Decision I Congress Faces Major Fiscal Choices
The article outlines three fiscal options for Year 1 of the Decision I Congress: raise taxes and exceed revenue by over 37 billion. expand expenditures beyond revenue to sustain deficits. or continue the current deficit financing path under President Hoover. It cites a projected 26.2 billion national debt, a potential 5 to 8 million deficit this year, and stresses solvency and stability as essential to government survival. Senator Harry Byrd warns on balanced budgets as necessary for solvency, while warnings against unwieldy welfare costs note tax increases could reach about 40 percent for cradle to grave security.
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Franklin 1
Hoosewelt
Harry Byrd
Virginia
Flobilan
Jessen
Donald QR. Riehberg
Gordy Dean
Brien Miac- Mikua
Dean
Strauss
Lilienthal
Commission
Vannevar Bush
Lientiut
White House
State Department
Congress
Conie
Oliver Franks
Meyander Cockcroft
Torell Priestd
Acheson
Minotican
A. E.G
State and Defense Departments
Charman Lilienthal
Raleigh Register Adopts Debt Reduction Message
The Raleigh Register, Beckley West Virginia, December 13 1919 prints an Associated Press story and editorial urging debt reduction and tax restraint. It notes national debt burdens rising and calls for Congress to balance budgets in the next session.
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Raleigh Register
F Register
Beckley
W. Va
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Hinton
Thomas F. Stafford
Associated Press
Associated Presse
AP News Ae
Katz Agency
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Anseles
Avanta
Dells
Sanday
Witwinia
Amvalne
Washington
Jess
Janay
Keeping Faith A Rolling Hem In Jackson County
Citizens in Otis area urged for a future Homemakers camp on the old Alderson college site while critics question the choice. Officials weighed farming value, proximity to Peace Springs prison, and cost of repairs, favoring a Jackson County location over Alderson to ensure statewide facility distribution.
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Jackson County
Otis
Alderson College
Alderson
West Virginia Board of
West Virginia
Tangidle Alderson
Jackson Farm
Jackson
State Board of Education
Opening of the Philip Spoon power plant near Point Pleasant
The feature story argues coal has a bright future as the Spoon plant showcases coal’s energy potential. It says the plant uses more energy per lump of coal than any prior steam plant in commission and suggests the current coal downturn may not be permanent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Spoon
Point Pleasant Spoon
Lilienthal Resignation Cripples Atomic Commission Effort
Washington notes that Davis E. Lilienthal’s exit as chair of the Atomic Energy Commission leaves the agency in disarray. Critics warn of a potential top leadership shakeup, overlapping committees, and intensified congressional pressure hindering smooth operation.
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Lilienthal
Beckley Area Electric Power Plant Opens Near Point Pleasant
Thomas Flsta Proed reports the Beckley area gains a modern Ohio River plant near Port Pleasant. The first of four 137,500 kilowatt units begins operation, using 1,440 tons of coal daily to power up to 300,000 homes and businesses, with expansion planned to six units by 1952.
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Thomas Flsta
Ohio River
Port Pleasant
Beckley
Charleston
Electra
Phitip Sporn
Armerican Gasanl Electric Company
Appalachian Eleettas Payer Company
Electrica
Spiro
Inre
Appalachian and Ohio Tower Company
AKAN
Sporn
Oho Power
Appalachian
Unio
Virginia
West Virgini
Spera
Dane
Jong
Tre Ward
Hourth
Sehied Piel
Sporn ¢Onshal
Review of Civil War Works and a Fiber of Folklore Volumes
The piece surveys Stanley Korn's Robert E. Lee Reader as a mosaic portrait of Lee with depth and shading, notes the influence of Paul Angle's Lincoln Reader, and highlights the Dictionary of Folk Lore Mythology and Legend edited by Maria Leach, praising its cross section of spiritual content and noting its forthcoming second volume. It also discusses a major Appalachian electric project, detailing the Philip Sporn plant near Graham Station Virginia, its scale, coal use, turbine power, and anticipated operation in 1952, plus the plant’s central control room and regional transmission within the American Gas and Electric system.
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Hjorn EK
Stanley Bkobbs- Merrill
Robert E. Lee
Stanley Tlarn
Lee
Korn
Paul M. Angle
Horn
Dictionary OF Folklore, Mythology and Legend
Maria Leach
Funk & Warnalls
Ohio River
Canton
Ohio
Charleston
Power
Syston
Cabin Creek
Philip Sporn
Sporn
American Gas and Electrical System
Phi
Twin Branch
Tiddy
Cabin iCreek
Glen Lyp
Windsor
Lagan
Appalachiaroid
Ohio Power
American
Beckley
Virginia
West Virginia
Otto
Pennsylee
Indiana
Michig
Boyle's Column on the 20th Century's Path at Century's Midpoint
HAL BOYLE surveys the 20th Century at its halfway mark, weighing whether progress in medicine and living standards outpaces spiritual unrest. He notes cancer and heart disease as major future challenges, the UN as an uneasy peace effort, and the era’s paradox of material progress with persistent inner tension.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Weir
Imoney
United Nations
Pix
Henry Wallace
Census Starts 1950 Takers to Knock on 140000 Doors
The 1950 census begins April with about 140,000 census-takers visiting homes nationwide. Questions include income, with fines up to 160 dollars or six days jail for refusal. Providing false information can bring one year in jail or a 500 dollar fine. Disclosure to other agencies is a felony. Mail responses debated after 1910 and 1940 practices. Republicans criticized the bureau for income questions and possible mail options.
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Sal Moreniia
Cens Bureau
FRE
Internal Revenue Bureau
Ceuss Bureau
Census Bureau
Treman Adinistration
Clarence Brown
iOhio
Philip Iauser
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Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Domt
Defense Department
Beckley Area
Point Pleasant
Literary Guidepost
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Hazard
Hoanoke
Kanawhan River
Montgomery
Wis
Abe Beckley
Huit
Ka‘nawha
New River
Glen Lyn
Graham Station
Fere
Carrieate
Gener
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State Police
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