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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1965
Page
4
A concise byline quotes Dr Martin Luther King Jr Nobel Peace Prize winner urging people to find a cause worth dying for, embodying his famous wartime spirit and civil rights leadership in a compact, period tone.
Educational Testing Service official Paul Diederich argues IQ tests measure only academic achievement and fail to gauge general ability. Russell Sage Foundation study of nearly 10 000 tenth and twelfth graders in 59 schools finds most students overestimate their intelligence with private school boys claiming the highest, while parochial school environments and girls show notable deviations.
Jack Ruby faces a Dallas jury in a sanity trial tied to his 1963 Oswald murder verdict. Courts note legal sanity can exist with mental illness, but Ruby risks execution if deemed sane. if found insane, he’d be confined until he becomes sane, then face execution.
UPI reports the Labor Department notes a shrinking dollar value and rising cost of living. Since 1949 the dollar has fallen to 75 cents and 44 cents versus 1965 and 1939 dollars, prompting unions to seek cost of living wage hikes. About one million workers will gain small hourly increases, with automotive and aerospace sectors most affected. The piece argues inflation denial by politicians and urges action to curb spending.
The author reflects on inequality and civil rights, arguing life imprisonment replaces the death penalty and urging steadfast dedication to justice. They recount marching for equality, critique complacency, discuss Shaw on imprisonment, and address resistance to integration while stressing that justice must prevail.
A short prayer asks God to bless teachers and instructors of youth in all nations. It requests they strive for truth, share it with love, respect students, and follow the example of Jesus as the pers eation of the truth. The prayer ends in Jesus name. Amen.
British general practitioners protest a pay rise dispute amid NHS pride and doctor shortages. They warn overwork and poor equipment while criticizing fragmented care and weak health center plans, framing the issue as more than money within a national health system they helped build.
Public notice listing Beckley Newspapers Corporation, contact details, management, and advertisement representatives. Includes subscription rates by mail for daily and weekly editions, home delivery charges by carrier, and address-change instructions with a note on carrier independence and lack of responsibility for advance payments.
UPI notes from foreign cables say Russia seeks to stay out of direct fighting while backing China and Vietnam against the United States. Moscow’s arms shipments to North Vietnam remain limited as Subandrio of Indonesia draws closer to the PKI amid broader efforts to push Western interests from the region. The Philippines weighs presenting Sabah to the United Nations, asserting Sultan of Sulu descendants leased North Borneo in 1878 and Britain had no colonial right post 1946.
UPI financial editor reports that U.S. voluntary dollar-cutting plans heighten concern in Australia where dollar inflows postwar total about 1.5 billion dollars. Australia has grown as a U.S. customer with exports rising toward 500 million annually from 1950 to 1963, and fears arise over reduced American investment abroad.
From the 1915 Raleigh Register Home Department: directions to render lard for cold cream by boiling water and repeating. Roy Albert of Pemberton sells his stock to T. L. Cooper & Son of Odd. The new firm will assume charge in coming days amid broader notes on US investment shifts affecting Australia.
Washington dispatch notes the USSR's booster power remains ahead of the United States by about one and a half to two years. Experts say the weight and cost of rockets limit rapid Saturn V progress, while Russian gains lag in control, electronics, and may face minuscule margins for moon missions. The piece also covers unrelated local notices and historical obituaries.
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