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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1944
Page
2
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The Prince street youth recreation center draws many youngsters causing crowding. The committee considers adding multiple centers or age-based nights to avoid turning youths away. If only one facility remains, attendance may be limited by age or other methods, unless more centers are built and properly run.
The message urges boxing loose waste paper for easy loading into trucks in a wartime salvage effort. It notes some stores neglect the drive and calls on Beckley merchants to improve participation, stressing universal contribution in the war effort.
In a wartime appeal the publication urges readers to stop burning discarded paper and start salvaging it. The call stresses every pound matters to speed victory for the United Nations and to support total mobilization at home.
West Virginia service members began voting absentee ballots as congress debates ballot delivery. The piece scorns federal overreach, noting Raleigh county’s ready ballot and the postal system ensuring delivery and return despite congressional attempts to prescribe ballot method.
Farm incomes from marketings totaled 14.009 billion dollars last year, up about 24 percent from 1912 and nearly 250 percent since 1888. When including retained products and government benefits, gross income could exceed 21 billion, with vegetable and oil crops rising 70 percent and livestock up 67 percent. Wheat varied by region, and farmland values climb amid warnings after past crashes.
The text recalls Amelia Earhart presumed dead after 1937 Pacific disappearance. It notes a 2007 U S Navy search ending and mentions Japanese naval involvement in the broader hunt. It suggests Earhart might have witnessed something conflicting with Japan or others, implying risk of being shot or captured.
Military notes from Beckley detail Tech Sergeant Joe Farkas Jr returning home on furlough after over a year in India fighting in the India Burma China sector. His brother serves in the South Pacific. Other families report sons Virgil and Herbert Kiser in the Marine Corps with Camp Pendleton and Parris Island backgrounds. An East Beckley corporal in the Army Air Corps signals unit, and Navy Electrician’s Mate Denzil Hughes, along with trainee Lantie Jarrell, are noted for new postings and promotions.
Several service men from Pax Long Branch and vicinity are on furloughs while others answer calls to service Corporal Dick Warren at Camp Gruber Okla spends a 15 day furlough with his parents in Long Branch First Class Seaman W C Tyree has returned to his base in Davisville Rex after visiting family Mrs Estel C Jeffrey expected home Monday from Camp Croft S C where she has been with her husband First Sergeant Jeffrey on Panama duty Sergeant Randolph Hendrickson son of Mr and Mrs H L Hendrickson Eccles is on 30 day leave visiting friends He has also been on duty in Panama Mr and Mrs Duart Hawkins Crawley here visiting her parents until Thursday when Hawkins plans to go to the army He was formerly a butcher in town
Mrs Lourena Lafferty returns home from visiting her son and daughter in law, Carnie and Mrs Thompson, at Glen Rogers.
An excerpt from Pocahontas Times features a poem Gossip Town satirizing gossip and rumor. The piece is followed by wartime notes about Private G. M. Powers at Camp Campbell, fundraisers for the Beckley Service Center, and local anecdotes including pickles given by Mrs. Jess Kendrick, a rabbit death on North Kanawha street, and letters from Private L. R. Steele Jr. at Camp Mackall.
Senate and House conferees enter second week seeking a federal absentee ballot compromise for uniformed voters. States risk losing time to enact absentee laws as disagreement over form forms broad uncertainty ahead of the election.
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