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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1960
Page
4
A concise maxim by Charles Sumner emphasizes that lasting fame rests on efforts that advance human happiness rather than personal glory. The wall card presents a single memorable line urging constructive work for the welfare of others.
The United States attends the Inter American Economic Conference in Bogota with a proposed six hundred million dollar Latin American aid package. Critics doubt the timing links aid to Cuba and demand long term planning and concrete goals. Secretary Dillon notes funds aim to develop land use housing and water works while senators approve only authorization not appropriation. Latin American nations seek a Marshall Plan scale commitment, not a limited program. In contrast the fishing bureau reports five million sportsmen benefit from stocked ponds streams nationwide with about twenty million man days of fishing annually.
New York AP columnist Hal Boyle compares TV Western obsession to other addictions and shares his cure through a spontaneous withdrawal. He describes family strain, craving, and a pivotal moment when he switched off the fifth Western program, hoping the relief lasts and offering readers hope to quit the habit.
The writer reflects on the blessing of work, the need to stay productive, and the personal satisfaction of writing for The Register news room after a Greenbrier River vacation. He recalls readers’ responses, the newsroom comrades, and the loneliness of farewell, then shifts to social issues about coal mining jobs, automation, and the call for severance taxes to fund state needs.
Senator Barry Goldwater compares the Democratic party platform with writings of Marx and Engels to assess parallels with Communism. An anonymous Democratic senator pledges a matched study of the GOP platform against Republican stances from sixty years ago to measure progressiveness since McKinley.
The piece analyzes how Nixon and Kennedy compete on leadership for four years, noting neither has held national office. It contrasts their acceptance speeches, Eisenhower’s comments, and their differing claims to experience, with Kennedy struggling to push Democratic goals and Nixon pressing for greater executive decision making.
Beckley Newspapers Corporation lists home delivery and mail rates for Raleigh Register. Details include daily and Sunday subscriptions, per week and per month carrier options, and regional tax and address change notes. Independent contractors deliver. company not responsible for advance payments to carriers.
A U S delegation pushes forward at the fifth general tariff bargaining conference begun in 1947. Geneva talks aim to renegotiate concessions and widen freer world trade, with expectations of better terms for U S exports and reduced discrimination against imports.
The shako no longer fits ordinary uniforms but appears in dress parades. It is a stiff black fur headdress with metal emblems, seen in colorful marches by drum majors. In England special troops wear shakos, a Hungarian word origin csako, Hussars once wore them.
A morning prayer asks God to guide desires and choices through the day. The rector James W. Kennedy of The Church of Ascension in New York City prays for discernment between great and small things and for deliverance from craving the moon when unmet.
Earl Wilson notes Spain hosts Hollywood amid late nights and long workdays with stars like Rhonda Fleming Rory Calhoun and Ava Gardner in Madrid for three films. Directors push casts from dawn to night while locals enjoy siestas and rooftop redecorations reveal three fallen workers.
The column lists numerous marriage permits including James S. Toney and Okie Stover, Stanley and Pearl Johnson, Moye and Jennie Ditmore, and many others. Stonewall news reports two injuries in No. 3 mine last week, one foreign and one colored man, with names not obtained.
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