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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1964
Page
4
A reflective quotation notes that if education were an industry it would be one of the most extravagant and inefficient, attributed to Lord Bowden of Britain.
The piece sketches this rise in organized parental action aimed at teen behavior. Warwick Rhode Island parents draft a 4000 response code on driving dating curfews and dress while Washington DC parents form a council endorsing a high school code banning alcohol at teen parties and restricting party crashing.
President Johnson's advisers foresee a good year but not as strong as 1964 with about 4 percent growth. Unemployment may not fall much, and a recession is not expected though slower expansion and possible price pressures loom.
In Washington, a GOP moderates leader frets about steering Ike away from Goldwater loyalists as Dean Burch faces ouster. Orville Freeman urges cadets at West Point to see Food for Peace as a record. Rep elect Tunney recalls air conditioned campaigning wisdom in temperature extreme. Rep Poff hears a voter joke about candidate knowledge. Idaho Gov Smylie jokes about ski pants in frigid Norwood. Nigerian elections feature ten parties with Dynamic Party poised for future.
UPI reports the NCR total system adds a keyboard and optical tape to cash registers, offering inventory, sales, tax, and accounts data. It links with computers for managers of small stores to print reports and mail bills, improving inventory control amid expanded merchandise lines.
Rates for Beckley News Papers Corporation subscriptions are listed for daily and Sunday deliveries by mail and by carrier. West Virginia residents are taxed with state sales tax. Carriers and distributors operate as independent contractors, not Beckley Newspapers Corporation.
Walter Morris authors The Journal of a Discarded Man a 127 page softbound volume priced at $3. The book examines job loss and fear for white collar workers past age 37 amid 1960s corporate upheaval. Publisher Knabe-North notes it records a husband and neighbor’s crisis with intimate prose.
John Hodel finds in Walter Morris's memoir a sharp portrait of midcentury American job seeking. The piece praises Morris's balanced view of survival, warns against fools paradise, and highlights his Adirondack roots, education, and varied career while detailing his New Jersey life with family and two cats.
Washington experts consider Walter Heller’s 1960 proposal to divert a share of federal income tax receipts to states with few strings. With rising state and local spending and potential federal budget surpluses, officials urge no strings attached distributions, backed by Governors Conference and NEA support.
With ideal conditions for a getaway the German Raider Admiral Graf Spee ordered all craft from her sides and steered toward the harbor breakwater. Meanwhile miners from the New River and Winding Gulf fields flocked to Beckley to spend part of their aggregate payroll of 1 530 000. Beckley clothing merchant P B Rogers will close his store permanently December 23 and return to Virginia to operate a farm.
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