The Register's Platform for Beckley and Raleigh County
The Register outlines goals for Beckley and Raleigh County including road improvements, mud elimination, airport adequacy, city garbage disposal, park expansions at Grandview and Little Beaver, mining workers on home steads, growing local food, local government forms, tourism via climate and scenery, tourist facilities, a penny per ton for advertising, smoke less coal, a public library building, factory space for new enterprises, and widespread conservation.
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Beckley faces revenue squeeze as of 1945 city tax plan raises sales levy
Beckley officials compare the city's finances to bricks without straw, urging a new municipal gross sales tax. The plan would add a fourth tax layer on all Beckley firms, projected to yield about 1 million dollars annually to fund 1940s city needs. The proposal argues the tax is fair and evenly shared among merchants.
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Beckley
Charleston
Huntington
Bluefield
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Beckley Committee
Bross
The Court Reproaches Itself in Supreme Court Feud
The U S Supreme Court faces public censure as a feud unfolds after a ruling on press rights to criticize courts. President Truman delayed naming a new chief justice to restore peace, and Justice Jackson, serving as Germany prosecutor, aimed accusations at Justice Black amid ongoing disputes.
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U. S Supreme Court
Truman
Fred Vinson
Justice Jackson
Germany
Justice Black
U.M.W
Jewell Ridge
Supreme Court
Union
Coal Company
Black
Jackson
Supreme Judiciary Body
Becketts Seasons and Local Lore From a Rural Column
Randall Norton recounts Beckley weather history and growing seasons, noting frost dates, season lengths, and typical crops. He interjects with local color about black eyed peas, lard shortages, and food habits, plus a note on a coal case ruling and justice integrity.
Bevin Blunt Stand on Palestine and Paris Peace Plans
England's Foreign Secretary Bevin spoke bluntly at Bournemouth on Palestine immigration and the Big Four Paris conference. He rejected 100000 Jewish immigration, warned of separate peace treaties if talks fail, and noted British and American unity in principle on peace efforts. Bevin urged patience to settle the Jewish Arab issue as part of a broader Middle East solution.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
England
Bevin
Britain
Labor Party
Bournemouth
Palestine
Paris
Sesson
Holy Land
Foreign Office
London
Plaestine
John Bull
Sam
Europe
Byrnes
Russia
United States
United Nations Assembly
Gromyko Man Of Extremes on U.N. Security Council
Andrei A Gromyko of Russia stands as a man of extremes on the UN Security Council at 38 the youngest member yet a veteran who helped shape the organization. He has long experience dating to 1944 and sits amid debates over Iran Spain and UN power dynamics while balancing a sociable life with wife and two children in the United States. The article traces his rise from Minsk to Moscow to New York and his role at key UN moments from Dumbarton Oaks to Yalta Potsdam and the San Francisco conference.
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Francis W. Carpenter
Associated Press
New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Council
United Nations
United States
Edward BR. Stettinius, Jr
Gromyko
Sir Alexander Cadogan
United Kingdom
National Council of Soviet-American Friendship
Great Britain
League of Nations
Gromykake
Iran
Minsk
Russian Institute of Economics
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow Foreign Office
Yalta
Potsdam
Maxim Litvinoff
Dumbarton Qaks
San Francisco
U. N
United
Lmbassy
Soviet Union
Security Council
Atomic Control Commission
Hunter College
Boston
Gram
Mrs. Ainslee
Jenny
Justice
Northam
Portsland
Washington
A Job for Jenny Faith Baldwin Chapter Thirty Seven
Jenny and Justice advance a hospital plan as clues surface from investigations. He shares his resolve to stay, asks about marriage, and they travel to Northam to hand a key envelope to a Navy courier, while Jenny contemplates their future and Justice’s motives.
Increasing production and diminutions of strikes spark optimism
A week of rising industrial optimism in New York centers follows fewer strike threats and a belief the worst of labor unrest is over. Executives, promoters, and manufacturers expect housing demand to rise, reconversion fears to fade, and production to exceed earlier forecasts. The piece notes housing growth, end of buyers strike fears, and renewed competition as drivers of the mood, with outlook for 1946 and early 1947.
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New York
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J.T. Joneses
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Smith County
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Negro Handsman
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Elmer Roessner
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William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
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