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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1966
Page
4
The Athens Messenger issue from Athens Ohio dated Monday August 22 1966 features staff credits for publishers editors and directors and lists city office in Athens OH with the masthead of The Messenger.
In a secret Senate hearing Secretary McNamara says fiscal year losses lag estimates. Attack aircraft losses stand at 406 versus a projected 448, helicopters at 271 versus 352. With higher raids the forecast rises to 580 attack planes, each worth about $2 million, totaling roughly $1.2 billion, alongside pilot casualties and prisoners.
The report notes pilots face threats from anti air fire and missiles, but asserts defense Department plane purchases will offset losses. It highlights the need to overcome concentrated anti air fire to reduce casualties and to curb North Vietnamese infiltration by halting the movement of men, equipment, oil and electricity into South Vietnam.
In a ceremony honoring former CIA chief Adm. William Raborn the President urged candor and reform at the agency. He urged choosing a deputy director who is an outsider and less tied to old practices and recommended adding a Senate Foreign Relations Committee representative to oversight.
The columnist details a vacation on a Blue Ridge porch where he escapes daily duties of editing. He describes reading for pleasure with a stack of books, mixing old favorites with new, and notes how rereading Suetonius reveals parallels to presidential eras and policy debates.
A columnist reviews Seutonius and Tacitus margins, quotes Better Red than dead, and sketches recent reading. Twilight of democracy topics mingle with Mark Twain letters, D H Lawrence criticism, Rex Stout Nero Wolfe, Hammett reprints, and Woolfolk’s Opinion of the Court set in Washington. The tone blends literary appetite with political jabs and bookish humor.
The column surveys wide ranging trivia and quips from health to housing to humor. It notes four times as many widows as widowers in America, schoolchildren starting to smoke, pigs trained for home defense in Little Rock, and a growing teen population, among other curiosities and aphorisms.
War in Vietnam fuels a Bangkok boom as American GIs officials and tourists flood the city with dollars. Neon signs guide visitors to bars and night clubs featuring dancers and torch singers while hotels host classical dances for affluent travelers. About 32,000 servicemen rest in Bangkok annually, with thousands more from nearby Vietnam and Thailand.
A famed company once rooted in Monaco and later the United States shifts its base to Monte Carlo under Ballets de Monte Carlo. The troupe, praised for true Russian ballet, faces a transformed landscape after Bolshoi interference and ongoing tours in Europe and the U.S. The Ballet Foundation still trains dancers for American companies, while Monaco and its royals gain a cultural ambassador.
Secretary Henry H Fowler denounces a 6 percent rise in business loan interest as the highest since the 1920s. He warns it will raise borrowing costs, urge Congress to curb credit, and says consumer loans and home mortgages will climb under existing ceilings.
The notice lists daily and Sunday editions with Associated Press weekday content. It sets single copy prices and mail subscriptions, including regional rates for Ohio, West Virginia, and other U.S. territories, and provides the publisher’s address in Athens Ohio.
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