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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1970
Page
4
A brief front page note lists Kenner Bush as publisher Fred W Weber as publisher arrangements are noted along with circulation director Charles W Reamer managing editor M W McDargh and advertising director Richard R Paynter with assistant to the publisher in Athens Ohio.
Scientific warning about a century long cold spell begins in 1950 and could last centuries with global temperatures dropping gradually. Environmental scientist Murray Mitchell warns a four degree fall could return Earth to an Ice Age climate, bringing more snow and extended freezes.
Ohio Attorney General Paul Brown urges three changes to narcotics policy. Judges may order probation with clinic reporting and possible record wipe after a drug free period. addicts and alcoholics could enter indefinite treatment under probate court supervision. Critics warn of open-ended commitments and funding limits while recognizing a shift toward treatment over punishment.
William D. Rohr, Ohio University Director of Athletics, notes the university gains prestige from coast to coast due to the fine basketball team and emphasizes the group of young men is second to none in class both on and off the court.
Washington debate on importing Israel's kibbutz child rearing to American ghettos. Beatrice Metalitz argues communal nurseries and shared schooling could counter substandard housing, poverty, and low self worth, while Bettelheim and Rabkin warn of psychological strain in a highly individualistic society.
Nicholas von Hoffman examines the Henry Horner Homes shootings in Chicago where Michel Soto and his brother John were killed by police amid a Black community struggle. Neighbors allege murder without coroner inquests or grand juries, noting prior traffic-light activism and police distrust amid urban poverty and political neglect.
Buckley describes the Black Panthers as a militant group opposed to U S power structures and recalls encounters with Eldridge Cleaver. He cites police violence in Chicago's West Side, the Soto brothers, and Fred Hampton and Mark Clark murders. He notes efforts by local residents to form a civil rights group and laments systemic white control and police violence in the urban crisis.
New York column highlights random items from a mailbag including teen allowances averaging five dollars, mink pants priced at three thousand five hundred dollars, and a WVU recreation of Franklin's electric rotisserie. Also covers Incas welfare, leg length variance, hair rope strength, a safety slogan, and health advice.
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