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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1967
Page
4
The Athens Messenger records detail its publishing lineage from 1896 to 1967 with key figures Gordon K. Bush and Fred W. Weber among others. It lists Union Street address in Athens Ohio and notes the editorial and advertising leadership across decades.
The cultural revolution launched by Mao last August collapsed six months early as millions of Red Guards were ordered back to school. Premier Chou En-lai condemned the purge for harming governance and foreign policy while Lin Shao-chi appears to retain the presidency. The party’s apparatus largely remains intact and the purge is halted to protect crops and industry.
President Johnson faced an unusual clash as Ramsey Clark nears appointment as Attorney General while his father Tom C. Clark sits on the Supreme Court. Tom Clark pledged to resign by the current Court session, prompting surprise from both leaders and observers. The elder Clark, 50 at his move to the bench, now contributes as seniority rises. Ramsey, 38, rose through DOJ to head the department in six years, earning respect for administration and individual rights concerns.
Ten years after his high school reform study Dr James Bryant Conant finds much remains to do to guarantee equal opportunity. He notes only one in ten schools meet his criteria, cites wide state and district disparities in funding, and advocates wholly state funded education with federal tax support to standardize quality and enable each high school to meet five criteria including calculus foreign language and college level courses.
Joseph Kraft argues the Kennedy era style of escalation shows a systemic failure in the Vietnam policy. He critiques Lyndon Johnson for relying on military pressure and political maneuvering to rally supporters while keeping liberals off balance. The piece links Tet, McNamara, Rusk, and Humphrey to a pattern that traps Johnson in rising violence without a clear path to peace.
William F Buckley Jr argues the West benefits from Brazil in 1964 Indonesia’s shift away from Sukarno and warns China faces internal dissidence under Mao Tse tung He criticizes past U S China policy urges containment via Taiwan and political warfare while contemplating China’s possible peaceful reform or continued upheaval.
James Marlow reports a dispute over a bombing pause in Vietnam centered on reciprocity. Kennedy argues for stopping the bombing to test North Vietnamese willingness to talk, while Johnson conditions peace talks on equivalent action. Past pauses yielded no North Vietnamese talks, Rusk called reciprocity essential. Kosygin Ho Chi Minh and Cairo comments frame international angles. Kennedy hopes to test meaning of a possible halt and signals resumption after a substantial time if talks stall.
The Messenger reports a 30 000 pound munitions truck exploded in Smithfield North Carolina injuring about 100 people, with four others hurt. The town faced a major disaster as authorities investigated the blast site and its consequences.
Ford Frick, 72, resumes professional duties less than a year after resigning as baseball commissioner. He notes 40,000 jobs go begging in New York while tens of thousands, mostly in poverty areas, are unemployed and will seek to match workers with jobs as Mayor John V. Lindsay's manpower consultant.
The notice lists publication details for the Associated Press paper, daily and Sunday editions, and carrier delivery. It provides mailing rates by region, including Ohio, West Virginia, and other U S destinations, with weekly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual prices, and notes the Athens Ohio post office classification and address for mail.
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