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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1965
Page
4
A Thought For Today essay argues the arts are life’s fulcrum and stage drama can reshape ethics. It urges theater to portray impoverished people as valuable and worth saving, claiming art could reform national conscience, citing Ossie Davis’s influence.
The essay rails at growing trash problems across county and city, blaming officials and selfish residents for failing to provide proper disposal. It laments polluted streams and hillsides, urges respect for nature, and warns that indifference could turn the state into a land of slobs.
Lyle Wilson argues against USIA extending domestically a propaganda fest titled John F Kennedy Years of Lightning Day of Drums. He warns it would set a bad precedent, harm U S tradition, and misstate history despite praise from some observers.
Bernard F. Michel, a Wisconsin minister, reflects on funding for Rev. James J. Reeb's family in the wake of his Selma death. The column proposes directing checks to Governor Wallace, Dallas County Sheriff Clark, or Public Safety Director Baker via a James J. Reed Fund to show public compassion and support for justice. It notes mounting Southern ministerial actions and ponders Selma as a turning point in civil rights history.
A Raleigh County opinion criticizes creating a closed county affairs group like a chamber of commerce. It argues for public involvement, transparency, and open discussion while questioning secrecy and urging citizens to influence governance or remove incumbents if needed. The piece mocks a former chamber president’s claim of strict confidence. The author condemns a secret committee mindset.
Washington story outlines that mainline Viet Cong units are conventional North Vietnamese regulars, not local guerrillas. It details five base areas, supply lines from Hanoi and Cambodia, and the battle zones near coast and Cambodian borders as Ho Chi Minh builds a standardized army with limited local autonomy.
UPI analyst Phil Newsom discusses how freedom of speech survives in democracies and is crushed in totalitarian regimes. He cites Polish abstraction art and film, suppressed by the state, and notes Western newsmen’s distrust of regimes as arm of intelligence. He highlights literary organizations as a covert channel and cites Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia as examples of glimpses of relaxation and danger for authors.
In Yugoslavia Mihajlo Mihajlov is jailed for an essay Moscow Summer 1964 that accuses Stalin of genocide and criticizes the Soviet system. The case echoes past limits on writers like Boris Pasternak whose Dr Zhivago won a Nobel but faced Soviet censorship.
A UPI report notes a planned White House lawn sit-in by 12 youths amid marathon civil rights protests. Police and Secret Service heightened safeguards with extra officers and floodlights after tips of a possible red hat storming bid. two men were later arrested for punching officers.
Police action near the White House draws on the reputation of George R Wallrodt head of Washington police crowd control and riot prevention praised for calm effective handling of tense situations over the years.
About 35 Republican leaders at a Philadelphia hotel discussed forming a metro-political council to unite Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware across counties. Pennsylvan ia Chairman Craig Truax urged urban focus to win majorities, arguing conservatives must tackle housing transit education and race relations in strip cities between Washington Boston and the Great Lakes.
Twenty years ago Raleigh voices report Beaver Coal Company relocating offices from the Insurance Co. building to E M Payne Co. on Main Street beside Raleigh County Bank. Excavation for G W Bair Jr. garage on North Kanawha Street near Sprague crossing nearly finished. work will start when weather allows. Bair brothers distribute three machine lines. Coal operators visiting include Ernest Chilson Raleigh Coal Co E E White Coal Co Glen White W G Caperton Slab Fork C W Laing McAlpin Coal Co McAlpin and J W Wilson Tams.
Naleiah and Neaister published by Beckley Newspapers Corporation. Address at 341 Prince Street Beckley West Virginia with second class mail privileges. Managing Editor John Hodel and UPI international membership noted.
National Advertising Representative Ward Griffith Company lists offices in major cities and outlines mail and home delivery subscription rates. Rates include daily and Sunday one year 21.50, six months 12.00, daily only one year 18.00, six months 10.00, with home delivery by carrier weekly 1.10, half-month 1.10, monthly 92.18, plus three percent state tax in West Virginia. Independent contractors handle delivery and payments. Beckley Newspapers Corporation not responsible for advance payments.
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