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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1942
Page
4
The page lists publication terms paid subscriptions and staffing for The Messenger Publishing Co Arlington Athens. It notes daily and Sunday editions with varying rates by mail and carrier and includes quotes from Milton and notices of associations and press alliances.
The piece sketches Allied warning that Nazi boasts falter as the United Nations outstrip Germany in resources. It argues Russia and China endure, Britain bears up, and American and British strength grows while Hitler’s theory of a second front collapses under Allied resilience.
The President’s parity concept faces House defeat as a farm bloc bill reshapes ceilings and creates a 90 percent parity floor via crop loans. It redefines parity to include labor costs, boosting the overall price level and complicating the idea of fair prices for farmers.
Raymond Clapper extols George Norris as a lifelong public servant and reformer. Norris’s work in Nebraska’s unicameral system, attempts to abolish lame duck sessions, and the TVA exemplify his vision of a more effective democracy and responsive government.
Peter Edson analyzes how widespread occupational deferments for skilled labor and various federal and state exemptions strain local draft boards as the Army targets ten million in service by 1943. He notes 30 essential industries and rising reclassifications as unions and agencies push for defense work exemptions.
Mr and Mrs Ray mond H Priddy announce birth of son Dennis Gene on Monday Aug 31 in Hollywood Calif Dorothy Johnson of Kimberly is the former mother. Attendance reached 39 at Kimberly Sunday school. Funeral for Ervin Keeney occurred in Buchtel after a fatal truck mine fall near Kimberly. Local residents note service and enlistments in Army Navy and Marine Reserves. Apple picking active near Glen Ebon with large crop and scarce workers. Albino squirrel shot near Kimberly last week.
Ten years ago Japanese forces repulsed 5000 Chinese attackers at a Manchuria railway junction. In Massachusetts a judge’s home tied to the Sacco-Vanzetti case was bombed. Gallipolis held its sixth Fall Festival as a photo of the Ladd farm Natural Bridge appeared in The Messenger. Kenneth C. Kearns county commissioner drove over the sandstone arch nearby. A team of horses crossed the bridge fifty years earlier by Andrew Carothers.
Berlin reports mark the use of gliders as a sport with a skeptical note that no future lies ahead. Memphis cotton fields see airplanes and poison gas deployed against the ball weevil. Athens Opera House screens Uncle Tom's Cabin as a new Athens National Bank building rises at Court and Washington.
Blue Lake social notes cover local wartime dynamics with many families sending men to the Army and tobacco crops described as the largest in local history. Community illnesses, births, visits, and obituaries include J. M. Hively and Mrs. Nora Pierce, with several named residents and relatives featured in gatherings and departures.
Messenger readers are invited to contribute verses with name and address. The poem laments rationing for sugar meat tires and gas and savors scarce coffee, ending with a leap to the scrap iron heap attributed to Mary Karch Lakeview Ohio.
Martin Corby dies after a highway crash as Candace and Peter confront guilt and tragedy. Faith Hartshorne reacts to Martin’s death while Candace wrestles with duty and loneliness in a hospital crisis. Peter plans Candace's future work and recovery as the chapter closes.
Five Straitsville men including Red Campbell Adrian Hasley Macedlum Lewis Paul Whorle and Albert Chappalear were granted a few hours of leave from Fort Hayes last Friday evening and returned home to visit friends and relatives. George Ellis accompanied them to New Lexington before continuing to visit his ill father. Other locals noted shopping visits and relocations as the community exchanges news.
A family dinner honored P. F. C. Charles E. Jinks on furlough from the Medical Corps at Fort Benning Georgia. Guests included Jinks relatives from Newark Zanesville and Hemlock with Lt James A Flowers Jr speaking from New York by telephone. Community members Gene Goodin Don Douglas and S T Conn joined relatives Arthur Essex hosts.
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