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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1941
Page
4
Mail subscription rates listed in advance for Athens Gallia Hocking Meigs Morgan Vinton and Washington counties. One year 82.50 ten weeks 1.00 one week rates given. details and if other terms apply available on request.
Secretary Wickard calls on 294,000 Ohio farmers to lift hogs, dairy, eggs, and vegetables production for wartime needs. Counties including Athens and Meigs must raise hog output 45 percent while crops see five to fifteen percent increases. Land in cultivation only, soil aid from government, garden expansion, and strong price controls to prevent speculation are emphasized by officials and Virgil Wertz of Ohio State University.
An appeal urges unity to support the Athens Community Chest to assist the young, handicapped, elderly and unfortunate as part of home defense during a time of national strain. It stresses neighbor helping neighbor and maintaining hospitals welfare and youth work as essential for a strong community.
Raymond Clapper warns the Fall River rubber fire might be accidental but sabotage is plausible as 18,000 tons of government rubber were lost. He notes heavy reliance on foreign imports, long term contracts with Britain and the Dutch, and the risk to supply if Japan blocks Southeast Asia. He cites rising consumption: 488k tons in 1936 to 900k today.
Peter Edson critiques excessive Good Will talk toward Latin America and notes how a 28 man business delegation soured in Bogota due to a leader's condescending approach. He cites misreadings of U S behavior and warns that postwar peace cannot rely on hollow rhetoric.
Letters section invites signed comments on current events from readers. Contributors are urged to keep letters brief so multiple pieces may appear each day.
In a letter from Forest Kyle of Long Bottom dated October 13, the editor urges Americans to seek divine deliverance amid wartime fears. He argues Christians should avoid carnal warfare and pray for God’s will, not rulers, and questions blessings for those in power.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. James of Maplewood Drive and Mrs. H. B. James of McArthur drove to Columbus to visit Dr. H. S. James at White Cross Hospital. John W. Bolin was elected president of the Athens Kiwanis Club. Mrs. John P. Dana returned from New York City with her daughter, Mrs. Louise Dana Tripp, after a visit also noting Boston and Pearl Jennings in the East. Delta Tau Delta auxiliary dinner committee listed as Mrs. Sprague Hoover Herbert Palmer and Palmer.
Twenty years ago Miss Mary Edwards traveled to Columbus as the guest of her cousin Miss Gladys Johnson. Miss Hettie Hooper, bookkeeper at The Messenger, wed Mr. Charles H. Russell in a ceremony at Zanesville. Mrs. W. H. Brown visited Piqua to spend winter with daughter Mrs. Edwin Olson. Harold Wise, former Athens High athlete, now at Columbus University in New York City, wrote that he saw the World Series games.
Drew Webster Post of the American Legion will assist Navy recruiting led by Pat Thornton. Classes with varying age limits are open. Interested young men may contact EF Lashmett or Mr Cain at the Pomeroy Post Office Thursdays 12 to 2 or reach Mr Thornton for details.
For over 100 years lignin has been recognized as part of plant material yet scientists lack a chemical definition. The unresolved nature of lignin's structure continues to challenge botanical and chemical research.
In this serialized mystery at Paradise Lake, Herbert Cord’s murder spurs fresh questions as a second death follows. Maudie holds critical hints while Mary O Connor and Denny Flynn pursue suspects, with tensions among locals and a looming Grand Jury probe.
A Messenger Readers item presents verses by Mrs Denzelle Phillips wife of the First Sergeant Has Detachment 2nd Battalion 166th Infantry McLaurin Mississippi formerly Chauncey Ohio. The poem urges forgetting troubles and past quarrels while noting the service calls.
A daughter named Mary Kathryn was born to Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Nice Swanger on October 9. Other notes mention returning, visits, and gatherings across the Pennsville area with families including the Grahams Davises Wagoners Wil liams and Johnsons. The Morgan County Ministerial Association met October 13 with Rev. Patterson and Rev. Ringgenberg leading.
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