Athens Urges town university unity for Athens of tomorrow
Ohio University leaders urged Athens business leaders and residents to unite for a new kind of community. President Vernon Alden highlighted five years of joint city university progress with projects including a new hospital and airport and expanded highways and water. University activity supports a $5 million student spend and $20 million payroll annually, with $128000 in city income tax.
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Ohio University
Athens
Meno Lowenstein
Vernon Alden
Alden
Court Street
Ohio University Fund Drive
University
Shadow Government War Effort Targets Vietcong Control
The United States launches a major counterinsurgency campaign with a group including CIA personnel to dismantle a shadow government tied to Vietcong across South Vietnam. The plan aims to protect legitimate provincial leaders, uncover guerrilla chiefs, and pacify rural areas through coordinated military and civilian efforts.
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Thieu
South Vietnam
United States
U. S
CIA
Nobel Science Prizes Awarded for Nuclear and Fast Chemistry
Nobel prizes awarded to Hans Bethe for nuclear energy work and to Manfred Fiegen, Ronald Norrish, and George Porter for rapid chemical reactions. Bethe’s career spans Germany to Los Alamos and Cornell. The chemistry prize honors ultrafast reactions revealing reaction mechanisms at one billionth of a second.
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Hans Albrecht Bethe
Albert Einstein
Germany
Atomic Weapons Laboratory
Los Alamos
N. M
Cornell University
Enrico Fermi
Atomic Energy Commission
Manfred Figen
Max Planck Institute For Physical Chemistry
Gottingen
Ronald George Wreggard Norrish
Cambridge University
George Porter
Royal Institute
London
Micrometry Of Doom On FOBS And Soviet Ambition
Joseph Alsop analyzes the McNamara FOBS warning and Soviet aims. He argues the fractional orbiting bombarder system exposes double standards in U S reaction to space weapons and notes FOBS limits and vulnerabilities. The piece stresses miscalculation risks and the need for wary deterrence planning.
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Robert McNamara
America
McNamara
United States
McNamara Pentagon
U. S
Athens city planning talks draw locals to McCracken Hall
In McCracken Hall Athens residents discuss city and county problems focusing on management techniques. The third Tuesday program explores traffic and parking with live discussion following a WOUB-TV broadcast. Charles Taft and future meetings highlighted.
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the Messenger
McCracken Hall
Athens
Planning Commission
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Woub-Tv
Ellsworth J. Holden, Jr
Northwood Drive
The Other Place and the British Lords
A conservative view argues the House of Lords embodies historic nobility and contrast to democratic haste. It questions dismantling hereditary privilege, noting Lords offer brakes on legislation and preserve rank, order, and centuries of tradition despite calls for reform.
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Britain
House of Lords
Great Britain
Commons
Lords
George Wallace
Harold Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Wilson
Tomnoddy
Earl of Fitzdotterel
Burke
Oscar Wilde
Predicted totalitarianism and drug culture warning
The Messenger discusses marijuana and societal control, tracing fears from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to mid-century warnings. It cites Leary's LSD religion and warns drug culture as a potential path to servitude, referencing author Robert H Whealey of 14 Oak St.
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Aldous Huxley
Huxley
Timothy Leary
Robert H. Whealey
Oak St. Athens
Rome meeting eyed to halt Allied advances in Africa
The Messenger reportedAdolf Hitler Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval met in Rome to map a blow against British American advances in North Africa. Meigs County Sheriff Ralph Welker and deputy Frank Clark of Hemlock Grove prepared to take office later in the week. Cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving drew criticism from the New York Food Conservation Commission as sugar shortages lingered. County Farm Agent Fred DeLashmutt spoke on government regulations affecting farms at an Albany Grange meeting.
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Adof Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Pierre Laval
Rome
North Africa
Meigs County
Ralph Welker
Frank Clark
Hemlock Grove
New York Food Conservation Commission
Fred DeLashmutt
Albany Grange
Detroit Police Commissioner Giardin Retires at 65
Ray Giardin resigns as Detroit police commissioner after reaching 65. A former newspaper reporter, he urges young men to join the police to learn investigative work, noting his career path from reporter to top lawman.
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Ray Giardin
Detroit
Read Labels Warn of Dangers in Pesticide Use
Guidance urges careful reading of insecticide and pesticide labels to prevent accidental deaths. Emphasizes that harm can occur to anyone and calls for public awareness and responsible handling.
Artificial skin aims to cut burns death toll, researchers say
A soft velvet like artificial skin described to the American College of Surgeons promises to cover the body and allow severely burned areas to heal. The invention could reduce mortality from serious burn injuries.
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American College of Surgeons
The Athens Messenger Rates and Address Notice
The Athens Messenger lists daily and Sunday single copy prices and mail subscription rates for various regions including Ohio and West Virginia. It provides delivery options by carrier and mail, with a mailing address at 43 W. Union St. Athens Ohio 45701.
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Associated Press
Ohio
West Virginia
Athena
the Messenger Publishing Co
Union St
Athens
Ohle
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