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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1963
Page
4
Thought for today muses on tucking away from turmoil by buying a private island. It outlines steps to find and buy island property in the United States and Canada, including using atlases, contacting regional tourist development agencies, and seeking civic authority guidance.
Roy Lee Harmon shares a light essay about a nine week old pup named Happy who brings joy, loyalty, and simple manners, contrasting canine devotion with human faults. The piece also notes future availability of a centennial poem and Harmon’s reflections on readers’ letters.
Delegates from 123 churches of God in West Virginia learned that a tabernacle costing 5000 will be erected on Maxwell Hill with a dining hall to feed large crowds at annual state meetings Beckley serves as state headquarters The piece recalls Beckley Institute on the site of Woodrow Wilson High School and lists 1911 baseball players from a nearby team plus a local road-funding pledge related to Beaver road access and road conditions reported by R C McClure.
John Hodel writes about the speaker's self view as a craftsman not a silver tongued orator. The piece presents the Gerry Gallaher scholarship speech including motives, donation aims, and hopes for future recipients, with a closing prayer and attribution to Scott Brenner of Philadelphia.
Washington notes recount mixed reactions as New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's remarriage to Margaretta Murphy plays to a gala dinner. Fred Young praises two prominent women while the crowd debates who applauded whom. The item follows a parade of quips on politics and policy.
Beckley Newspapers Corporation lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions by mail and carrier delivery. It notes rates for various terms, tax addition within West Virginia, and that carriers are independent contractors with no responsibility for advance payments.
The New York Philharmonic ends 33 years of nationwide radio broadcasts as CBS cites dwindling public interest and shifting schedules. Audiences dwindled, local stations dropped out, and LP records encouraged personal programming, leading to the 34th year being canceled. A final tribute praises the program’s long cultural contribution.
Washington delegates at the World Food Congress heard B R Sen of India outline a 40-point plan for a world food program. He urged international reforms include progressive taxation to fund hunger relief and stressed the need to triple food production as the world population heads toward six billion by 2027. A FAO program of surplus food distribution and a five year, 12.5 billion plan would channel three quarters to development and the rest to emergency aid.
This piece argues church groups may push for aid to migrant farm workers, America's poorest people. It notes about one million migrants rely on seasonal work, often in squalid shack towns, exploited by crew leaders, with children receiving little schooling and growing up illiterate.
Twenty years ago in Charleston Randolph W. Bayliss of Beckley married Miss Herman S. Shriber of Moundsville with Rev. Owen officiating. The piece also notes Sue Caldwell’s return from New Castle, Uncle Isaac Snuffer’s recovery, and then shifts to a broader report on the church lobby fighting the farm lobby over Public Law 78 and the bracero program with a pivotal House vote of 174 to 168 defeating a two-year extension.
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