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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1965
Page
4
A reflective note urges that life be lived with ongoing curiosity and never turning away from life, attributing the idea to Eleanor Roosevelt and framing it as enduring wisdom.
In the Medicare surge, Congress added a Social Security amendment granting the Old Order Amish a tax and coverage exemption. Amish, mainly farmers in Lancaster County and migrating to several states, have long resisted Social Security. Individual Amish may sign waivers to receive benefits, after debate over blanket relief.
A barn near Flat Top Lake is pictured and described as possibly not owned by Jack Nuckols. A reporter who visited yesterday saw horses inside and was confronted by Fred Vines and two coworkers clearing brush. Vines cursed the reporter and ordered him off the road from Route 19 21 to the barn.
A columnist vented about overbearing political coverage and family reactions to Senator Byrd publicity including misconceptions and staged government announcements. The piece mocks media spin, Navy relocation talk, and a parishioner tone with a closing prayer from John W. Shackford of Waynesville North Carolina.
Opinion piece notes baseball moved indoors at a new Houston arena where daylight seeps through a lucite roof and daylight is blamed as an enemy. It highlights skybox luxury for bankers and the changing nature of the game, followed by Washington notebook on civil rights mail showing mixed white reactions to Negro advances and protests.
Beckley Newspapers Corporation publishes in Beckley West Virginia with mailing addresses in Beckley and Hinton. The notice lists subscription rates for mail and home delivery and notes price tax and distributor arrangements. It details carrier and distributor independence and the publisher’s non responsibility for advanced payments.
U S special ambassador Ellsworth Bunker scored a diplomatic win by securing Sukarno’s agreement to review and revise U S aid to Indonesia while Indonesian leaders retained some U S teaching programs and nationalized a U S owned carbide plant The article questions the justification for continuing U S aid to a government hostile to the United States and allied with Red China and North Korea
PHIL NEWSOM outlines a personal clash between British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Spain's Francisco Franco over Gibraltar. Britain insists sovereignty is non negotiable, tracing Gibraltar’s 1704 capture and Utrecht treaty rights, while Franco seeks changes amid broader Francoist tensions with Europe.
From the 1915 Raleigh Register the M M Club members were entertained by Miss Helen Martin at her East Main street home. Attendees included Carrie Burns Elizabeth Burns Madge Scott Ida Scott Gertrude Redden Eula Redden Ocie Blankenship Ella Wren Eva Pownall Theressa Higgins Hildred Bibb Wanda Bailey Gussie Keen Thelma Combs. Captain J H Wingate of Wingate McGhee died in Roanoke after a brief illness of heart trouble. Robert Roth of Glen White visited Beckley this week and reported Glen White mines ran five days last week, the best in months. Odd Telephone Co. expands lines including a branch to near Egeria and a line toward Pemberton.
President Johnson appoints Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr. to lead the CIA, promising a three month task force study and rapid changes. Raborn plans weekly briefings, aims to reorient the agency from old OSS methods to modern, computer aided intelligence while balancing new tech with practical judgment.
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