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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1946
Page
4
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Short, direct plea urging voters to approve airport bond issue. Promotional banner style appeals to fiscal responsibility and local development. The item reflects a political message urging approval of funding for airport infrastructure.
The piece argues Europe and Asia suffer from partisan violence and outside interference, citing Italy and Russia as destabilizing forces. It condemns political careers over service, calls for congressional reform, and critiques steel cost blame for car prices along with a push for airport bonds.
A Senate committee advances a reform plan to modernize congressional procedure, aiming to speed legislation while curbing delays. The measure, initially misread as a salary increase, would set new rules though critics note uneven member productivity in both chambers.
The editorial warns that the 1947 budget balance depends on retaining current tax laws and resisting expanded spending. It criticizes the growing federal debt, worth about 250 billion dollars, two thirds of all U S debt, and calls for sweeping economies and elimination of nonessential government activities to relieve the burden.
A compact, lyric catalog maps vivid sensory scenes from wind and rain to horses hooves and night engines. The poem celebrates tangible textures and sounds as a personal, evolving collection of impressions.
The article describes tense Senate debate on the St. Lawrence waterway, with Connally opposing treaty form and George of Georgia attacking the State Department. It notes widespread enthusiasm for the project among presidents and parties, plus shifts in White House aides and foreign policy concerns including Palestine.
In Berlin, American troops report a boom in June weddings and exotic honeymoons across European glamour spots. Chaplains note crowded May schedules as couples wed under U.S. occupation rules, planning trips once reserved for the wealthy to destinations like Switzerland and the Riviera.
A German pre 1933 law ceremony followed by a religious service at an army chapel marks a June wedding in Berlin. Lt. Dutee Smith and Staff Sgt. Geraldine Sanders plan a two week honeymoon itinerary by surplus army jeep through Denmark Paris the Riviera and other European sites.
Readers report the unveiling of Booker T Washington’s bust at New York University Library placing him in the Hall of Fame among American immortals. The event honored his life’s work in southern uplift and education adapting to people’s needs.
A proposal to establish a National Industrial Training School at Booker T. Washington's birthplace in Franklin County Virginia aims to meet the training needs of African Americans. The plan invites public input and directs communications to the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Museum Inc Rocky Mount Virginia.
The piece profiles Paul Terry on his thirty year anniversary in animation at New Rochelle studios where Terry Toons, released by Twentieth Century Fox, shows how 8000 to 10000 drawings yield six months of work for a brief seven to eight minute cartoon. It notes the long, skilled process from rough drafts to photographed comedy and traces animation to prehistoric attempts.
The article traces early animation history from cave art through Roget’s persistence of vision to Roget’s 1824 discovery. It notes the thaumatrope and Zoetrope, progressive devices, Edison’s motion pictures, Winsor McCay’s Gertie, and Paul Terry’s birth of Terry-Toons at a 1914 dinner.
A humorous but pointed tribute lists H J Phillips Smirmey Dudley X Snaffle and Herman L Quibbers as standout figures. It praises Phillips for opposing veteran housing deprivation tied to racing plans, lauds Dudley X for restraint in radio comedy, and critiques Quibbers for mismanaging OPA schedules and prices.
Honorary Degrees For The Year 1946 profile lauds Oscar Minch a legislator and stamp collector. It notes his election pressures and his stand against special interests while voting for laws to keep the country from going over Niagara in a pressure cooker. The piece ends urging readers to turn to page nine.
Paul Mallon notes a power clash within the court as Justice Black leads a Roosevelt bloc split by Justice Douglas. Jackson’s unprecedented attack signals a move to curb Black influence, with Truman’s Vinson choice seen as an outsider fix. The piece frames this as a liberal effort to oust radical leadership, not a simple conservative liberal feud.
Marion Talley, Metropolitan Opera prima donna, performed before a large Huntington audience as reports note events from the era. Other items include local church activities and a fire in Williamson with casualties, plus civic movements and personnel changes in Bluefield and Clarksburg.
The St. Louis Star-Times poses a quiz asking which instrument is hardest to learn with a witty aside about second fiddle. The item reflects a quiz column tone and light humor from a midcentury paper.
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