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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1958
Page
4
The Farm Equipment Institute president notes 1957 tractor and equipment sales will improve over last year due to higher farm income and demand for modern gear to offset rising labor costs. He cites larger family-type farms and efficiency gains as key trends driving continued agricultural modernization.
A calm overview of the European Common Market outlines its aim to remove tariffs among six Western European nations within 12 to 15 years. It notes the potential move from a customs union to full economic integration and even political unity as a United States of Europe.
Panic in Washington and across the nation drives calls for bigger budgets. The piece derides endless money-spending as the solution, criticizing politicians and economists while urging restraint and moral courage. It cites Brooks, Eddy, Hare, Richter, and Smiles on courage and self control.
A personal missive to actress Kim Novak from Beverly Hills writer Jim Bishop recounts family happenings, Christmas misadventures, and praise for Novak. The letter describes a fainting incident with a hospital scene, a planned guest house renovation, a pregnancy, and light domestic anecdotes including a torn kitchen and a polaroid gift. It closes with warm wishes for Novak’s career and ties to home.
The article urges parents to help poor readers by making reading enjoyable and promoting children with their age group. It describes a home drill method using flash cards, shared reading, and praise, citing Paul Z. as an example and offering a booklet for mailing with a small fee.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce in North Miami Beach offers 100 trading stamps to everyone who votes on the city charter. The gimmick aims to boost turnout on election day.
HAL BOYLE notes McMurdo Sound’s daylight oddities and Antarctic quirks. A visiting explorer is told to apply daylight saving time immediately, though the region already enjoys continuous daylight until late February. The piece offers comic vignettes on snow toads, improvised haircuts, and local Navy humor from Deep Freeze III.
E J Kahn Jr recalls Abe Burrows learning a Russian grandmother spoke no English until her death at 87 and asking him why he was not in school. Burrows built a Brooklyn linked wit by sitting with Hollywood types and admitting his origin. In Greenwich Village a hostess offered a party gimmick "Come As You Were Before You Were Psychoanalyzed" with guests staying until five in the morning in 1968.
The horoscope urges steady work and careful handling of personal confidences. It notes improved organizational ability between now and mid April and a five month rise to active planning beginning May, with creativity and enterprise peaking later. Travel opportunities appear in July and August, plus good financial news in late 1958.
The piece discusses Earl Browder’s leadership of the Communist Party of America, his Rutgers lecture on Karl Marx and America, and Browder’s break with Kremlin control. It notes his stance on American exceptionalism, the Russian Revolution, and the claimed pure capitalism of the American system.
A mother asks about a four year old with sudden croupy cough and hoarse voice and a teen daughter wearing foam rubber falsies. Another case involves a four year old girl facing kindergarten and an older brother who bullies, with advice to coordinate with the principal teachers and family physician.
Ponca City sheriff reports Arkansas City, Kansas, swindle involving two counterfeit checks totaling 96 dollars. The checks bore the name of M. B. Shirer, Ponca City’s former mayor who died in 1949, and were drawn on the Farmers State Bank of Ponca City, closed for about two decades.
Answers cover U S currency portraits two and five dollars the back of the twenty dollar bill the front portrait on twenty dollars whether Jackson or Grant appears the ten bill back view whether Treasury or Independence Hall chosen Japan currency unit peso or peseta and the pre gold standard value of a double eagle.
The Athens Messenger and The Sunday Messenger are listed with pricing for daily, Sunday, and mail delivery. Rates include monthly, six month, and yearly options for Ohio and West Virginia, with special mail rates and carrier delivery details. The notice notes post office classification and Associated Press affiliation.
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