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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1948
Page
4
The notice outlines daily and Sunday delivered rates by carrier and mail rates for Ohio and West Virginia. It lists weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual prices, with 25 cent carrier delivery where available and mail rates applying where carrier service is unavailable. Entered at Athens Ohio Post Office as second class matter under Act of 1818.
In Buenos Aires Eva Peron sits at Miguel Miranda’s desk directing wage terms for foreign employers amid a labor dispute. Washington reports she wields growing power, including control of a radio station and a newspaper. Rex Tugwell, critical of Wallace’s third party, rails at its shift toward the Russians.
Washington column charges the Commerce Department Office of International Trade with secretly licensing exports of ball bearings to Czechoslovakia despite an official ban. The Overseas Mercantile Co. and leaders Sawyer and McIntyre deny details, citing confidential files and unavailability.
A curious 11 year old Sabrina in a rented country house discovers a locked top-floor room that seems to belong to a man named Shenstone. She explores the desk, letters, and calendar dated June 5 1936, finding an unfinished letter to Shenstone and clues to his identity. Defeat.
The newly appointed Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin criticizes Taft Hartley provisions that limit union activity in politics and forbid the closed shop. He states the law curbs unions and undermines workers, while the act allows union shop terms, NLRB grievance actions, and elections for bargaining agents.
The physician advises following birth care guidance on vaccines including smallpox diphtheria whooping cough tetanus and scarlet fever inoculations at recommended ages. It also notes optional typhoid shots for travel and explains oily seborrhea as a cause of oily scalp and hair loss with treatment by skin specialists to delay shedding.
The Priscilla Class Circle No. 2 met at Memorial Park on Wednesday evening for their annual picnic. Eleven members and one guest attended, including Mrs. Lucille Dorton, Mrs. Blanche McAfoose, Mrs. Sybil Kurtzman, Mrs. Goldie Willis, Mrs. Ruth Cole, Mrs. Stella Rockholn, Mrs. Grace Love, Mrs. Gertrude Jewel, Mrs. Alta Sweeney, Mrs. William Dunlap, Mrs. Stella Dyre, and guest Richard Jones, grandson of Mrs. Dyre.
Mrs. Katherine Rice and her son Gene returned Wednesday after a three week visit to Cleveland Massachusetts and Providence Rhode Island.
Announcement that the Navy plans to place the battleships Iowa and Missouri in mothballs surprised the White House. The move, aimed at prioritizing submarines carriers and aircraft, was not fully cleared at the top and could provoke GOP charges that Democrats are disarming the country during a world crisis.
Early this year Senator Ralph Flanders of Vermont introduced a measure to authorize standby rationing with a focus on meat. The bill was killed by committee in February and did not reach the Senate floor. In the recent special session he opposed stationing, arguing the third wage increase round was nearly finished while the fourth had just begun, making new controls unfair until the fourth round completes.
Boeing officials reject claims the Russian Hyushin is a stolen version of the U S XB-47 Stratojet. They note similar nacelles but different wings and likely slower performance. Boeing maintains the TU 70 borrowed twenty B 29 features.
Kathleen Torrence of Tuppers Plains spent a weekend with her parents. Wakeman White visited his uncle and aunt. The Chapmans and family, Brice and Mary Jo, plus David, visited in Athens. Others visited Charleston, Syracuse, Pomeroy, Middleport, and Letart from Ohio towns. Paul Orr attended a ball game at Racine with Arthur Orr.
E Thompson of Flint Michigan commends Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Wilson of Athens Route 2 and New Marshfield for offering four rooms of their larger home to visiting relatives and friends of the late Joseph H. Thompson. He praises Athens County residents for generous hospitality and neighborly acts.
Mrs Lena Saxton died August 17 at the Sylvan Cleland home. Funeral services were held Friday with burial in Standish cemetery. Numerous relatives from Ohio Pennsylvania Florida and California attended or sent greetings. Harold Nichols on leave from the Navy and other Stout family members joined the reunion at Noah Stout farm.
Glouster Trimble Grange meets Saturday at 8 p.m. with inspection and conferral of first and second degrees. Members will take pies and enjoy ice cream and coffee provided at the event.
Glouster area churches list services with pastors and weekly times. Highlights include Glouster Church of Christ with sermons Thy Will Be Done and At the Feet of Jesus, and Methodist, EUB, Baptist, and other denominations noting class times and special services.
Mr and Mrs Woods of Columbus announce the birth of their daughter. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Dan McClean. Relatives from Indiana, Mr and Mrs Roger Williams and children Wilson and Judith, are vacationing with Ralph Williams and his wife. Mrs P O Mace and son Nolan visited Fort Wayne with her sister Mrs Myrtle Prater and returned with son-in-law and daughter Richard Burkett and family. Mildred Barber and Gertie Evans of Columbus visited, as did Mr and Mrs George Barber and Mr and Mrs Harold Chesser of Newark with Lizzie Doolittle. Sylvester Stump, employed in Columbus, spent a week with his family.
A columnist argues that fear and overreaction threaten the nation. He compares nerves to bandied telegraph lines and urges a strong democratic America. Faith in ourselves, country, and God is proposed as the antidote to un-American agitation and external threats.
Mr and Mrs Walter Faine will operate the Tiny Diner built recently by Mr and Mrs C Turner who ran it for several months. Mr Faine brings years at the Chittenden Hotel Columbus as chef at the Curtiss Hotel Canton and as cook for the officers club at Lincoln Neb. Mrs Faine served seven years as hostess and waitress in the Chittenden.
In an average year before World War I U S transport systems carried about 604 billion ton miles of inter city freight.
Mrs. Connie Brown of Trimble reports the death of her uncle George Walker of Largo Florida. Walker died in a Largo hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. He and his wife were formerly residents of Trimble and left about 22 years ago.
Funeral services for John Gazelle, who died at his home on Embrey Street, were held at Holy Cross Church Thursday at 9 a.m. with Rev. Fr. Charles Walsh officiating. Burial followed in Calvary Cemetery.
Mrs. Norman Bollheimer and Miss Dorcas Burns returned to Columbus after visiting their mother Mrs. Mary Burns and sister Mrs. B F Swartz. Bollheimer to Mansfield for the weekend and Burns to Chicago with Miss Jane Thurston for a week. Mrs Ella Altman of Bridgeport W V returned home after two weeks with the Deals of Jacksonville. Royal Deal of Detroit visits friends in Glouster and Jacksonville.
A listing of area radio stations with call letters and frequencies including NBC WLW Cincinnati 7100 KC WSAZ Huntington 930 KC CBS WBNS Columbus 1460 KC WCHS Charleston 80 KC WPAR Parkersburg 1450 KC MBS WHKC Columbus 610 KG ABC WCOL Columbus 1230 KC WMOA Marietta 10 KC noted.
A dense timetable of daytime and evening radio programming listing shows, hosts, and times across multiple networks. Includes news, music hours, dramas, comedies, quiz shows, and variety programs with numerous named programs and personalities such as Dizzy Dean, Archibald Lomax, Abbott and Costello, and Jack Carson.
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