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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1945

Page

4

Subscription rates and addresses for newspaper service

Public notices list subscription prices by carrier and mail for various durations. It includes rates for in Ohio and outside Ohio, overseas service guidance, and addresses for subscriptions and offices, noting nominal obituary charges and card of thanks.

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Rutland Personal News Notes From Rutland Area

Rutland and surrounding residents share weekend visits and relocations. James Wagner guests in Rutland, while Betty, Suzanne, and Janet Snowden travel to Columbus. Discharges and returns from military service include Nathan Taylor and Wayland Brown. Local church events and school activities proceed amid flu closure and a postponed cantata.

Forgotten Americans Called to Reframe Prosperity and Inflation

The piece argues that 40 million Americans on fixed incomes and war-relief pensions are ignored by current wage and price policies. It warns inflation harms savers, retirees, and small businesses, urges leadership and a unified national plan to balance production, employment, and consumption.

Unlikable Men and a If Will Rogers Had Lived

A fragment from a column muses on Will Rogers remark about seldom meeting a man he didn t like and questions its relevance after the execution and convictions of Josef Kramer and other Belsen personnel and Yamashita. The piece ponders whether such men could be liked by a decent human being.

Will Rozers Will Will Rogers Josef Kramer Belsen Yamashita Manila Krame

Unified national defense urged as Army Navy merger debated

The piece argues for a single national defense department with unity of command across land sea and air forces. It advocates civilian control strong unified strategic plans and a cabinet member heading defense to avoid interservice rivalry and enable coordinated training and budgeting.

Truman Army Navy Department of National Defense Congress Soviet Union Japan Red Army Manchuria Sakhalin Korea Outer Mongolia Trans Baikal Khinghan Hailar Harbin Gobdi Man‘johuria Strategic Air Forces Nagasaki Mukden Shanghai Pearl Harbor Bataan

Scuttle and Run Policy Threatens Risk Capital Growth

The piece argues that spending one billion dollars on relief yields 500,000 jobs for a year but adds to future tax burdens, while investing as risk capital creates permanent jobs and broader economic benefits. It condemns government plans for larger deficits and lower taxes as a misleading scuttle and run approach, urging economy alongside tax cuts.

America

Tax Attributable to Pre-service Earned Income Defined

Returning servicemen get a tax break defined by the 1945 Revenue Act. It allows installment payment of the tax attributed to pre service earned income. The rule excludes active military pay when calculating earned income for tax purposes. The note references Uncle Elmer’s rash act in 1944 and the forgiveness year.

Washington Elmer

Many Voices Across a World Home

A compiled snippet shows Senator Glen H. Taylor and others musing on fame politics and world peace. It collects quotes from Henry George Mary Baker Eddy Shakespeare and Oliver Wendell Holmes about ambition faith and progress as a reflective backdrop.

Glen H. Taylor Idaho Capitol Steps Senate Hamlet

Surrender of Japan and atomic weapon endgame noted

Excerpt outlines WWII plans for Olympic and Coronet invasions and the shift to atomic strategy. It details MacArthur and Nimitz advances from Marianas Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the eventual atomic decision after Potsdam, and the Hiroshima bombing on August 6.

Marshall Japan Marianas Okinawa Asiatic Iwo Jima MacArthur Philippines Nimitz Kyushu Sixth United States Army KI Army Corps V Marine Amphibious Corps Miyazani Anaka Wan Kagoshima Koshiki Retto Shikouki IX Corps Tenth Kanto Tokyo Plain Honshu First Europe Pacific Tokyo-Yokohama Truman Stalin Potsdam New Mexico Germany Spaatz Hiroshima dJepan

Coolville Church and club notes feature December events

Coolville brief items list weekly youth group meetings led by Mrs. Henderson with pianist Mrs. Daugherty, Christmas readings and gifts exchanges at IWSCS and Guild gatherings, and visits by local residents including Mrs. McKnight and the Brandeberrys.

G. R. Walden IWSCS The Methodist Church Delphin Creeger G. G. Shanks Rasistinny Russell Cody Dolphin Creezer Hare Louise Keith Brandeberry U.S.N

Pleasant Valley Personal Notes

Pleasant Valley personal items note Billy Meighen of Akron visiting relatives from Thursday to Monday and Pvt Bobby Meighen recently discharged from the Army. Lowell Lowery and family visited Sunday evening with Mr Lowerys parents near Bates, and Joe and Clarabell Lowery attended their grandmother Mrs Mary Smiths funeral in Athens.

Pleasant Valley Billy Meighen S-2 c Akron Here Bobby Meighen Arthur Goodin Lowell Lowery Mr. Lowery Bates Joe Clarabell Lowery Mary Smith Athens

Is Safe England's King Fits Into Socialist Rule

DEWITT MACKENZIE argues that a Socialist government preserves the monarchy. George VI is portrayed as a plain, popular king who dutifully follows his ministers, while past monarchs showed more assertive authority. The piece praises the queen and upholds the throne as a unifying symbol amid crisis.

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Union Furnace News Notes

Union Furnace society notes list visits and family news. Mrs. Jeanita Woodard Mrs. Bill Vanfossen and Paul McGuire attended a supper with Mr and Mrs Bryan Calvin. Several Lancaster visitors and Logan trips are mentioned. Harold Powell has been discharged from the Army and returned home.

Union Furnace Jaanita Woodard Bill Vanfossen Paul McGuire Bryan Calvin Paul Hull Barbara Lancaster Carl Hull George Geiger Larry Brent Geiger John Murray Ernest Murrray Charles Clark Logan Harold Powell James Powell Leona Jeffrey Orville Ralph Miller King Delbert Rheinshell William King Millie King

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