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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1949
Page
4
Bluefield Daily Telegraph circulation details and advertising terms listed with carrier and mail rates. Page also features a Bible verse and a Walter Scott quotation as decorative matter.
The article notes Mr. Byrnes as a national figure with a long record including U S senator, Supreme Court associate justice, and wartime mobilizer. It cites sharp public criticism of the Truman administration and welfare moves and links Byrnes to Bernard Baruch while suggesting a growing southern Democratic push for more traditional governance.
The Taft campaign gains nationwide traction with donors and prominent figures backing Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. In Ohio anti Taft forces struggle to recruit a strong Democrat opponent as Lausche declines. Lincoln’s nomination doubts persist while Taft appears set to win with broad outside support.
The Biloxi southern governors conference spurs talk of James F. Byrnes of South Carolina seeking the Democratic nomination in 1952. Age and party splits loom as Dixiecrats push a possible States rights bid if the Democrats balk. The plan hinges on Byrnes possibly winning South Carolina governorship next year.
A cartoonist suggests an automatic choke to limit car speed, sparking debate on setting a nationwide maximum engine speed. He hints 45 to 60 mph as possible limits, noting state limits exist but enforcement is uneven and road deaths rise with more traffic.
Beardsley Ruml, economist, attacks wartime excise taxes kept by the Truman administration after the emergency. He calls levies on cosmetics, furs, luggage, jewelry and more punitive and argues revenue loss would be far smaller than official estimates. He predicts higher sales and tax shifts could cover the shortfall. Columbus Dispatch notes the view.
A brief poem from the Huntington Poetry Guild yearbook passage. Maud Phillips presents imagery of the waning season with rust and frost, vines, and musicians. It marks summer fading as autumn’s page turns and a signet of abdication lingers in the stanza.
Drew Pearson contrasts the Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce effort with a U S senate junket to Spain. Jaycees in Amarillo mail to Austrian youths and plan a Texan visit to Salzburg to foster people to people ties. The piece argues such practical outreach builds lasting understanding and peace beyond official trips.
Kay Kyser resumes his TV program The College of Musical Knowledge after a summer off. He chronicles travel from California to Lac La Croix Ontario while juggling vacation plans, pending health checks, and the shift from radio to television, noting tough rehearsals and a persistent MCA recruiter.
Sheilah Graham reports on Bob Hope negotiating with Paramount for The Great Pickpocket ahead of The Great McGinty and a wedding scene. Betty Grable’s husband Harry James declines a role. Gable films Across the Wide Missouri with few women. Ty Power eyes a western but prefers a drawing room comedy.
A compact tribute praising Winnie and Churchill for steadfast leadership and potent prose. The piece lauds wartime courage, sharp rhetoric, and moral resilience that inspired a shaken public. It references Winston Churchill, John Bull imagery, and the power of words to lift hope during darkness.
A fragmented literary collage recalls wartime resolve and satire. References to Churchill orations blend with lines about fighting on beaches and a satirical take on a legal drama from Adam’s Rib.
A collage of notes recalls Winston Churchill being honored at Yale with a goal mentioned for the unique jungle history turning him into a Yale man Ralph Branca makes a singing debut in Toast of The Town and Mimi Bengell urges more opera stars to perform in nightspots Broadway venues and on television George Kaufman quips about coloratura asking what it is Field Marshal Montgomery joins South Pacific lore while John L Lewis visits town for a coal strike and Montogomery’s Desert War tactics echo in the show
Robert Ruark reports on the Stroble case in which Fred Stroble killed 6 year old Linda Joyce Glacoft. A psychiatrist says fear drove the crime and notes Stroble’s troubled life, residence in California, and past bail jump. Ruark questions mercy versus punishment and the treatment of criminals.
A satirical note claims Dimitri Snostakovich may leave the Kremlin doghouse if well behaved and hints Mos cow could credit him with Beet hover invention. A Cleveland cab company distributes 119,000 tin whistles, with water and birds forming an odd scene.
Daily Telegraph reports funeral services for John Cooper pioneer coal operator were held at Cooper. The piece notes local residents Mr and Mrs Frank Huston returning to Keystone after visiting relatives. Other items mention Gary bowling manager W R Clayton challenging all comers and a Pearisburg judge visiting the city. B J McCulloch pioneer Bluefield merchant dies at 27 Bland Street. Clarence Johnson 30 son of D T Johnson of Russell Street shot dead in Hurley Virginia. Twenty years ago the Bluefield chamber of commerce mulled a stadium plan. Leon Hart injured after falling from a truck. Clarence and Mrs Brown welcome a son at Bluefield Sanitarium.
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