Televised Opera Expands Opera Reach Across America
The first Met live telecast of Puccini's La Boheme airs March 15 on WVSP TV and PBS stations, funded by Texaco. Radio broadcasts since 1931 built a broad audience, with Milton Cross guiding listeners through plots and costumes. Live TV could boost regional companies and feature more American singers as opera gains popularity.
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Mark Twain
Mannheim
Twain
Metropolitan Opera
Milton Cross
Cross
Wvsp-Tv
Public Broadcasting Service
Texaco
Met
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Boston
Houston
Santa Fe
Seattle
Beverly Sills
U.S.’ News & World Report
Job Counseling Outlook At APGA Conference In Dallas
APGA will hold its national convention March 6 9 in Dallas Texas with more than a dozen member associations. Job counseling is a key agenda item as the economy aims to reduce 7.3 percent unemployment and create 19 million jobs in five years.
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American Personnel and Guidance Association
APGA
Dallas
Texas
American School Counselors Association
National Vocational Guidance Association
National Catholic Guidance Conference
American Rehabilitation Counselors Association
Chicago
Labor Department
College Placement Council
Northwestern University
Michael A. Donahue
Georgia Institute of Technology
E.R.R
When Religion Becomes State Authority
A compact reflection on faith when public power elevates religion to state level, turning it into an avowed mistress rather than a guiding moral force. The fragment hints at tension between personal belief and institutional dominance.
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Heinrich Heine
Letters on prayer meetings and Beckley college support.
A reader praises Court House prayer meetings in Beckley and argues taxpayer benefit. A prisoner writes from Lucasville seeking legal help and reflects on life, fame, and philosophy while asking for assistance. A Beckley resident urges a four year college at Beckley to aid community growth.
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Court House
Beckley
Emogene Armentrout Bradley
W. Va
Not For Sissies Old Age Memory Tricks
A humorous meditation on aging and memory denial. The narrator cites aging norms, cites Newsweek, and shares tricks to forget rather than remember. He suggests associating unwanted memories with dates in history, writing notes to forget promises, and training the subconscious to blank out familiar inquiries.
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Newsweek Magazine
America
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mrs. Robinson
Energy Reorganization Act aims at technique not policy
President Carter and energy adviser James Schlesinger push a proposed energy reorganization bill as a procedural step to gain goodwill on Capitol Hill. The plan consolidates over 50 agencies into a single Energy Department but offers no immediate substantive policy changes. main issues will surface after April 20 with Carter’s energy conservation proposals. The NRC remains outside the new department. hearings are set to begin next Monday as Congress weighs the reorganizing move.
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Carter
James R. Schlesinger
Capitol Hill
Schlesinger
White House
United States
Department of Energy
Congress
Abraam Ribicoff
D-Conn
Government Operations Committee
Approva
Jon Dill
D-Mich
House
Energy and Power
Cabinet
Ribicoff
Enn
Red Ash Explosion Timeline in 1900 Coal Mine Disaster
Diary note from 1900 records an explosion at Red Ash coal mine killing 40 to 50 miners. It contrasts with Galveston’s hurricane disaster of Sept 1900, which killed thousands, and notes later, larger West Virginia mine disasters. The Red Ash event is described as a major early tragedy in state mining history with numerous victims.
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Oliver Scott
Red Ash
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
Tex
North Amemoa
Scott
United States
New England States
East Pakistan
Bangladesh
Flora
Haiti
Cuba
Monongah
Eccles and
Layland
Newburg
Grafton
Lacy Dillon
Ravencliff
Wyoming County
West Virginia
State Department of Mines
Fayette County
Thurmond
Black Long
Table Rock
Edward Hammick
Ed Harvey
Carl
Charles Downey
Beverly Agee
Fred Arnold
Robert Ball
Simon Chapplie
John Clair
Robert Collins
Moses Daniels
John Day
William Day
Walter Dennis
Norvella Dewes
L. E. Datson
Simeon Fitch
C. A. Foote
Smith Franklin
James Hackney
Arthur Hart
Granville Holmes
Sam Jackson
Thomas L. Johnson
B. B. Long
Ernest Long
Joe Long
Thomas Long
William Massie
Noel Hollister
Charles Perfader
A. J. Pritt
William Quarles
W. C. Ramsey
J. A. Lanner
Sam Shuff
William Sleds
C. A. Stewart
John
Charles H. Walters
Beckley
White Sulphur Springs
Charles
Shirley Donnelly
Post-Herald
Fayetteville
Eccles
Stuart
Switchback
Jed
Benwood
Everettville
Bartley
Osage
Farmington
Pay raise for Congress slips in without vote
The editorial notes Congress will raise salaries by 28.9 percent to take effect Feb 20 unless vetoed. Senate rejected a veto attempt, but House leadership blocks a full vote, using parliamentary moves and a Lincoln Day recess to avoid accountability.
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South Bend
Ind
Tribune
Congress
House
House of Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Capitol Hill
Full Post Office Committee
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Tulsa
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the Plain
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George Springer
Bob Wills
We Railroaders
Beckley College
Wake Forest College
University
Ansted
Reynolds Tobacco Company
Regards
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Hedrick
Battle of Thermopylae
B.C
Energy Reorganization Act
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
New Energy Department
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NRC
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