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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1942
Page
8
Page Four of The Athens Messenger prints publisher details and professional affiliations, then lists subscription and mailing rates for Ohio and out of state readers. It includes a Milton quotation and notes obituary notices carry a nominal charge.
Raymond Clapper describes his interview with Jawaharlal Nehru in Allahabad. Nehru emphasizes self government, cautions on armament, and contrasts socialist ideals with pacifism while mixing old traditional attire with modern habits during their upstairs study conversation.
Merle Thorpe argues in Nation's Business that America fights two wars at once the foreign war against Germany Italy and Japan and a domestic war over New Deal policies. He urges unity by declaring a truce in domestic battles to focus resources on the foreign war.
Citizens voice discontent over wartime management as the administration promises changes in 30 days. English experience is cited, with Civilian Defense and Production Management roles under scrutiny and reorganization within the War Production Board and related offices.
Peter Edson analyzes postwar liability questions from car sharing and the growing war effort. He surveys legal issues of group rides, barber shifts, and potential federal group insurance, then explains production drives, aviation staffing, and airlines facing wartime takeovers.
A Mothers and Daughters Rally drew eighty five attendees. Four Scouts Geraldine Stauffer Delores Davis Dorothy Edleman and Amy Jo Sanders received pins. Miss Mary Devlin visited Athens on spring vacation hosted by sister Miss Irene Devlin.
Eighty five members attended the annual meeting of the Athens County Sheep and Wool Growers Association with a dinner in the Athens Chamber of Commerce rooms. H. H. Henry served as president. Nelsonville Athens sportsmen formed a gun club and used the New York Coal Company farm clubhouse near Nelsonville. Mrs. Frank Buxton received a letter from her daughter Bertha Buxton Ashbaugh describing their safe arrival in Japan where R. P. Ashbaugh's Western Electric branch opens in Tokyo.
Caleb Mark died Thursday and was buried Sunday at Castor Cemetery with funeral at Columbia Chapel led by Rev. J. W. Canode. Attendees included sister Mrs. Carl Sisson and son Raymond of Columbus and Bern Mark’s family. Others visited and social events were listed among residents and area families.
Mrs Luther Blum of Enterprise reports that Mr and Mrs Oliver Swartz of Seattle Washington may soon return to Ohio to make their home. Mrs Blum is their niece. They left Ohio 40 years ago and have lived in the northwest since, with only one visit back in all those years.
On Saturday nine members of Corning high school senior class participated in the Seniors Scholarship tests at Somerset. The seniors were Arthur Swisher Carl Lambert Carl Wall Robert Chapman Clarence Esselstein Mildred Miskell Rita Campbell Juanita Duncan and Verna VanHorn.
At the Tire Rationing Board meeting for Pleasant and Monroe townships one tire was granted to Rev. A. C. Shonkwiler for ministerial use. An application for four retreads was filed by J. B. Wilson, a Pleasant Township livestock dealer.
Pre Easter services Thursday at 7 30 p m. Good Friday service with music Friday night. Sunrise communion at six a m. Unified church and Sunday School at nine. Easter program in the evening. Beginning April 1 all evening services move to 7 30 p m.
Local society column records Sunday calls by Mr. and Mrs. Vern Park of New Lexington and other visits involving Gaitten, Latta, Spence, and Schlingerman families. Attendees include multiple households in Corning and nearby towns with mentions of a sheriff Bayless funeral and Legion Auxiliary activities in Bremen and Lancaster.
Allan Steele, posing as a photographer, tracks missing Sargents in Mexico's peninsula while entangled with Asia Minor, a Eurasian girl tied to a Japanese cannery. He overhears Col. Escobar plotting a reward, allies with Sun Su, and weighs possible bases as danger and deception mount.
Hamden High School juniors announce performances of Laughing Gas a melodramatic farce on Tuesday March 31 and Thursday April 2 at 8 30 p m Tickets are on sale through junior class members Cast includes Ruth Oberholzer Dalene Leach Ollie Tedrow Waylene Yates John Nutt Laura Simms Bernadine Phillips Clarence Jewell Otto Depue John Robbins Gladyse Swackhamer Local social notices report funeral attendance and community moves W C T U meets April 3 at 2 p m at the Methodist Church.
Hemlock Grove notes list births and social visits. A baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Euler weighed ten pounds on a Sunday in March. Various residents and guests including Sam Curtis of Chattanooga and families of Midkiff, Euler, Curtis, Romine, Heilman, and Paulson are noted for weekend and weekday visits and gatherings.
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