Thought For Today Values of understanding across nations
Frank Peace Through Understanding sin. Hans Huebner, a 17 year old German ex exchange student from Stuttgart, recently graduated with Beckley’s Woodrow Wilson School senior class. He praises the student program as a boon to world peace. He says Americans and Germans share hopes, families, faith, and a want for peace, and that truth and friendly exchange can curb war. He notes Hollywood and German press misrepresent America and hopes to tell Stuttgart the truth about the U.S. He plans to return in July, carrying a message of friendship and restraint. He believes global harmony depends on honest understanding and mutual respect.
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Hans Huebner
Stuttgart
Germany
Beckley
Woodrow Wilson School
Hans
Huebner
America
Picure
Adolf Hitler
G.i.’S
Oldest Starbeams Corner Centered in Kansas City Star
Hal Boyle profiles the Starbeams column, the Kansas City Star’s long running para graph feature started in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson. Bill Vaughan, 44, writes about 75 thousand paragraphs since 1946 under Senator Soaper, shaping a witty snapshot of American life.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Modjeska
Garfield
Indiana
Colorado
William Rockhill Nelson
America
Charley Blood
Starbeams
Clad
Pip) Thompson
Vaughan
U.S
Senator
Hollywood Retains Fondness For Reds And Comms
Columnist David C Gardner cites Hollywood bias toward Communists and leftist causes. He lists stories from 1940s and 1950s showing subversion, tax status fights, and loyalty debates involving figures like Frank Sinatra Marc Blitzstein Howard da Silva and Alfred Kohlberg, ending with a prayer by Alfred Grant Walton in Brooklyn New York.
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American Legion Magazine
Coast Guards
Ford Foundation
Metropolitan Opera Company
Marc Blitzstein
Sacco
Vanzetti
Blitzstein
Ford
New York City
Edward Jahn
Antioch College
Master Jahn
Howard da Silva
House Un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Khrushchev meddling in presidential race
Khrushchev, in a letter to four Democratic leaders, attacks the Eisenhower administration and Nixon, linking the vice president to the Summit fiasco and prompting debate on how GOP or Dem candidates would handle Kremlin diplomacy. The piece notes Khrushchev’s past comments on bipartisan U.S. foreign policy and GOP weaknesses. Also included is a brief local item from Ponca City about 11-year-old Mike Payne releasing labeled balloons to trace their landings, reaching as far as Louisiana.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Richard M. Nixon
Eisenhower
Nixon
United States
U.S.A
Herbert Klein
Russia
Paris
Adlai E. Stevenson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Sam Rayburn
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Arkansas
Senate For‘Relations Committee
Ponca City
Okla
Mike Payne
Waite
Ane
Louisiana
Fed cuts discount rate may ease borrowing for public
The Federal Reserve Board lowers the discount rate, making it cheaper for banks to borrow from the Fed. Analysts like Sam Dawson explain the move and assess whether banks will pass savings to consumers and spur broader business borrowing and growth.
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Federal Reserve Board
Sam Dawson
AP Business News
New York
Federal Reserve System
Paul Revere Ride and Federal Reserve Rates Report
The excerpt discusses Paul Revere’s role in the American Revolution and his later life as a silversmith. It also outlines why central banks cut or raise discount rates, noting the impact on business borrowing and the economy amid cautious market psychology. It ends with a report that three states Delaware Nevada and Pennsylvania approved annual legislatures, totaling 19 annual sessions.
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Paul Revere
Boston
Concord
Lexington
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Revere
Massachusetts Militia
Chicago
Council of State Governments
Delaware
Nevada
Pennsylvania
Two Old Troupers Open Riviera Las Vegas Show
Earl Wilson notes Sophie Tucker and Ted Lewis opening a Riviera Las Vegas show as Mr and Mrs Show Business. The crowd included 57 free couples married 10 years or more, totaling over 3,000 years of married life. Cold jokes and celebrity teasers fill a lively, gossiping page of entertainment notes.
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Las Vegas
Sophie Tucker
Ted Lewis
Las Vegas Riviera
Riviera
Show Business
Sophie
Ted
Coalfields Booming as Raleigh sees boosted activity
Fifty years ago Raleigh’s New River coal fields attract families from across the state and Kentucky. Mines run at full capacity with hundreds employed. Glen White reports the town’s first electric lights, forthcoming wiring for all houses, and rumors of C and O Railroad Co improvements at Raleigh station including a new station and passing tracks to handle expanding coal traffic.
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Raleigh Register
Kentucky
New River
Glen White
C, and O, Railroad Co
Raleigh Station
Kee designated two for military academies in 1935 files
The Raleigh Register recalls Representative Kee designating James S. McCorkle of Hinton for admission to West Point and Joseph West of Anjean for Annapolis Naval Academy. The Keys sisters Mona Roberta Mary and Leota, famed quadruplets, celebrate their 20th birthday after completing their sophomore year at Baylor University in Waco Texas.
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Kee
D-W, Va
James S. McCorkle
Hinton
Military Academy
West Point
Joseph West
Anjean
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Keys Sisters
Mona
Roberta
Mary
Leota
Baylor University
Waco
Texas
Raleigh Register Subscription Rates and Addresses
Raleigh Register shows Beckley West Virginia address and lists subscription rates by mail for daily and Sunday editions, daily only, and monthly options. It notes tax addition within West Virginia and includes carrier and dealer responsibilities and advance payment caveats.
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W. Va
West Ee
Ea Sharece Es Wall'ee
Sunde
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