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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1966
Page
4
G Kenner announces staff changes with publisher Charles W. Reamer and managing editor Robert L. Powers taking key roles. The move reshapes the paper’s leadership under the publisher and editor, detailing editorial oversight and newsroom direction.
A Department of Natural Resources team last week urged quick upgrades at Strouds Run Dow Lake State Park. They called for expanded parking and picnics at the upper lake and proposed a beach for swimming. A long term plan should include better highway access, though cost may be high.
Local officials praise the Department of Natural Resources for fast review of Dow Lake access needs. State Rep. George Banks continues to push for faster development of the six year old park, urging completion of a first class recreation area to meet growing local demand.
President Johnson said air losses are below expectations after a day of seven plane losses over North Viet Nam. Over two years, 340 planes and three helicopters were lost in the north and 115 planes and 176 helicopters in the south. The ground war shows greater personal impact as more American troops are needed and replacements drafted. Total allied forces, including South Korean Australian and New Zealand units, reach 586000 against 282000 enemy, suggesting a 3 to 1 ratio to counter guerrilla tactics. Public support for escalation hinges on shortening the war.
The Commerce Department cites a 27 billion dollar Negro consumer market, per capita spending around 1350 for 20 million people, challenging the idea that Negro families dominate poverty rolls and urging Congress to compare market size with poverty figures.
HAL BOYLE describes the rise of amateur male chefs as a humorous life trial. Dads don oversized caps and aprons, stage a culinary show, scare guests with blasts from failed recipes, and transform dinner into a theater of disasters.
The Messenger invites readers to submit concise signed letters on current topics, including the writer’s address and telephone number. Publication requires the writer’s name, and the editor reserves the right to select and condense letters for publication.
Kilpatrick argues that northern overreach in race issues reveals irony in the South’s gradual shift. He notes hypocrisy in press narratives, urges honest policy over coercion, and says real progress comes from removing hypocrisy and improving housing and opportunity.
President Johnson, under a gloomy umbrella, asserts the Communists cannot win in Vietnam though the timing remains uncertain. Gen. Westmoreland reports about 291000 American troops and 280000 Viet Cong in South Vietnam with more enemy forces continually arriving.
Representative John H. Buchanan denounces a federal judge order that enjoined the House Committee on Un-American Activities from holding hearings on anti-Viet Nam war activities. The remark frames the ruling as a challenge to the people’s branch of government.
Dr. Aaron Smith of the University of Nebraska Medical School presented film evidence at the Moscow congress showing a patient who, after left hemisphere removal, answered questions repeated phrases and identified objects. The case suggests the right half compensates, challenging established views and offering new horizons in brain surgery.
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