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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1957
Page
9
Market trends in 1957 show a midyear peak followed by a decline as tight money policy and rising costs squeezed profits. Expansion from the prior boom slowed, with production down and profits pressured. Still, optimism for 1958’s rebound centers on autos, housing, defense, construction, and easier credit.
Washington reports a shift from large institutions to small clinical facilities and foster homes for orphans and dependent children. Census data show declines in institutional care from 144000 in 1933 to 95000 in 1950 with continued decreases expected. Foster home numbers rise from 105000 in 1933 to 175000 in 1954, aided by prosperity and new public attitudes toward adoption and day care programs.
In Truckee California an empty tanker truck missed a sharp curve ripping out 108 feet of guard rail and plunging down an embankment. The driver escaped injury and drove the truck away according to a highway patrolman.
Patrolman halted a red light truck in San Luis Obispo to check a sack of turkey sandwiches after a woman in Santa Barbara feared the meat had gone bad. A doctor confirmed the concern, and highway patrol flagged the truck before noon. Alegria, en route to Red Bluff with his family, learned of the suspicion.
Federal Bureau of Prisons studies possible industries for McNeil Island Washington to produce electronic device parts. A prison industry would train inmates for post release jobs in the nuclear age and help supply skilled electronic equipment workers.
Columbus records show varied reasons for traffic crashes from faulty brakes to bad roads and sleepy drivers. Some entries are jokes about pork chops and mules, while others describe alcohol use and reckless driving. The notes highlight misreported details and eccentric accident claims.
A physicist and university faculty member argues for closer ties between religion and science to avert moral collapse. He cautions against materialism and military aims, urging faith to precede discovery and calling for theologians to interpret human value amid space and atomic-age advances.
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