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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1966
Page
6
The listing names Fred W. Weber circulation director M W McDargh advertising director G Kenner Bush publisher Charles W Reamer managing editor and Robert L Powers news editor for the Athens Ohio paper dated Tuesday October 11 1966.
Utah initiates setting clean water criteria signaling all 50 states will adopt their own standards. Congress debates multi year subsidies totaling billions while federal guidelines limit pollution after June 30. Secretary Udall warns results will take years, not days, to materialize.
About 1200 theologians from all continents convene in Rome for the Little Council to discuss theological issues arising from Vatican II. The aim is to shield faith from modern ideologies while honoring both traditional doctrine and council reforms in pursuit of Christian unity.
Freedom Studies Center of the Institute for American Strategy launches a 400 student program in Boston Virginia to train diplomats amid Cold War tensions. Led by Dr. John M. Fisher with Maj. Gen. Edward Landsdale and others, the center aims to create a patriotic Foreign Service corps as an alternative to traditional military academies.
Joseph Kraft argues inflation can be managed through an annual economic review. He outlines steps: tax increases, price controls, and moving labor and food production to ease shortages. The proposal would tie wage and profit decisions to national interests, aiming for a 2 percent inflation target.
William F Buckley Jr reviews Charles Percy’s plan for private sector driven home ownership as a response to public housing. The proposal suggests a National Home Ownership Foundation funding low income purchases via bonds with government guarantees, integrating buyers with training and apprenticeship schemes.
The speaker argues that owning private housing by lower income urban residents reduces public subsidies and builds civic resolve. He contends private ownership preserves property value and inspires conservatism, transforming slum dwellers into more engaged citizens.
Hal Boyle notes Julie Andrews relaxing in a Park Avenue hotel suite between Hawaii premiere duties. She sizes up life, values honesty, and jokes about faults while praising her daughter Emma and noting loves from California to lilacs. She jokes about not being too facetious.
The Messenger recalls 54 years past Charles Evans Hughes touring Parkersburg Huntington Charleston and Clarksburg during a West Virginia swing. Supt Geoffrey Morgan of Athens City Schools spoke at a noon business leaders luncheon. Moscow residents were ordered to evacuate as Germans moved on the capital. Chauncey Mine Number 25 fire idled nearly 400 workers. 180 were inside the mine and uninjured.
A reader denounces the Wheat Certificate Plan as coercive and costly to farmers. Citing Senator Frank Lausche's 1961 remarks against the Feed Grains Program, the letter argues the proposal infringes liberty and echoes Marxist tactics rather than Jeffersonian or Lincolnian ideals.
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