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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
4
The text describes wide scale reliance on pensions and monetary awards by communities across the country. Officials at township city and state levels seek financial support from external sources. Citizens worry about taxes and dependence, noting reforms and the hidden cost borne by all workers.
The Nation explains the Gore Aiken Anderson and Brannan plans, tracing roots to the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act. It details how quotas guaranteed 52 to 75 percent parity to farmers, with government buyouts or loans when market prices fell, to stabilize both farming and factory demand. An added dispatch from Columbus notes William L. Johnson of New Philadelphia named assistant chief of the division of securities.
Gaynel Teare resists a bustling plan by her mother and Melvin Mosby to open a Little Theater in the family home. Denny Teare and Miss Pierce join as actors while Mr Thornblow writes a play for charity amid a chaotic, humorous scene in the grand reception hall. The tale ends with Gaynel debating costs as the project gathers steam.
Hal Boyle profiles Martin Rodgers uncle of Richard Rodgers who hunts adventure in the Manhattan phone directory. He recounts dining with homeless men, riding a tugboat, watching Albanian bill‑on‑forehead dances, and visiting Chinese musical groups, yoga enthusiasts, and unusual churches. Rodgers heads physical education at Thomas Jefferson High School.
A commentary argues that the clash between Russia and Tito exposes the failing promise of universal communist unity. It notes insults and threats from Moscow and Tito’s defiance as proof that peace cannot be guaranteed by global communist conquest.
A regional columnist laments widespread pension reliance creating idle hamlets. The piece notes varied pension sources from old age to unemployment, with recipients avoiding work to protect benefits, hindering economic drive and shifting roles for school children and workers.
A New York Herald Tribune piece uses the katydid as a rural choir, signaling summer’s fade and frost ahead. It contrasts city noise with a farmer’s calm, noting the insect’s cheerful color, quiet resilience, and role as a natural lullaby amid ripening corn and apples.
McArthur hosts Vinton County Day as the fair opens Thursday September 1 with Vinton County 4-H contestants entering the health contest presenting a style review and demonstrations. Health officials judge contestants including Mary Rachel Lomax Phyllis Tackett Sammy Stout and Patricia Johnson with winners to be announced next week.
The page presents a mixed knowledge quiz with ten questions for men women and teenagers, covering stars, disasters, alphabets, presidents, word matches, animal facts, language lapses, royal vessels, comic strips, and polar discoveries. Answers are listed in a garbled postscript.
Emil Gathmann Sr. 76 inventor of the depth bomb used against submarines died Tuesday at his home in Catonsville Maryland. He pioneered anti submarine ordnance and held several patents. Survived by wife and two children. Burial arrangements to be announced.
In Mill Field miners refused to return to work claiming Mine No 6 is unsafe. Nearby, Orson and Katherine Lewis marked their 65th wedding anniversary in Canaan Township at age 86. Ohio University appoints George Starr Lasher to lead the journalism department in Athens. Thornton Sampson, 84, is recognized as Athens County's oldest bootlegger in court. John W. Bolin leaves Athens for George Washington University studies in Washington DC.
The article traces humane reform in mental health care, then outlines shock therapies from insulin to metrazol and electricity. It notes improvements for many patients, with caveats about variable efficacy and the need for multiple sessions. It also answers a reader question about brown skin spots, clarifying terms like liver spots and conditions such as tinea versicolor and chloasma.
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