Taxpayers urged to form Raleigh County watchdog group
The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce calls for vigilant Raleigh County taxpayers associations to oversee fiscal reform. It cites jail-cost savings and warns of overdrafts and misapplied levies, urging citizen representation in 1943-44 budget planning and levies. The first legally specified meeting is Tuesday.
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Raleigh County
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
State Chamber
County Court
Board of Education
Raleigh
The
Register
State Chamber of Commerce
New Taxpayers Association
War’s Fury Brings Moral Blame To Aggressors
Bruce Biossat argues war’s horror lies in the act itself, not timing. He assigns moral blame to aggressors who unleashed Holocaust-scale violence, citing Hiroshima Hamburg Dresden and Tokyo. He notes the Axis powers’ fanatical leadership and the heavy Allied casualties in World War II.
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Washington
Nea
Paul VI
Hiroshima
U. S
Tokyo
Hamburg
Dresden
Japan
Germany
Hitler
Italy
Pearl Harbor
Free Lands
Plutarch
Brutus
Marcus Brutus
Junius Brutus
Caesar
Cassius
Ben Bella Fate Still Big Algerian Mystery
The fate of former Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella remains unclear after the June coup led by Col. Houari Boumedienne. Reports place Ben Bella in unknown locations, with no official word on trial or health, while Boumedienne forms a civilian government and a white book is promised.
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Ben Bella
Joseph W. Grigg
Paris
UPI
Algeria
Ahmed Ben Bella
Col
Houari Boumedienne
Boumedienne
Algiers
Tamanrasset
Sahara Desert
Joly
Revolutionary Council
Beckley Newspapers subscription rates and delivery terms
Beclley Newspapers Corporation lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions by mail and carrier, with separate West Virginia tax notes. It states addresses, editor contact John Hodel, network advertising reps Ward Griffith, and notes carriers and independent contractor status.
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West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Smith weighs call for constitutional convention in West Virginia
Gov Hulett C. Smith faces a high stake choice on advancing or delaying a constitutional convention plan. Some aides warn a rapid push could spark strong political backlash while others urge timing via a possible September special session to avoid delays into 1966. Rural counties, turnout timing, and the Supreme Court ruling against the prior referendum loom large in deliberations. Also noted are honors for Judge Frank C. Haymond and a foreign request for West Virginia Conservation magazine reaching Indonesia.
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H. Ray Evans
Charleston
UPS
Hulett C. Smith
State Supreme Court
Smith
Supreme Court
Lewis blasts both parties and predicts new party rise
The Raleigh Register recounts John L. Lewis of the CIO foreseeing a future American political shift as he denounces Democrats and Republicans for unemployment and income inadequacy. An editorial notes a Harvard sociologist urging larger families citing imperial powers and a four child norm.
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Raleigh Register
St. Louis
John L. Lewis
Harvard
United States
Bug Dust in Wartime Columns on War Talk and Bee News
Randolph Norton notes guest columns substitute for missing writers as war talk swirls about Hirohito and Tojo. Beckley street scenes show soldiers and sailors. local views, jeep demand, and Browning’s honey harvest amid wartime service, with four Browning sons in the military.
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Beckley
Heber and
Prince
Beckley National Bank
C. J. (Needy) McQuade
The
Register
Sam
Clarence Bibb
Beckley Hardware Bibbes
Fort Riley
Kan
John Fondale
Army
Mr. Browning
Brownings
Communist Red Youth Secret Training at Camp Midvale
NEA reports 80 select Red youths from across the United States attended a two week secret training school at Camp Midvale Ringwood New Jersey. Leaders of the Du Bois clubs joined the Communist party and recruits were paid 30 dollars weekly to push organizing drives in Midwest cities and to influence civil rights and antiwar movements.
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Washington
NEA
Communist Party
United States
Camp Midvale
Ringwood
N.J
New York City
W.E.B. du Bois
Lenin
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Red
Excavation Underway for New K. T. Caffee Building
Workmen began excavation for the K. T. Caffee building near Beckley station. The two story brick structure will house a mortuary on the first floor and living apartments on the second. Carl Miller Wm Singleton and Hank Allen have joined the Raleigh team for the season.
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Raleigh Register
K. T. Caffee
Beckley Station
Carl Miller
New Martinsville
Wm. Singleton
Mannington
Hank Allen
Pittsburgh
Raleigh
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Wilmette, Ill
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John Hodel
United Press International
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Frank C. Haymond
American Trial Lawyers Association
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West Virginia Conservation
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Dayah C A Durachum
Djabar
All View
Randolph Norton
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Hirohito
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Mussolini
Tojo
Neville
Sailor
Watkins Drug Store
Armstead
Scott
War Plants Corporation
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Bolt
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Browning
Bill Bates
the Register
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Bolt Farmer-Miner
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Secret Red Youth School
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