Athens Messenger Publisher History Note
The Athens Messenger history lists key publishers and staff through the years including Frederick W. Bush Gordon K. Bush G Kenner Bush and Fred W. Weber with circulation and editorial leadership noted. It records the newspaper’s founding route and location in Athens Ohio and acknowledges long serving staff.
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Johnson Road
Athens
Ohio
Frederick W. Bush
Gordon K. Bush
Ohio Supreme Court rulings hit state and counties with costs
Two decisions by the Ohio Supreme Court will cost the state and its 88 counties millions. The court ruled all voting precincts using machines must have two or more machines, and that indigent defendants in probate hearings must have state-funded counsel. Franklin County faces about 666,000 for 380 extra machines. Summit County faces widespread costs for appointed counsel. The machine ruling may require thousands of new machines. alternative is reintroducing paper ballots. Officials expect directives and workload shifts as counties adjust.
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Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
High Court
Franklin County
Summit County
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Ted W. Brown
Brown
Hardin County
Supreme Court
County Boards of Elections
Harold H. Holzworth
County Election Board
Gregory Ensign
Department Health and Mental Retardation
Jay O. Tepper
John J. Gilligan
Nixon Brezhnev TV Plug Prank Turns Serious
Nixon and Brezhnev tour a Kremlin control room where Soviet technicians demonstrate a five channel cutoff switch that can silence all TV feeds. The exchange ends with Nixon joking about a Cadillac in exchange for detente progress and access to the red button.
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Nixon
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United States
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
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Ron Ziegler
Ohio Legislature Raises State Worker Pay Amid Campus Budget Strain
The Ohio General Assembly approved an across the board pay raise for 82 000 state workers, adding 17 million from universities to fund the plan amid ongoing campus financial pressures. Critics warn the move burdens higher education budgets with higher room and board fees and risk campus operations.
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Ohio General Assembly
Ohio
General Assembly
Nixon aides debated secret classification and lie tests
In a moment of concern over government secrecy Nixon allegedly proposed a system to classify documents so secret that only numbered copies circulate to named individuals and subject them to lie detector tests if leaks occurred. The plan never produced tests. editors later attacked leaks against Agnew.
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Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Justice Department
Polygraphs in Public Debate A columnist ponders truth tests
William Shockley proposes a televised polygraph exchange while the writer questions the practicality and ethics of polygraphs in public discourse. He muses onLeaks from the Ervin Committee and the limits of machines to determine truth, urging reliance on evidence and sleuthing.
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William Shockley
Shockley
Patrick Buchanan
Ervin
Sam Ervin
Task Force Sets Hearings On Women Credit Access
In Columbus the Governor's Task Force hears complaints about women facing credit barriers. A dress shop refused credit in a woman’s own name while a real estate worker earning 20 000 a year was denied. Other cases show credit cards issued only under husbands' names. The task force will hold statewide hearings to study women’s credit access.
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Columbus, Ohio
Credit for Women Society Seeks Law Reforms
The Small Society on Credit for Women plans to propose new laws to curb abuses later this year. Diane W. Poulton serves as chairman, steering the group toward legislative action.
Ohio task force to study women credit access hearings set
The Ohio task force on credit discrimination will hold a two day hearing in Columbus July 29 30 with subsequent one day sessions in Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo and Athens. They will hear from women who had trouble obtaining credit and from industry representatives. The group aims to recommend new laws to Gov Gilligan and the legislature.
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Cincinnati
Cleveland
Toledo
Athens
Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Readers' Letters Policy and Publication Notes
The page invites public opinion letters on issues of general interest while excluding personal notices. Letters must include writer name, address and telephone number and only signed letters are published. Preference is given to one page or less and editing will condense content to fit space.
The Messenger Publishing Co. Subscription Rates
Athens newspaper announces daily and Sunday editions with prices for inOhio delivery 15 to 25 cents per copy and weekly or monthly mail rates. It lists route delivery details and contact address in Athens Ohio 45701.
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