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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1968
Page
4
The Athens Messenger issue from Friday October 18 1968 in Athens Ohio features local news coverage and community notices. Details likely include city happenings schedules and public notices relevant to residents of Athens and surrounding areas.
Advertised winter courses in rebellion and Black power themes draw from militant sponsors including CORE Brooklyn and Black Panthers. Instructors include a jailed conspiracy defendant and a Brooklyn CORE leader who left the national group. program runs Oct 14 to Jan 29, 7 to 10 pm, totaling 231 hours amid questions of school authority.
Arthur J. Goldberg, former labor lawyer and diplomat, joins Hubert Humphrey's New York campaign to win all 43 electoral votes. He emphasizes loyalty to friends Nixon and Humphrey, and aims to mobilize disenchanted youth while urging participation in the November vote. He believes either candidate could end the Vietnam war and favors a New Deal liberal domestic policy.
Scientists report that dampness and chill do not directly trigger the common cold. More colds occur in cold months due to indoor crowding and virus spread, with immunity factors playing a role, per Baylor University clinicians and the New England Journal of Medicine.
In Los Angeles Nixon draws large, loyal crowds while facing strategic questions about a broad coalition. The piece weighs whether he will pursue a grand coalition with Democrats and Wallace supporters or out-Wallace Wallace to build a new Southern Republican Party, amid doubts about his post election strategy and leadership.
James Kilpatrick critiques U.S. transportation policy, arguing postwar decisions harmed cities and mass transit. He cites declining urban transit, road congestion, and stalled high speed rail and airports, urging decisive planning and innovation to move people efficiently.
The Messenger reports Allied advances on the West front and in the Balkans. Ohio University trustees urge more funds in a governor’s annual report by President Alston Ellis. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics warns of smaller civilian food supplies next year, especially meat and dairy. The National War Fund campaigns in Athens County to support service agencies.
Dr. Stanley F. Yolles of the National Institute of Mental Health says hospital mental patients have fallen by 133000 since 1955, with a projected further 240000 drop in five years if trends hold, due to better drugs that treat illness and calm patients after tranquilizers were introduced in 1955.
John Cunniff surveys business leaders at conventions and on golf courses who fret over regulators from FTC FCC DoJ HEW and SEC eyeing advertisers drugmakers conglomerates funds exchanges brokers price hikes lenders airlines carmakers Ling Temco Vought chief Ling lashes out at McCarthyism and argues government must curb inflation and spur growth through efficiency The piece notes Ling’s frank talk improves business government dialogue and highlights enduring tensions over mergers regulation and entrepreneurial spirit.
A labor union critic argues that 70 percent of New York City relief growth since December 1965 stems from illegitimacy and illegal abandonments. He urges jail for natural or legal fathers who abandon their children, saying the policy would curb illegitimacy and welfare increases.
The National Safety Council analyzed 10 000 Chicago crash reports to see how drinking drivers collide. Results show they hit vehicles directly ahead or from opposite directions more often and have fewer angle crashes. The council seeks reasons, such as vision or cross traffic compensation, to reduce drinking driver crashes.
Published daily except Saturdays. Member of the Associated Press Weekdays single copy 10 cents. Sunday single copy 15 cents. Delivered by Carrier Daily Sunday D&s One Week 35¢ 15¢ 50e Delivered by Mail in Ohio and West Virginia. Daily & Sunday, one week 50c 23 weeks 100. 6 weeks $2.00 15 weeks $500 6 months $9.00: 1 year $1600 Delivered by Mail Elsewhere in US & Possessions Daily & Sunday one week 50¢ 3 months $600: 6 months $1000 1 year $1800 Entered at Athens Post Office as second Class Matter under Act of 1918 Address as mail to The Mossenasr Publishing Co., 43 W. Union St., Athens, io
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