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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1966
Page
4
A concise reflection quotes Floyd McKissick national director of the Congress of Racial Equality about white power and wealth blocking progress. The statement frames economic and racial inequality as barriers to change.
The piece contrasts hay fever season with a court incident in Springfield where Circuit Judge Thomas Bogers III jailed WLAC TV photographer Lou Penuel for contempt over stairway filming outside a courtroom. It argues the judge violated free press rights and public access to trials.
United Press International reports a cross faith shift urging adults to be the main target of religious education. Leaders from Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities argue that informed adults are essential to effective youth faith formation and biblical literacy.
Catholic educators at a Washington conference call for parishes to slow youth work and boost adult religious formation. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations and Lutherans report adults hold the key, launching projects and new curricula to help grownups apply faith to modern life.
Column satirically questions city waste policy and mosquito control. It envisions residents embracing nuisance mosquitoes, explores schemes to breed anti mosquito insects, and even jokes about alcohol loving buzzers. The piece blends humor with local governance and public health themes.
The writer, Roy H. Stetler Jr., a Cheverly, Maryland minister, offers a prayer praising God for the autumn season and His constancy. He asks believers to place themselves in God's care and face life with simple trust in Jesus' name.
J B Conaster of Hampton retired business college professor argues public schools should emphasize handwriting from first grade through high school to address widespread illegibility. He says students are taught reading and composition but little on how to hold or use a pen, a neglect seen in college and graduate level writing.
Washington argues that antiquated farm controls and acreage allotments in wheat cotton and other crops have limited U.S. production. With world scarcity rising and subsidies keeping farmers on subsidized crops, edible basics like wheat soybeans and poultry rise in price. Calls grow to re open the allotment system and ease government interference.
Beckley Newspapers Corporation presents Raleigh and Neaister information with mailing privileges in Beckley and Hinton West Virginia and a national advertising rep Ward Griffith. Subscription rates are listed for daily and Sunday combined, daily only, and home delivery by carrier or distributor with weekly monthly and half month options.
France pressures NATO to move two major posts from Paris by April next year while Belgium, Germany, and Brussels vie for sites. Gen Lemnitzer finds Chievres Casteau inadequate and insists on better communications. US Britain and others back co location in Brussels amid French resistance. NATO still undecided on AFECENT and political HQ locations.
An editorial notes that religion shapes South Viet Nam's Sept. 11 elections under a state party system. Buddhists, Catholics, and regional splits influence potential government stability, with Thich Nhat Hanh urging faith groups to unite for peace and growth.
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