West Virginia Faces Modern Challenges and Growth
Senator Jennings Randolph cites The Saturday Evening Post on West Virginia’s paradox of want and plenty. He praises industrial expansion in the valleys, notes Montecatini’s planned plant, and recalls Elkins’ Metalab Labcraft project as proof of a capable, adaptable West Virginia labor force.
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Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Congressional Record
West
Wall Streets
Michigan Avenues
United States
Saturday Evening Post
Tunley
Monsanto
Food Machinery and Chemical
Allied Chemical and Dye
Goodyear
American Viscose
Celanese Corporation
West Vir
50 Years Ago From The Raleigh Register Highlights
Excerpts show Hon M F Matheny as a candidate for speaker of the next House of Delegates. Charleston city council granted 23 saloon licenses pending county court and city board approval. Baptist Church heard Rev J C Robins, a returned missionary, discuss the missionary movement. Editorials from Reedley Exponent and Willcox News criticize prolonged steel strikes and government spending. Clarissa Independent notes German Social Democrats rejecting the Communist Manifesto by a large margin.
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M. F. Matheny
House of Delegates
Charleston
County Court of Kanawha
Board of Affairs
Baptist Church
J. C. Robins
Rev. Robins
Phillipines
Clarissa
Minn
Social Democrats
Making Out Your Will a Pleasant Experience
Hal Boyle notes Americans delay wills due to gloom but finds the process oddly uplifting. A couple visits a lawyer to draft a will, with humorous banter about disinheriting mankind and what to leave. After fees and expenses, the narrator ends up with 2.63 dollars and jokes about leaving credit cards to his wife.
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New York
Bug Dust Quiz Questions Explore Wide World Of Facts
A compilation of Junior Editors Quiz items lists prompts about witches, groundhogs, Drake, planet meaning, earliest newspapermen, snowbirds, Iron Curtain location, earthquakes, month names, Pearl Harbor era voting, cowboys, evergreen pines, cavemen, rock figures, Delaware blue hen, world forest acres, Everest climbs, ancient burials, American names, elephants swimming, hiccups, arm swinging while walking, coal turning to diamond, days origin, Valentine's Day, boomerangs, frontier life, first gun, water color, Magellan, taxes on Social Security, X mas tree meaning, Sabbath origins, penny face, origin of the name America, and many more.
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E. S. Phillips Jr
Maben
Brenda Wallace
Larry Richardson
Shady Spring
Sir Francis Drake
Jimmy Stewart
Long Branch
Illis Loman Pittman Jr
Piney View
Donald Meadows
Crab Orchard
Bob Young
Ravenswood
James Michael Hunt
Angela Smith
Stamaford
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Wilbert Sonak
Beckley
Jack Smith
Mabscott
James M. Young
Susie Meadows
Delaware
Kathy Stover
Rt. 1
Mt. Hope
Eddie Hopkins
Raleigh
Mt. Everest
Charles Monarchy
Pemberton
Sandy Costello, Jr
America
Violet Murray
Rt. 2
Stanaford
Diana Chesley
Roseville
Ohio
Timothy McGraw
Pineville
West Virginia
Virginia Brown
Summerlee
Judy Clark
Midway
Millard Barron
Eccles
Barbara Ann Berry
Johnny Tolliver
Patricia Coles
James Gray
Slab Fork
Maria Frogale
Garnet Marie Clinebell
William Curtis
Sprague
Roger Steele
Henry VII
Anna Hanshaw
Poe
Billy Whitecotton
Crab Orchards
Garcia
Frank. Gieske
Lynce
Wayne Jennings
MacArthur
Mickey Tepton
Sophia
Rebecca Rose McMillion
Mabscotts
Gary Dancy
Harper
Rebecca Stover
Artie
Jo Ann Halsey
Epperly
Santa Claus
Vivian Vandall
Killarney
Nancy Lively
Mullens
United States
Senate
Alice Hornsby
Winding Gulf
James Horns
Prayer For Today Sermon Note From Houston Minister
A Houston Methodist minister, W Kenneth Pope, offers a devotional prayer praising youth and Jesus. He asks for courage faith in the future loyalty to ideals and winsomeness while seeking protection from discouragement cynicism and disillusionment.
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Jesus
Amen
W. Kenneth Pope
Houston
Texas
First Methodist Church
State justice department aim urged by court council
The state judicial council asked the legislature for funds to create a state department of justice to coordinate law enforcement agencies. Washington treasury reported a daily deficit of 2,011,041,971 dollars. Beckley College added Prof Farl B. Giesey to its faculty. Local attorney and sportsman J Lewis Bumgardner elected president of the Smokeless Coal Athletic Association.
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State Department of Justice
State Judicial Council
Washington
Treasury
Farl B. Giesey
Beckley College
J. Lewis Bumgardner
Smokeless Coal Athletic Association
Raleigh Register Subscription Rates and Delivery Policy
The Raleigh Register lists Beckley Newspapers Corporation contact details and assigns subscription pricing for daily and Sunday delivery by mail or carrier. It notes West Virginia sales tax, address change procedures, and states carriers are independent contractors with no responsibility for advance payments.
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National Advertising
Ward-Griffith Company, Inc
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Philadelpha
Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Greenville
West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Rail Chief Urges West Virginia Highway and Community Growth
Norfolk and Western President Stuart T. Saunders told Tug Valley leaders that coal's future is solid but industrial development and better highways are vital for West Virginia. He praised the new Economic Development Agency and vowed N&W cooperation to boost the Tug Valley area. The long term coal outlook remains favorable with rising energy demand and expanded markets for steel and power industries.
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Williamson
West Virginia
Norfolk and Western
Stuart T. Saunders
Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce
Tug Valley Industrial Corporation
Saunders
Bureau of Mines
Tug Valley
N&w
Earl Wilson Sinatra Martin Have Fun With Kennedy
A collage of entertainment notes and anecdotes from New York and elsewhere features Earl Wilson and Frank Sinatra joking with John F Kennedy era peers. The column covers restaurant quips, showbiz gossip, health tales, and holiday mischief involving Cary Grant Nancy Kovack Leo Durocher Bob Hope Trude Mann James Thurber Dizzy Dean Rex Harrison and other stars with brief punchlines and personal asides.
Animals in Danger and Adaptation Quiz
A brief on how wild animals face danger and use camouflage. Rabbits change coats with seasons, rabbits brown in summer and white in winter to blend in. The text notes humans also change clothing for jobs and mentions World War II uniforms and hunters' visibility.
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Nature
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Franklin
Ginia
Elkins
Randolph County
Monongahela National Forest
United States Senate
Elkins Industrial Development Corporation
West Virginia Natural Resources
Metalab-Labcraft
Norbute Corporation
Metalab Labcraft
The
Raleigh Register
Reedley
Calif
Willcox
Ariz
Degaulle
Fifth Republic
ALGER
Hal Boyle
By C. J. McQuade
Register
Prince St
W. Va
Hinton
Ca J. McQuade
Associated Press
Allamuchy
N. J
Robert Donahay
Newton
Donahay
Lulsa
Okla
Gerald Owens
Tulsa
Here
Fred Lawhorn
Ownes
Owens
Kingston, Ohio
Trim Carroll
Kingston Fire Department
Carroll
Earl Wilson
Sinatra
Martin
Kennedy
Wife
Michigan
B.W
Ann Arbor
Lansing
N. Y
Ken Murray
Miami Beach
Marie Wilson
L.A
Gov. Rockefeller
Baseball Writers
Leo Durocher
Bob Hope
Arthur Mureray
Hope
Nancy Kovack
Berlitz
Europe
Kirk Douglas
Paris
Cary Grant
London
Sammy Davis Jr
Ebony
Trude Mann
Dick Roman
Sammy
Trude
H. C. Diefenbach
Dayton, O
James Thurber
Thurber
St. Louis
Columbus Dispatch
New York Post
Tom Ewell
Billy
Daniels
Copacabana
Frankie Avalon
Fabian
Johnny Mathis
Midnight Earl
la Plume de
Ma Tanete
Frejus
Walter Pidgeon
Claudette Colbert
Gwen Verdon
Laurence Harvey
Sir Laurence Olivier
Rex Harrison
Ketti Frings
Isabelle Cooley
Gary Crosby
Hazel Scott
Basin St. East
Dizzy Dean
Las Vegas Flamingo
Milton Berle
Ray Bolger
Pearl Bailey
Jackie Gleason
Roxy Theater
the Metropole
Karen Steel
Otto Preminger
Hope Bryce
Billy Reed
Little Club
Doubleday
Eddie Cantor
Jan Murray
Gino Marchetti
Baltimore
Dan Revello
Lester Klimek
Jan. Murray
Castro
Xavier Cugat
Earl
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