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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1935
Page
5
City plans a $16,000 water main on ter Street and a $35,000 sanitary sewer project. Other items include a $25,000 Union Street park, $30,000 street repaving, and a $40,000 overhead crossing. Discussion notes potential federal work relief funds and requests for engineering data.
A fragmented report notes a trade push tied to a February launch in the United States aimed at recapturing drive market losses. Details are incomplete, with references to a hen and a station or printer.
Ohio schools face a $18 million shortfall of the $60 million sales tax yield before July as funds are diverted to pensions and relief. Dr. B O Skinner, state director of education, criticizes current distribution as unfair to small districts and one room schools, noting funds do not match actual needs.
Rio Grande misses and students appear in a roundup of visits and activities. Mrs. Harvey Howell and Mrs. I. F. Fowler host and attend gatherings. Ohio University students David Jones and Evelyn Eichinger vacation with relatives. Louis Hover hospitalizes. several families travel to Rocky Hill Middleport Jackson and Union Furnace attendance.
Harry Keller of Long Island pleaded he had no money before Alderman Paul Watson in Erie. The alderman told him to take out his false teeth and an $8 bill fell out, settling the case. Keller called it a hunch.
Ohio pupils will not pay sales tax on meals bought in school cafeterias or dining rooms including parochial schools. Carlton Dargusch of the State Tax Commission announced the ruling aligning with Attorney General Bricker. Tax applies to books and supplies sold by school operated stores.
The piece surveys the history of almanacs from Vienna’s 1457 first print to early American volumes by Bradford and Franklin. It recounts beliefs in zodiac signs, weather forecasts, Mother Shipton prophecies, and rustic anecdotes about Jack o lanterns and moonlight as remembered from a Bremen Ohio store and family farm life.
Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins reports five proposed National Forest units in Ohio. Units include Muskingum Hocking McArthur Little Scioto Scioto Symmes Creek spanning Gallia Lawrence Jackson and Vinton counties with annual maintenance estimates from 125000 to 175000 dollars. Government land purchases average about ten dollars per acre pending owner cooperation.
Police and sheriffs in the southeastern Ohio region show growing interest in the state highway patrol radio network station at Cambridge. Lt. Kinsey reports several offices plan short wave receivers tuned to the state frequency as reliability tests yield fair to good reception signals.
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