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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1949
Page
2
A fragmented frayed remark notes a desire to improve mail delivery through spirited effort and asks whether age affects the ability to serve citizens effectively. The text hints at public concern over reliability and civic duty in postal service.
A Chicago suburb letter reaching Beckley in eight days highlights chronic mail slowness at the newspaper office and across town. The piece questions whether improved mail flow or postal reform is possible, debating rates, staffing, and the spirit of service amid rising express costs.
A reflective essay argues that six thousand seven hundred dollars could fund personal goals yet is dwarfed by the true cost of war. It notes civilians bear the burden, wars persist despite moral questions, and perpetual peace remains elusive though worth pursuing. The piece warns future conflicts will again threaten homes, property, and lives.
A grateful letter from Oswald Elementary School patrons praises principal Leona Parks for her work during the mine stoppage. They note lean days, hungry children, and the need to broadcast her good deeds as the Smokeless Coal Region anticipates better times and wage talks progress.
By Thomas J. Stafford Parks the Oswald patron praised a teacher who cut meal prices to 10 cents and accepted produce as payment. Patrons lauded Leona Parks as kind and helpful while warning of a local scam where con men use large bills to trick clerks. They describe a phony goodwill scheme exploiting busy stores and aim to warn retailers to watch for such attackers who shift money among denominations.
HAL BOYLE notes a social curse of unwelcome neckties as gifts. Men propose odd remedies from hiding ties to sending used items back, reflecting both humor and frustration with seasonal fashion burdens.
The Nation Today explains a new FHA policy to deny loans connected to recorded restrictive covenants while not affecting verbal discrimination. It notes Supreme Court rulings deem such covenants nonbinding and outlines FHA’s plan to block new covenants recorded after the rule takes effect, keeping current ones intact.
Barbara Jo Allen stars as Vera Vague on radio while contending with unmet artistic goals. Her career blossomed after a chance book-review club moment, earning $80,000 orchids and a Woodland Hills home. She and Norman Morrett once led the Goblope show, and she now ad-libs a coast to coast program while planning a totem pole carving course at Squamish Life College.
A United Nations dispute over Soviet accusations labels correspondents as "bandits of the pen." The piece argues reporters shape history's view, contrasts free versus slave state power, and urges U S leadership with truth. It concludes that plain reporting earns a dubious honor in a tense postwar era.
In New York Wilder of the city sanitary board along with a friend watched crowds fill Time’s Square around 2 p m as they walked through. About 4 30 they joined the throng and the attraction appeared the funeral procession for William Bojangles Robinson the Negro dancing star.
Arleta seeks aid as Cal Sheridan and Kelly scheme to move her from danger. Confrontations about Langtrys and dam politics unfold, revealing motives and past violence. The party contemplates escape while a long road of family feuds and conspiracy emerges, ending with a public HP news note about a hospitalized child.
A Bar tow woman seeking divorce received a court notice, only to have it returned with a handwritten instruction to contact a Kentucky certification office for a copy. The note recalls a 1947 divorce and asks where the woman was at that time.
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