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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1968
Page
11
Washington columnist Dick West riffs on a Smithsonian exhibit tracing the chair’s evolution. Ripley asks if we take chairs for granted and proposes mindful acts, from removing chairs to hosting more cocktail parties to spur appreciation.
Monty Hall’s Let s Make a Deal moves from NBC to ABC starting Dec 30 five days a week with a later weekly nighttime show added in February. The deal, valued between 2 and 4 million dollars, keeps a 52 week plus six months of weekly nights commitment. Mickey Mouse birthday on NBC s Wonderful World of Color spotlights Ward Kimball reflecting on Mickey s origins and comeback appeal with about 225 Mikey shorts noted.
Hollywood critic Vernon Scott notes that once a prostitute in a film could secure an Oscar nod, but now such roles are common stock characters alongside detectives and sheriffs. He argues contemporary cinema treats illicit themes as routine, reducing the impact of provocative parts.
Washington Rep. Henry Reuss urged President-elect Nixon to call a summit of leaders from free industrial nations to reform the international monetary system and address trade and aid to underdeveloped nations. He proposed early 1969 as a first order of business and suggested the conference involve top political authorities to drive solutions. He wrote to William Rogers David Kennedy and Henry Kissinger outlining the plan.
UPI reports Sissy the German shepherd bites mailmen at the Bucci home in Denver. Mail carrier William Morse threatens to quit delivery until nine year old Mary Bucci writes Morse a Christmas toy request compromising the dog.
The West Virginia Antiquities Commission launches a research plan to map the growth of West Virginia’s early petroleum industry. Focus areas include Volcano in Wood County and Burning Springs in Wirt County, with the 1860 Rathbone Oil Well near Burning Springs noted as a key milestone reached shortly after the Drake Well in Titusville.
Death notices list Bennett Percy 60 of Abraham West Virginia with funeral at New Salem Church officiated by Rev I A Hatcher. Burial in New Salem Cemetery. LESTER Mrs Fannie Veronica 54 of Helen with funeral at Helen Baptist Church and burial at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Edmundson James K 62 of 205 Queen Street with funeral at St Stephen Episcopal Church and burial Sunset Memorial Park. Also a classified note about a set of false teeth and eyeglasses found in Beckley A and P Store with owner to claim.
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