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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1958
Page
4
The Cincinnati Enquirer argues that press freedom faces ongoing challenges from local and state actions. It cites a Baltimore mayoral tax attempt on ads and Utica New York officials weighing a 5 percent ad revenue tax, plus Rhode Island moves to sign editorials.
The article surveys editorial practice on publishing juvenile offenders names, noting partial legal allowances in many states and FBI stance favoring publicity. It contrasts leniency goals with public safety, citing cases in Texarkana and Palo Alto and quoting J Edgar Hoover on naming youth criminals. The piece posits the newspaper’s policy of publishing names only for major crimes while urging restraint.
In this statement the columnist asserts they will not lend influence to any group that attacks others based on race religion politics or economic status. They say they will fight harmful or subversive principles regardless of who adopts them including the President Supreme Court Justice or any party or union and will use every lawful method to oppose such ideas.
Joe Friday star Jack Webb marries Jacqueline Loughery in a Los Angeles area civil ceremony officiated by a popular judge. The groom jokes with guests as champagne flows and plans for a reception at Scandia unfold.
A look at surprising facts from public life and culture. It notes 28 percent of married couples both work, rising trends in female labor, a surge in dogs as common companions, and a wide range of folklore and statistics from ship superstitions to hummingbird heart rates.
Melba D. 18, a college freshman, writes about reading Dr. Crane's column with 47 other coeds in a girls dormitory. Mothers clip and mail the column nationwide, inspiring readers from America to Europe and Asia during wartime.
A fragmentary, humorous column notes a Kentucky figure with a sling in a breakfast scene after trouble at a club. Jack Paar claims TV MC uniqueness with a quirky sleep coffee line. A Havana traveler cites hotel patrons using glossed American Spanish dictionaries. Credits Bennett Cerf 1958.
Answers cover poetry and politics. The owl and the pussy cat sailed for 347 days. Roosevelt traded 50 destroyers to Britain in 1940. A US Senator must be 30 years old. The Constitutional Convention had 12 states. Northwest Territory carved into six states. Nine different men have served as US president. The Pentagon rises 5 stories high. A quindecennial anniversary marks 15 years.
The Army Corps of Engineers reported Saturday that Great Lakes water levels are lower than a year ago and only slightly above their record lows.
The Apalachin phenomenon is seen as legitimizing hot money through investment in normal industries. Some funds come from illegal earnings, dope and cash untaxed, hidden in Canada and other sanctuaries. Marginal businessmen move funds into garment, transport, and leisure sectors while policing their own ranks.
The article argues small rural hospitals once yielded to larger centers but now fit a four-tier system. It envisions metropolitan medical centers, district hospitals, combined rural health centers, and rural obstetric emergency facilities. Delegates head to Cleveland for the NAACP convention with 1000 attendees from 40 states.
The Athens Messenger announces daily and Sunday editions with carrier and mail delivery options. Rates listed include daily and Sunday, Ohio and West Virginia, with weekly, monthly, semiannual, and annual pricing and special mail rates.
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