Thought For Today Washington Quote On Profane Cursing
A Washington quote decries the foolish and wicked habit of profane swearing noting it is mean and low and despised by all with sense and character.
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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1957
Page
2
A Washington quote decries the foolish and wicked habit of profane swearing noting it is mean and low and despised by all with sense and character.
Three U.S. Coast Guard ships Bramble Slaits and Spar carry ten experts into the Arctic seeking a regular winter route across the Northwest Passage. Route would loop from Point Barrow Alaska through Beloit strait to Davis Strait and Beaufort Sea to aid MSTS supply ships for the DEW radar line. The voyage includes cartographers oceanographer and Navy hydrographic officers aboard and faces ice shifts threatening return passages.
Bug Dust Lewis C Grant a United States Marine Corps sergeant asks Governor Cecil Underwood to consider placing his five year old son with mental retardation in a state school for the mentally retarded. He recounts his family’s West Virginia roots and visits to facilities in St Marys and hikes in poor conditions at the state program in West Virginia.
A letter from Sgt. Lewis C. Grant urges Governor Underwood to fund and improve West Virginia’s Training School for Retarded Children. The writer cites overcrowding, underfunding, and substandard living quarters, contrasting with better facilities in Ohio and calling for humane care and expansion.
Democrats maneuvered Republicans to a pivotal choice on civil rights legislation. The bill's fate hinges on Senate action and potential veto. Southern and Northern Democrats shift positions to avoid a party split while Black voters watch the outcome and its impact on 1958 1969 electoral power.
A resident minister from Waynesville North Carolina urges focus on inner life over outward measures. He writes that genuine faith cannot be replaced by plans promotions wealth or numbers. The prayer ends in Jesus name.
New York columnist Hal Boyle notes rising home electricity use among American housewives with data showing about one in a hundred using an electric shaver and 96.2 percent of homes with radios and 81 percent with television sets. The piece mixes light anecdotes on memory in elephants and humorous vignettes from France and the U S to reflect on modern domestic life.
A 1907 Raleigh Reg ister item notes marriages this week including Bur dett Huff and others. Senator McCreery reports Beaver Coat Company will donate land for a Christian College, securing the school’s erection. A fire scare in Bockley at the Cambs building caused black smoke but no damage.
Twenty five years ago riots in four Spanish cities left seven dead at a government ministry and premier's office building. In Raleigh a district board of education voted to curtail school transport rather than end it. Two funeral directors from Concord were injured when their ambulance wrecked at Sprague crossing. State aid to schools was sharply cut amid financial strain.
In a hot New York feature, barber Rudy Moytera runs a two chair hideaway at the Wanwick Hotel where TV stars and music legends like Perry Como Elvis Presley and the Dorsey brothers drop by. Celebrities prize the personal service and the shop’s quirky hi fi ambiance.
A gossip filled profile of barber Rudy detailing famous clients such as Frank Sinatra Jerry Lewis Eddie Fisher and Tony Martin plus anecdotes about Bob Evans Gloria Vanderbilt Stanley Holloway and Joe E. Lewis among others. The piece surveys showbiz figures and their social scenes alongside playful quips and industry anecdotes.
In Case V-357 Hilda, 29, weds six years and battles chronic alcoholism linked to sexual inferiority. Her husband seeks change after repeatedly finding her intoxicated or missing. The clinician links liquor to escaping reality, notes risk of relapse without addressing inner fires, and discusses pregnancy anxieties and marital therapy.
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