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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1950
Page
6
Bluefield Daily Telegraph established 1893. Publication details and postal notices. Rates and circulation information for carriers and mail. Associated Press membership noted. Printing office address in Bluefield West Virginia.
In a sharp critique, the piece argues President Truman and his administration push for global anti communist goals while neglecting U S stockpiles of raw materials. It cites a stockpile goal of 3 773 billion and only 16 percent of minimum needs met, warning of six more years to fill gaps and urging focus on national security over world rehabilitation.
The late Senator Norris called conference committees really a third house. They shape most major laws including tax, Social Security, and Selective Service reforms. Conferees, chosen by the Vice President or Senate pro tem and by the Speaker, aim for compromise and generally include chairmen and ranking minority members.
Government efforts on the stockpiling program are 70 percent behind the five year minimum with one year left. An engineer says even meeting minimum munitions board goals would only ease a severe shortage that could impede war production. Congress passed the stockpiling act almost four years ago to accumulate strategic materials for future war emergencies.
Opinion pieces argue reducing government spending as the simplest path to tax relief. The piece criticizes the proposed tax bill for relying on excise cuts and new corporate taxes, warns of higher burdens on big industry, and questions unemployment policy and federal spending. It also notes a press report about Hopi Indians refusing a federal handout and comments on Native Americans and assimilation.
This short verse by Clarence E. Long of Herndon West Virginia praises a three year old son. It likens him to a squirrel climbing fences and walls and describes the boy's constant activity and noisy play. The line expresses parental pride in boys and their boundless energy.
Drew Pearson invokes Washington Jefferson and Lincoln to urge a world democracy. He argues Americans must embrace pioneering spirit beyond arms and business and sell a global brotherhood to overcome Cold War fear and unity challenges.
Senator Soaper comments on Jack Onslow former White Sox manager drawing 800 dollars weekly. A Kansas A. grad had a clean all A record except a B in a required dancing course. The piece mocks compulsory dancing as outdated frontier era habit.
Col. Jack Younger, once with Jim Mann, leads Miami crime commission efforts against gambling and drew Kefauver committee members to Miami. In Richlands, Kelly Crawford wins a tie in the town council election by repeated coin flips. West Virginia counties open woodchuck season on July 1. New building space to be occupied near Federal Street by Manis Brothers. A & P may lease Bland Street space if Buckley’s lease transfers. Politician names surface for governor nominees in 1952 from Ward Wylie and Broughton Johnston.
Worthwhile notes describe local chatter on Mullens physician and lawmaker turning down a congress bid, the Bluefield horse show drawing praise, and a humorous incident where officers chased nude teens. a police auto swap leads to a wife’s destructive discovery of confiscated clothes.
A convalescing Montreal hospital patient recounts a Christmas gift story. A black lace negligee, packed away then rediscovered, becomes the centerpiece of a cheeky misadventure involving a neighbor with a long Latin illness and a series of near mishaps.
A dying patient Mrs Benoise battles paralysis as her husband is injured in a car crash. A nurse and writer use a black lace negligee to comfort her, sparking a final glimpse of beauty before her death. The husband, blinded in the crash, is told of her appearance beforehand and later promised more negligees.
The crowded courtroom watches a dramatic scene as principals including Mr Erickson and District Attorney Hogan appear with nervous witnesses and racing bets. A loud intruder triggers a scramble, then judges remind spectators this is court, not a track.
A chaotic courtroom vignette centers on Frank Erickson in a racing heat with 52 scratches. Spectators question handicaps, discuss Prosecution Boy, and track conditions as Erickson seems misdirected yet races, with delays, ejections, and a postrace photo order. District Attorney Hogan looms, and jokes about fast track and past guilty pleas color the scene.
In Tokyo discussions with MacArthur and senior officials the United States must choices on Japan and Korea sovereignty, peace treaties, and postwar alignments. The Philippines, China and Soviet influence complicate bases, defense, and intervention while Congress granted independence and U S guarantees.
Daily Telegraph noted fifty years ago Thomas L Feltz and A H Bald win of Baldwin Detective agency arrived back in the city from Wise Court house in Virginia. John M McGrath visited from Princeton yesterday.
THIRTY YEARS AGO Senator George E Chamberland of Oregon spoke at the Bluefield chamber of commerce annual dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Lowman visited Pulaski to see Lowmans mother. TWENTY YEARS AGO Frank Denardo Bluefield Va died in Richlands hospital. The newly elected chamber board included FP Archer C S Cheyney Ray Evans W E Koepler E A Leonard Jr Bernard McClaugherty George Richardson Jr and A L Smith.
The text notes Wendell Willkie being unanimously selected as the Republican presidential nominee. It also reports a Nazi swastika at the Spanish frontier amid Germany completing its sweep across France and a victorious military advance.
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