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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1944
Page
4
Discussion centers on extending the National Mediation Board jurisdiction to workers on communications systems and utilities. The report notes potential public risk from service interruptions and argues for limits on strikes, referencing the Railway Labor Act and wartime priorities.
The piece recalls Americans feeling grateful while their loved ones fight abroad. It reassures that those serving do not feel distant or resentful of safe families, and that Thanksgiving embodies national thanks for the country and its hard earned freedoms. It speaks of homesickness, family meals, and the shared hope of troops returning home.
The Soviet Embassy shows a six point policy declaring nonintervention in other states and rejection of imperialistic expansion. It emphasizes love of freedom and peace and invites Allied scrutiny of future actions. Col. A. Galin signs the document, presenting a historically consistent program.
Health authorities remain vigilant as the 28th annual Christmas Seal Sale by the National Tuberculosis Association seeks public support. The effort funds clinics, nursing, rehabilitation, and mass x-rays to find early, curable TB and reduce deaths due to crowded housing and long work hours. Mary Baker Eddy and Joseph leave a note on gratitude to God and man.
Peter Edson analyzes Dumbarton Oaks ideas for a United Nations Economic and Social Council within the General Assembly. The council would have 18 elected members, one vote per country, three year terms, and power to recommend actions, coordinate agencies, and inform the Security Council on international economic conditions. It remains limited to nonbinding recommendations but could wield significant influence.
News from Nelsonville and Senoil recounts a Natco plant Haydenville shutdown affecting about 175 men with indefinite layoff. Various local figures and officials are listed among attendees and witnesses, including Mrs Earl Beckley and Mayor LC McCune, with community leaders named in the weekly notes.
War Today notes by DeWitt Mackenzie discuss cautious optimism on the European war, weighing Nazi morale and Allied air superiority. It argues that with General Eisenhower's strategy and supply lines at stake, a hopeful path to victory by Christmas hinges on weather, resources, and continued Allied pressure, while conceding it is not a firm prophecy.
Local Bartlett notes recount attendees from here at the Lancaster District meeting and Methodist Crusade. names include Rev. C B Lees M and Mrs M Williams Mrs Lovell BowsFan Mrs Oliver Ormiston Mildred Martin Dale Gage Del Waar Medley and Dyer Selby. Dorcas Class prepared a service flag to be dedicated Sunday night at the Methodist Church. Also mentions visits and transfers including Mrs May Williams and her guests, Alva Gage leaving for Fort Wood, Clarence Secoy at Camp Robinson, and T E Dickson new married life in Marietta. Blood donors listed along with several family updates.
A narrator visits Mickey to find a family quarrel heated by a hidden weapon. Mickey exposes a leather shoulder holster with a gun, while Don sits in an arm chair, flushed face and a tense atmosphere suggests danger and unresolved conflict.
In a tense scene Leo attends a confrontation where Don Boggio offers a raise and a bodyguard role, provoking tension with Mickey and Rogsie's fears. Don accepts the gun and training while Leo pressures Don to quit, amid doubts about Boggio and Don's loyalty. The moment ends with a chilling request to leave as Rogsie questions Boggio’s true nature.
Funeral services were held Friday for John Lambert at Midway Church after his death at his daughter Mrs. Spaulding’s home. Also Friday, services for Mrs. Isaac McCann occurred at Salem Center Church in Columbus. Local Ladies Aid met Thursday at Leona Kennedy’s home. Family members, including Mr and Mrs Frank Braley and Larry, visited Harrisburg over the weekend. Carl Gorby, U S Army, returned Friday for a furlough with his parents before reporting to Fort Meade. London residents spend large sums on beauty treatments annually.
Sgt Sherman McGuire arrives at Fletcher General Hospital Cambridge convalescing from shrapnel wounds age 24 son of Mr McGuire. Mrs Darlene Haftelt employed as a nurse in the home of Mrs Earth Trotter. Sgt Harold Smith and wife Evelyn Saunders reside St. Petersburg Florida where Smith is in the Army. Floyd Houck child of Mr and Mrs Wallace Houck ill. Children of Mr and Mrs Parker Clark seriously ill with diphtheria. Emmett Halley Russell Sheets Maurice Bane and Charlie Hamilton hunted pheasants at Rising Sun. Miss Nella McCalla Huntingdon visited mother Mrs Blanche McCalla. Mrs Nora Wooten and children Miss Martha Carpenter of Vinton visited Mrs and Mrs Robert Wooten. Mrs Ethel Wooten and Miss Margarette Carpenter Columbus were weekend guests of the Wootens. Mr and Mrs Morris Smith Columbus visited Mr and Mrs G M Smith for Thanksgiving.
Logan L. P. Mooney of Logan, Ohio, is presented as a potential speaker of the Ohio House. Re-elected to the lower house in November, he has chaired the House finance committee and served on finance, mines commerce, and transportation panels, including a 12 member sub committee of the Ohio Postwar Program Commission. Gargoyles once served as decorative water spouts symbolizing evil apothep? fleeing from buildings.
Local notes recount visits by Mr and Mrs W Hardesty and daughter Fanny of Bucyrus to relatives in New Plymouth and Columbus. Attendees include Miss Evalyn Steele of Swan and the Cremeans from Sandusky. Others traveled to Columbus and Logan. some family members feature in Europe postings with Glen Harris in England and Maynard Simpson in France.
Laurel Cliff PTA met at the school for an evening program featuring Miss Jeannine Parker and Walter Schriber at the piano, with readings by Mrs. Pearl Parker and Mrs. Lincoln Russell. After the program refreshments raised $5.35. updates noted Miss Wanda Jacobs’s winter travel to Arizona and local social visits including Rev and Mrs Dale Heath, the Parker family, and others in Columbus Athens and Middleport.
Coolville notes report the Nov 28 birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G Ward of Louisville Kentucky named Christine Kay. Grandparents listed as Mrs Helen Ward Columbus and Mr and Mrs C B Kincade.
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