Editorial Review and Seann Thought for Today
Opinion piece reflecting on wit and truth in humor. Quotes G Bernard Shaw and contemplates jokes as truth told lightly. Presents a literary take on humor as a vehicle for insight.
Raleigh Register in Beckley, West Virginia
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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1955
Page
4
Socialized vaccine debate strains Republican nerves
Republicans privately fret over the administrations plan to offer free polio vaccine to all children amid Oveta Culp Hobby’s charge that it is socialized medicine. Democrats cite Canada’s government ran program with no polio cases, while political experts foresee the issue lingering into 1956 campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oveta Culp Hobby
American Medical Association
Canada
Capitol Hill
Ole Miss Flight Endurance Pioneers Honored by Smithsonian
The Ole Miss single engine plane built by Al and Fred Key set a world endurance record of 653 hours 34 minutes. In 1935 the craft flew from Meridian to over 28 days, covering 2.5 world rounds while using 6000 gallons of gasoline and 300 gallons of oil. The Key brothers performed 438 air to air refuelings aiding air power progress. The aircraft will be flown to Washington on July 2 for display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Miss
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
Spirit of
Key Brothers
U. S
Fred Key
Scientists Still Puzzled by Sleep
An editorial reflects on the limits of scientific knowledge, praising human intellect while noting sleep remains poorly understood. It questions what the human race can become and laments the cautious, candlelit approach to exploring the unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bless, O Lord, Our Years In Your Grace and Strength
A prayer attributed to James W. Kennedy of the Church of the Ascension in New York City. It asks divine blessing across all years from youth to old age, for graceful adjustment to life’s burdens, closeness to God, and strength and courage through Christ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
James W. Kennedy
Church of the Ascension
Proposal to allow early retirement on total disability movement
Senate advocates push a plan to grant retirement annuities to workers of any age upon total permanent disability, aligning with federal and certain state employees. Critics warn of higher social security costs and potential abuse, while safeguards, definitions, and retraining concerns loom as the House pursues action in 1956.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Congress
Hobby
House
Senate
Wrong Decision Can Be Fatal This Holiday Driving Advice
National Safety Council coordinates a nationwide Fourth of July traffic safety campaign with 160 organizations. It projects 40 million vehicles over a three day weekend, totaling over three billion miles, and warns drivers face 20 to 50 decisions per hour where a wrong choice can be fatal. Memorial Day saw 368 traffic deaths, prompting calls to adopt the Golden Rule on highways. Four tips urge early starts, letting others go first, maintaining distance, and not speeding to reduce risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
Working mayor sparks praise for speech efforts
Mayor-elect A K Minter admitted he was not a strong speaker yet delivered a thorough welcome to Father Leo Lydon at St Francis de Sales Church in Beckley. He urged gratitude and reflected on learning to speak while praising the horse prayer by J W Riley sent from White Sulphur Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minter
Leo B. Lydon
Beckley
Paul Helsley
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
J. W. Riley
Register
Kelly Thompson
White Sulphur Springs
Raleigh Register Subscription Rates Notice
Raleigh Register lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, with annual and six month options, plus home delivery details and tax note. It notes Associated Press ownership of local news and that carriers are independent contractors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Eyee
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Hoover Task Force Sparks Public Power Debate
Washington report says Ben Moreell led a 26 member Hoover Commission task force on water resources and public power that produced an 1800 page study. The commission may split from the task force, proposing a compromise on federal power versus private utilities with no new federal projects and a stance that taxpayers should not subsidize local power needs. The speech hints at mobilizing support for agreeing parts, while acknowledging internal conflict over public versus private power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ben Moreel
Hoover Commission
Hoover
Congress
Commission
St. Louis
Moreel
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Moreell
What’s The Answer Quiz From The Page
A compact quiz prompts choices on car ownership by families, farm cash income versus 1954, world Jewry estimates, labor welfare fund funding, Senate chair, an egret breakfast joke, and West Germany’s stance on the Oder Neisse boundary with options and a note that answers appear on the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. Knowland
Calif
Wiley
Wisc
George
Johnson
Tex
Fullbright
Ark
West Germany
Oder-Neisse
Germany
You're Telling Me! A humorous column stanza from Ritz Germany's envoy
A playful collection of quips about Hans Heinrich von Horwath as Germany's first ambassador to Britain since the war, mock London speech, a Russia cattle shortage joke, a South American city with 25 newspapers, and faculty behemoth jokes. The piece closes with self aware humor about its own exaggeration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Hans Heinrich von Horwath
London
Northwest
The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing film project
Producer Charles Brackett describes 20th Century Foxs film adaptation of the Evelyn Nesbitt Stanford White Harry Thaw murder case. Nesbitt now teaches ceramics in Los Angeles at 70 plus but remains a central figure. Joan Collins plays Nesbitt with Farley Granger as Thaw and Ray Milland as White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Charles Brackett
Stanford White
Harry K. Thaw
Evelyn Nesbitt
New York
Charles Samuels
20Th Century-Fox
Brackett
Pittsburgh
Floradora Chorus
Broadway
Hall of Fame
Pennsylvania Station
Boston Public Library
Madison Square Garden
Evelyn
White
Thaw
Miss Nesbitt
Los Angeles
Joan Collins
Farley Granger
Ray Milland
Stowaway recalls life with Capone era ties and deportation
A deportee now aging toward fifty five recounts a life spent across Ohio New York and Georgia. He claims time with Al Capone in Atlanta and a past in Akron driving whisky cars with gambling and slot machines. He says he was caught in a car with counterfeit money but refuses to dwell on the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
al Capone
Parthenon
Bill Hillas
44Th
St. Denis
Dempsey’s
America
New York
Akron
Ohio
Market Street
Atlanta
Virginia
Friend of Capone Figure Appears in Greece
Earl Wilson notes a 1938 departure to Greece by Bill Hillas and his estranged wife, now remarried with two children, forever apart from their homeland. The piece spirals through celebrity sightings and light anecdotes, from Red Buttons’ European tour to DiMaggio and Hemingway rumors, ending with Earl’s whimsical reflections on fame and wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Hillas
Greece
N. Y
Red Buttons
Joe DiMaggio
Jackie Jeason
Kefauver
NBC
Gloria Grahamé
Marilyn Monroe
Ernest Hemingway
Joanne Bayes
Unique Testament Charts Jesus and Apostles in Pictorial Form
The American Bible Society released a 256 page pictorial record titled The Good News. It combines scriptural text with 566 photographs and nine maps to show scenes and objects from Jesus time. The project cites cooperation with Louvre Athens Athens schools and Rome academies and notes aerial permissions for locations including Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jesus
American Bible Society Today
Gilbert Darlington
Darlington
Caesar
Pilate
Gethsemane
Sea
Gallilee
Nazareth
Corinth
Samaritan
The
Louvre
Paris
School of Classical Studies
Athens
American Academy
Rome
School of Oriental Research
Jerusalem
America
Air Ministries
U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board
St. John
F. K. Doerner
Theresa Goel
Harold W. Dodds Birthday At Princeton Anniversary Note
Harold W. Dodds born June 28 1889 in Utica Pa. On the 25th anniversary in 1953 of becoming Princeton University’s youngest president he reaffirmed liberal arts must keep pace with science and engineering and vice versa. Son of a Presbyterian minister he graduated from Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania and has been a government adviser on Latin American affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold W. Dodds
Utica
Princeton University
Princeton
University of Pennsylvania
Military Men in News At Home and Overseas
Peggy Kessinger reports on soldiers stationed stateside and overseas. Pvt Bobbie D Hunt age 19 of Midway entered 1954. attached to 82nd Airborne at Fort McClellan through August. Walter E Hightower Jr with 32nd Air Division now at Syracuse Air Force Station. Richard E Shaffey of Albany N Y visiting Beckley kin after seven years in service. Henry Childress Jr 19 from Mullens graduated Military Police Training at Camp Gordon after Pineville High School 1954 enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort McCellan
Ala
Bobbie D. Hunt
J. S. Hunt
Midway
Army
Sophia High School
Standard Electric Co
Ferndale
Mich
325Th Airborne Infantry Regiment
82Nd Airborne Division
Fort Bragg
N. C
Alabama
Syracuse Air Force Station
New York
32Nd Air
Albany
Richard E. Shaffey
Lee Sheffey
Ridge Ave
Beckley
Sheffey
Eccles and
Trap Hill
Atlantic and Pacific Baking Co
Military Police Training
Camp Gordon
Pvt
Henry §. Childress Jr
Moran Ave
Mullens
Childress
Pineville High School
Unclear Fragment Prompts Economic Note
A fragmented text hints at numbers around 12 million, a 25 percent figure, and a 12 million estimate with employer references. The passage mentions a person named George and a remark about rejection or permanence, but lacks full context or events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
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