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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1952
Page
7
Upton Close, noted author lecturer and radio commentator, will speak at the SOEA session on Friday after leading Thursday dinner programs by schoolmen and schoolwomen.
The Southeastern Ohio Education Association met at Memorial Auditorium with over 2000 teachers. George Close urged a pacific era while Kienzle critiqued money obsession and self cannibalism in modern business.
Ohio University Memorial Auditorium hosted a partisan forum with Fred Milligan advocating Eisenhower and Nixon and Mel Underwood presenting the Stevenson case. Each speaker had 20 minutes, followed by a moderated discussion led by Dr. Raymond Gusteson as assistants circulated with microphones.
James Cunningham 22 of Chauncey pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle under the influence. He was fined 125 dollars plus costs and sentenced to 15 days in jail, with 5 days suspended and $25 of the fine suspended by Mayor Peter B. Lee after arraignment on an affidavit by the State Highway Patrol.
Dr. E T Hellebrandt of Ohio University spoke at Athens High School on The Power of Your Vote as part of a Freedom Foundation Forum event sponsored by the Kiwanis Club It highlighted how a single vote can decide elections and statehood referenda and noted a 15 percent rise in expected voter turnout. Don Pierce introduced the speaker and chaired the program.
Athens police log depicts a night of boyish pranks across streets Grosvenor Elmwood Shafer State and Morris with broken window tomato and pumpkin tosses. A man reportedly threw a chair at the youths marking a rare serious incident among the mischief.
The Father and Son Banquet sponsored by the Albany Masonic Lodge will now be held Saturday at the Albany Grange Hall instead of the high school, as previously announced.
Weather official C L Colmer reports October 1.21 inches of rainfall, ranking among the driest in 50 years. He notes September was equally dry and residents report dry wells and cisterns as temperatures range from 24 to 48 degrees. Only North American cities with rapid underground transit remain New York Boston Philadelphia and Chicago.
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