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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1957

Page

4

Fallout Lcave Hearings Spark Propaganda Debate

Washington watches the fallout hearings as hysteria over nuclear hazards grows. Dr. Eugene Cronkite reports Marshall Islands exposure three years after a 1954 H-bomb test shows normal pregnancies and no leukemia signs. Critics warn of Communist-driven disinformation and push to end H-bomb testing.

Washington Eugene P. Cronkite Brookhaven National Laboratory Marshall Islands Marshallese Cronkite

Mailbag Nuggets and Oddities From a Busy Inbox

New York readers share a mix of curiosities from the past. Notes include a New Orleans church’s air conditioning boost attendance by 44 percent a claim about judo’s limits against passive attacks and a chef in midtown Manhattan offering cabbage juice for ulcers. Additional items cover peanut butter in the 1890s lifes of dollars 10 second kisses and a rope dancer called a funambulist.

New York New Orleans

Court Decision Triggers Security Program Revisions

Washington report outlines a 12 member commission to study the Eisenhower era federal employee security program amid Democratic critique of CSC figures. Supreme Court rulings in 1956 ordered reinstatement for nonsensitive positions, forcing back pay and new reporting methods, while protests claimed many listed workers did not resign over security concerns.

Washington Eisenhower Congress Civil Service Commission CSC Supreme Court Justice Department Truman New York

Mitch Miller promotes free memberships for a parent child music society

Dr George W Crane reports Mitch Miller CBS Radio plan to form a Society for Musical Enjoyment by Parents and Children. Panelist discussions with Lee Liberace Andy Griffith and Tommy Sands advocate mutual music exploration and balanced tastes for family unity. Enroll by writing to Mitch Miller CBS Radio New York.

Mitch Miller New Musical Society Tommy Sands America George W. Crane Columbia Records Aboe Dr. Crane CBS Lee Liberace Andy Griffith New York City William Shakespeare Shakespeare Andrea Mar-garet Mike New Society CBS Radio Madison Avenue New York N.Y

Price Cost Squeeze Evident in Early Profit Reports

Early fiscal year results from 44 firms show 25 with lower after tax income than last year and six posting losses. Total net income drops to 117.35 million from 142.54 million, a 17.6 percent decline, though meat packers and farm machinery show mixed results with some firms improving margins.

New York

Try and Stop Me COURSE IN SHORT STORY writing

A collection of light anecdotes from 1957 features a southern college lecture interrupted by a muscular football star kissing the lecturer and a new maid at Dr Millikan’s home who overhears a skeptic caller. Bennett Cerf presents comic bits distributed by King Features Syndicate.

James Blan Ford Robert A. Millikan Dr. Millikan Phil Minoff Bennett Cerf King Features Syndicate

Proverbial Reflections on Goodness From Philosophers

A compilation of quotations urging steady virtue and results over mere intent. Schweitzer Eddy Barrow and Thoreau offer views on bearing burdens, doing good, and being useful, emphasizing patient action and moral purpose.

Somerville’s view of communism and history challenged

A critical profile questions John Somerville a Soviet specialist and Hunter College professor who spent years studying Soviet Russia and writing about communism. It notes his appearances in Smith Act cases and critiques his interpretation of Marx, Lenin, and Hungarian, Chinese, and Polish revolutions, raising doubts about his conclusions.

John Somerville United States Cutting Rockefeller Columbia Stanford Universities Soviet Russia Hoover Library Hunter College New York Marx Engels John Locke Thomas Jefferson Hungary Poland Proletariat Communist Party Politburo Presidium Lenin Trotzky Whch Khrushchev China Manchuria George Marshall Marshall Mao Tzetung Chiang Kai-shek CBS Kadar Somerville Reassearn Academy of Sciences

Starry guidance for tomorrow boosts your productivity and prospects

The reading urges arranging work for efficiency, leveraging leadership traits, and pursuing job advancement from tomorrow through October. Romance travel and home life brighten, with optimism peaking by October. November may bring early setbacks, but they are temporary, and late December may bring uplifting news. A birthday child is described as sympathetic, intelligent, and trustworthy.

Changes Procedure Columbus Ohio Freshmen Tests Implemented

Ohio State University announces a procedural change for incoming students. Prospective freshmen must take English and mathematics placement tests to determine suitable starting courses. Tests run July 29 to Sept 7 on campus and during orientation week starting Sept 24. July 15 and Aug 31 mark key application deadlines. A mathematics professor notes a perfect bridge hand occurs about once in 40 million hands.

Columbus Ohio Ohio State University

Athens Courier Ad Offers Daily Sunday Messenger Rates

The Athens Messenger ads show subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, carrier delivery options, and mail rates for Ohio and West Virginia readers. The notice lists monthly and six month terms and notes the paper is entered as second class matter in Athens.

Athens Messenger Sunday Messenger Ohio W. Va

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