Marshall College Seeks University Status Gains Support
West Virginia lawmakers discuss elevating Marshall College to university status as the institution builds its programs. President Stewart H. Smith emphasizes Marshall already functions as a university, pledging no harm to WVU and noting Marshall’s growth, teacher education output, and strategic campus features, including an underground fallout shelter site.
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Marshall College
Marshall
West Virginia Senate
House of Delegates
West Virginia University
West
WVU
West Virginia
Stewart H. Smith
Bruce Bross
United States
Smith
Russian Venus shot reshapes the missile space race debate
From the Raleigh Register 50 years ago in 1911, space experts weigh Russia's Venus mission against U S capabilities. They say the gap will take 18 to 24 months to match, noting Russia's edge in rocket thrust and the broader psychological impact. The piece urges focusing on building the best missiles and space vehicles to avoid being outpaced, even if Venus contact remains uncertain.
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Venus
America
Earth
Soviet Union
Russia
Raleigh Register publisher and mail rates notice
Raleigh Register lists Beckley Newspapers Corporation address and staff, subscription and mailing rate schedule, and carrier contractor disclaimer. Includes West Virginia tax note and instructions for changing address. Names J McQuade editor and Ward Griffith advertising partner.
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Univery Privans
Sina
West Virgina
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Petitions filed for Roosevelt in Illinois primary
Petitions entering President Roosevelt in the April 14 Illinois Democratic presidential preferential primary have been filed at the office of Secretary of State Edward J Hughes in Springfield. Phillip Baker a timber foreman supervising road clearance in Richmond and Shady Spring districts is reported suffering snow blindness from sun reflect on snow. Beckley College selects Tom Hedrick as assistant chemistry laboratory instructor to assist Dr H G Burman now head of chemistry and mathematics.
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Roosevelt
Illinois
Edward J. Hughes
Springfield
Phillip Baker
Camp Raleigh
Richemond
Shady Spring
Beckley College
Tom Hedrick
H.G. Burman
Khrushchev's words reveal Soviet policies toward U S relations
In Khrushchev's Moscow manifesto excerpts and translations, Dean Rusk urges caution toward optimism about U S Soviet ties. The speeches cite imperialist threats, socialism as a rival system, and past US industrial slumps while noting USSR production rose in 1960.
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Nea
Dean Rusk
Russia
Rusk
Khrushchev
Soviet views on capitalism and socialism debated
The text quotes Sir John Wolfenden and Sir Anthony Eden on prejudice and policy as well as Howard Green on US economic trends. It discusses capitalist decline, US shares in production and exports, and asserts Soviet growth, predicting a socialist triumph and a shift by 1970 with Khrushchev’s disarmament and coexistence stance.
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U.S
National Liberation Movement
Soviet Union
United States
Ussr
Washington Window Republicans On Wrong Trail Again
Washington Window by Lyle C. Wilson argues Republicans wrongly attack Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg s five state unemployment tour as political junket. It notes Goldberg aimed to learn about unemployment and reassure jobless Americans while Kennedy administration tells different stories to industry. It contrasts wage promises with wage and price stability statements. The piece ends by citing a survey on divorce and remarriage risks linked to early marriage.
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UPI
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Goldberg
Kennedy
Chicago
Detroit
United Press International
Tional Industrial Conference Board
Washington
America
Barbs by Hal Cochran and Odd News Bits
An Ohio man broke a plate glass window to steal a watch and a judge gave him seven years of bad luck. A thermostat keeps the house too warm for half the family and too hot for the other half. An Oklahoma boy was expelled from school for cutting off some of a girl's hair. Ice skating doesn’t come easy to some people, the hardest part of it being the ace.
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Ohio
Oklahoma
Debated origin of the first U.S. flag sparked by Hopkinson claim
Scholars question Betsy Ross as designer of the first flag and argue Francis Hopkinson likely created it. Hopkinson, a Declaration signer, later sought payment but was unsuccessful in securing compensation for his work.
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Betsy Ross
U.S
Francis Hopkinson
Shortest West Virginia Supreme Court opinion on record
Charleston dispatch reports that State Supreme Court Judge Chauncey Browning wrote the court's shortest opinion, at 126 words, surpassing a long-standing record. The piece recalls a 1940s public building bill and notes a voting pair in the Marshall College university-status vote, with Sen. Ward Wylie absent and paired with Sen. Ted Bowers.
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UPI
Supreme Court
Chauncey Browning
Frank Haymond
Paul Moore
D-Jackson
Senate
Public Building and Institutions Committee
Moore
State Senate
Marshall College
Ward Wylie
Wyoming
Ted Bowers
Wetzel
Wylie
Bowers
Byrd's Eye View Seeks West Virginia Applicants for Federal Jobs
Senator Robert Byrd highlights federal civil service openings in Washington and Ohio for West Virginians. Positions include policeman and fireman start at $5,160, stenographers and typists from $3,500 to $4,040, accounting clerks at $4,040, physical science and engineering aides, cartographic and photographic aides, and machine operator roles at $3,500. Written tests are required for most, with locations in Beckley and other WV cities for test taking and Cincinnati, Ohio for application processing.
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West
Civil Service Commission
Washington
D. C
Beckley
Bluefield
Charleston
Clarksburg
Elkins
Huntington
Lewisburg
Martinsburg
Morgantown
Parkersburg
Wheeling
Williamson
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Civil Service Region
Cincinnati
Cincinnati 2
Kennedy dinner party gag about Hail to the Chief band
A Washington gag line features a Kennedy dinner party discussion on hiring a band to play Hail to the Chief. The exchange quips about preparing for the president’s possible drop in, with humor over the familiar presidential anthem.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Pet
Lighter Side: Secret Service and a Washington Party
A suburban couple debates a guest with access to the Secret Service who could attend their party. They argue over reach, geography, and plausibility, contemplating skipping the band but keeping an extra place setting, amid Washington gossip.
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Georgetown
Secret Service
Washington
Prayer For Today A Global Prayer For Unity And Justice
Prayer urges worldwide unity and justice through divine guidance. It asks blessing for leaders with responsibility and for Christian groups to demonstrate God’s power and love in the world through Jesus Christ. M. Ray Mc Kay of Wake Forest, a preaching professor, signs the prayer.
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Jesus
M. Ray McKay
Wake Forest
N.C
South-eastern Baptist Seminary
Army honor discharge power questioned in government view
A reader inquiry asks if the Army can discharge a soldier honorably for the convenience of the government without further explanation. The official answer: yes. The Q and A also cover trap shooting materials, Cuba's distance, why bears and bees are Chemies, Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle, and a Panama Canal bridge under construction.
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