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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1946
Page
4
David Lawrence laments a Congress and President on holiday while postwar reconversion stalls. He warns of rising monopolies, wage and material distribution issues, and shrinking competition as small businesses liquidate and the economy weakens without decisive action.
Athens area churches announce schedules for Friday through Sunday. Programs include youth fellowship at Athens High School Stadium, morning worship by Rev Don Allen, Christian Science and Presbyterian services, plus choir, Sunday school, and special guest speakers from churches in New Marshfield Clark's Chapel Richland Ave Bates Pleasanton Alexander Presbyterian and other congregations across Athens.
The Rev. WC Dennis pastors services in Coolville and Decatur with sermons and evening worship. Sunday School at Airline Christian at 9:30 a.m. and a communion service at MT Zion Ridge Christian at 10 a.m. Young Peoples meeting slated for 6:50 p.m.
During a June library gathering at Innisfail Beatrice Harrington plays the Merry Widow Waltz while Colin Fitzgerald dances with Charlotte Brent. The room quiets as Beatrice’s piano swells and Mark watches Charlotte, who faints and is carried away by Mark. The scene hints at underlying tensions as Beatrice charms the guests.
An editorial argues the Yugoslav dispute is actually a clash between the United States and Soviet influence. It labels Tito as Stalin’s puppet and urges strong American demands for apology, compliance, and noninterference, citing past Soviet provocations and recent incidents.
A Harvard poll of 391 German youths in Friedberg and Offenbach shows 63 voting Roosevelt and eight for Truman as the greatest man in world history. Bismarck 50, Frederick the Great 49, Hitler 19, Eisenhower 14, Charlemagne 8, Caesar 6, Alexander the Great 3, Napoleon 3. The results suggest German reverence for military figures and limited impact of democratic education.
The piece dissects the claim of a $1150 per person income and explains that this is per head. It calculates a typical four person family at about $4600 and a three person family at about $3450, then questions the fate of those living on around $2000 yearly for the entire family.
Douglas Larsen notes Secretary Clinton Anderson's vacation on his farm in New Mexico. He recounts the potato surplus crisis, failed overseas disposal attempts, dehydration and canning costs, and the final domestic disposition sending potatoes to institutions and distillers for alcohol, with tax receipts offsetting losses.
The Rev Helen W Tatmann will preach Saturday at Stewart Pilgrim Woliness. Sunday school starts at 9:30 a.m. with midweek prayer on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Albany Baptist holds Sabbath school at 9:30 a.m. Young People's Gwen Forum at 7 p.m. Evening worship at 8 p.m. Rev Melvin Segar leads Bible study and prayer on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Laurel Run entries recount Mrs. William Sparks Sr hosting Friendly Neighbor Club at home with a birthday cake inscribed Back to School days. Attendees included numerous Todds Dodd Huddy Campbells Wood Patton and Sparks family members with guest Mrs. William Sparks Jr. Next meeting slated Sept 3 at Mrs. Warren Sowers home. Additional notes cover local visits and fishing trips by Patton and Haskins, and Hastings guests with Wolfe family.
Radio scheduling notes show Eddie Bracken signing for a comedy series to replace the James Melton concert on CBS Sundays starting Sept 29. Bracken, veteran of the Aldrich Family era and a 13 week NBC serial in 1945, has mainly worked in films.
Ten years ago Misses McVar Pierce Morton and others returned from a Muskingum River outing. Athens County Fair bouts saw Joe Stanley and Steve Gyurko win in six round actions with Eddie Banik drawing Crawford Tillman. Expositions in Cleveland and showers for Jean Rauch highlighted social notes. Twenty years ago Kiwanis officers visited New Lexington to judge a flower contest as Dempsey Tunney training headlines appeared alongside Syracuse school changes and Rockbridge High School plans.
A Lake Hope picnic gathered residents from Coonville and Zanesville. Attendees included Mrs. Q Farley and children Floyd and Shirley, and many others from both towns such as Mr and Mrs Jack Taylor, Mr and Mrs John Harkless with their children, and Flossie Boals with her brood.
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