Televised Opera Extends Met Performances To TV Audiences
The Metropolitan Opera will begin live telecasts on nationwide television starting March 15 on WVSP TV and PBS stations with Puccini La Boheme. Texaco sponsors the Met radio broadcasts. Live telecasts could boost regional opera groups and broaden American access to opera through TV.
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Mark Twain
Mannheim
Twain
Metropolitan Opera
Milton Cross
Cross
Wvsp- TV
Public Broadcasting Service Network
Texaco
Met
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Night Visitors
Boston
Houston
Santa Fe
Seattle
Beverly Sills
U.S. News & World Report
APGA convention in Dallas to shape job counseling efforts
The American Personnel and Guidance Association plans its national convention March 6-9 in Dallas with emphasis on job counseling amid a grim labor outlook. Surveys show 16 percent more 1977 graduates hired by industry, while teachers face high unemployment and non technical majors struggle to find work.
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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
Thought For Today on religion becoming state driven
A concise moral aphorism notes that religion degenerated into a state religion when it is forced to serve as an official instrument. It frames faith as a personal compass, not a political mistress, warning against coercive authority.
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Heinrich Heine
Prayer Meeting Support Letters From Beckley Readers
Letters express strong support for court house prayer meetings in Beckley West Virginia. Contributors praise the practice and urge taxpayers to benefit from spiritual guidance. The writer, Isaiah Andrews, claims prison mistreatment and seeks help from religious figures to reopen his murder conviction case.
The Gray Aging of America and Forgetting
A columnist riffs on aging, citing Newsweek on rising median age and the quirks of growing older. The piece blends humor with tips on memory foibles, including nightly forgetfulness, history date tricks, and discarding painful past moments.
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Newsweek Magazine
America
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Beckley man seeks four year college support letter
Lacy R. Anderson of Beckley West Virginia writes to a newspaper letter page. He recalls Roy Harmond George Springer and Bob Wills and asks for discussion on local history and community growth. He calls Beckley College supporters to finance a four year college while noting Wake Forest influence and local industry.
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Roy Lee Harmond
George Springer
Bob Wills
We Railroaders
Beckley College
Wake Forest College
University
Ansted
Reynolds Tobacco Company
Beckley
Energy Reorganization Act viewed as technique not policy
The administration’s proposed energy reorganization act is seen as a procedural move to buy time while Carter and Schlesinger seek goodwill on Capitol Hill. The plan would consolidate energy functions into a single department but avoid immediate substantive policy decisions, with key issues to be tackled in April.
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Carter
James R. Schlesinger
Capitol Hill
Schlesinger
White House
United States
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
New Energy Department
Atomic Energy Commission
NRC
Conran
Gues Ube
Hiticoff
Fublcoff
Orcenia
Two 1900 Disasters Highlighted in Scott Diary
Oliver Scott’s 1900 ledger mentions March 7 explosion at Red Ash coal mine killing 40 to 50 miners and a Sept 11 hurricane spawned Galveston flood disaster with thousands of lives lost. The Red Ash disaster prompted later investigations citing ventilation failures and late fire boss inspection.
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Oliver Scott
Red Ash
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
Tex
North
Scott
United States
New England
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Flora
Haiti
Cuba
Monongah
Eccles
Layland
Newburg
Grafton
Lacy Dillon
Ravencliff
Wyoming County
West Virginia
State Department of Mines
Fayette County
Thurmond
Black Long
Table Rock Farm
Edward Hammick
Ed Harvey
Carnard Charles Downey
Beverly Agee
Fred Arnold
Robert Ball
Simon Chapplie
John Clair
Robert Collins
Moves 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
Charles H. Walters
Beckley
White Sulphur Springs
Charles
Shirley Donnelly
Post-Herald
Fayetteville
Stuart
Jed
Benwood
Everettville
Bartley
Osage
Farmington
What Other Newspapers Are Saying
South Bend Tribune notes Democratic leadership is enabling a 12 900 pay raise for members of Congress with no House vote. Senate rejected a veto, House delays via committee scheduling, ensuring the raise may take effect automatically without recorded votes. Lincoln Day recess through February 15, with resumption February 16.
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South Bend
Ind
Tribune
Con
House
House of Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Capitol Hill
Congress
Full Post Office Committee
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Pen Pais
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Lucasville
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Dave Abbott
the Plain
Battle of
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B.C
Mrs. Robinson
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Hedrick
Energy Reorganization Act
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