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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1971
Page
2
A Mark Twain quotation traces a boy’s view of his father changing from ignorance at fourteen to astonishment at twenty one, noting how quickly wisdom can grow with time and experience.
The Raleigh County financial statement for 1969 and 1970 is running late under County Clerk Fred T. Stacy, prompting calls for his ouster. Critics cite delayed publication, missing records, and hostility to law, urging lawyers to pursue formal action.
The State Road Commission allows sidewalk abandonment east of Sunrise Avenue at Neville Street for a Pagoda parking lot. Pedestrians must walk through dust or mud past the wall built by Pagoda management, with criticism aimed at Commissioner Ritchie and Pagoda Manager M V McCollum amid possible votes and business impacts.
Leon Dennen reports World News: in Ceylon a pro Soviet coalition fights Maoist rebels backed by China and North Korea. The clash involves Bandaranaike's government aided by the Kremlin while Washington watches, warning against foreign intervention and noting Lumumba University ties to rebel leaders.
A UPI religion piece surveys Jesus teaching on blessed sorrow and suffering. It contrasts Jesus unafraid of hardship with the idea of divine protection through goodness, invoking Schweitzer to stress suffering as part of Christian life and divine care even in pain.
In Bucharest, Romanians show ease and modern life amid a regime pursuing de Russianization and economic growth around six percent annually. The government promises a 20 percent real wage rise, expands West trade, and promotes American tourism as a path to wealth, including a five course meal for four dollars.
An invitation to a Sunday afternoon piano recital on May 9 at 2 pm features Miss Sung Park and Miss Jane Cole. Teacher Dr. James Miltenberger of West Virginia University accompanies their Bach Bartok Rachmaninoff and Dello Joio program. Park and Cole are listed as daughters of local residents.
Washington UPI Frank Eleazer reports that despite protests in Congress, the 92nd Congress has progressed since January 21. Social Security benefits rose 10 percent retroactive to January 1 as the Ways and Means committee drafts another increase. The House passed measures on draft continuation, military pay boosts, welfare reform, public works, and a 150,000 new public service jobs program with Senate backing, while both chambers revisit supersonic transport alternatives.
The church seminary scene shows surging enrollments at major schools while many presidents discuss mergers or closures. Draft exemptions and rising costs strain endowments and libraries, prompting questions about the need for multiple Chicago area and Presbyterian seminaries and new approaches in theological education.
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