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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1966
Page
2
A concise reflection on forgiveness as the hardest virtue from William Jennings Bryan. The quote contrasts revenge as a natural impulse with the higher aim of a forgiving spirit.
The United States Court of Appeals, second circuit, has discarded the McNaughton rule. A new standard from the American Law Institute holds a person is not responsible if mental disease or defect impairs substantial capacity to know the wrongfulness of conduct or to conform to law. Critics warn of upcoming reforms addressing mental health abuses within society.
A column notes Return the Borrowed Book Week beginning March 1 per Chases' Calendar of Annual Events. It mocks the sponsors the Inter-Global Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cartoonists and lampoons overdue library fines with examples of borrowed titles and neglected editions.
Washington liberal minister Duncan Howlett of All Souls' Church endorses the Johnson administration's Viet Nam course as a path to peace, citing the Honolulu Declaration. The piece details planned follow ups, including a HumPrey Far East mission and a series of expert missions on social reform, agriculture, and development for South Vietnam.
West Virginia Health Director Dr. N H Dyer says the birth control law will not be funded to start July 1 and the department has no money to establish a family planning section. He notes no state appropriation and that federal funds would be needed, with current staff unable to support a new program.
West Virginia counties may use part of a $500,000 state grant next fiscal year for operating birth control clinics. Local health boards decide uses with State Board of Health approval. legal rules to be drafted with no set deadline. Existing clinics include Kanawha, Cabell, Parkersburg groups.
UPI reports Roy Raizen of Transogram explains toy ideas come from quick thinking inspired by real events. A new Swing Wing toy mirrors Korean dancer hats and aims to join 75 other introductions this year as a potential sensation.
1916 Raleigh Register notes an article on proposed unification of the Methodist Church and the Methodist Church South. Father George Kattouf, Greek Orthodox curate in Charleston, was guest of Beckley Assyrians for several days. He baptized the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs M M Corey during his visit.
The Raizen family built Transogram into an $18 million in 1966 forecast business with the elder Raizen conceiving long range toy ideas. Roy Raizen says the firm stays ahead and will preview toys in March for next Christmas sales at the toy fair.
The Beckley Cooperative Concert Association set its annual membership drive for the week of April 28 during a meeting at Mrs. J. Q. Hutchinsons home on North Kanawha Street. City Engineer Dennis Leary reported sidewalk construction continued despite winter weather as Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce heard updates.
The prayer notes God as everlasting and present in memory and care. It expresses strength in Him and hope toward a perfect day through Jesus Christ. Signed by Dwight E Stevenson, professor of homiletics at Lexington Theological Seminary.
Ray Cromley reports Cuba’s Osvaldo Dorticos, now both president in 1959 and economics minister since 1964, has emerged as a moderating economic czar. Viewed as loyal to Castro and closer to Moscow, he pushes sugar and agriculture while delaying heavy industrial push amid infighting and rumblings of a purge.
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