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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1963
Page
4
A concise reflection on living a godly life provoking hardship. The sentiment cites biblical urging and notes martyrdom as a sublime, sorrowful aspect of faith. The quotation echoes devotional themes from 19th century Christian contexts.
Letter to the editor denounces NBC and the Chet and David report on Appalachia for portraying West Virginia as impoverished. The author cites economic gains from nearly 200 new plants, urges more balanced reporting, and questions the nine versus twelve state definition of Appalachia. The piece calls for TV reporters to stop shaping a ruinous image.
Russell Kirk denounces modern American magazines and drugstores for sexualized Christmas imagery. He cites Amos, C. S. Lewis, and a Oklahoma governor, calling for public demonstrations and a strike against depictions of perverted sexuality during the Twelve Days of Christmas. He urges recalling the glad tidings.
John Birch Society figures listed by Bobby Baker appear in a profile of post assassination activity. The column details Baker’s modest income returns and notes Birch leaders such as Fred Koch Clarence Manion William Grede A G Heinsohn Robert Stoddard and others using Kennedy’s death to recruit new members. It also mentions Gov Pat Brown thanking Speaker John McCormack for defeating the Nixon Amendment and notes diplomatic duties delaying Henry Cabot Lodge from campaigning.
A delegation of U S business leaders toured the Soviet Union, met Premier Khrushchev and other officials, and returned discouraged about prospects for concord with the Communists. Keith Funston of the New York Stock Exchange said the meeting revealed a shocking disregard for facts and left him frustrated at the possibility of truthful dialogue.
A Daily Telegraph roundup recalls events from the past five decades including T. S. Browning visiting the city forty years ago insurgents gaining a seat on the Rules Committee thirty years ago Roosevelt era gold purchases and twenty years ago clashes between American and Japanese forces in the Marshall Islands ten years ago a key suspect from the Greenlease kidnapping case facing perjury charges and remarks by Manion.
Dr. Philip S. Chen argues in A New Look at God that the deity resides near Orion. An autograph dealer quotes partly printed dinner invitations for John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor priced at about 25 dollars.
The piece argues the Afro-Asian bloc seeks to enlarge the Security Council and alter the UN charter to weaken the United States veto, with Moscow likely backing changes. It criticizes widespread moral failures and calls for a return to Woodrow Wilson’s ideals of a morally driven international order.
A dense poem fragment set of images describing balance as a swift grace of aerialists and toe-dancers, the long hold of a boulder balanced on rock, and crystals interlocking in a geological time frame. It blends motion and stillness, time, and touch.
The fragmentary text invokes a wall and a dream motif, echoing Shakespearean language. It appears as a stray verse or marginal note alluding to Winter fears and a protective wall. The piece blends midwinter imagery with classical Shakespearean diction.
Henry J. Taylor recalls a Christmas Eve memory in 1890s Ohio when Uncle Ned asks to borrow a boy for Christmas. The tale centers on warmth, the Golden Rule, Aunt Madie’s kindness, and a boy's longing for family comfort on a snowy night.
William R. McAndrew of NBC defends the Huntley-Brinkley Report segment on Appalachia. He disputes the editorial's factual errors about length regions and scenes, notes journalists involved, and argues the program was fair and accurate overall.
World Echoes reports Commander Smit of the Dutch air force survived a 12 000 foot fall when his parachute failed and he landed in mattress factory foam. The item contrasts optimism with pessimism via a Yugoslav shoe maker’s Africa report and notes Hermann Schroeder’s unpaying bar exit followed by a joke and police involvement.
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