Sideline Farming Gains Time for Editors
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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1947
Page
2
Hunger and self sufficiency as wartime relief proposal
The Register argues hunger stalks the world with Western Hemisphere abundance, urging Americans to grow their own food. It promotes a miner farmer model in smokeless coal regions, using extension services to cultivate small plots, reduce dependence, and ease future shortages amid wartime dislocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Hemisphere
Western
Europe
Sam
Register
Agricultural Extension Service
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
The
Giant oak felled as Edgewood Drive dispute heats up
On Edgewood Drive Luigi Gugliotta plans an apartment building on a lot opposite his home. He offers to donate lumber from a 250 year old five foot tree to a neighbor who will cut it down. Local color includes former Register editor Cornelius Needy McQuade now at the Rocky Mountain News and a misrouted airplane crash report from Edwight to Racine toward Beckley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgewood Drive
Luigi Gugliotta
Luigi
Cornelius “Needy” McQuade
Register Wire
Dakotas
Denver
Colo
Needy
Rocky Mountain News
Colorado
Edwight
Charleston
Logan
Racine
Beckley
Pisally
Andy Locklay
J. L. Pitzer
Beaver
Pitzer
Thomases
Flying misadventure and piglet feeding quirks
A pilot describes a windy landing attempt between Edwight and Sundial ending with the plane snagged in a hillside and suspended above the ground. A Beaver reader, J. L. Pitzer, asserts a sow piglets routine, detailing how pigs consistently select the same nursing spot and how observing the process confirms his claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwight
Sundial
Charleston
Generous Joes Help Pinecrest Christmas Campaigns Grow
Local readers are urged to support the Pinecrest Christmas Fund the Toy Fund and the Christmas Seal drive as funds still come in. The campaigns surpassed last year and donations are welcomed to aid tuberculosis prevention locally and nationally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Pinecrest
Mac
Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association
Conservation Complex and Scrap Policy Reversal
A speaker laments selling Pacific war surplus to China for 174 million and buying back scrap steel for 30 million. He warns of repeated mistakes from prewar trade with Japan, causing wartime shortages and now a fresh scrap crunch. Calls for foresight and to develop a national conservation complex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Pacific
America
Japan
Atomic energy education pushed by national groups
James Warren notes a push two years after Hiroshima to educate the public on peaceful nuclear uses and war dangers. The National Committee on Atomic Information coordinates this effort with 60 member organizations, labs, and schools, distributing pamphlets and aiding programs while Lilienthal urges civilian groups to lead outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hiroshima
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
National Committee On Atomic Information
American Association of Univerisity Professors
American Association of University Women
American Federation of Labor
American Jewish Congress
Brotherhood of Railway Trainden
Catholic Association For International Peace, Cio
Foreign Policy Asso
Ciation
Federation of American Scientists
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
National Education Association
Progressive Citizens of America
National Negro Congress
NCAS
United States
NCAT
Good
SOF
Atomic Energy
Tne Atomic Energy Commission
Lilienthal
Commission
Sheep Mowing Johns Hopkins Lawn Becomes Public Health Aid
Sheep serve as lawnmowers at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore. Dr. Thomas B. Turner permits the flock to graze on the lawn to support serums research for influenza and offer a friendly, calming sight for commuters and students alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AP News
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Monument and
Wolfe Sts
Thomas B. Turner
Department of Bacteriology
Dr. Turner
Johns Hopkins House
Jasxsn
Ship
Johns Hopkins
Jess
Hitler's Substitute Team Inhabits Nuernberg Prison
AP reports Nuernberg Prison houses Hitler's second team of 300 inmates last observed. field marshals, generals, SS officers, and judges endure cold cells, ration meals, and heavy scrutiny as war crimes trials unfold. Many face possible death or freedom when the proceedings end next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Nuernberg
Goethe
Hitler
Cabinen
Third Reich
Gestapo
Germany
Sam H. Binder
Corning
Iowa
Farben
Flick Steel Concern
Military High Command
Dresdner Bank
Hermann Goering Werker
Thought for Today From Isaiah 12 2 Salvation and Trust
A devotional line cites Isaiah 12 2 proclaiming God as salvation and strength. It urges trust without fear, framing Jehovah as source of song and rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Jehovah
Tycoon film saps suspense in railroad tunnel drama
Hollywood by Gene Hanpsax reviews Tycoon a bombastic adventure about John Wayne as an engineer pushing a railroad tunnel through the Andes Taraine Day plays the decorative daughter while Cedric Hardwicke dominates as a tyrant. The plot collapses like the tunnel under workmen cries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andes
John Wayne
Taraine Day
Wayne
Crella
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Jon
Western policy to halt Soviet expansion via Marshall Plan
Joseph Alsop argues Secretary Marshall’s plan aims to fill the western European vacuum with aid to France Italy and Germany, creating a strong defense and a flank attack on the Soviet position. He warns that without rehabilitation of western Europe the bloc could collapse and eastern Europe would move deeper into Soviet control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hy Joseph Alsop
Washington
Marshall
Western
Europe
Britain
France
United States
Italy
Germany
Kremlin
Hitler
Russia
Pravda
Izvestia
West
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Secretary Marshall
Baltic
China Sea
Mediterranean
Middle East
Far East
Greece
Turkey
Raw
China
Korea
Bureaucratic lobbies threaten American democracy, says Bromfield
A Voice From the Country argues the growing power and covert tactics of government lobbies inside Washington endanger the public. It notes State Department, Army and Navy influence, propaganda through media, and pressure on the President, urging Congress to curb bureaucratic power to protect democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Russia
State Department
Army
Navy
Vishinsky
Europe
U.pla
Missouri
Marshall
G.O.P. Forks on Voluntary Controls and Compulsory Action
Aiken leads a rebel bloc within the Senate GOP to back a hard line on inflation controls. The group argues voluntary programs require a threat of compulsory action and supports controls on commodity speculation. Other senators weigh blame for high prices and party unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
George Aiken
Senate
G.O.P
Secrel
Aiken
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Massachusetts
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Irving Ives
New York
Ralph Flanders
Tax row escalates as Woll supplement blocked in Magill report
On December 8 a Woll supplemental report was blocked by Knutson after Ways and Means Democrats sought to insert it in the Magill tax study. The AFL-CIO denounced the majority report as Wall Street driven, claiming a four billion windfall for high earners. Congress members argued over procedure and record inclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G.O.P
Bob Taft
Lodge
Taft
Aiken
AFL
Matt, Woll
Magill
Land
Righ
Ways and Means
Woll
Knutson
Democrats
Magill Tax Shidy
AFL Jeader
Wall Street
Kerman Eberharter
Pennsylvania
Democrat
Karlson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas F. Stafford
Nation Today
James Warren
Goering
Robert Ley
Leonardo Conti
Hollywood
Gene HaNpsax
Joseph and
Stewart
Bromfield
Thomas Jefferson
Merry
By Drew Pearse
Eberharter
Minnesota
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