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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1969
Page
9
A Gallup survey finds 64 percent of adults favor federal funds to establish day care centers in communities. The report notes two main aims: enabling mothers to work or train and boosting early education for young children, with strong support from Black and white respondents alike.
President Nixon finds the job pleasant and rewarding despite daily pressures from Vietnam peace talks, crime, and rising prices. Aides describe his calm, direct style, warm manner with visitors, and reliance on staff devotion, with escapes into swimming, golf at Camp David, and Potomac cruises when time permits.
The article details President Nixon's daily routine, private study methods, and staff briefings, plus his active social pace at the White House. It notes frequent guests, weekend retreats to Camp David, San Clemente, and Key West, and the roles of Kissinger, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Ziegler in shaping policy and events.
An experimental letter telegram service named maigram is being tested for six months by the Post Office Department and Western Union. It aims to provide overnight delivery of written messages dispatched by telegram and delivered by mail carriers.
Scientists await a Moon rock shipment likely weighing 50 to 60 pounds in two metal boxes. NASA astronauts Armstrong and Collins will deliver the first samples from the Moon, sparking questions about life, origin, and the Moon's interior. Quarantine will follow for three weeks as experts study the stones for clues about the Earth Moon system.
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