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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1972
Page
6
A seventh grade teacher in a Southern city argues that after desegregation the education of Black students has not improved. She details chaotic bus schedules, late arrivals, disrupted classes, and scarce after school activities. Title I funding ends amid cost fears, with tensions over integration and resources. The letter questions whether Black pupils are worse off than before.
The Athens Messenger masthead lists The Men e Publishing Company at 43 West Union Street Athens Ohio with long founder lineage from 1825 through 1965 and named publishers Frederick W Bush Gordon K Bush and G Kenner Bush along with circulation director Fred W Weber and advertising director M W McDargh.
The National Safety Council reports the first eight state survey estimates show about 134000 farm workers injured annually with perhaps 1100 fatally. Findings urge personal protective gear including hard hats gloves goggles and sturdy footwear plus safer yards and restricted passenger riding on tractors.
A woman denied her husband’s charge that she gave birth to twins and said he forced her to nurse dolls due to his shame at not having children. Police pursued a large search for the so called mystery twins. A Hollister man remained in serious condition after a pool cue struck him on the neck in an argument.
Steve Symms and Wayne Owens, political opposites in ideology, both in their 30s and first-time House candidates, attract broad support by stressing distrust of distant government. Symms, Idaho Apple grower, campaigned with bold stunts while Owens hiked 689 miles to meet voters, each arguing for reform and a human touch in the federal bureaucracy.
The piece contrasts candidates across parties who critique depersonalized bureaucracy in government, military, unions, and education. It highlights F Clifton White's view that politics shifts as individuals like Kennedy Wallace Buckley and Nader symbolize citizen protest against impersonal power, forecasting a future anti bureaucratic wave regardless of party label.
Des Moines report maps the campaigns remaining largely in 12 to 14 states, led by Texas and Ohio, with 20 to 22 states visited in the past month. The schedule follows a great circle route emphasizing big industrial states and urban bases, while slowing the pace to two media markets a day.
Washington insight frames the Hanrahan bid for Cook County State’s Attorney as pivotal in Chicago politics and national Democratic fate. The case ties crime fears, Daley machine influence, and suburban anger to a campaign led by the reform-minded, outspoken Edward Hanrahan, with Bernard Carey as GOP challenger.
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