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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1950
Page
3
General Mark W. Clark urges reducing rear area personnel and tightening wasteful practices to shift manpower into combat units. He compares American and Soviet ratios, warns of limited global manpower, and backs inter service unification and expanded recruitment including more civilian and female staff.
A terse statement declares that a device is employed to utilize a man to the best advantages of his country, framing a strategic approach to national service and efficiency.
West Virginia reported one of its best industrial months in history with manufacturing leading the gain and coal, natural gas, lumber, and electrical energy output up. Prospects for 1951 look brighter as European demand for coal sharpens, even as a growing domestic stockpile remains a challenge.
The Alsops compare America’s mood to ancient Athens and argue that only decisive action can avert a broader collapse. They warn that Asia faces an unrecoverable backwash from Korea, with risks in Indo China Hong Kong and Japan, while Europe and the Western alliance face disintegration without bold measures.
A Dry Creek letter to Bug Dust laments aging trees in Courthouse Square and urges saplings to replace them. It then rebuts a mother’s pro atomic-bomb stance, arguing the newspaper opposes use of the bomb now and calls readers to write to leaders.
Peggy Kessinger reports military assignments and movements of West Virginia men. Pfe Forrest Hinte prepares for Dec 8 at Chanute Field while visiting parents in Eccles. Carl Wood serves as chief radioman at Norfolk and Sherrill Brammer completes basic indoctrination at Lackland. Ted Cook heads to active duty with 21 months. Charles Primm, captaining at Las Cruces, has 10 years in service with WWII theater experience. 2nd Lt Charles Crawford trains at Quantico with 372 Marine Reserve officer students. Gentry Wyatt attends Chanute aviation specialist course. Three area recruits train at Great Lakes, including Snider Banks Ward. Seaman Glenn Lacy trains with Amphibious Command, while Richard Wolfe sails with Mine Sweeper Hambleton. James Wood serves aboard USS Midway with Sicily and Sardinia ports visited. William Tomlin serves aboard USS R. L. Wilson in the Sixth Fleet. Dana Koontz visits home before camp. George Arthur Jr. prepares for 21 months at Ft. Knox. Cpl William Snyder, hospitalized at Walter Reed after Korea, diagnosed with a growth. Donnie Earl Hamilton reports for Ft. Knox duty. Robert Martin leaves Brooklyn for Ft. Dix. Mrs. Hamilton notes.
Churchill’s Hinge of Fate Third World War II volume is examined for its scope into 1942 to 1943. Alamein centered narrative, cabinet rotations, Roosevelt talks, and Molotov in Moscow. The critique highlights controversial stances on De Gaulle Darlan Petain and Churchill’s shifting Allied policy. nearly 1000 pages recount history and memory.
James Marlow notes the nation shifts to civilian defense against atomic attack amid China crisis. The piece traces a slow, incomplete history from 1940s origins through NSRB and OCM efforts, highlighting late mobilization, federal gaps, and a 1949-1950 push toward a nationwide mutual aid system for war readiness.
Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz sits between East and West as a volatile no-man's-land. Rival police, mobs, and loudspeakers clash by day, then police and residents restore order at night, leaving a quiet, emptied square by midnight. The scene captures the fragile balance of Cold War tensions in a ruined city.
Elmer Lambert, outside foreman at Deerfield operation of the American Coal Company and Covel resident, is in University of Virginia Hospital at Richmond for treatment of a spinal ailment. He was taken to Richmond by ambulance on Friday.
The Truman Administration proposes a lawful Civilian Defense Administration replacing the former OCM. Millard F. Caldwell Jr. would head the new agency. Estimated costs over three years total 1.67 billion dollars for federal government and 1.43 billion for state governments, to be shared between levels.
HAL BOYLE portrays Seoul as a grim wartime capital where 1.5 million residents face hunger and fear of a Chinese advance. Soldiers on leave find little to spend money on besides dim dime dances, with few recreation centers and scant comforts.
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