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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1962
Page
4
An editorial questions the Kennedy administration's Cuba handling, noting secrecy around October events, delayed disclosures, and whether timing served political aims. Editors urge transparency about military readiness, missile evidence, and foreseeable actions, arguing citizens deserve full knowledge.
Dear Abby explains animal shelters hold pets for adoption before humane euthanasia if no home is found, clarifies that not all shelters release animals for experiments, and urges supporting local shelters. It also advises pierced earrings can be safely worn if a physician performs the piercing or a jeweler modifies the earrings to avoid piercing.
The piece argues Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba to gain leverage and avoid war, then eased back to prevent a nuclear showdown. It questions Castro’s role, Venezuela oil sabotage, and the risk of renewed crises over Berlin, Cuba, and Turkey.
Algeria's Premier Ahmed Ben Bella advocates nonalignment in his UN address while receiving a warm White House welcome from President Kennedy. He seeks US aid for independence, warns of strain with France, and plans talks with Cuba on Guantanamo and economic pressure.
The article notes John Steinbeck, age thirty after the Nobel Prize’s start, winning the 1962 literature prize as the sixth American laureate since Sinclair Lewis in 1930. It lists Eugene ONeill Pearl Buck William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway as prior American winners with T S Eliot noted as American-born and educated in Britain. It asserts American letters have come of age. It adds a Biblical musing about Jesus’s pure preaching.
A friend notes the Cuban crisis speech reveals Kennedy's fear and resolve. The piece argues the blockade united Americans, challenges Khrushchev, and defends Kennedy’s decisive stance against Soviet pressure in Cuba and Berlin.
Dr. Robert B. Pierce, a Chicago psychologist, rails against parasitic taxation and the idle life. He warns that Europe’s leisure worship weakens American labor ethos, urging a return to honest toil, reduced taxes, and full employment with millions of federal workers moved to productive work.
The Vinton WSCS met at the Methodist Church with Wilkesville and Salem Center WSCS as guests. Rev. Rex Maris spoke as the Wilfong family from Kentucky visited, along with Earl Wilfong. Jan and Ann Long stayed with the Polings while their parents attended a Dayton Grange meeting.
A letter to the editor denounces UNICEF and UNESCO as Communist-inside entities. It cites alleged board subversion, misused funds for propagating ideology, and claims of gun purchases via UN funds. The writer urges readers to seek proof from named pastors and towns.
Mr and Mrs Gordon Chevalier and sons visited Mrs Norma Dean in Chester. The Dean home included her son and wife Woodrow Dean of Marrianna West Virginia. Oscar Henke of Amhurst and C E Woode visited Mrs Effie Watson and Mrs Maynard Bahr in Chester. Darsel Miller returned home from St Joseph Hospital Parkersburg after a heart attack. Clain Cassidy and Jack Garrell traveled to Phoenix Arizona to seek work and visit relatives.
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