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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1969
Page
4
The Athens Ohio newspaper lists staff roles including publisher Frea Weber circulation director M W McDargh advertising director Charles Reamer and managing editor Richard Paynter with assistant to the publisher. The notice is dated Tuesday August 5 1969.
With 233 of 43 House members sponsoring bills, a push to raise personal income tax exemptions gains steam. Leaders like Rep. Hale Boggs say Congress will likely approve an increase from 700 to 1000 dollars. Rep. John P. Saylor dramatizes anger with tea bags symbolizing Boston tea party style protest.
Senate aging subcommittee begins hearings on preretirement counseling for federal career workers. Sen. Walter Mondale criticizes slow progress in agencies and warns of retirement shock and the difficult psychological adjustment of leaving productive work.
John B. Martin, aging commissioner, argues government leadership in early retirement planning will reshape management, labor, and adult education. With 15 to 20 years before retirement, societies should provide retirement income, preventive health, and new activities as people live longer in leisure years.
The Population Reference Bureau notes 2.1 million marriages in 1968, second only to 1946, while birth rates fall. Despite fewer births, higher marriages push population up about 1 percent yearly, predicting a 400 million U.S. population by 2032.
Column notes Nixon praised South Vietnam's Thieu while detailing strict repression and manipulated elections. It questions how Thieu’s record aligns with Nixon’s Guam and Thailand promises and ponders U S aims in Asia amid shifts from Johnson era. Joseph Alsop.
A plan by William H. Peace III to engage 1 000 college students in Georgia in a Georgia Student Rural Project would study and address rural poverty through cross discipline courses. Georgia Tech and Medical College of Georgia expect to participate with health and engineering focused teams.
A controversial Black Panther Coloring Book, suppressed from public release, is reprinted by Combat magazine to spark discussion on public and government attitudes toward the Black Panther Party. The piece features inflammatory imagery and contested provenance amid party denouncements and a San Francisco priest’s statement.
HAL BOYLE questions modern life to gauge normality with quips about aging and everyday quirks. The piece playfully suggests most answers reveal whether one is psychotically euphoric or simply tired and in need of a vacation.
Beulah Jones defends innocence of patriotism while warning that instantaneous history through mass media reveals flaws in America. James Lenahan at Berry Hall Ohio University argues dissenters may be lovers of country and notes hippie culture could illuminate a competitive U S society.
Beulah Jones applauds the moon mission but complains that Armstrong should replace the U S flag with an Ohio flag. Her remark about dissenters hippies and lazy critters reflects intolerance and worsens polarization and hopelessness about the nation's future.
The Athens Lilessenger lists delivery and mail rates for daily and Sunday editions, both in Ohio and West Virginia and elsewhere in the U.S. The notice notes subscription prices by week, month, and year, and states the paper is entered as second class matter at the Athens Post Office.
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