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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1973
Page
4
The notice lists Fred W. Weber as Circulation Director M. W. McDargh as Advertising Director Charles W. Reamer as Advertising and Managing Editor Richard R. Paynter as Assistant to the Publisher. The date shown is Tuesday September 4 1973.
Gallup finds 52 percent call the Watergate hearings a good thing for the country while 41 percent view them as bad. A 56 percent majority think witnesses will receive a fair trial despite heavy media coverage, and 57 percent say the committee seeks facts rather than discrediting Nixon. Partisan views align with party ties.
Buckley surveys three items in a miscellany. A Latvia related note reports persecution and emigration bans, a Teamsters wage and fringe benefits tale, and a thoughtful Arizona lawyer reflects on a dramatic period in U.S. history highlighting Joe McCarthy and a Senate investigation.
On Martha's Vineyard during a meat shortage the Slaffertys host lavish dinners with roast beef lamb and steak for friends Styron Brustein and others recount three successive meals. The hostess smiles through tears claiming they have a private meat source while juggling three children and a husband who travels off island.
The Messenger notes that 50 years ago A. G. Mechem and Sons of Nelsonville announced the purchase of the Murphy Brothers Shoe Store on Court Street in Athens. 25 years ago the Athens National Guard company led its battalion in qualifying riflemen at Camp Atterbury, with Pfc. John E. Tate earning expert with the M 1 and the highest score in the regiment.
Athens Messenger publication details list daily and Sunday single copy prices, delivery by carrier and tube route, mail rates for Ohio West Virginia and elsewhere, with post office second class matter status and the publisher address. The notice preserves period style and local imprint.
Washington observers compare summer preoccupations to digging up bodies. Watergate remains the prime find, with Agnew’s case likened to unearthing a treasure tomb. Other dig targets include unused Air Force stock in Charleston and attempts to recover the Andrea Doria treasure off Massachusetts by deep sea divers.
The piece reflects on the 27 murdered boys in Houston and how society files such crimes into records. It muses how media and culture treat extreme violence as record breaking and questions if crime reflects systemic flaws or individual guilt.
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