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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1949
Page
4
A young man trusts a penny weight machine in a drugstore for all life answers. After a string of misfortunes including a broken engagement and a loan to a friend, the machine’s guidance fails and he ends up in a psychiatric ward. The piece ends with a cautionary moral about seeking advice from a machine.
The piece argues against Israel and Jordan rejecting UN trusteeship for Jerusalem, urging acceptance of a UN solution and warning that unilateral moves undermine peace. It notes Israel’s declaration of Jerusalem as capital and calls for a broader, UN backed approach with majority support.
Opinion piece argues relief programs raise local costs in Ohio especially Athens County. Claims large counties fund most aid, enabling political manipulation and voting power. Warns that relief seekers flood cities, bring relatives, and rely on welfare, with supervisors counting votes.
In Athens County relief cost figures show agencies piling up clients as costs quadruple over years. The piece argues large counties face harsher rises as migration to cities for war work creates ongoing need and claimants feel entitled, driving up costs and burden on county government.
wartime excises on rail freight passenger traffic telephone and telegraph and other luxuries still in force four years after WWII end. Sen Lucas signals openness to repeal but warns of replacing revenue. Postwar budget far exceeds earlier estimates and lifts taxes may harm rail travel and business.
Syracuse group Guilding Star Council Daughters of America held their annual Christmas party on December 15 celebrating the lodge fortieth seventh anniversary. Gifts were exchanged.
The Truman appointed committee reports on religion and welfare in the armed forces says soldiers must understand citizenship and national goals. It notes information and education programs exist but vary in effectiveness, with the Army program most active and calls for greater officer involvement and more trained personnel.
The Messenger reports actions on installing a traffic light at the Second and Lancaster intersection. Council authorized installation after State Highway Department permission, with dates in February and April 1949. Despite material shortages, quotations, orders, and a controller arrival occurred, but shipment date remained uncertain. Suggestions are invited. Athens, Dec 16.
Local social notes list visits and guests in Columbus and Logan. Mr and Mrs John McGuire and family attended a Colum bus parade with relatives. Lois Disbennet and family traveled between Lancaster Columbus and Logan. Phyllis Frey of Clare was reported seriously injured in an automobile accident.
Dr Edwin P. Jordan explains delirium tremens from chronic alcohol use. Symptoms include insomnia frightful dreams and visual hallucinations often with moving insects or animals fever sweating and confusion. Attacks last several days and require institutional care. He discusses whether to taper or remove alcohol and answers a question about lemons drying blood.
A mixed quiz item lists questions for men women and teens about language proverbs presidents hospitals and more. It includes a scoring key with points and difficulty levels and ends with a garbled answer key.
Four robberies in Athens and two in Coolville are reported by George Lantz grocer Jimmy Littler band leader C M Drollinger and Vern Andrews of Athens and Taylor's Drug Store and the Pierce and Findling hardware store in Coolville. Miss Bernarda Danford returns home for Copietagpe holidays. The body of Samuel Gompers is viewed as his train stops at Athens. Mrs Katherine Scott Boyd named to Philadelphia Choral Society. Bus driver Max Harrah’s bus vanishes then found by the river. Emmett Morrison and George Sprague Ohio University students spend weekend at home in McArthur.
A detailed each station schedule listing daytime and evening programs across NBC CBS ABC and MBS networks. Entries include news broadcasts daytime kid shows sports music talk dramas and variety programs with multiple repeats and cross-network notes.
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