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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1942
Page
4
Athens paper details publication dates and rates with staff titles and affiliations. It lists subscription prices, advertising policies, and a Milton quotation about liberty.
The district reads of home canning and storage as wartime rationing tightens. Families store apple butter sauerkraut sorghum and canned meats while country mills prepare buckwheat and corn to stock pantries for the duration. Hoarding harms long term supplies and telephones may fail to deliver goods. Local reporters note farmers and townspeople sustaining food reserves despite drawbacks.
The readable fragment notes a numeric value and an outcome style phrase. Despite gaps the item appears to represent a score or level tied to a team or event with a final result indicating an option to stay in or exit.
The Ohio governor defends no new state taxes in 1943 and 1944, crediting Bricker administration policies for a treasury surplus of about 20 million dollars. He argues wartime efficiency preserves state activities and avoids tax increases while forecasting later tax relief.
Professional politicians watch the battle of the American Labor Party as union membership grows in New York. The result may decide if the party becomes a national force in the next elections, with organized labor shifting between major parties and testing its influence.
The speaker requests informants to notify Washington about abandoned rails machines buildings sawmills or trolley cars and other scrap sources. The War Production Board's Special Projects Salvage Section handles costly or legally tied scrap, and asks for action or updates if none occur.
Raymond Clapper argues WPB shifts from gold mining to metal production to support war needs. He cites copper zinc lead nickel manganese and steel for engines armor and gun barrels, noting gold reserves are ample but useless for current aims. He warns against romantic financial ideals and urges realism in policy and postwar planning.
Washington insiders praise the WPB under Don Nelson noting a top‑down reorganization and potential chairmanship for Charles E. Wilson despite White House delays. The piece also covers early treble damages suits under price ceilings, OPA enforcement, and commentary from Mary Baker Eddy and A Eustace Haydon.
News Your Dad Read notes four sisters totaling 305 years in age, including Mrs. Margaret Burns of Henderson Kentucky and Mrs. Fillinger of Nelsonville, who gathered for the Albany Centennial opening marked by 125 year old Bible and 100 peals of bells. The Albany churches and Manual Labor University links are described along with the first Sunday School founders. Ohio Future Farmers at New Marshfield planted 15,500 trees in the year.
Editor urges county schools to celebrate the fifty year milestone of the Pledge to the Flag. The letter by Bertha Nixon of Elizabeth Zane Dew Chapter D A R explains proper pledge forms, signals, and the call to renew allegiance to Old Glory in a national unity moment.
Broadwell quarterly meeting at the U B Church. Rev C M Bowman led services. Numerous villagers hosted and visited relatives from Luhrig Belpre Parkersburg Decatur Pinehurst Amneville McConnellville Athens Carbon Hill and McConnelsville. First aid training and funeral attendances noted among residents.
Syracuse residents host and visit relatives, with multiple trips to Athens Columbus Huntington and Parkersburg. Notable items include World Communion Sunday at Asbury Methodist, a temperance sermon by Rev Robert Salser, and distant relatives Maz Maud Karr Vincent and Ellen Holter among extended social visits.
Miss Melba White who visited Oberammergau spoke at a meeting at the Athens Presbyterian Church during a summer Europe trip. Charles B. Ayers birthday observance drew his children and grandchildren to the Beverage home at 1 North McKinley Avenue for an 84th celebration. Cora Gardner and Ruth Lippincott marked 13 with a Windsor party attended by many local guests including Helen Cross and Elizabeth Edmundson. Thomas Liggett arrived back from two weeks in Cleveland to visit his brother Clarence.
Candace faces guilt and transformation as Peter plots a hopeful future, Faith nears recovery, and Candace weighs love and loyalty while a cascade of memories reveals her deeper yearnings for change. Peter presses for honesty about romance and medicine, forcing Candace to confront her tangled life.
Private John Denver Woodyard of Camp Knox Ky and Mary Olive Black wed Sept 30 at Trinity Methodist Church McConnelsville with Rev H T Watermule officiating. Woodyard recently returned from 14 months service. she will live at the C A Shook home. Other local notes cover relocations, illnesses, visitors and a community banquet plans.
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