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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1962
Page
4
A compact note reflects on how comforts arise from enduring cross like challenges. It offers a succinct reflection attributed to a thoughtful voice, suggesting personal growth through hardship and resilience.
West Virginia alumni from 20 colleges unite under CAUSE to back higher education. American Education Week extends the effort to Beckley and Clarksburg with events November 12 13 and 14. Alumni reps aim to show lawmakers education funding is politically popular and may seed dedicated alumni funds for broader financial support and organization.
Miss Mary Margaret Revell, noted Detroit beauty, aims to swim the English Channel round trip nonstop amid optimal neap tides in August. Florence Chadwick, a top American long distance swimmer, has not yet conquered a round trip. The Channel sees many challengers, from Billy Butlin sponsored races to underwater feats like Fred Baldassare, while Gertrude Ederle remains the standout who sparked a Broadway parade and a fortune after her 1926 Channel swim.
A leading farm-tractor maker touts a new model featuring a posture chair called a casychair. An anthropomorphic dummy named Joe helped design the seat to reduce back strain. The piece notes farmers are already highly productive and wonders if easier chores would boost output further.
Washington analysis argues Kennedy faces a growing federal deficit in fiscal year 1963 with two options pump priming for public works or across the board tax cuts. It cautions pump priming failed for FDR and warns deficits risk inflation and weaker dollar while Treasury spending rises across foreign aid space, VA health and welfare programs.
Washington discussion grows on scrapping traditional sugar subsidies and quotas amid lobby pressure. Assistant Secretary C. Griffith Johnson urges House bill amendment and a five year subsidy cut replacing it with a market-based fee. Analysts propose domestic production expansion to 60 percent, potential 10 year price guarantees for beet and cane farmers, and refinery investments. The Senate may investigate lobby ties as Cuba's quota remains in play.
Cyprus’ first envoy to Britain and former underground fighter Antis G Soteriades praises English life and colonial rule while expressing admiration for English institutions. President Kennedy promotes a theory that labor and management are created equal as a crisis era civil war looms, to test enduring validity, reported by Alistair Cooke.
In Stockholm the Foreign Office weighs Sweden's neutrality against joining the six-nation Common Market. Sweden seeks rights to negotiate outside deals and to withdraw in war, while recognizing political unity as the market’s goal. Growth and labor shortages frame the dilemma amid U.S. skepticism.
A 1962 report shows one more plant joined operating nuclear facilities and eight under construction or planned. The Saxton reactor in Pennsylvania achieved criticality last April and is expected to operate fully later in 1962. Five other reactors are slated to begin operation in 1962, with another in early 1963, reflecting strong utility momentum in expanding nuclear capacity.
The report highlights rapid expansion in nuclear plans from 1961 to 1962, detailing Peach Bottom and Bodega Bay projects, added 1962 units by Southern California Edison and New England Electric, and new considerations at Nutmeg Electric and Jersey Central New Jersey Power and Light. It notes government safety measures for Americans in China amid Chiang Kai-shek’s resolve to fight.
Washington editorials examine the rise of computing machines from aiding basic tasks to potential judgment in government and business. Computers assist the IRS, defense planning, banking, insurance, retail, and medicine, yet still require human input for core reasoning and decisions.
Hollywood columnist Red Skelton jokes about fashion and TV in a playful column. He muses that longer shows might spark shorter skirts and argues for bringing back dimpled knees as a morale booster alongside cultural touchstones like the Charleston. He notes the tension between media trends and wardrobe.
The dental office of Dr. D. H. Warren in Raleigh will close during August while he visits his parents in Bellaire Ohio. Luther Richmond of Nelsonville New York sends payment for another year of the Register. Thompson and Ware act as Beckley agents for Columbia graphophones and records.
Beckley Newspapers Corporation outlines subscription rates by mail and home delivery options. It notes prices for daily and Sunday service, six months and one year, plus weekly carrier rates and per month fees, with tax and delivery contractor details and limitations on responsibility for advance payments.
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