Thought For Today And The Flag Story Revisited
A compact reflection links a patriotic flag tale to the era of national symbolism. It notes Flag Day origins in 1777 and 1818 revisions, then shifts to concerns over foreign aid and a Taiwan relief black market, with officials investigating possible diversions and the U S role in supporting Formosan famine relief amid regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taiwan
Elmore R. Torn
Advisory Committee
Washington
U. S
Church World Service
National Council of Churches
Congress
Chiang Kai-shek
Red China
Hong Kong
Washington Window exposes Defense Department waste
UPI reports reveal a pattern of waste in the Defense Department as Comptroller General Campbell flags multiple May incidents. Air Force and Navy overpurchase crash trucks, misallocated engines, costly helicopter programs, a costly Ft Belvoir pipeline, and fraudulent lodging claims by Navy Shore Patrol, totaling small sums but signaling systemic misuse of taxpayer money.
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Washington
UPI
Department of National Defense
National Defense Department
Department
Joseph Campbell
United States
Campbell
Congress
Navy
Air Force
Defense Department
Army
Ft. Belvoir
Bug Dust Dyer To Spend Summer At W Africa Resort
Jim Dyer a part time Register correspondent at West Virginia State College Institute finishes sociology degree and raises 900 for Operation Crossroads Africa. He travels from Washington to Dakar and Bathurst Gambia to help rebuild a teacher training college. The private project aims to aid Yundum College with local students and staff. The group includes graduates in education psychology and languages. Also notes two Beckley College students worried about typewriters for a class.
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Jim Dyer
The
Register
West Virginia State College
Institute
Dyer
Washington
New York
Dakar
Senegal
Bathurst
Gambia
Jim
Yundum College
Government of
Operation Crossroads
Peace Corps
James H. Robinson
Edie Adams Shifts To Comedy After Ernie Kovacs Death
Hollywood widow Edie Adams plans a fall TV special based on Lady In the Dark while juggling six months of widowhood. Her work includes eight specials, commercials, a Las Vegas stint, a recording deal and a film with Sid Caesar, totaling about 250000 this year. She embraces humor and family as a way to keep Ernie Kovacs smiling and to move forward with her career.
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Hollywood
NEA
Edie Adams
Ernie Kovacs
Edie
Mia Susan
Ernie
Betty
Kippie
Las Vegas
Sid Caesar
Edith
Old Dad
Mae West
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn
Julie Andrews
Ruby Keeler
Mia
Welfare chief touts seniors benefits rise to 15 billion
Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff notes that total benefits to persons over 65 reached 15 billion in 1961 while Reverend Edward A. Sidler of Parma Heights, Ohio remarks that funerals have become costly attempts to deny the reality of death.
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Abraham Ribicoff
Edward A. Sidler
Parma Heights
Ohio
Washington Attourney General List called museum piece
Washington readers learn that the Attorney General's List of subversive organizations, once required for federal job security checks, is now an obsolete six plus year old document. The 288 names have barely changed since 1955, with five crossed off, containing groups like the Ku Klux Klan though not including others such as the American Nazi Party.
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Washington
NEA
United States
Harry Truman
Eisenhower
Department OF Justice
Ku Klux Klan
Bund
Sokoku Kai
Fatherland Society
Japan
George Lincoln Rockwell
American Nazi Party
Arlington, Va
Potomac
Subversive list debate and legal limits noted
The article discusses the aging attorney general list of subversive organizations, noting only 11 of listed groups remain active. It explains constitutional limits on updating the list, court doubts, and a 1955 revision process, with potential future reconsideration debated amid Cold War concerns. It mentions Atty. Gen. Rogers and evolving administration stances and previews the next topic as Subversive Active Control Board's Record.
Tests Cast Doubt on 2 Anti-Depressants
UPI reports that Drs. Armand Loranger and Curtis Prout conducted a double blind trial at New York Hospital Westchester showing no clear benefit from two anti mood drugs deanol and benadyzine meprobamate combined with benadyzine versus a placebo. Sixty patients were fooled into thinking one drug was tested. Nurses and doctors rated mood weekly for 10 weeks with identical red capsules.
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Delos Smith
UPI
New York
Armand W. Loranger
Curtis T. Prout
Loranger
Prout
New England Journal of Medicine
New York Hospital
Westchester County
Loranger and
Glossary Needed To Understand Brokerese
Investors paying up to about 100 dollars a year for market letters may need a glossary to grasp the guarded phrases used by brokers and advisory services. The terms reflect caution in addressing market uncertainties and the broker age house style.
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Jesse Bogue
UPI Financial
New York
UPI
25 Years Ago From the 1937 Raleigh Register
The Raleigh Register notes Kee neys Knob in Southern West Virginia hosts a 77 foot fire lookout tower project by the state conservation commission. Beckley college adds C H Martin to summer faculty at Beckley. Phil Wilson becomes manager of Crouch Lumber, succeeding D S Hill. E H Crouch’s lodge elevates C T Hughes as most excellent high priest. other officers listed. The market section discusses liquidity, Dow levels, bulls and bears, and outlook.
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Hinton
Keeney's Knob
West Virginia
State Conservation Commission
C. H. Martin
Woodrow Wilson High School
Beckley College
Phil Wilson
Crouch Lumber Company
D.S. Hill
E. H. Crouch
C. T. Hughes
Beckley Lodge
Royal Arch Masons
M. C. Doumany
E. G. Larrick
T. R. Venters
S. E. Turner
R. Schwank
J. R. B. H. G Taylor
M H. Wood
L. Maxwell
T. R. Cooper
A. Summers
H. G. Bird
Chris Rosmien
J. W. Bird
1912 Dr Coleman to Lead Beckley Hospital Move
From the 1912 files of Dr J E Coleman Fayetteville’s longtime practitioner plans to move to Beckley to head a new large hospital. He built Fayetteville Hospital about five years ago. A viz Lilly of Lilly Music Store visits Lock Creek. Mrs F R Wilson of Gardner attends Beckley Institute graduation with her son Parker. Will Lewis returns from Louisville Medical College where the class of 1912 is the largest with 150 grads.
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J. E. Coleman
Fayetteville
Beckley
Coleman
Fayette- Ville Hospital
A. Z. Lilly
Lilly Music Store
Lock Creek
F. R. Wilson
Gardner
City
The
Beckley Institute
Parker
Will Lewis
Louisville
Louisville Medical College
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Luther Story of
Second Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Marine Committee
Hawaii
Woodrow Wilson
By Lyle Wilson
W. Africa ‘Resort
Gambia River
French West Africa
St. Mary
Beinie Canterbury
Canterbury
Espalier
Christ
James W. Kennedy
N. Y.C
Church of the Ascension
Kovacs
Erskine Johnson
Attorney General’s List
Peter Edson
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Prince St
W. Va
Managing
John Hodel
United Press International
Ward-Griffith Company
Chicago
Detroit
Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
San _ francisco
Los Angeles
Greenville
Pittsburgh
American Committee For Protection of the
American-Russian Institute of Southern California
American-Russian Institute of San Francisco
Jefferson School of Social Science
Jewish Culture Society
Labor Research Assn., Inc
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
United May Day Committee
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Washington Pension Union
Yiddisher Kultur Farband
United States Supreme Court
Atty
William P. Rogers
Kennedy
Active Control Board
Raleigh Register
Dow
Mae
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