Plan to reorganize West Virginia House committees deserves study
Editorial argues for reducing standing committees from 23 to 16 plus the rules panel and consolidating panels into broader units. It emphasizes balancing workload, avoiding biased outcomes, and ensuring competent membership while warning of potential pitfalls and the need for careful Rules Committee review of Blankenship’s plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CASE
C. A. Blankenship
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Blankenship
House
Judiciary Committee
Finance Committee
House Rules Committee
Finance and Judiciary Committees
Labor and Industry Committee
Rites Committee
Rules Committee
Abolish HUAC Gains Ground As 89th Congress Opens
National drive to end the House Un American Activities Committee grows with a new abolition group in Washington and signatures from 100 constitutional law authorities. The Gazette urges West Virginia lawmakers to support abolition as past votes show mixed outcomes for the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Un-American Activities Committee
89Th Congress
HUAC
Washington
Congressional Hotel
House
the Gazette
West Virginia
Sprouse's Lobbying Job Sparks West Virginia Critique
The West Virginia Gazette questions the ethics of state Democratic chairman James Sprouse taking a lucrative lobbying role with an undertakers association. The editorial says the move shows a clear conflict of interest and reflects poorly on Sprouse, his party, and the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ince
West Virginia
Gazette
James Sprouse
Readers' Forum Tax System Seen Hurting Poor
A reader denounces tax policy as crushing the poor while Congress and the President supposedly fund global aid. The letter warns of escalating inequality, government waste, and a looming caste-like divide, urging action from democracy. Johnson Box 8123 South Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
South
Charleston
Education vs Road Funds Faces a Bold Budget Split
State officials and educators debate reallocating a $6.5 million fund from the road program to schools while the $200 million road bond advances. Supporters argue for a $40 million annual draw to meet education needs and complete current highway projects, within existing legal timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uyangina
Hulett Smith
Highway Department
West Virginia Faces Education Crisis Amid Bond Question
A 1964 editorial argues that debt service on past bonds and a $6.5 million allocation cannot fix the state’s crumbling schools. It cites dropout rates juvenile delinquency and poor teacher salaries, urging a bold second step for education after roadbuilding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burl Sawyers
Sawyers
West Virginia
Supreme Court Sustains Title II in Civil Rights Ruling
The Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 vote, upheld Congress power to apply Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to racial discrimination in public accommodations affecting interstate commerce. Justices Black and Harlan dissent, warning retroactive reach risks criminal abatement and civil disobedience. The decision signals a broad federal authority amid changing commerce conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times Co
Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Justice Clark
Marshall Gibbons
Ogtten
Clark
Justice Black
Harlan
United States
Something for Rusk to Ponder about embassies and relations
The piece imagines policies for handling Red China and hostile protests by proposing an American embassy in Peking without recognizing the Communist government. It argues embassies could absorb demonstrations while opening a path to rapprochement, and even suggests reciprocal moves if Beijing built an embassy in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
USIA
Jakarta
United States
Red China
Altiough
U. S
Washington
Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
GOP calls for dual leadership amid infighting
The piece notes Republican calls for one leader to act and another to speak, arguing the party risks repeated mistakes. It references a stalled Bobby Baker probe, Taiwan weather forecaster innocence amid poor forecasts, and Soviet space efforts as part of a broader, caustic political mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tke
Taiwan
Bobby Baker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Truman
Sprouse
Democracy
Gress
Europe
Asia
Africa
Thomas F. Stafford
Affairs
Bob
McNamara
George
Robert C. Byrd
Washington, D. C
U.S
Worle
Arthur Krock
Art Buchwald
Rusk
Congo
Moscow
Russia
Cairo
U.S. Marine
America
Jack Wason
Mars
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!