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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 22, 1957

Page

4

Ohio Commission on Education Beyond the High School Open Letter

The Ohio Commission on Education Beyond the High School urges expanding student education past high school based on ability and benefit. It outlines goals for economy in cost, better teachers, and broad undergraduate aims beyond vocations. By 1958 final recommendations will guide legislature, teachers, and parents.

Ohio Commission On Education C. William O'Neill John C. Baker Ohio Sion

Russian housing show reveals gap between rhetoric and reality

A Washington visit by Russian metallurgists viewing a National Housing Center model home exposes the gap between Soviet claims and living conditions. Experts note crowded, shoddy housing in major cities, with scant consumer comforts outside the Kremlin elite. The piece warns free peoples to study Moscow’s housing display before embracing communism.

Washington National Housing Center Soviet Union America Kremlin Moscow

Prohibition Party Night Ends With Laughs and Gin

A 1930 prohibition party fills an upstairs apartment as guests drink homemade gin, argue about alcohol, party in chaos, and depart by 1 45 a m. Conversations swing from Wall Street to fashion while a drunken superintendent joins the revelry.

Grace Corrigan Bill Drummond Grace O’brien Chief Dundas John Austin Tuohy Artie Taylor Porter Mathilda Eichorn Jack Garrison Artie Willmer Elinor Wall Street Chief Taylor Mathilda

How to use prize contests to lift a weary mind

A psychiatrist advises a war veteran’s wife on reviving Joe’s spirits through prize contesting. The piece promotes reading, goal setting, and a booklet on writing salable copy, sharing personal success with $1000 prizes and stressing mental stimulation and couple camaraderie.

Riage Northwestern University

Our Forefathers Thanksgiving Note from The Messenger

Public Forum notes the nation's founding blessings of food freedom faith and opposes oppression. The message thanks customers friends employees products county and freedom as Blaettaars in Pomeroy.

the Messenger

Victor Borge Mixes Music Laughter and Life

HAL BOYLE profiles Victor Borge as a top humorist who blends piano comedy with ambition. Born a Danish immigrant, he built a million dollar poultry business in Connecticut while pursuing show business. He notes money and humor fuel his philosophy of goal driven life and cause and effect.

Vietor Borge Borge CBS Connecticut South Africa Australia

Stop Me If You Can In New York Scoop

In 1957 Bennett Cerf sketches a flamboyant New York tale a police captain with a $5000 salary admits stashing about 100000 in two years and a wife who rents a spare room Mayor Walker jokes about rents and crime a neurotic patient leaves analysis after three sessions with a comically pointed exchange and Jimmy Starr notes on little things breaking marriages.

Flatbush Jimmy Walker

Stars Align For January to November Travel And News

The reading notes a stimulating Saturday influenced by friends aiding ambitious goals. It forecasts birthday year prospects, job opportunities expanding duties, and late March happiness, with travel favorable January through November and a strong October financial opportunity. It mentions a Nor- wegian Arctic island Jan Mayen hosting Meteorological Institute staff.

Jan Mayan Greenland Arctic Islands The Meteorological Institute Nor- Way

The Mob and Marginal Trades Across a Century

A historical reflection on mobsters entrenched in marginal trades such as salt smuggling opium gaming and prostitution. It notes legal turning points tax havens and front men for the mob while describing enforcement limits and the Apalachin meeting as a marker of organized crime.

China Pei Pao-shan Delano Hongkong Shameen Franklin D. Roosevelt United States Hamburg Amsterdam Canada Venezuela J. Edgar Hoover FBI National Academy National Academy Associates Washington Apalachin New York Mexico

Pinworms a common hard to treat parasite in families

The author notes pinworms affect millions in the U S and Canada and hundreds of millions worldwide. Transmission rises in institutions and shared bedrooms, causing severe itching and restlessness. Diagnosis requires microscopic swabs and treatment varies, with new remedies showing promise. Emphasizes hygiene and persistent effort to eradicate.

United States Canada

Opium Disappears From San Francisco Court

Police investigate the loss of five pounds of opium valued at $5000 from the court of Superior Judge Walter Carpeneli. The narcotic, placed under the counsel table for safekeeping, vanished yesterday as it awaited use in a trial.

San Francisco Court of Superior Walter Carpeneli

Fat Children Watch More TV Says Prof Mollie Smart

Prof Mollie S. Smart, assistant professor of child development at the state university, told a PTA meeting that the consistent difference between normal weight children and fat ones is that the latter spend more time watching TV.

South Kingston R. I Mollie S. Smart the State University PTA

Athens Messenger and Sunday Messenger advert page

Classifieds announce delivery rates for the Athens Messenger and Sunday Messenger. Offers daily and Sunday home delivery, mail orders, and special rates for Ohio and West Virginia. Includes postal registration note and pricing for various subscription terms.

Athens Messenger Nessay Ohio & W. Va Ohio & Va Athens Ohio

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