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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1965
Page
4
A high profile police figure vows a forthcoming expose in three weeks that will reveal hoodlum links with major banks. Rep. Wright Patman, Democratic Texas, chairman of the House Banking Committee, comments on the impending investigation.
A call to expand the Honey office into a broad travel bureau to promote the Honey in the Rock production and local attractions. Proposes a packaged plan including Coal Mine Museum Greenbrier fishing New River Stevens Lake and side trips to the Greenbrier Hotel and Smoky Ka nawha Valley to put Beckley on the map as a regional recreation center.
Dissent surfaces as Nasser weighs actions that could hurt Arab states more than the West. Tunisia Morocco Libya caution Egypt’s ties to West Germany and economic stakes in Sudan and Algeria loom large. Ulbricht seeks diplomatic gain from Cairo while Hallstein policy doubts grow in the West.
In a jail scene reporter questions Mrs. James Smith who writes a manual for police. She hints at a campaign, discusses enforcement, law meaning, and a city compromise. The mock manual urges leniency toward clubs, warns officers to avoid legal debate, and promises serial publication.
British geophysicist C H G Oldham toured Chinese universities and research institutes and found strong enthusiasm for science and innovation. He noted widespread teaching of combining theory with experiment and a push to involve ordinary people, marking a revolutionary shift in a tradition-driven society.
Ray Cromley recalls Maoist goals in Asia from Yenan days. He describes Maoist plans to liberate India Burma Thailand and Indochina, training in caves, indoctrination of Japanese prisoners for future underground work, and slow gradual takeover across decades. He notes top leaders like Mao Zedong Chu Teh and Chou Enlai directing the strategy.
The European Commission will meet Austrian representatives in Brussels to finalize Austria’s association with the European Common Market. Austria aims to become the first competitive, industrial state to join as an associate member, a move seen as setting precedents amid Cold War neutrality concerns and warnings of protests from Moscow.
The Berlin conference saw Austria pledge neutrality after independence, as noted by the Christian Science Monitor. Western observers doubt neutrality would endure if Cold War tensions flare, with many Austrians likely to remain aligned with the West. The discussion frames Austria’s role amid Western European unity and evolving political blocs.
The article surveys evolving European unity under de Gaulle with emphasis on France's push for a gold standard and a weaker dollar. It notes growing British continental ties, the Common Market’s real trade focus, and Austria’s role, while detailing U.S. gold stock declines from 24.4 to 14.8 billion and Johnson’s moves to balance payments. It also covers IMF quota increases and the need to reform reserve currencies.
The piece discusses U S reform toward a possible devaluation of the dollar to restore gold parity, noting the high stakes for holders of dollars and central banks. It outlines multilateral reserve ideas, the reluctance to replace the dollar, and the likelihood of gradual action as the United States seeks to correct its payment imbalance with other nations’ patience.
Beckley Newspapers Corporation publishes Naleigh Register from 341 Prince St Beckley West Virginia with second class mail privileges in Beckley and Hinton. Managing Editor John Hodel oversees operations as a United Press International member. Home delivery offered by carrier or distributor with weekly monthly rates and tax notes for West Virginia subscribers.
Fifty years ago the threat of a 15 000 miner strike in the New River and Winding Gulf fields vanished last week in Cincinnati when miners and operators in a joint conference signed a four year contract from April 1 1915 to April 1 1919. Uncle John Lilly of Odd old at ninety six has been very ill the past winter.
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