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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1948
Page
16
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, a morning paper minus Mondays, operates from Bluefield West Virginia. It carries AP dispatches and paid circulation details, with subscriptions listed at 12 dollars yearly in West Virginia and 30 cents weekly by carrier.
A devotional reflection contrasts a Bible verse from Deuteronomy with a quote from Richard Cecil. The passages emphasize teaching God’s statutes to live rightly in the land and honoring obedience to divine will.
The piece condemns the Soviet ban on travel to Berlin and notes Allied airlifts and limited rail access. It cites Western aid, currency disputes, and calls for a peaceful settlement while discussing Truman and Eisenhower nomination prospects amid Democratic splits.
The article notes a Wallace third party ticket on the ballot seems unavoidable with a push for a warm campaign in West Virginia. It warns such a platform circulates promises aimed at attracting voters favorable to Wallace while predicting little adoption by any state.
Despite 670 pledged and claimed votes for President Truman at the Philadelphia convention, dissenting Democrats push to unseat him by backing General Eisenhower. Elliott Roosevelt leads a New York meeting citing a supposed Eisenhower letter, later denied by Eisenhower’s office stating no change in position since January 23.
Walter S. Hallanan of West Virginia, chairing convention arrangements, received public praise from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for outstanding leadership at the national Republican convention in Philadelphia. The tribute appeared in the official minutes as Hallanan stood to applause from thousands, with West Virginia pride voiced by the Daily Telegraph. Truman’s confidence in winning the presidency remains unproven as the piece notes.
The Columbus Ohio Evening Dispatch editorial criticizes President Truman for saying California’s climate makes Florida look like 30 cents. It argues the blunder harms his political wisdom and warnings about civil rights and other hot issues in the South.
A quiet morning scene on Seven oclock Street invites a dawn walk before the city wakes. The poem describes still houses green gardens and a sense of orchard sweet air and a blossoming in the reader's heart at first light.
Tom Dewey, speaking at 2 a.m. in Philadelphia, urged Stassen to accept losses and defend principles. The piece also details a new draft policy empowering the White House to issue mandatory orders for defense material and to seize noncompliant steel plants. A poll of 100 Democratic reps favored eastern running mates, McCormick’s Tribune shadowed Gov. Green, and the Illinois delegation remained tainted by Tribune influence as Taft opposed Dewey.
In a peculiar note, Senator Soaper mentions a canoe on the Charles River in Waltham Massachusetts and jokes about adding a pop corn machine. Tony Zale the middleweight champion believes beating a tough foe twice suffices. A parallel case recalls Germany being divided into four parts.
In Fairmont the police chief Austin clashed with Mayor Al Robinson following a state FOP convention ball. Officers asked the mayor to bring female prisoners to the dance. the desk sergeant denied any prisoners and said he takes orders from the chief. The visit ended with mutual snubs and the chief allegedly feeling slighted.
Reports from Fairmont to Beckley describe political snubs and public disputes, including a mayoral incident and a charged open letter to Irvin Stewart. The piece notes Bluefield's parking building interest, aging educator Boyd Haden’s retirement, Beckley garbage meeting turnout, and WVU fieldwork by students including Dorcas Clayton and Bernard Kaylor in Greenbrier County.
A narrator recalls street scenes along 48th to 49th Streets and nearby areas. The fragment touches a light brown woman selling hand woven baskets, a distressed matron racing to a matinee, prize fighters on West 49th, a daytime rooster near West 43rd or 44th, a large steamer on the Hudson heading to a Bear Mountain picnic, Spuyten Duyvil fishing lines, and a long freight train on New York's bread line. The piece notes the George Washington Bridge under construction, the Bowery diamond markets, Maiden Lane traders, Bowery depopulation, Bowervites travelling with carnivals, a Sheridan Square scene with a six-baby perambulator, a studious youth with a long-bearded beach sleeper, a fight-threatening dog, a young artist, a girl reading Raintree County, green corn on a push cart near Washington Square, and squalid tenements near the Brooklyn Bridge with junk carts and a Spanish restaurant nearby.
A critic laments modern conventions seen through television documenting dull stares and awkward looks. The piece contrasts the old order with current televised politics and the unsettling, gallery like view of delegates and leaders.
Yale awards a honorary degree to Eleanor Robson, lauded for stage career and service to Red Cross and opera. The ceremony recalls her roles in Arizona and She Stoops To Conquer and notes her marriage to the late August Belmont.
Hollywood rumors note Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard backing Swiss sensation Paul Noel to play Caesar Borgia in The Mask of Lucretia. Pat Neal, Danny Kaye, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and others figure in project plans, adoptions, and possible roles across studios with set locations in California and Oregon.
Fifty years ago Miss Drinkard's school closed and pupils enjoyed an outing at Higgenbotham's spring. Bramwell citizens hosted Capt. T. E. Thomas and his company at Bluestone Inn before their departure for war. Forty years ago George A. Swope left for Lynchburg to marry Miss Douglass Rector. Thirty years ago E. H. Easley became West Virginia Insurance agents president in Charleston. Stella Maye Sawyers and Cc L. Austin wed at Northfork. Twenty years ago Roy Witt died in New Mexico and Julia Benbow Brownes died in Maryville. Ten years ago L C Hollandsworth recovered from a brain concussion while playing ball. Memorial building courts in Princeton opened.
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