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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1959
Page
4
The piece uses a playful metaphor of a white charger named High Resolve to discuss the perils of making New Year resolutions. It argues that while the first day of the year is ordinary, it offers a good moment to reflect, reassess, and commit to betterment despite possible slips along the way.
Citizens deserve simple complete statements of public expenditures published in home county newspapers. The text argues open records help defend officials against unfair criticism and explain how voter approved improvements drive tax increases. It cites Churchill and Emerson on giving.
Dr George W Crane analyzes a case of Sadie a 28 year old wife admitting multiple affairs. He argues such affairs reflect insecurities not true passion and warns against judging women by Kinsey like opinion. He compares marital hunger to caloric needs and promotes his booklet Sex Problems in Marriage with a stamped return envelope.
The year 1959 will see rising costs and wages, inflation and taxes a worry, and defense spending up as international crises emerge. March to April bring space antics with talking animals aboard satellites, and a China protest in Peiping. Washington notes a congressman’s award and Eisenhower Easter egg hunt. Elvis Presley may rise to sergeant.
A year after Sputnik, the United States expanded science leadership with Killian guiding a new federal science council, NASA formed to supervise civilian space work, ARPA created for military space flight, and the State Department installed a science adviser while lawmakers created space and science committees.
A George Elliott Co study finds profit sharing and wage incentive plans used by 20 industries affect about two million workers. Productivity rose 39 to 100 percent, averaging 63.55 percent, while unit labor costs fell an average 25.91 percent. worker take home pay rose about 20.6 percent on average.
The reading urges relying on your own efforts to complete tasks now and revising your spending plan due to budget concerns. It notes a pivotal birthday year with potential for goals realization, especially in work requiring original thought and executive ability.
An Army test used a live mouse from Harvard to ride a rocket into orbit for three months. The mouse returned in good health and was hailed as a hero, quipping it beats the rat race in space. A Parisian inventor adds a new Shower Roulette concept involving six men, towels, and a Brigitte Bardot item.
A newspaper style quiz recalls events from past Januaries including Harold Macmillan’s succession in 1957 and Grace Kelly’s daughter’s name born that January. It lists other January milestones such as UN Assembly origins, Marshall and Mussolini connections, and Springfield 1787 rebellion.
The article examines whether, and how, an adult can alter personality. It cites internal change as essential and warns against resistance, over-systematizing, perfectionism, constant criticism, excessive dreaming, suspicion, and negative habits. It notes frankness can be a vice and urges honest self-evaluation.
Italy extends the slot machine ban by two months as a kindness for winter workers. The government cited not wanting service men to lose work during severe weather.
The author condemns a string of Christmas strikes led by the New York City newspaper truckmen, calling them a public nuisance. He attacks Hoffa, warns against police union racketeering, and urges Meany and Reuther to denounce the danger to law and order before voters hold them to account.
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