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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1974
Page
5
Athens County 4-H introduces city kid focused clubs expanding beyond farming. Bicycle and motorcycle clubs teach care safety and road signs with camps and rodeos. Urban youth also join small animal, nutrition, conservation, arts, photography, fishing and electricity projects.
Dr Salk argues that firm guidelines must be paired with love and positive attention to prevent punitive parenting. Readers submit questions about eating habits and homework, with Salk advising softer demands, choice giving, and engaging a child’s interests to foster cooperation.
Goodwill Industries, founded in Boston, builds on a history of sheltered workshops and now helps the disabled enter private industry. Dean Phillips cites Millard English of Plains, Georgia, a quadriplegic who, after multiple surgeries, felt “still dead” before rehabilitation.
The Athens Messenger reports on Goodwill’s award to a woman worker. The national executive notes progress from sheltered workshops to training for ordinary employment and extended programs for the disadvantaged including alcoholics drug abusers seniors and former prisoners.
Abigail Van Buren addresses readers in a column about a wife who writes reminders for her husband. A man asks how to curb note writing and gain verbal communication, and Abby suggests using his voice and, humorously, replying with a note of his own. The column also features reader exchanges about cake, pets, and adoption.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Schold announce their summer wedding at the bride's parents home with Rev. William J. Wells officiating. The bride Shari Arlene Sheets is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Sheets of Nelsonville. The groom is son of Richard Schold and Mrs. Jane Scanlan of San Diego. A reception followed. Also noted: Athens High School Class of 1946 reunion planned for Aug. 24 at The Ohio University Inn with social hour, dinner, and contact numbers. PLAN INC volunteers describe aiding poverty-stricken children abroad, funding a foster child’s schooling for $16 monthly. Abby and Dear Abby columns referenced. Townsend-Linton reunion events and Goodwill nonprofit work details follow, including philanthropist remarks on rehabilitation steps and the scale of Goodwill’s job training and placements.
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