Baily Telegraph Production Details and Rates
Publication notes for the Baily Telegraph dated 1866 to 1953 include daily morning issues by Telegraph Printing Co. at 412 Blanc Street Bluefield. Associated Press rights and local news credit. Subscriptions by carrier 40 cents weekly, by mail West Virginia 16.20 per year, other zones on request. Advertising representative Kate Agency Inc. DA 17-6171.
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Hugh Ike Shott
Telegraph Printing Co
Blanc Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
All News
Sunplay
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Kate Agency, Inc
Eisenhower policy shift improves Western standing in Middle East
The piece argues President Eisenhower has adopted a more conciliatory Middle East stance, easing friction with Egypt and Syria. It credits the shift with strengthening the West against Russia, diminishing Dulles era rigidity, and influencing Arab regimes toward calmer anti-Communist methods.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Middle East
Egypt
Syria
West
Russia
Dulles
Adlai FE
Stevenson
Nasser
Aswan
Suez Canal
Jordan
Lebanon
Nehru
India
United Nations
Cairo
Ankara
Tunisia
North Africa
New York
William Rountree
Salah el-Bitar
Rountree
Mahom
Preaching the Gospel and Christian Names
Andrew Fuller notes that Christians are called saints for holiness believers for faith brethren for love and disciples for knowledge. He emphasizes necessity upon preachers and the burden if they do not proclaim the gospel.
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Andrew Fuller
Declaration Of War by a Communist World Conspiracy Reemerges
The article traces the Cominform lineage and its revival as a nameless, global Communist front. It argues a renewed open declaration of cold war and hints at a nuclear showdown led by the Soviet bloc against the United States and its allies, driven by Khrushchev’s leadership. It frames America as World Enemy No 1 and notes Moscow’s revived boldness after Sputnik.
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Comintern
Latlin
Russia
Cominform
Stalin
Khrushchev
America
Kremlin
United States
Vatican
Soviet Union
Bolshoi Ballet
Moscow
Moscow Circus
Clk
Pland
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
U. S
Howard Cullman
Syria
Damascus Fair
Salonika
Stevenson
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
NATO
Paris
Kefauver
Charles Lanham
Ike
Western
Europe
Washington
FBI
Apalachin
N. Y
Anastasia
Vito Genovese
Robert Secrest
Ohio
White House
Federal Trade Commission
Secrest
John Hayes
Eisenhower
Senate panel probes U.S. missile lag with Bush and Teller
A Senate committee begins an inquiry into lagging U.S. missile programs amid Sputnik comparisons. Testimony from Vannevar Bush and Edward Teller questions whether more funds or better organization is needed, urging reform of armed forces unification and stressing insights from top scientists.
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U. S
Senate
Vannevar Bush
Edward Teller
Bush
French divers find sunken ship bound for Caesar era
French divers near le Du Levant island in Provence locate a sunken vessel said to be supplying Julius Caesar in Gaul. The ship lies about 13 fathoms deep and reportedly contains 2,000 jars of sardine preserves.
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le du Levant
Mediterranean
Provence
Julius Caesar
Gaul
Timeline of Past Local Mentions From Bluefield Chronicle
A summary of historical notes listing business visitors in Bluefield from Athens and Beckley, older events including National Guard involvement in France, Russian inspection trips to local coal fields, a Granada Theater organ delivery, district coal price references, a Japanese seizure protest, a Supreme Court heading, and a midwest winter.
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Granada Theater
Merger Buzz and Local Civic Hints Across West Virginia
Reports on the Charleston Daily Mail Gazette merger name Lyell Clay as likely top executive and Ned Chilton as potential Gazette editor. Bluefield politics draw city manager heat while Bill Kell enjoys Weirton growth. Rumors place Dug Frental for new liquor post and William Hancock to speak at WVU. Southwest Virginia counties stay busy with Pulaski annexation and Wytheville expansion.
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Charleston, Daily Mail
The
Gazette
Lyell Clay
Daily Mail Company
News Room
Harry Hoffman
Tex Higby
Ned Chilton
Gazette News
Bluefield
Bill Kell
Weirton
Bill
Fell
Bill Fugitt
Gost
Bluefield State College
Fellows
Dug Frental
Huntington
Cabell County
State Liquor Commission
Ed Liquor Commission
Gaujot Bias
William T. Hancock
West Virginia Tax Institute
WVU
Jack Fields
West Virginia
Southwest Virginia
Pulaski
Wytheville
Christmas Parade Lights Up Princeton Streets
Norton installed colorful street markets as Princeton hosts a festive Christmas parade attracting hundreds of visitors. Parade judges met at Princeton Bank and Trust to pick winners. The new bank building draws praise from President Es sie Bailey amid traffic jams downtown.
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Norton
Dickenson
Chamber of Commerce
Carroll, Grayson and Galax
Bluefield
ADC
Princeton
Princeton Bank and Trust Company
Essie Bailey
Unification of U S Armed Forces Predicted in Future Wars
Constantine Brown argues that rapid war tech will force elimination of separate Army Navy and Air Force commands. He cites missile programs and Sputnik era rivalry, noting future warfare will require joint forces, with unified defense and universal tasks across services. He recalls Civil War tensions and postwar unification trends.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Army
Air Force
America
Navy
Teder
Defense Department
War Techniques For Unification Of Military Services
The article discusses Union Under a Defense Department creating a hierarchy over Army Navy and Air Force. It notes the Marine Corps bid for independence, enduring interservice rivalry over air power, and the rise of missiles and rocketry as a future force leveler.
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War Department
Navy Department
Department of Defense
Army
Air Force
Independent Air Force
Navy
Army Air Corps
Western fantasies lure safe modern men into frontier dreams
Dr. Rigbert Fitch of Pacific School of Religion argues Westerns appeal to adults craving risk and adventure. Even the disciplined, civic-minded man harbors secret wishes for gunplay, frontier justice, and a dramatic showdown, a notion echoed by public figures and professionals.
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Rigbert Fitch
Pacific
School of Religion
Crime Commission
Wyatt Earp
Dr. Fitch
Tombstone Bistro
Doc
Boot Hill Urge in Satirical Space Medical Exchange
A humorous dialogue between Uncle Sam and Doc parodies spaceflight and Cold War anxieties. Uncle Sam boasts resilience and cosmic ambition while the doctor jokes about blood pressure and Russian dressing, ending with a punchy countdown to a future space era.
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Uncle Sam
Doc
Outer Space
Eisenhower presidency described as a tough, failing job
The narrative portrays President Eisenhower as a wartime general thrust into civil administration, facing party rifts with Old and Modern Republicans, business opposition, and a strained health amid Sputnik era tensions. It portrays his administration as constrained by a wary business class and political discord.
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Ike
Staan
Russia
Sputnik
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Roosevelt-Truman
Columbia University
Paris
NATO
White House
New Hampshire
Sherman Adams
Herbert Hoover
Joe McCarthy
Adams
Taft
Congress
McCarthy
Republican Party
Snarks and Smog and Scandals Named in Wry News
The piece playfully notes a traveler’s 5000 mile journey and a wary reaction to future missteps. It cites a Russian doctor blaming cancer on smog, suggests tensions with a space program, recalls a town with fewer lights, and mentions India banning widows burning themselves on husbands’ pyres with assistants resigning after the coach is fired.
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India
Postmaster General Summerfield Almost Blocked Religious Stamp
Summerfield nearly approved a Pilgrim hat on the Bible stamp to mark the Flushing Remonstrance 300th anniversary but a church adviser warned it would offend many. The design was changed to place the hat beside the Bible.
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Washington
Summerfield
Flushing
Long Island
Brooklyn
Peter Stuyvesant
New Amsterdam
Manhattan
Post Office Department
Flushing Remonstrance
Division of Philately
Presbyterian Church
Fred S. Buschmeyer
National Council of Churches
Buschmeyer
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H. J. Phillips
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