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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1942
Page
6
Community leaders in GALLI Falkner discuss a housing project linked to the Ordnance WoW plan for a W Va site. Officials note costs, land prep, and plant needs while chairmen urge action before a mid year rollout.
Honolulu residents called it the safest place on earth before Pearl Harbor, as Dr and Mrs E C Class noted the islands faced food shortages and wartime unease yet remained largely calm. They described demographic splits with Japanese as a large minority and 35 percent Japanese and 14 percent Hawaiians, plus 23 percent Caucasians, while 28 percent were Chinese Korean or Filipino. The Classs attributed high living costs to 70 percent of food being imported and noted the University of Hawaii closed after the attack with Japanese students often seen as less hospitable than Chinese students.
The Commissioner of Education declares a postwar plan to expand vocational and technical training for war industries and women workers. Colleges will broaden engineering and related fields and prepare for peace by tackling global issues with long range planning. The School and College Civilian Morale Service will unite citizens in neighborhood study to address policy challenges democratically.
Alicia Hart advises a home treatment for blackheads using hot water and alcohol soap, a 15 minute boric acid hot solution, and a blackhead remover. After removal, apply a cold towel and antiseptic drying lotion like witch hazel, then avoid cure-all creams. Daily use may show improvement.
In Noel Veritzen's hotel suite Madge Graham presses him to greenlight Mary’s pursuit of Steve Redfield to learn Marion Morion's captors. Noel consents with reluctance, forbidding further discussion, while Madge hopes for progress in the rescue as Mary accepts a difficult, patriotic mission.
The Seventeenth Annual Circuit Exhibition of Ohio Water Color Society opens at Edwin Watts Chubb Library with 47 works by Ohio artists. Featured are Frances Gray Elliott's An Ohio Landscape and Edna Martha Way's From Mt. Tantalus and Slag. Exhibition runs Jan 4–25, free to the public, with many works catalogued for sale.
Helen Ganz recalls her Christmas holidays in New York when she served as an air raid warden. She underwent fingerprinting and training while the city prepared for air raid precautions amid wartime vigilance.
A dense list of Wednesday and Thursday club meetings includes Red Cross first aid classes at the Elks Club led by Keith Brandeberry, and talks by Dr H C Lehman on child mental health. Personal reminiscence by a New York air warden recalls duties, warnings, and wartime preparedness.
Schools will boost health and physical training, extend lunch programs for better nutrition, and teach nutrition habits. Curricula will stress global interdependence, high schools will prepare for war duties and mobilize voluntary service, with teachers volunteering and emergency protections planned. Adult education for low literacy will expand. Unnaturalized residents’ instruction will also grow. Education aims to fuel national service for war and peace.
Patchwork fever shifts from quilts to blouses and house jackets as Londoners embrace the craft during shelter hours this winter. Rosette Hargrove reports from England describe adapting patchwork into new clothing and home items.
Sayre Study Circle met at Mrs. Minnie Hughes's home on Morris Avenue with Mrs. O. E. McClure presiding. Prof. C. L. Dow presented motion pictures of the South from a summer trip through Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia and Florida including Hodgensville birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and Camp Shelby Mississippi.
Mr and Mrs Richard McKinstry and family returned Tuesday from nearly three weeks in Florida visiting Dr and Mrs T R Biddle in Daytona Beach. They attended a holiday ball at the Citadel Military Academy and enjoyed meals and events hosted by the Biddles Finneys and Tullis including a Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta. Also noted are visits to Bok Tower Silver Springs Marine Land and Gulf Stream fishing for Sail fish.
A woman describes four years of constipation stomach pain loss of appetite and breathlessness. She reports dizziness insomnia irritability and nervousness tied to menopause. Sold by a health representative at Quick's Cut Rate Drug Store Athens Ohio.
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