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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1951
Page
4
A Northwest editorial urges ending Washington and public funding for federal steam electric plants to back aluminum expansion. It argues private, investor owned utilities met regional power needs before federal dams and warns continued subsidies threaten independence, free enterprise, and tax fairness.
A reader argues that railroads are essential and productive, condemning strike waves across rail, textile, and other sectors. He cites costs of strikes, notes 1950 UAW spending, and urges crushing the railroad strike movement as harmful to both companies and workers. The piece likens railroads to celestial constants and calls for a square deal without disruption.
Congress reevaluates unamendable laws and large programs including farm subsidies rural electrification and public works. Wasteful civilian hiring and idle defense stockpiles prompt calls for tighter budgeting while Civil Service featherbedding and supervisor ratios spark reform talk. The era of Spartan budgeting may be dawning.
HAL BOYLE notes that state legislatures flood Congress with memorials guiding policy on diverse topics from speedboats to national days. Massachusetts led in 1949 with 26 memorials, yet most die unseen. still some influence lingers as Congress follows historical practice.
Nine Springfield civic groups representing over 1000 members signed a pledge in the Springfield News and Leader to stamp out price chiseling, hoarding, and black marketing. The pledge calls for obeying price and wage rules, avoiding special favors, and aiding civil defense, with an editorial urging an ongoing educational campaign.
Mrs. Erma Wilson hosted the Faithful Circle Sunday School class at her home with Mrs. Alice Balser in charge. Easter bazaar details at the Community Hall March 22 with a chicken dinner at 5:30 p.m. Several local visits and holiday greetings are noted among residents and friends in Letart Falls.
Syracuse guiding star council of daughters of America held a hall meeting followed by a Past Councilors session led by president Mrs. Alice Capehart. Guests included Mrs. Cadie Wickham from Pomeroy. Syracuse Garden Club met at Mrs. Walter Harris home with Mrs. Roscoe Harden presiding and Mrs. Bert Weese arranging entertainment while several local families and visitors from Amstead, Point Pleasant, Dover, Columbus, and Charleston were noted among hostesses and guests.
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New York shop owner Paul Pandera faces collapse as fashion dreams unravel. His partner Jean Roland returns to modeling for Cochet while Pandera contemplates other schemes and a mysterious gown sketch arrives from Cedarbrook, testing their fragile partnership.
Alaska covers 590,884 square miles about one fifth of the continental U.S. It features roughly 26,000 miles of coastline and around 1,000 islands in its territory.
Radio TV listing shows WLWC WTVN WBNS and WSAZ channels with hourly programs for Monday and Tuesday including Eddie Mann Trio Kukla Fran and Ofer News Caravan Concert Lights Out Broadway Openhouse and Evening News along with kid shows sports and cartoons.
A dense schedule of daytime and evening programs across CBS NBC and Dumont networks listing stations in Columbus Athens Marietta Parkersburg Gallipolis with noon to 9 pm time slots. It catalogs news shows dramas musicals variety programs talent scouts and children's hours along with early TV offerings and serials.
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