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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1966
Page
4
Fred W. Weber as Circulation Director and M. W. McDargh as Advertising Director are listed for the Athens Ohio publication dated Monday September 26 1966. The line notes departmental roles and the city postal code 45701.
Seniors benefited from Medicare payments in August boosting personal income to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 585 billion dollars. Social Security figures show 1.3 billion in Medicare payments plus 3 a month for medical insurance, plus 400 million more from higher interest income. Analysts watch September data to gauge whether the economy will hold steady or slip in the year’s final quarter.
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers urged bringing home the 60,501 Americans who died serving France in two world wars. The French may dislike this, but the memory ties endure. De Gaulle’s stance and potential NATO moves are noted, yet the fallen deserve undisturbed rest in France.
Frisco volunteers formed the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association in 1957 to boost city beauty and vitality. This week SPUR hosts San Francisco Week featuring a climactic discussion on city strengths and weaknesses and urging nonpartisan, yet political, cooperation with City Hall.
In Vietnam's Quang Tri Province Marines guard the rock pile a critical terrain feature as Lt. McMahon Capt. Frederickson and their units fend off a reinforced North Vietnamese battalion. Generals Walt and Kyle express cautious confidence amid harsher combat ahead.
A conservative columnist analyzes Public Law 89-544 the dog and cat act of 1966. The piece notes aims to regulate lab animals while leaving other species to looser rules and questions counts of animals and dealers. It cites possible licensing thousands of dealers and up to two thousand facilities with a two million dollar yearly enforcement cost.
The law requires licensed dealers to identify dogs and cats and hold them five days before shipping. Laboratories face cease and desist orders and civil penalties for poor records or facilities. It does not ban vivisection but imposes minimum humane standards amid criticism from researchers and dealers.
The World Today columns trace shifts in Johnson administration aims for talks with North Vietnam from 1965 through 1966. It notes Hanoi's four point program, U S willingness to discuss with the Viet Cong, renewed bombing, and international reactions led by Thant and Goldberg.
The Messenger notes a call for an extraordinary New York Legislature session to address a street car strike in the nation’s largest city. Winners in The Messenger subscription contest: Eva Martin first, Ernes tine Bean second, Rose Mauer third, Eva Baughman fourth. Military Police become a separate Army unit. Eleven Camp Nelson CCC enrollees trained at Curtiss Wright School in Columbus as part of a 25 person group at Ohio University. Mrs Wayne Wingett wins a local grange cake baking contest.
The Athens Messenger lists daily and Sunday editions with single copy prices and mail rates. It notes delivery by carriers and by mail within Ohio and the US, with subscription terms of one week to one year and post office classification as second class matter.
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