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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1971
Page
6
Action for Children's Television from Boston advocates petitioning the FTC to forbid toy advertising on all children’s programs. ACT says ads manipulate children, urging stricter rules while FCC debates gains against toy marketing.
The Athens Messenger notes ACT mothers led by Evelyn Larson challenge the current system where toy makers buy time and networks fund children’s programming. Toy firms defend TV ads as essential for product information and mass market access, while NAB calls the proposal unwise.
Mr and Mrs Walton E Davies announce the engagements of their twin daughters Rebecca Lee and Elizabeth Ann Rebecca is bride elect of Richard L Hoffman and a senior at Ohio University with a medical technology internship at Mount Carmel Hospital Cleveland area. Elizabeth Ann is bride elect of Robert E Baird and a Riverside White Cross School of Nursing graduate staff nurse at Riverside Methodist Hospital Columbus. An early fall double wedding is planned.
Abigail Van Buren relates a reader tale about Thomas Edison hiring only those who taste soup before salting. The column includes letters on salt cravings, school conferences, and ancestral bragging with Biblical warning about heritage.
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