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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1959
Page
4
The New York Stock Exchange promotes a monthly investment plan for wage earners and salaried people. Employers deduct fixed amounts from paychecks to buy stocks from a diversified group. The program aims to broaden ownership, encourage dividends, and boost free enterprise by involving more people in corporate ownership.
The piece argues that modern art experiments can be both moving and baffling. It urges selective, serious viewing rather than blanket scorn and highlights the challenge of understanding abstract works. It compares art to everyday choices and questions why troubling habits linger.
A collection of light facts and quips from a mail bag column. Notes include Eskimos lacking a war term, Ernie Kovacs smoking habits, driving hours and mileage, Roman perfume music, French court onion charms, and quirky musings on vanity, parking meters, and famous authors.
The piece notes elevated U S confidence in current military strength during the Berlin crisis. It cites President Eisenhower and Defense Secretary McElroy on ground war limits, bomber and nuclear options, and Senate leaders Johnson and Russell weighing future missile progress and long term defense adequacy.
Doctor Crane argues readers prefer signed editorials and branded merchandise for authority and accountability. He cites Knight as a model publisher with four million daily readers and shares a personal anecdote about unsigned columns failing to earn credibility.
A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee report details extensive foreign aid waste. Examples include 44 tires per car given to a nation, foreign bases for equipment used by officials, and military trucks wasted due to refusal to buy fuel.
A Wall Street Journal report cites a crystal gazer in Atlantic City advising a client to sell 50 000 Anaconda and buy 5 000 Dupont plus 20 000 Big Steel then switch to General Electric for a short gain. The department head fires the reader for the advice.
A lyrical tribute celebrates Earth and sky, praising guardians of the heavens and the humbler lands. The poem asks for justice truth and mercy to guide humanity, naming Athens as the signer on March 15.
Emily Mitchell and Thomas McKnight wed in a quiet New Orleans church ceremony. After fifty years of friendship, the 90 year old bride and 85 year old groom returned home to admire flowers and reflect on a long wait to wed.
The case of Lewis L. Strauss, nominated Secretary of Commerce, faces Senate opposition. The piece traces Strauss long public service from Hoover Commission work to chairing the Atomic Energy Commission amid Oppenheimer fallout and partisan scrutiny, arguing for his confirmation after four decades of service.
The column reassures women about menopause, noting childbearing ends but sex life can continue. It encourages adapting to aging with modern hormone relief, calls family shifts positive, and explains how ovaries often remain to balance timing. A brief crime item reports burglars stealing cat soup after leaving pennies and cash.
The Athens Messenger announces its daily and Sunday editions with single-copy prices and carrier delivery terms, listing 7 cent for daily, 12 cents for Sunday, and 45 cents per week for home delivery.
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