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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 09, 1944

Page

3

Raleigh Register Evening and Sunday Morning Subscription Rates

Public notice overview of Raleigh Register rates with carriers and mail options. Mentions Beckley and Hinton offices, Randolph Norton as editor, and The Associated Press rights. Includes subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, weekly, monthly, quarterly terms, and regional tax note.

Beckley Newspapers Corporation Beckley W. Va Hinton Randolph Norton Associated Press

Babson backs subsistence farms as inflation hedge

Famed economist Roger W. Babson supports subsistence farming as a hedge against inflation. He argues farms sustain food and shelter when banks close and warns against overreliance on urban utilities, urging small self sustaining homesteads to preserve independence and family resilience.

Register Roger W. Babson Bebson Crrnmeing Heller

Subsistence Home Ownership for Mine Workers After War

The piece argues that postwar miners and workers should buy land and build homes while earnings are high. West Virginia tax laws favor owner occupancy with reduced levies, encouraging subsistence farming and small improvements. It suggests reduced work hours will enable home ownership and self-sufficiency for laborers and others.

West Virginia

Record profit of Beckley liquor store headline analysis

The West Virginia Liquor Control Commission report shows Prince Street Beckley store at 623 309.95 in sales and 165 641.95 net profit for the year ending June 380 113. The data highlights state profits from liquor stores and questions the wisdom of distributing quarterly profits to towns.

Beckley Prince Street West Virginia Liquor Control Commission Captaing Sophia Tts Gak Tes Mount Tope Fayetteville Mullens Pineville Hinton East Bainelle Lewisburg Het Ronceverte AL Told West Virginia

Beale and Beckley War News Highlights Us Navy and Army Calls

Reports from Beckley show Lt J G Higginbotham transferred to the South Pacific from Long Beach after training in Anacostia Pensacola and Miami. Other locals James Stovall Andy Adams Cadet Forrest Marrical Private Banker Tracy Lilly Arden Baldwin and a group of area inductees receive promotions and postings across camps in Indiana New Jersey Florida Alabama Kentucky and Iceland.

Leutenant J.G Paul Higginbotham United States Naval Reserve South Pacific Long Beach California Mae Higginbotham Wickham Higginbotham Navy Air Force Navy Anacostia D.C Pensacola Miami Florida Woodrow Wilson High School Beckley College Armour and Company Thomas A. Cahill Oakland Forrest’ E. Marrical Blanche Marrical Glen Rofers Marrical Beckley Glen Rogers Norfolk Virginia Atlantic Merchant Marines John H. Marrival United States Army England Army of the United States Fort Thomas Kentucky 1584Th Camp Atterbury Indiana Charles A. Votes Crab Orchard 995Th Signal Company Camp Edison Sea Girt New Jersey Houston R. Gravely Slamford Camp Gordon Johnston Mikel H. Griffith Excles Arley A. Johnson Tams Harold R. Kisser Howard F. Rudisill Sophia James E. Walker Killarney Infantry Rtc Fort McClellan Alabama Thurman E. Hodge Rhodell Frank J Kinaier Fueles Homer S. Price Whitby Sherman I. Rumbarg Marfork

Beckley Seeks Weather Observer to Succeed Mauck

Beckley seeks a successor to the late L A Mauck as weather observer. City officials and Chamber of Commerce leaders discuss filling the post, which carries no salary. Government instruments remain here and readings are mailed to Parkersburg daily.

L. A. Mauck W. H. Weidensall Beckley Chamber of Commerce W. R. Fugitt Harry May Mauck Lami Weather Bureau Parkersburg Chamber of Commerce Beckley

Extraordinary WV legislature session ends in adjournment

The West Virginia House of Delegates adjourned an extraordinary session at 6 p.m. with Speaker John E. Amos presiding. Delegate Wallace Morgan’s closing remarks mingled with a message from the governor as lawmakers ended a tense week amid rumors and reflections on acoustics and voting methods in the Capitol.

John E. Amos House of Dele- Ralus Wallace Morgan Hanover Wyoming County Wallace Amos Morgan Capitol Raymond J. Funkhouser West Virginia House of Delegates State Senate Senate House West Virginia Senate Aittle Neely C. Flint Howard Reitz Charleston Wyoming Hills Guyan Mountain Raleigh County John Quincy Hutchinson Supreme Court of Appeals

Cloud Bombing Raiders See New Navigation Aids

United Nations air raids rely on a pathfinder plane system with bright flares to outline targets in cloudy skies. Enhanced radio devices provide audible and visual signals for navigation and bombing, with improvements aiding return landings through fog and mist.

C. E. Butterfield Associated Press New York United Nations U. S U. S. Eighth Air Force Berlin Leo Branham London

Inches Of Snow Cover Flat Top

Southern West Virginia awoke to a snowy scene with four and a half inches at Flat Top by 8:10 p.m. The same report notes two inches fell yesterday, a 17 degree night after a 29 degree day. Beckley area temperatures and driving conditions were reported with minor highway difficulties and cinders applied by crews.

Glade Creek Beckley Fred Bowling Sirways Chicago West Virginia Raleigh-Mercer Beckley Water Company

Farm Leaders to Attend Annual Workers Conference

Extension workers in Raleigh and Fayette counties plan a week long trip to Morgan town for an annual conference. Delegates include H B Thomas Raleigh county agriculture agent Miss Mary Elizabeth Wolfe Four H club agent Miss Clifton Dolson Fayette county Four H agent Miss Rachel Ferguson Fayette home demonstration agent and J Haynes Miller Fayette agriculture agent.

Raleiph Fayette Morgantown Raleigh H. B. Thomas Raleigh County Mary Elizabeth Wolfe Clifton Dolson Fayette County Rachel Ferguason J. Haynes Miller

Berkeley County January term ends without jury

In Berkeley Springs the January term of circuit court concluded with no jury when defendants Lewis Higgins and Louis Smallwood of Baltimore pleaded guilty. The report notes the United States produced more than two billion pounds of butter in 1943.

United States Orange County New York Associated Press Berkeley Springs Berkeley County Lewis Higgins Louis Smallwood Baltimore

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