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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1949
Page
4
The notice lists 6c daily and Sunday delivery options with monthly and yearly mail rates and mentions subscription prices. It ends with a civic message about liberty to think act work save and invest and to conduct affairs without police state direction at the polls.
The article argues Senator Robert Taft must reach Ohio voters not reached by press or radio to avert a drift toward welfare-state policies. It warns about spending, European aid, socialized medicine, broad federal pensions, and calls for an informed, mobilized majority to support free enterprise and national stability.
Washington observers watch five AEC members answer questions under a policy of no comment on sensitive weaponry while explaining both pursuit of more powerful bombs and peaceful atomic uses. Chairman Lilienthal led the session before his planned retirement. The scene underscores citizen trust in a small group deciding secrets with vast world impact.
Hal Boyle writes New York comment on Squire Rockefeller’s tall 1949 Norway spruce lit in town. Citizens debate its color, cost, and symbolism amid a festive yet tense atmosphere as the Rockefeller gesture meets local pride and modernity.
Thanksgiving in Parkersburg and visits from family across Athens Glouster Albany Murray City and Columbus are recorded. Lucille Wingett of Albany earned a gold bar for six years of perfect Methodist Sunday School attendance. 25 years ago reports note Bryson’s return from Cleveland after auto club meeting and a minor car ditching accident near Carroll with no serious injuries.
Noble Baker, 30, was charged with turning in a false fire alarm Monday. Police said he sent fire trucks racing to the home of the Rev. Robert Browning of the Church of Jesus when there wasn’t any fire. He also ordered an unwarranted load of consent to the Rev. Browning, who identified Baker as a former tenant.
An 1800s farm home near Wood Lake on Pearl Wood land in Alexander Township, Athens County, served as an Underground Railroad station during the Civil War era. The Misner built log house hides a concealed trap door to a stone room for runaway enslaved people. Nearby cemeteries, churches, and early mills mark a long abolitionist settlement.
Kyger Kyger reports Miss Patricia McArtor from Grove City spent a weekend with Miss Jean Lemley at Rio Grande College and with the Lemley family. A sequence of cousins and friends including Harry Tate, Wallace Tate, Nora Tate, J P Bradbury, Allie and Keith, Robert Wood, Kitty and J M Cool ey visited in Logan. Eugene Stevens Janice Porter spent a Sunday with Chester Ward. Rudy Skeen Eddie Larry Patsy spent a Sunday in Columbus with Adrian Skeen. William Vollmer Port Clinton spent days with Carl Weimann and Madge Mossman. Madge Mossman visited Cash Durst. Harlow Tate and Nora Tate visited Raymond Smith Rutland. Marvin Rupe helped Marlin Rife butcher three hogs. Walter Darst has a room added to Emma Reynolds house. Mary B Sisson.
A reader worksheet lists multiple choice questions for men women and teens on topics from anatomy boxing history rabies and Niagara Falls with a scoring grid. It includes correct answer counts and point values and ends with a jumbled, unreadable answer key portion.
The Hocking County Tuberculosis and Health association thanks volunteers and donors who buy Christmas Seals to fund TB work. Nearly 3000 residents were X-rayed with 35 possible cases found. continued support is urged to sustain the program and reach near elimination of the disease.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth White of Jackson Michigan and others hosted and visited relatives for Thanksgiving. Families from Union Furnace Logan Columbus Sandusky and nearby areas shared holiday meals with extended kin including the Gleasons and the Wolfes.
Side Glances notes a Logan gathering with Mr and Mrs Wayne Todd Mr and Mrs Pete Brandon and Arthur Todd and Nora Skiver all spending Thanksgiving with Mrs Lawrence Wolfe amid Christmas list worries as she wonders which boys will send presents.
In a quiet town a murdered man, Martin Faber, centers a missing carnelian cameo now tied to Hagar Blair and her assistant Stephanie Smith. Arnold Pfieffer eavesdrops as Andrey Yakov arrives to discuss the case, while theories swirl about who held the gem and who knew its fate.
Radio programs area stations NBC WLW Cincinnati 700 KC ABC WCOL Columbus 1230 KC WSAZ Huntington 930 KC CBS WBN Columbus 1460 KC WCHS Charleston 580 KC WPAR Parkersburg 1450 KC MBS WHKC Columbus 610 KC WMOA Marietta 1490 KC
A dense listing of radio and TV programming for Wednesday night and Thursday morning across networks ABC CBS NBC MBS EBS detailing news, dramas, variety shows and kid’s hour with times from 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. and into the morning. Named programs include Frank Sinatra songs This Is Your Life The Great Gildersleeve Sherlock Holmes Lum and Abner and Burns and Allen with multiple repeats and international offerings.
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