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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1971
Page
2
Union leaders from pressmen bookbinders printers machinists and stereotypers met McBee officials at the Ohio University Inn to discuss starting complete contract negotiations. Contracts expire Oct 31 with possible 175 jobs cut unless unions offer profit-boosting alternatives. Henry Hefti said the pressmen seek full two way bargaining.
Jersey City Mayor Thomas J. Whelan and seven colleagues were convicted by a federal jury of extorting kickbacks from contractors. Whelan, smiling, said he would return to City Hall Thursday as the verdicts came in from the nine women and two men on the panel.
A federal bankruptcy trustee says Henry D. Stull and son Daniel may have bilked creditors of up to 100000 in Bond Properties Inc wholesale operation by using aliases and multiple warehouses. About 400000 in merchandise from Bond warehouses was auctioned after bankruptcy. John G. Guy seeks Stull and son for questioning. they allegedly liquidated merchandise at public auctions and kept the proceeds after paying only warehousing and related costs.
Rome AP The private chapel used by Pope Paul VI for daily masses and private prayers in moments of cardinalal death or major disasters is disclosed to the public in The Papal Apartment by Rt. Rev. Romeo Panciroli, Vatican official.
The forecast predicts showers Tuesday for New England, the Middle Atlantic states, and parts of the deep South with a cold front moving southeast from the Great Lakes. Warmer in the Southwest. Past temperatures show 84 high, 68 low yesterday, humidity 87 percent at 9 am today, and rainfall totals of 0.15 inches this month. Barometer at 29.99 inches. Meteorological note from Ohio University.
Athens County School Board votes three to one to move Title I classroom gear to the Tri County Vocational School, keeping items in one place. Weinfurther on vacation after dismissal. replacement George Christman attends. Board also accepts Assistant Clerk Jean Perry’s resignation and reviews a petition to move property owners from Federal Hocking to Athens City schools.
In Manchester New Hampshire 18 year old Cynthia Frink received a phone call from President Nixon after her valedictory speech at Central High School praised military strength patriotism and flag saluting. The President expressed approval and complimented her remarks saying he was glad to hear something positive. Frink described being in shock at the unexpected call.
Stark County narcotics agents confiscated $11,000 worth of amphetamine tablets known as white dynamite. Three Canton men, Thomas Martin Jr 28 John Popa 27 and Virgil Popa 25 were held after undercover buys at a Northeast Side Shopping Center. Bernard Cannon 41 of Los Angeles was arrested after questioning led to a city bus terminal locker containing $50,000 of tablets.
CAPE TOWN South Africa AP Postmaster General Louis F Rie banished an advertisement showing a bikini clad girl from the Southwestern Cape Telephone Directory He said he had never seen the girl and objects to the principle involved Future publications will require his approval before printing.
Dundee Scotland, long the jute center, is poised to become Britain’s sole unloading port for Indian and Pakistani jute goods. irregular sailings prompted consolidation at one port, with Dundee the logical choice. In Clovis New Mexico, a store faced repeat burglaries over weekends with a missing alarm device in the second break. Ancient Fez Morocco bans wheeled vehicles and bicycles in the old quarter.
More than 3 000 people are expected to arrive in Athens this week for summer activities on the Ohio University campus. About 200 are already on campus for workshops institutes and conferences with roughly 3 600 registered summer quarter students. A forensic program directed by Dr. Raymond Beaty Jr. will study goals and practices of forensics including debate and oratory. The Rainbow Girls delegation of 3 000 will use campus facilities for social and business meetings, led by Beatrice Owen, staying through Sunday. A chamber music institute directed by William R. Brophy enrolls 60 high school students.
A group of 16 youths including six soldiers were detained while distributing copies of the Declaration of Independence on the Fort Lewis Army base near Seattle. A military information officer said the Army does not object to literature but requires proper authorization, escort removed the civilians from the post, and the servicemen were returned to their units. The group spokesman described the action as a demonstration for free speech.
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