Raleigh Register Publication Details and Address Information
The Raleigh Register from Beckley West Virginia outlines publishing details and circulation information. It lists edition times, Associated Press affiliation, advertising representation, subscription rates, delivery terms, and address change procedures for readers. It notes Beckley Newspapers Corporation maintains the paper and licenses AP dispatches.
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Raleigh Register
Beckley
W. Va
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Beckeeley
Hinton
Thomas F. Stafford
Associated Press
Katz Agency
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Dallas
Mail
Sbove
West Ba Delivery Service
Virginia
Focal
Road costs force rethink on West Virginia taxation
An editorial argues road construction at a shocking 100000 dollars per mile reflects high wages and prices. It urges higher state taxes to fund roads, noting population growth, TVA projects, and potential hydroelectric benefits from flood control dams if converted to power plants.
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West Virginia
Tennessee Valley Authority
Southland
Tygart
Bluestone
Postwar West Attracts 1 503 Factories With Cheap Power
War time industrial boom brought 1 503 new factories to the Far West at a cost of about 2.25 billion. In the postwar era, plant facilities valued around 750 million have been added. Low cost electricity from Boulder and Booneville Grand Coulee drew many firms, fueling an aluminum industry boom and new plants in airplanes, steel, fabrication, wood processing, and chemicals.
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Far West
Boulderam
Booneville Grand Cour Lee
Suitcase farmers threaten Great Plains soil and drought rescue
The piece laments suitcase farmers plowing vast Nebraska, eastern Colorado, and Kansas grazing land to raise wheat for boom prices. It warns that absentee owners risk wind erosion during dry spells, recalling the 1939s drought, and calls for national scale control of the region’s natural resource.
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Great Plains
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Midwest Plains
First aerial photo by local paper crew marks innovation
The Beckley Register celebrates a novel aerial image of the Lilly Reunion at Flat Top taken from about 500 feet using a Navy style camera. Technical hiccups with missing screws nearly derailed the shot, while engraver Bill Diehl identified a police officer in the crowd. The piece also notes typographical slips in local papers, including Fayette Tribune.
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Register
Lilly
Beckley
Cliff Waterman
Woodlawn Avenue
Audrey Wood
Bill Diehl
Corp. C. A
Slim” Thompson
Beckley State Police Detachment
Slim
Diehl
Navy
Audrey
Herb Alley
Beckley-Mount Hone
Fayette Tribune
Oak Hill
Tribune
The
Delegates in 1948 Primaries Signal GOP Battle Plans
The Nation Today notes nearly half of 1948 Republican delegates come from 15 primaries in 15 states. Delegates chosen by primaries total 496 for Republicans and 506 for Democrats, with many states favoring favorite sons and a few fielding multiple contenders for delegates.
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D. Harold Oliver
James Marlow
Washington
California
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
Ohio
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Philippines
Michigan
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Florida
Five-Letter Word Theme Shapes Real News Monster
HAL BOYLE recounts how reporter Paul Fisher wrote 1500 words on the Amusement Park snake pit without using the word snake. Fisher, who helped send Boss Tom Pendergast to prison, faced a 55 minute rush to meet deadline and avoid the taboo term.
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Paul Fisher
United Aircraft Corporation
Fisher
Tom” Pendergast
Kansas City Star
Springboard
Ernest Hemingway
Star
Missouri
Charlie Blood
Madame Zulu
Charley Blood
Pete” Wellington
George B. Logan
Logan
Paul
American Scene Junkman Links To Billion Dollar Scrap Industry
In Pittsburgh a shabby junkman with a horse drawn cart is shown as a key conduit in the nation’s scrap iron business, with scrap prices surging to record levels and boosts in steel prices following. The piece details how discarded metal from homes, pipes, cars, and girders becomes feedstock for open hearth and electric furnaces, the role of brokers, and historical price cycles from 1908 to the present. It notes 40 million tons of pig iron and 42 million tons of scrap used last year and explains how end products drive demand for scrap rather than the metal itself.
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Robert K. Moorehead
Pittsburgh
OPA
Gotham Grand Jury Probe Signals Era of Hysteria Risk
Washington reacts to reports of a New York grand jury probe led by the FBI into ties between American officials and the Soviet Union. The writer urges calm, warns against national hysteria, and notes recent security dismissals and the Rees loyalty bill debates as context for a tense climate.
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Gotham Grand Jury
Joseph and
Stewart Alsop
Washington
A. Mitchell Palmer
New York
Edgar Hoover
Soviet Union
Igor Gouzenko
Canada
Gouzenko
Treasury
Atomic Energy Commission
State Department
Star Chamber
Sam Hobbs
Alabama
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
House
Rees
Senate
Congress
David
Lilienthal
Japan Faces Peace Era Strain From Overpopulation
AP Newsfeatures outlines Japan's crowded islands with 73,000,600 people on four main isles, density of 497 per square mile, projected 89 million by 1950 if trends continue. Officials cite emigration, repatriation, and Hokkaido settlement as possible remedies amid Allied peace talks.
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Tom Lambert
Tokyo
Japan
Montana
United States
Hitler
Mussolini
Miss Adventure Six Involving Ellen Sings New Clues On Kidnap Plot
Detective Leo Hammond suspects Ralph Laramie behind ongoing threats to Ellen and Olivia Arnold. Ellen continues seeing Stan while Sidney Tark, Carnival Club owner, offers Stan a pilot job. Leo reconsiders Stan Robin son’s trustworthiness and hints at new suspicions about his airline license.
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Leo Hammond
Arnold
Ellen Fair
Stan Robinson
Ellen
Arnold Estate
Olivia Arnold
Mrs. Arnold
Hammond
Olivia
Ralph Laramie
Tark
Stan
Leo
Sidney Tark
Laramie
Robinson
Fortune hunter angle in Arnold heiress saga
Ellen confronts Leo the detective about his motives as she accuses him of using Olivia to reach the Arnold heiress and warns him to rethink his career after Stan hints at more dúvidas.
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Ellen
Olivia
Leo
Arnold
Stan
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Abe” Lilly
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Hitoshi Ashida
Mitsusuke Yon‘ekubo
Hokkaido
Nippon
Allied
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Brazil
Manchurian
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