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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1935
Page
4
Governor Davey seeks a 1935 36 budget shift that would reduce Ohio University salaries by 113 400 yet keep current schedule in effect. The plan reallocates funds across items such as wages fuel postage and library books while maintaining operations amid a veto history and Supreme Court rulings.
Hopkins denies union wage motive in issuing the order to align hours with local conditions. He says the rule may equalize security wages to union levels if hours drop, but never exceed eight hours daily or forty weekly. By Nov 1 the relief drive aims to employ 2.5 million, with 931,103 already at work, including 92,000 in CCC camps. dole ends as quotas fill, otherwise direct relief may continue.
Varsity M Club and former lettermen of Middleport High School greet the Yellow Jackets season with a town hall to field march. The opener vs Rutland starts at 8 PM after Rutland beat Wellston 40 to 7. Walter Prode, new coach, is in the Varsity M Club. State college funding figures note Miami University 80250 this year and next. Wilberforce University 17500 this year and 20700 next.
A dubious ad hawks Indo-Vin a new herbal medicine claiming 85 to 90 percent success. It promises rapid relief from indigestion headaches kidney and liver troubles and bed wetting with a 2 cent trial bottle and a 25 cent coupon option. The offer pressures readers to act Friday and Saturday claiming dramatic bodily improvements and age reversal.
A fragment mentions awful gases and purities likely leaking from an initial gas source. The unreadable text suggests danger but lacks concrete details such as location, time, or responsible party. Further context is needed to determine the incident, parties involved, and their actions.
Italy accelerates East Africa preparations with ten steamers at Naples while Libyan troop concentrations alarm British observers. London stock market jitters amid Italo Ethiopian tensions as Mussolini weighs a huge war loan and new taxes. Emperor Haile Selassie hosts American reporters. war unlikely before Oct, per diplomats.
The F. J. Beasley Packing Company of Athens was one of eight plaintiffs who posted bonds Thursday equal to the amounts they owed the government. They await settlement of suits in the U. S. District Court in Columbus to prevent collection of processing taxes under the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Governor Davey pitches an $8,800,000 relief bond plan to fund state aid and offset vetoes by cutting salaries in some departments. The proposal envisions a state relief authority distributing funds to counties from bond revenues, with the remainder as a federal grant. lawmakers weigh the feasibility as federal approval and broader relief funding loom.
Dr James Will Speak at the National Forum on Country Life Programs on the Ohio State campus in Columbus Saturday. The address titled The Improvement of Rural Government will be broadcast over Station WOSU at three o clock. He will critique current county government as inefficient or corrupt and discuss relief efforts' failures due to petty political machinery. Dr James has led municipal groups and authored books on government.
Word reaches Dr. Co L. Jones of Athena of the sudden death of Professor L. M. Gillilan of Salt Lake City. He was brother-in-law to the late H. R. McVay and brother of humorist Strickland Gillilan. Burial service will be held at Hebbardsville with complete arrangements to be announced next week.
George Van Law aged 41 son of Jesse Van Law once editor of The Athens Messenger spent over an hour with Captain J B Allen in Athens Thursday. He has been touring the United States with family and had not visited Athens in over 50 years finding few old friends. He noted another Van Law relative Carl Van Law of Los Angeles a prominent financial leader.
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