Space Age Decisions Boost Athens City Planning Seminar
A federal funded seven week series on community leadership airs via WOUB TV in Athens and at Ohio University campuses. Notable speakers include Robert C. Weaver and Constantinos Doxiadis as local planners urge public involvement and a decisive city planning approach for a better Athens tomorrow.
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Woubtv
Athens
Ohio University
Robert C. Weaver
U.S
McCracken Hall
Candeub, Fleissig and Associates
Columbus
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Athens Planning Commission
Taft
Planning Commission
Urban Expressways Clash With City Interests
The federal highway plan aims to complete 41 000 miles by 1972 with 2296 miles in urban areas. Communities challenge routes through neighborhoods citing aesthetic, social, and economic impacts. Baltimore forms an urban concept team to treat expressways as civil art and address neighborhood concerns.
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Department of Transportation
Cleveland
Baltimore
Boston-Cambridge
New York
New Orleans
Sense And Sentimentality In Race School Debate
Joseph Alsop criticizes sentimentality in race policy noting how RAM members are treated differently from Klansmen. He cites Herman Ferguson, an indicted RAM member and New York educator, whose selective appointments reveal polarization in ghetto school control and public attitude.
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Herman Ferguson
New York
Queens
Ferguson
RAM
Negro Revolutionary Action Movement
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
Whitney Young
Urban League
Ocean Hill
Brownsville
New York City
Board of Education
New York Board of Education
Harlem
New School
Ku Klux Klan
Pentagon
Chamber campaign eyes balance with labor board powers
The U. S. Chamber of Commerce pushes to curb the National Labor Relations Board to restore balance between business and labor, arguing the board has historically leaned toward labor since its inception.
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U. S. Chamber of Commerce
National Labor Relations Board
A Conservative View on Rhodesia Anniversary
A conservative column marks Rhodesia’s independence anniversary and urges Britain and the United States to abandon sanctions based on flawed law. It criticizes UN actions as hypocritical and notes Wilson’s missteps, while warning that pressures may push Rhodesia toward apartheid. The piece questions world opinion and questions what is best for national interests.
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Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Smith
United Nations
Security Council
Dean Acheson
South Africa
Portugal
United States Senate
State Department
North Vietnam
Tin Soldiers letter questions war casualties and land returns
James Hill of Nelsonville writes that memories of major Pacific battles linger after telegrams of loss arrive. He criticizes proposals to return captured lands to Japan, condemns indifference of leaders, and urges Americans to wake up and address domestic issues.
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James Hill
Nelsonville
Salem asylum poison kills forty seven patients in Salem Oregon
The Messenger reports a powerful poison perhaps an insecticide mistaken for powdered milk used to cook scrambled eggs caused the deaths of 47 asylum patients in Salem Oregon. Meanwhile Ohio University trustees grant President Herman C James a leave to enter the foreign service with plans to serve in Brazil for the State Department. Travelers in Holland describe a new German weapon claimed to destroy a mile radius from the air, but the danger is seen as exaggerated. Athens school children receive smallpox vaccine amid a county scare with two mild cases logged.
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Salem
Ore
Ohio University Board of Trustees
Herman C. James
Foreign Service
Brazil
State Department
Holland
Athens
From Relief Line to Chinese Foods Tycoon in Minnesota
Jeno Paulucci rose from a long relief line to build a major Chinese foods business in Minnesota. He recently sold his bean sprout operation for 63 million dollars, drawing attention to former relief seekers who leave the line and become big taxpayers in time.
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Jeno Paulucci
Minnesota
Community leadership seminar urged for Athens citizens
A reader recounts attending the fourth Athens community leadership seminar. Charles P. Taft spoke via closed circuit TV with urban policy insights. A panel from Southeastern Ohio questioned him, then local attendees debated Athens traffic and parking policy and future citizen involvement.
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the Messenger
Athens
Cincinnati
Charles P. Taft
Ohio
Taft
McCracken Hall
Robert C. Weaver
Housing and Urban Development
Constantinos Doxiadis
America
Captive Audience Reflections on Johnson Pulpit Clash
Columnist James Marlow questions Rev. Lewis's critique of President Johnson's Vietnam stance, noting the minister's view while the nation remains the real captive audience. The piece argues media bias defends prowar policy, urging readers to see looming catastrophe and seek action beyond official narratives.
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the Messenger
James Marlow
Rev. Lewis
Johnson
Williamsburg
Vietnam
Lewis
The Athens Messenger Postal Rates and Address
The Athens Messenger announces subscription and delivery rates for daily and Sunday editions, with mail options for Ohio and West Virginia and elsewhere in the U.S. Rates include weekly, monthly, and yearly plans. It lists office address at 43 W Union St Athens Ohio 4570 and notes second class mailing.
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Ohio
West Virginia
U.S. & Possessions
Athens Post Office
All Mall
Mes. Publishing Co
Union St
Athens
Ohlo
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