Community remembers two local women active in civic life
The deaths of Mrs. Wayne Reynolds and Topsy O'Dell, longtime leaders in education, church work, and civic groups, are remembered for their roles in Girls State, League of Women Voters, and community campaigns. Their legacies live on in the programs they advanced and in memories of friends.
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Wayne Reynolds
Topsy O'Dell
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley College
Miss O’dell
Girls State
League of Women Voters
Reynolds
O’dell
Mountain Tops Drive Growth in Microwave Relay Towers
The article notes a shift from city space to mountain peaks for microwave relay towers used in telephone and radio. From 400 towers in 1955, counts rose to over 4,500. Accessibility needs limit peak placement, but advancing compact equipment hints at a future boom in the mountain top market.
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Business Week
FCC Chairman Sees Green Sprouts In TV's Vast Wasteland
FCC Chairman Newton Minow says signs of improvement appear in news and public affairs, with astronaut coverage cited. He notes entertainment quality remains mixed and calls for more diverse children’s programming. He supports UHF expansion, federal aid for educational stations, and pay TV trials. He expects an educational network within five to six years.
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FCC
Washington
UPI
Newton N. Minow
Federal Communications Commission
America
Minow
Commission
House
Senate
Congress
Ional
Hartford
Conn
Radio guided bomb could fight Florida fires
The U S Forest Service nears a breakthrough with a radio controlled glide bomb carrying fire fighting chemicals to combat stubborn Everglades fires. Tests planned this year with further experiments if successful, echoing a military space rocketry origin and past fatalities in 1961 from direct bombing.
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Florida
Everglades
U. S. Forest Service
Churchill Shifts Cigar Habits Reflecting History
Washington notebook reports a postwar mood shift as Kennedy era proposals unsettle business. Ladd Plumley riffs on theory, Heller jokes about misidentification with a Chicago financier, and Rifle quips about a dog's life in politics. Churchill, aging and embattled by embargo, limits cigars, prompting a humorous tale of his Havana habit.
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Washington
Enterprise Assn. Washington
NEA
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Ladd Plumley
Walter W. Heller
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Walter E. Heller
Chicago
Billie Sol Estes
Heller
National Democratic Club
Europe
University of Minnesota
Paris
Place Pigalle
Montmartre
Pigalle
Ben Rifle
R S.D
Washington Political Study Club
Congressman Rifle
Winston Churchill
Jack le Vien
Laos Government Resents U.S. Switch, Says Acting Foreign Secretary
In Vientiane Laos Acting Foreign Secretary Sisouk Na Champassak denounces a U S policy shift. He asserts unusual U N duties while Premier Prince Boun Oum and Gen Phoumi Nosavan are frequently absent from power. The scene is a yellow stucco government building near the royal palace.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPI
Government of
Royal Palace
Boun Oum
Phoumi Nosavan
United States
Sisouk Na Champassak
Sisouk
United Nations
New York
Phoumi
Souvanna Phouma
Nam Tha
Pathet Lao
Viet Minh
U.S
U. S
Thailand
Soldier Knoble recalls capture of Jefferson Davis 50 years ago
Surrounded by kin and friends in Philadelphia, Carper Knoble, sole survivor of the 13 soldiers who captured Jefferson Davis, marks the anniversary at his home. He earned 293 dollars for the capture, a reward part of a government bounty.
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Carper Knoble
Jefferson Davis
Philadelphia
M. Knobel
23 Years Ago From the 1937 Files
Private funeral services for Jean Harlow were held at Wee Kirk Of the Heather in Wee Law cemetery at Glen. Mrs William Taylor and Mrs Helmut Holtz were guest artists at a Baxter Laird school recital in the First Presbyterian church Atlantic City New Jersey. Medical aid for the poor was urged before the American Medical Association by President Roosevelt and Senator J Hamilton Lewis of Illinois.
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Jean Harlow
Wee Kirk
Heather Chapel
Wee Law Cemetery
Glen
William Taylor
Helmut Holtz
Baxter Laird
First Presbyterian Church
Atlantic City
N. J
American Medical Association
Roosevelt
U. S
J. Hamilton Lewis
Iles
Lewis
Smithsonian Has Crime File On Bad Bugs
Byrd argues for a national bug file housed at the Smithsonian to rapidly identify agricultural pests. He cites the 10 million dollar eradication response to the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida and notes steady growth of the Smithsonian insect collection, aiding pest control nationwide.
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Smithsonian
Public Service
U. S
Robert C. Byrd
FBI
Washington
D. C
Natural History Museum of the
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C
Cies
Coral Gables
Florida
Dade County Agriculture
Hampshire County
West Virginia
Bug Dust The Tragedy Of Being A Man
John Hodel explores male identity through a comic tragic monologue from the Raleigh Herald June 7 1912. The piece traces a man’s lifelong search for sympathy, affection, and rightful place amid family expectations and social norms, ending with a wry note about Ann Landers.
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John Hodel
Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications
Washington reports on a 1961 revised edition listing 818 organizations and 147 publications tied to Communists and fronts. It notes most groups no longer exist, with only 21 active today, and warns that many operate covertly or disband after scrutiny. The list complements but does not certify investigations by government agencies.
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Washington
United States
Government Printing Office
D. C
House UN- American Activities Committee
American Committee For Protection of the
Farm Research Organization
Fund For Social Analysis
Labor Research Organization
Los Angeles
Committee For
Methodist Federation For Social Action
Ardsley, N.Y
Midwest Committee For
National Assembly For Democratic Rights
National Committee
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
National Lawyers Guild
Northern California
Committee For Protection of
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
The
Worker
Daily Worker
People’s World
Political Affairs
Attorney General’s List
Beckley Newspapers Corporation Subscription Rates and Delivery Terms
Public notice outlines daily and Sunday newspaper delivery options by carrier or distributor in Beckley and surrounding areas including Hinton and WV. It lists annual and semiannual rates, home delivery charges, and notes independent contractors handle routes with Beckley Newspapers Corporation not liable for advance payments.
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Ward-Griffith Company, Inc
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Greenville
Pittsburgh
West Virgina
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
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Hannah More
Memoriam
Philippines
House of Representatives
Diosdado Macapagal
Emmanuel Pelaez
Pelaez
Emilio Aguinaldo
Luzon
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Louis Cassels
Washington Notebook
Churchill
By Phil Newsom
Raleigh Register
Townsend
Beckley
M. E
Russia
Berlin
Byrd
New Jersey
Raleigh Herald
Dorothy Amick
Ann Landers
Peter Edson
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Descartes
Naleigh & Register
Prince St
W. Vas
Hinton
W. Va
United Press International
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