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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1957
Page
2
A brief Thought for Today quotes H. W. Beecher about liberty as a tree bearing fruitful thoughts for citizens. The line suggests moral use of freedom and the value of good ideas as nourishment for society.
Beckley dealer sold ten small foreign cars last week and expects demand to rise. nation sees about 200000 such cars this year, three percent of 1957 American sales, with Volks wagen most prevalent. Prices range around 1500 for VW and Renault, Isetta 998 in New York. car makers expand foreign models through U S dealers.
Minor league presidents meet Ford C Frick in St Louis to discuss preliminary steps toward expanding the majors. Dodgers move to Los Angeles could trigger shifts to San Francisco and New York. Abe Stark urges West Coast to build its own major league if needed.
The piece argues centralization in Washington risks inefficiency and entrenched officials. It cites Interior Department examples where a Deputy Secretary accepted a $541 rug and $8,256.08 for redecorating an Assistant Secretary's office, urging accountability.
The Ten Commandments arrives July 24 at Beckley Theater billed as Cecil B. DeMille’s motion picture master work. The film dramatizes Moses and the Pharaoh clash, with Yul Brynner as Rameses I, and features the famed Red Sea sequence described as one of cinema history’s most spectacular moments. DeMille says he earns no profit and has set earnings to a charitable trust.
The article contrasts Cecil B DeMille's Clim with ancient eye care lore from Egyptian, Greek, Roman sources. It notes elaborate film set changes for a costly water sequence and then surveys historic eye remedies from swamp water to honey and bat blood. The Better Vision Institute calls modern eye care miraculous in comparison.
A Senate clash over a civil rights bill pits Southern filibuster threats against Senate rules. The piece outlines two main filibuster paths, how opponents can exhaust debate, and possible endings by cloture or prolonged sessions. It notes Knowland's potential pressure to wear down Southern resistance.
Hal Boyle profiles William Andrew Nicholson an 80 year old Alcoa Tennessee carpenter who built a two story fortress like home known as Mmenum Manor or The house that faith built to endure forever. He laboriously placed 432 ton roof rock mortared with cement and pink marble while his wife poured the mortar. Nicholson believes the Bible promise of everlasting life and plans to live to see a million years. The home attracts tourists and Nicholson has refused offers of up to 150000 saying he needs nothing but faith and health.
Public notice style text details Raleigh S Register operations, Beckley office, and subscription options. Mentions Associated Press exclusivity for focal news, delivery terms, and payment responsibilities by Beckley Newswatchers Corporation and distributors.
A prayer asking guidance to use words with understanding and patience. It seeks guard over thoughts to bless others, abstain from gossip and profane speech, and to offer sermons of truth and courage for others to hear, attributed to W. Ralph Ward Jr of Me Lebanon Methodist Church.
In Scranton Iowa the Democrat Thurman argues states must fund schoolhouses as 40 percent of tax collections never reach brick and mortar. In Arbonville Texas Carl G Santheimer, electronics lab executive, warns that Edison and Wrights today would struggle to find suitable technical positions, reflecting talent being wasted by overreliance on college engineers.
The Beckley Rotary club assigns each of its 40 members to ensure one crippled child in Raleigh County can attend the Crippled Children's clinic in Beckley on July 22. In Washington officials consider further war debt cuts amid new German reparation talks while protests rise on Capitol Hill. In Clarksburg Van A. Biltner says the United Mine Workers strike will extend to Southern West Virginia as a monthlong walkout continues.
New York gossip columns recount Georgie Jessel’s ex-gal Karen Hanson saying she fired him. Jackie Gleason slimmed down for Hollywood and Ed Murrow pursues Marlene Dietrich. Celebrities like Gail Sheldon, Bob Feller, Nat King Cole, and Peggy King appear in brief notes, with nightlife chatter from Lindy’s to the Copa.
In Case VII psychologist Dr. Crane discusses Alex L a 31 year old college instructor who ridicules religion and proclaims disbelief. The report links his atheism to a domineering father and transferred hostility from religion to paternal influence and cites a similar pattern among American communists.
It is believed inheritance tax will increase state receipts by at least 4000 dollars. Marion County shows a marked rise and probably pays more inheritance tax than any other county. Beckley’s steady growth satisfies citizens and has continued for ten years. The city, located in the Upper New River coal field, produces top coal and is positioned to become the commercial center.
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