Thoughtful Raleigh spending shifts in 1958 study
The Standard Rate and Data Service analysis shows Raleigh County residents trimmed heavy debt purchases and boosted general goods amid a recession. Food stores sold 17 percent of the retail dollar, automotive and related products 17 percent, general merchandise 18 percent, clothing 5 percent, and home furnishings 3 percent, with year totals rising from the prior period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Standard Rate and Data Service
Contempt Fight Tests Federal Reach Over State Officials
A federal contempt case targets Alabama judge George C. Wallace for withholding voter registration records from the Civil Rights Commission. Judge Johnson ordered Wallace to produce records and face questioning, with the Civil Rights Act of 1957 detailing jury rights and penalties. President Eisenhower urged extending the act as the commission fights alleged Negro voting rights violations in the Deep South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Justice Department
Wallace
John Patterson
Alabama
Patterson
Frank M. Johnson Jr
University of Alabama Law School
Johnson
Tuskegee
Schoson
Barbour
Bullock
Justice Department
Terell County
Eisenhower
National Press Club
Positive Thinking From Dr Crane On Don Gross Southpaw Pitcher
Dr George W Crane highlights Don Gross a 26 year old Pittsburgh Pirates southpaw relief pitcher who credits marriage to June McGrath for steadier form. He recalls a childhood arm injury and urges readers to adopt a positive outlook, using setbacks as stepping stones and citing famous examples.
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Don Gross
Pittsburgh Pirates
Cincinnati
June McGrath
Don
Christ
Nixon Gambling When He Talks These Days
Washington observers weigh Nixon's dual role as administration spokesman and potential 1960 GOP candidate. He defends balanced budgets and missiles progress, challenging a Democratic study he says underestimates U.S. lead, citing Atlas tests. Civil rights, presidents’ human side, and Esperancilla memoirs add context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Henry Cathcart
Central Press Association
Washington
Richard M. Nixon
U. S
Russia
Eisenhower
Prayer for Today Hindrances of Hatred Addressed by Faith
A district judge Luther W Youngdahl writes a prayer asking God to fill hearts with eternal love beyond barriers. He seeks enlarged compassion and purified vision, invoking the common Father of all in his Washington DC address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther W. Youngdahl
Washington, D. C
U.S
District of Columbia
Military Men In The News At Home And Overseas
Peggy Kessinger reports on U S Army and Air Force servicemen connected to the 37th Armor in Germany and Fifth Artillery events in Germany. Names include Pfc Harry V Stover of Artie Clear Fork High School graduate 1957 and 18, Pfc L Baker Lochgelly 19, Collins High School graduate, Wyco 18, and Airman 1 C Ivan Adrian Lowery Beckley West Virginia. Also two area men Pfc Frank L Oscar Prosperity and Pfc Clarence D Reed Lochgelly participated in Babenhausen Germany ceremony with Howitzers and wire laying, Oscar overseas 13 months, Reed cannoneer, both enlistees in 1957.
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37Th Armor
Germany
Harry V. Stover
Harlow Stover
Schweinfurt
Europe
Fort Benning
Army
Fort Jackson
Clear Fork High School
Pfek L. Baker
Clarence L. Baker
Lochgelly
Munich
Fort Gordon
Collins High School
Air Force
Ivan Adrian Lowery
Ivan H. Lowery
Bellevue Lane
Beckley
Scott Air Force Base
Larson Air Force Base
Wash
Wendover Air Force Base
Utah
Langley Air Force Base
Lowery
Midway Island
Hawaii
Goose Bay
Labrador
Bermuda
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Fifth Artillery Organization
Babenhausen
Frank L
Oscar
Frank A
Prosperity
Clarence D. Reed
Clarence Rees
Fort Bliss
Tex
Reed
Fort Leonard Wood
General Motors Corp
Cleveland
Ohio
Recruit John Completes Basic Combat Training at Fort Hood
Recruit John completes eight weeks of basic combat training with the Second Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas. The course focused on drill, weapons handling, and physical endurance as new soldiers earn their first status in the armored unit.
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Second Armored Division
Fort Hood
Tex
John
Perfect Guest Dulles Loves Dishwashing Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle notes Secretary of State John Foster Dulles enjoys washing dishes on vacation as a recreation. The column riffs on social topics, humor, and public life with quotes about work, manners, and culture. It mentions rising farm land costs, a high college population in New York, and Edmund Burke’s quote about evil needing good men to do nothing.
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John Foster Dulles
U. S
Hollywood
Lisa Kirk
America
New York
Edmund Burke
Mike DiSalle
Ohio
Toots Shor
Toledo
Toots
Mike
Nelson Rockefeller
Ranny Thomas
Junior Editors Quiz on Food
The piece explains milk fat and cream, defining heavy and light cream and how cream separates or is homogenized. It guides readers to try churning or beating to make butter and notes a contest prize to a reader. It ends with a question on why American soldiers are called doughboys.
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Dairies
Carol Mampton
Teaneck
Beckley
Notable claims on presidents and popcorn
The notes claim Andrew Jackson was the oldest U.S. president and Iowa dominates popcorn production in the nation. It also notes that thyroid gland issues can cause sleeping with eyes open and defines a thinologist as a nose specialist. It adds a statistic that drivers aged 45 to 50 are involved in one fifth of fatal teen driver accidents.
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Joe E. Brown
Jimmy Durante
Martha Ray
England
Crane
White House
Cook
Irineo Esperancilla
Navy
Esperancilla
Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Teheran
Potsdam
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Andrew Jackson
The
United States
Be Kind to Husbands Week Headlines Hollywood Laughs
Earl Wilson notes Be Kind to Husbands Week with Harvey Stone as first cited hero and a string of showbiz quips. vacationer Jack Paar jokes about Cuba, Inger Stevens ill, Errol Flynn and Barbara Woods congratulate Castro, and Palm Beach snickers about Rubirosa hostage rumors. about TV salaries, club licenses, Chickie James saloon, Gypsy Rose Lee stories, and other celebrity chatter from New York to Florida.
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New York
Harvey Stone
Harvey
Jack Silverman
International
Jack Paar
Cuba
Inger Stevens
57Th St
Errol Flynn
Gal
Barbara Woods
Castro
Palm Beach
Rubirosa
Batista
Bill Miller
Riviera
Bill
Boston
Dave Shear
The
Chickie James
Chickie’s
N. Y
Midnight Earl Genevieve Gains U S Citizenship
United States naturalization of Genevieve as the Midnight Earl is noted amid a collage of 1917 era items. Morton Downey Jr. recovers from serious back injuries after a Connecticut car crash. Cairo invites for Nile Hilton opening are printed in Arabic. The TWA stream is linked to a magic carpet concept. Steve Allen’s team keeps Diana Dors busy with two more shows as she heads to Hollywood. Jerry Lewis heads back to a major city after deeming a Broadway musical impractical. Vic items wrap the scattered clippings.
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Midnight Earl
Genevieve
U. S
Morton Downey Jr
Nile Hilton
Cairo
Steve Allen
Diana Dors
Hollywood
Jerry Lewis
Vic
EARL'S PEARL AND QUips From The Week
A collage of brief jokes and quips from various personalities. D E Wilson of Champaign references a lovers road line. Lisa Kirk’s nephew replies to a Cuba chief expert joke with Cubans. Jack Jarvis of Seattle promotes spelling lessons for Texas schoolchildren. Jackie Kannon riffs on wives and cooking and restaurant knowledge.
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Earl
D. E. Wilson
Chamepaign
Lisa Kirk
Cuba
Jack Jarvis
Seattle
Texas
Jackie Kannon
Trains to Run on Virginian Railway to Sea Wells Point
Fifty years ago readers learned trains would soon operate on the Virginian Railway from Deepwater on the Kanawha river to Sea wells Point near Norfolk. The project, hailed as a major engineering feat, would haul West Virginia riches to the Seacoast. The route traverses Raleigh county Glades through Jenny's Gap and Marsh Fork, across the Flat Top mountains via long tunnels and large steel bridges, touching Mullens and Barkers creek.
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Virginian Railway
Deepwater
Kanawha River
Seawells Point
Atlantic
Norfolk
West Virginia
Raleigh County
Coal River
Jenny’s Gap
Guyan Mountains
Guyan River
Mullens
Barkers Creek
Flat Top
Beckley Club Elects Officers At First Meeting
Twenty five years ago Dr John R Koch and George Barrick were elected officers of the Beckley Home Craft Club at its initial meeting. Marriage permits listed include Huff man Opal Atha and Fuller, Beckley area residents, with names and spouses from East Beckley Layland to Pember ton and Sullivan areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Koch
George Barrick
Beckley
William Grey
Katherine McDonald
Birchton
James R. Laird, Jr
Bluefield
Garnett E. Hines
Harper
William F. Blackburn
Ruth E. Green
Sophia
Lawrence Adkins
Duhue
Sybil M
Mee Collgen
Killarney
Edgar A. Copeland
Oswald
Barbara Ashbury
Pemberton
Earl H. Wilburn
Callie A. Metcalf
East Beckley
Cameron F. Moore
Clara Lilly
Sullivan
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Shakespeare
George W. Crane
Pitcher
Senate
Liberal Bloc
House of Representatives
By Peggy Kessinger
L. Wyco
Sam Wyco
Stoce High School
J. Tb. Wyco
Raleigh Q Register
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Prince St
W. Va
Hinton
J McEquade
Associated Press
Story Brooks Finley
Beckley News-papers Corporation
Hal Boyle
Dulles
Iowa
Earl Wilson
Gypsy Rose Lee
Chicago
Ethel Smith
Herb Shriner
Miami
Red Skelton
Jan Murray
James Erthein
Dinners Club
James Caesar Petrillo
Petrillo
Lena Horne
Teddy
Sally Neal
Jamaica
Danny Thomas
Bakersfield
Calif
Shirley Temple
George and
Gracie Burns
Ronnie
Jill Corey
Slate Bros
Montgomery Clift
Farley Granger
Raleigh Register
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