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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1962
Page
4
The Athens community confronts dire infrastructure shortages with no funds in sight. Key needs include water supply, off street parking, street rebuilding, fire equipment, and road grants. The piece urges action, new funding, and public willingness to accept higher taxes to drive progress.
The 3500 delegates support a shorter work week to provide employment for all seeking work. They insist on maintaining current pay for the shorter hours, a policy critics call featherbedding that would raise costs and prices. The editorial argues full employment requires real industrial expansion and new industries, not inflationary wage changes.
A collage of trivia and wry observations. Milk and soda drinks among campus lore. fashion with 19 pockets in a suit. frontier remedies and historical notes. Sidebars on Voltaire quotes science trends and light humor frame a snapshot of midcentury column miscellany.
Kennedy has outlined at least 41 broad plans in the State of the Union and 15 follow ups aimed at old and young, city and farm, workers and professionals, consumers and states. Despite a Democrat majority in Congress, conservative factions may block much of it as an election year tests support. He argues government bears general welfare responsibility, a view echoed since the Employment Act of 1946, while seeking sufficient scope to keep the nation afloat in a changing world.
George E. Sokolsky notes a Poeu circular urging funds to educate lawmakers and media figures about church state separation. He contrasts varied beliefs, fears Pope John XXIII, and condemns Communism while urging unity among religions against common foes rather than infighting.
A mother from Ohio asks how to curb four and five year old boys who destroy neighbors property. The reply urges immediate consistent discipline including supervised home training and swift punishment for violations, plus positive reinforcement as behavior improves.
Dr. Crane warns that teens may develop same sex attachments and advises that such crushes signal emotional retardation. He argues exposure to both sexes in school prevents homosexuality and urges opposite sex dating to reshape attractions. He claims homosexuals can change through deliberate dating of the opposite sex.
The article recounts Babe Ruth and General John Pershing posing together at Yankee Stadium amid Ruth’s home run era. Ruth, terse but considerate, and Pershing shared a friendly moment as photographers captured the scene. A Paoli man develops a self styled diet, selecting disliked menu items then overeating others to shed weight.
Abigail Van Buren answers readers on topics from wearing engagement and wedding rings after divorce to handling questions about nationality at work and a wheelchair wedding. She affirms not to hide a past marriage and supports a wedding in a wheelchair if desired.
The Athens Messenger lists pricing for daily and Sunday editions, mail options across Ohio and West Virginia, and subscriptions for longer terms. It notes delivery by carrier and by mail, with rates for 1 week, four weeks, three months, six months, and one year, plus the publisher’s address at 43 West Union Street Athens Ohio.
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