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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1950
Page
3
The Register endorses the Raleigh County School Board and administration as strong for years, urging careful voter choice in next week's nonpartisan primary to select two board members in November. It praises steady improvement and argues for continuity to preserve effective educational policy and administration.
President Truman emphasizes Congress must consider the costs of freedom and security. He notes the current bill covers only the first installment and long term expenses are unpredictable. Estimates vary wildly from 10 billion to a trillion over a century, but the need for a strong military is clear.
In a Congress address President Truman urges study of reducing service demands and manpower while maintaining national defense needs. He notes higher military costs and asks agencies to modify programs to ease civilian burdens, seeking to preserve freedom and public support amid a wartime economy.
Phares FE Reeder of the West Virginia Education Association cites a survey by the West Virginia Council of Education showing public schools use 29.15 percent of state and local tax income, plus West Virginia’s share of federal taxes, totaling 11.21 percent of the tax dollar for schools. Including higher education, education costs rise to 13.61 percent, challenging views on state cultural progress and urging taxpayers to consider what they fund.
The piece recalls sugar shortages in Beckley and Shady Spring with a humorous sign stating No More Sugar and two china pigs. Martha Norton recalls West Virginia workers as unusually fast, citing a Welch foreman as exemplary. The Beckley Post Herald criticizes County Court President Jack Nuckols for blocking centennial stockade props for Kangaroo Court, praising the grounds upkeep instead.
By Thomas F Stafford a county court piece discusses keeping the courthouse grounds attractive amid various dissenters. A comic thread runs through letters about the Brothers of the Brush club, wives, beards, and a joke on marital kiss customs, ending with a nod to dental irony.
Regionally Speaking notes Pvt Homer Staples Jr returns to Ft Benning Ga after furlough with Bluefield relatives. Seaman recruits Robert Carroll Norval Holland ball Beckley Glen Daniel training Great Lakes. Lt William E Brown assigned Godman AFB Ky. Pvt Marshall Shortt en route to Far East Command after Camp Stoneman. Seaman First Class James F Sloan transferred West Coast after Atlantic duty.
James Marlow reports from Washington on President Truman's proposed tax schedule to fund rearmament. The plan raises individual rates toward wartime highs, pins corporations with a two-tier rate, tightens loop holes, and extends taxes to investment income of charities and colleges. It outlines changes to excise taxes, the treatment of insurance company earnings, and the wartime excess profits framework, with Congress asked to maintain higher revenue levels.
A vivid portrait of a Hollywood studio complex detailing its vast provisions and facilities. It lists food supplies, clothing, makeup quantities, dressing rooms, staff amenities, commissary, barber shop, a hospital, gym, and recreation features. Names such as Esther Williams appear in a playful insider tone.
ATLANTA writer notes the South's shift from past to future as industry and education rise. In a single generation from 91,358 to 1,366,14% workers, Southern manufacturing expands and farm income climbs from 2.109 to 3.899 billion. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia highlighted.
Hal Boyle surveys postwar Korea from Eighth Army Headquarters noting a harsh, crowded land where invasions are old history yet cruelty persists. He compares climate, sanitation, and poverty to America’s Midwest, and probes Korean attitudes toward Americans while praising the defense by South Koreans alongside U.N. forces. He contrasts regional progress with enduring destitution and weighs social change in the South, including shifts on race and education amid evolving democracy.
Washington a month after Korea attack, Truman shifts from confidence to resolve. He adopts two key moves: confront Korea directly and push a robust rearmament program for the United States and Western allies. Inside the White House power tightens around Omar Bradley and Averell Harriman as top aides.
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