Editorial Page Notes Reflecting Opinions Across Columns
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Morning Prayer Verses and Brisbane’s Quiet Time View
A Bible verse urges early morning prayer in a lonely place. A quoted Arthur Brisbane urges retreat from crowds for personal time daily, reflecting on solitude and self discipline.
Carter attacks bureaucracy and impostor degrees discussed
The piece cites President Carter attacking the federal bureaucracy and argues the president has offered no actionable program. It expands into a critique of credential fraud, noting Yale's file of over 7,000 claimed graduates and similar risks at other colleges. It argues degrees may not reflect ability and mentions alumni fundraising as a motivation to misrepresent attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Carter
Congress
Georgia
Jack
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Old Jack
Yale University
The
Humane Society
Bluefield
Marvin B. Settle, Jr
W. Va
Witten’s Mills
Falls Mills
Richmond
Tazewell
O. J. Goins
Grant St
Virginia Ave
West Graham
Letters To The Editor On Social Security Misinformation
Readers urge action after misinformed Social Security guidance caused benefit losses for widows. The writer seeks to gather cases for Senator Byrd, asks for details, and notes staff responses while acknowledging sympathetic officials and a call for proof and accountability.
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Byrd
Bluefield Social Security Office
Social Security Office
Bluefield
H. V
Margaret) Foster
North St
W. Va. P.S
Amin Leads World’s Bloodiest Murderers in New Report
A concise review traces Idi Amin’s Uganda killings and related crimes in Cambodia and Equatorial Guinea. It notes Lule’s recantation, U.S. coffee sanctions against Amin, and a House vote on a Ugandan coffee embargo amid broader human rights tensions. It also covers redlining in New York and Medicaid fraud probes at North St. Louis General Hospital.
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Francisco Macie
Equatorial Guinea
Uganda
Idi Amin
Godfrey Lule
Amin
United Nations Human Rights Commission
Lule
Janan Luwuum
United States
Cambodia
U.S
Folger Coffee Company
Lyle
New York Public Interest Research Group
Nypirg
New York City
Manhattan
North St. Louis General Hospital
St. Louis
Health, Education and Welfare
Justice Departments
Paul Harvey on Car Theft Tactics and Insurance
An exposition on rising auto theft methods in New York and nationwide. It outlines owner complicity, inflated salvage profits, staged thefts for insurance, and the risk to policyholders while noting higher regional premiums. The piece criticizes easy-to-open locks as aiding theft and boosting sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tip Top
Mudfork
Bluestone
Horsepen Cove
Tazewell Town
Tazewell
Treasury Department
Massachusetts
Congress
Allen Siegel
Bluefield
W. Va
New York City
Robert Davis
Auto Squad
New York Magazine
Boston
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Hugh Ike Shott
Hugh Shott
Richard Wesley
Mark
Arthur Brisbane
Berrys World
NEA
Crooks
Social Security
Marvin Settle
Maxine Meadows
Princeton, W. Va
Friends of the Humane Society
Mercer County
Sheriff's Department
W.va
Henry L. Comer
Utah Beach
Normandy
Comer
Henry Lee Comer
A. H. Hill
Bluefield, Va
Jack Anderson
Washington
Adolf Hitler
Paul Harvey