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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1963
Page
1
President Kennedy asks Congress to cut taxes by 3.2 billion for 1963, aiming for an eventual 18 percent reduction. The plan would retroactively start Jan 1 if enacted, with three-year phase‑in and wide changes to deductions oil depletion allowances capital gains and sick pay benefits.
Medi ation machinery was thrown into high gear to secure ratifications of the peace pact ending the 33 day Atlantic and Gulf Coasts dock strike. Hope rose for resumed shipping before the weekend though full normal operations would take days at major ports like New York. A union spokesman predicted broad acceptance of the wage scale recommendation, while Mobile longshoremen rejected the pact over a local pay-for-lost-work clause.
An arsonist who has started at least 12 fires in the Edgemont area of Dayton struck a vacant furnished home Wednesday night in freezing temperatures. The fire gutted beds in bedrooms. no injuries occurred. The homeowner died last summer. Investigators say the pattern involves setting beds in unoccupied houses.
Mary Brandy a Choctaw elder who recalled Civil War days and Union soldiers in blue died in Idabel Oklahoma. She would have turned 111 on February 14. Survivors include two sons four daughters twenty grandchildren and forty great grandchildren.
Negotiations push to remove 30 Jupiter missiles from Italy and 15 from Turkey, with 60 Thor missiles to be retired from Britain. NATO will rely on Polaris submarine missiles from the sea, potentially by 1970, while U S power remains to shield the alliance. In Rome 40 000 miners strike over stalled labor talks as negotiations falter. In Washington Mrs Robert F Kennedy expects her eighth child in July per the Washington Post.
The table shows how individual income tax payments would change from 1962 to 1963 and 1964 under Kennedy's plan, listing taxable income brackets and taxes for those years. Bowling Green State University coach W Harold Anderson resigns to become athletic director, replacement named. Dayton duplex fire leaves 12 children homeless.
A break in an 18 inch main gas line between Ravenswood West Virginia and Sugar Grove Carbondale jeopardized pressure for Athens Pomeroy Middleport Gallipolis Ravenswood and Nelsonville Logan supply. Ohio Fuel Gas Co and Gasco issued emergency orders to cut energy use and shift to supplemental fuels while crews work a bypass and restore pressure.
Senator Morse ordered an immediate Senate inquiry into reports of renewed Soviet military activity in Cuba. State Department officials will testify first before the Latin American Affairs subcommittee, with questions on arms deliveries including MIG fighters and torpedo boats.
The pro Communist Pathet Lao urged U S aid mission and Air America withdrawal from Laos accusing illegal flights over neutralist and Pathet Lao areas. They called on the International Control Commission to supervise a rapid pullout and warned of consequences if Washington resists.
A Grand Rapids juror was accepted after saying watching The Defenders and Perry Mason made her feel qualified. She added her decisions would not be swayed by Perry Mason defendants never seeming to lose. The report also notes other regional briefs about an icy glaze nicknamed freezy skid stuff and Loveland planning to borrow ten thousand dollars against new income tax receipts.
In Havana hundreds of Cubans rush to board the Shirley Sykes as new departure rules require surrender of homes and cars to the state and payment of utilities before leaving. They may take only three changes of clothing and no jewelry, with no sailing time announced for the ship. Elsewhere in Ashtabula, New York Central Railway officials probe a derailment that sent seven passenger cars off the tracks during a snowstorm.
A severe cold snap gripped the region with Athens at 15 degrees below zero and other readings near or below 23 below in Fairfield County. Schools closed across Athens, Meigs, Gallia, Logan, Morgan, and Meigs counties while industries curtailed gas use.
Ohio faces a long term teacher shortage but a 1966 study by Harold J. Bowers shows supply will catch up with demand as birth rates from the postwar era decline. The turnaround aligns with phasing out cadet teaching programs and the rising pool of future teachers. Rhodes Names 2 Men
Ohio House and Senate debates two bills on unemployment benefits with one side urging active job search and the other supporting mail registration. Employers complain former workers collect benefits from Florida and Hawaii. Budget talks highlight state finances with warnings of belt tightening and possible tax increases. Senate leaders push resolutions on a constitutional convention and federal tax revenue sharing.
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