Francis Jr visited Pikeville Kentucky. Clyde Mansfield and son Clyde Jr returned from a fishing week in the Allegheny Mountains. Several ladies spent a week at the School of Home Missions Lancaster Camp Grounds. Plans for renovation of Athens Junior and Senior High Schools discussed. A look back twenty years recalls Marguerite Clark Irene Castle Mary Pickford and travel notes of Dr Biddle and Dr Wilson.
Linda Storm faces a family crisis as her fiancé George Cameron is distant over experiments while Linda’s love for Jimmy Cooper grows during a perilous 150 mile drive from Pensacola to Mobile to reach her ill father. The story centers on love, duty, and the pull between personal desire and family emergency.
Dr Morris Fishbein explains vitamin C also known as ascorbic acid cevitamic acid. He notes its presence in orange and tomato juices and leafy greens, its link to scurvy, and the concept of latent preclinical deficiency. Prevention in babies through adequate juice intake is emphasized while warning against overuse in nondeficiency illnesses.
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