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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1957
Page
4
The soil bank program now in its second year targets six crops Wheat corn cotton tobacco rice and peanuts. A 12.2 million acre acreage reserve reduces cultivation but drought curbed production across crops in 1956. For 1957 initial signs show wheat output may fall about 3 percent with a larger reserve share.
The Federal Reserve index shows June output equal to April and May, with mixed industry trends offsetting gains and declines. Inventories fell from a year earlier, while personal income and spending remained strong, and July Treasury refundings raised yields as credit demand outpaced savings.
A narrator visits Guatemala City to interview President Castillo Armas in a tense post-revolution setting. They describe the city, social classes, and the president’s wary stance toward Communists as soldiers guard the palace. The exchange ends with the line Anybody can kill even these.
A physician explains coronary thrombosis in simple terms comparing it to cave stalactites and stalagmites forming a dam in a heart artery. He describes symptoms from mild indigestion to severe breathlessness and urges rapid oxygen via deep breathing while noting angina from nerve tension.
HAL BOYLE reports Jane Russell rejects the cheesecake trap that typecasts young actresses in Hollywood. She and husband Robert Waterfield run a production firm and WAIF, helping 4000+ children from 18 countries. She cites script hunting, adoption work, and her 17th film The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown.
In Sudan Days and Ways C Jackson recalls an overcrowded ferry hampered by a ragamuffin blocking the aisle. A government officer orders movement. the captain warns the boy passage could sink. Nearby, drought harms southern Texas farmers and a punning pet shop scene ends with a jaundiced parrot.
The puzzle lists eight questions about early cinema stars from Merry Widow 1925 to Morning Glory winning star. It cites The Song of Bernadette Seventh Heaven The Thin Man and Goodbye Mr Chips with named actors. A Papua New Guinea patrol post note follows, describing Australia’s move to curb native inter-punishment violence.
The Berkshires festival blends youth showcase with masters as Copland directs his pieces with sense and beauty while Fritz Kreisler, in his eighties, remains an orchestral living legend. The event draws twelve thousand in a festive atmosphere, uniting modern and traditional art amid a generous communal spirit.
A reader, a distracted mother, asks how to handle two healthy small children who resist bedtime. The piece notes that many youngsters protest night sleep and repeatedly climb out or request water, a common behavior for healthy kids.
The piece blends a daily star forecast and a family guidance column. It also includes public notices from The Athens Messenger about a Morriston family gathering in Hartford and practical parenting tips on bedtimes, medical concerns like spina bifida and ear surgery, and common tic habits.
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