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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1955
Page
4
Thought for Today presents a reflection on the supreme fall being the first doubt of oneself attributed to Countess de Gasparin. The brief opinion piece contemplates如何 doubt undermines personal virtue and progress, urging steady self-trust and moral clarity.
Mines across Southern West Virginia face idling due to a freight car shortage. Railroads plan to add 38,000 cars this year, but most deliveries push to 1956. Rep Mollohan warns of a potential 50,000 car shortage by September and a possible 300,000 cars needed in a national emergency. railroads seek rate relief and faster repairs amid strikes and steel shortages.
The National Association of Manufacturers concludes in Industry's View that discriminatory federal income tax rates burden higher earners. It urges removal of tax blocks to fund capital growth and outlines a five year plan to reduce individual and corporate rates to a 35 percent maximum, offset by growth revenues.
AP reporter William L. Ryan portrays the Geneva talks as a fateful gamble with world communism at risk. He notes rapid changes inside the Soviet Union under Khrushchev, including a push to reveal economic faults while maintaining hardline goals of world domination. Illinois, Moscow, and Geneva appear as key stages.
The analysis notes rising educated youth challenging state plans to steer careers, inflated inflationary pressure due to heavy industry focus, and calls for more socialist competition. Premier Bulganin points to a need for specialization and cooperation while debt to armaments burdens limits real reform. A tactical foreign policy retreat is implied as necessary.
The Errol Flynn Bruce Cabot feud grows sharper as Cabot jokes about Flynn's debt and health. Lois Andrews Kleckner, now married to an Army major in Germany, references a collect call for their daughter. Zsa Zsa Gabor jokes with old colleagues and hides her age, while Pope Pius blesses photographers in Vatican chatter. Local stars Leo Carillo and Phil Foster are noted in social anecdotes. Martha Raye battles laryngitis in Las Vegas with Sammy Davis Jr and Tony Martin nearby.
Hollywood gossip sheet recounts Madge Meredith reflecting on her 1950s prison conviction for conspiring to kidnap and beat her former manager Nick Gianaclis. She awaits a pardon promised by Gov. Goodwin Knight, notes to vote rights and guardianship loss, and mentions friends and public figures who supported her while detailing other celebrity tidbits and light items.
The Tariff Commission must submit new data to President Eisenhower by Friday on how and why bicycle imports affect U.S. makers. The March 14 recommendation to raise duties to 22 1/2 to 30 percent ad valorem was delayed May 11 for fuller 1955 data, with imports rising since 1950 and hurting U.S. profits and jobs amid Britain and European suppliers.
Brief excerpt defines cannibalism from Greek roots as eating of man. It notes yearly around 20,000 tons of steel are used to manufacture license plates for automobiles and trucks.
A collection of reflections on finding meaning in any work setting with Mundy’s “A Worker's Place” as a core message. Included are humorous vignettes about a violinist seeking an E-string, a farmer naming his daughter Amalasyinta, and a new graduate listing slot and pin ball as machines he can operate.
Publication note from Beckley Newspapers Corporation lists post office entries and second class mail status. J McQuade is managing editor and Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches.
A vintage trivia page asks seven questions about smoking cessation totals religious statements oil well origins westward travel from Gibraltar heavyweight boxing history constitutional amendments and a nation’s president. Answers appear on this page.
Howland Sargeant born July 18 1911 in New Bedford Massachusetts. Married to actress Myrna Loy. Former assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Chaired the Technical Industrial Intelligence Commission for the U S Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1944 to 1946. Rhodes scholar and State Department official.
A woman recalls a Basque priest who guided her toward Catholicism while she was in confinement. He instructed her to seek baptism after release, and once liberated she became a Catholic.
In Maryville Tennessee a real mountaineer defies the stereotype of the hillbilly. Robert Clark a 43 year old blacksmith at Alcoa works ten miles from his 12 acre mountain farm raising much of his own food. He praises mountain life crediting it with independence and strong family values while noting factory jobs and modern amenities have reached the hills. He says he would not trade places with city dwellers, cherishing the country life and schooling improvements nearby.
A devotional prayer thanking God for green pastures and still waters, asking for grace and beauty to be carried into the day. The closing vignette notes the author Russell Hutchison, a minister at First United Presbyterian Church of Wilkinsburg in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Washington observes no one in government argues Russians seek peace out of weakness. Dulles warned of a collapsing economy, but insiders view Russian moves as possible tactical shifts. The question remains if Kremlin gestures are sincere or a ploy to split Western allies before the Geneva talks.
Answers 1 1 500 000 says the Census Bureau. Getting weaker. Pennsylvania Virginia Dempsey Liberia in Africa.
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