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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1935
Page
4
The Ohio education director gains strong centralized powers under the new foundation school bill to approve reorganization plans, including district boundary changes and bus operations. While proponents tout potential economy, critics warn of battles over consolidations, funding gaps, and supervision of pupil transport.
The piece discusses President relief wage policy aimed at public works and CWA workers, arguing low scales prevent drawing workers from private jobs. It notes controversy, political pressure, and uncertainty about how long relief payments can continue and whether pump priming will work.
The Nebraska legislature adjourned and plans to convene a one chamber body of 43 members. The move aims to cut costs and boost efficiency, presenting a bold modern experiment that could influence other states if successful.
In Akron New York the Tonawanda Seneca reserve hosts a craft center funded at 171 dollars weekly to relearn arrowhead making. The tribe, famed for bows and bead work, discovers no one currently knows how to craft flint arrowpoints, so white instructors revive this stone age skill.
Odd note imagines a future panhandler handing a list with his name at the top as a curious sign of time. A bizarre line suggests news would come only if a man bites a black widow spider, implying a surreal or satirical scenario.
Washington analysis argues the people remain the strongest influence on policy. Presidents have only moved as far as popular demand allowed, preserving the NRA skeleton while hinting at broader reform to come if public reaction grows.
Officials lament minimal telegrams and letters after the President’s strong background views. Radio speeches usually spark national reaction, but the public has not yet grasped the full implications of the new works programs. Red tape and shifting plans thwart rapid, large scale projects and render blueprints useless. A Midwest city spent 55000 on waterworks plans that were dropped under the President’s order.
Harry Hopkins is restored to top leadership at relief headquarters and advocates heavy spending on light projects, implying rapid funding once preliminaries are resolved. Interior Secretary Ickes and his PWA spending theories are relegated to the bottom.
Two Democratic congressmen Pettingill of Indiana and Huddleston of Alabama resist New Deal pressure in the House Interstate Commerce subcommittees. The administration pleads and off the record criticisms fly, but the bills remain smothered and any seniority reform talk continues without action.
The New Dealers press a holding company bill through the Senate to bypass Messrs Pettingill and Huddleston, plan passage then move to the House where a scheme keeps it from the two men. The measure is expected to be approved in similar form by both houses. The transportation bill faces possible substantial changes due to current dynamics.
Washington officials report crowding in federal offices as the census bureau plans a Baltimore headquarters to oversee the forthcoming census. NRA members occupy multiple buildings while Farm leaders convene weekly lunch meetings to discuss policy, with Ed O Neal Chester Gray and Chester Davis among the noted participants. A AAA map shows red pins for affirmative crop control votes, blue for negative, yellow for ties, with red dominating.
A reader voices confusion about a nation of Germans living hand to mouth now armed to the teeth. The speaker notes a boy who struggled to describe simple distances becoming a taxi driver.
The history of the Christian Church of Athens traces its growth from a small Disciples of Christ group in the eighties to the present 600-member church on Congress Street. It moved in 1917 from Congress Washington to Congress West State, funded by Ladies Aid meals for the Machine Gun Company during World War I.
Dr Morris Fishbein notes Pasteur’s rabies treatment reduced deaths and cases worldwide. He recounts the 1884 experiments and the 1885 confirmation, and tells of Jean Baptiste Dupile who saved six children after a mad dog attack and inspired a Paris Pasteur Institute monument.
Floyd Brown of the Nelsonville Jr. O. U. A. M. argues for passage of the American Flag Act to replace the Star Spangled Banner on roofs of federal and other U.S. buildings. He invokes Arlington, Flanders Fields, and John Hancock to urge citizens to support flag display and defend national heritage.
The piece notes iron in human blood and uses 4 adults’ blood iron to illustrate a key. Elliott Major Scott of Washburn Missouri was named by a 1913 Missouri Legislature act in honor of Governor Elliott W. Major after a birth telegram was read in session.
Katharine Strykhurst, betrothed to Michael Heatheroe, marries him amid a tangle of jealous rivals and detectives seeking him. Michael declares love, presses forward as Katharine battles fear of public shame, and confronts a future shaped by trust and reputation.
A reader from Middleport Alabama shares a tribute to the old Bradford Church at the forks of the cross roads. The poem honors a devout congregation, a surrounding cemetery, and a lifelong loyalty of worshipper Hysell who looks toward Heaven and reunion with the saints of Bradford.
Rafael Johnson, county treasurer elect, was installed as commander of the K. T. Crossen Post of the American Legion. A farewell party for students was held at Miss Mina D Fry's home. Ohio University figures and alumni activities were noted, including a senior alumni convocation and chimes fund presentation.
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