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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1972
Page
2
A reflective quote attributed to Molliere the pen name of French playwright Jean Baptiste Poquelin emphasizes responsibility for both actions and inactions. The maxim highlights accountability for choices made and those left undone.
The 1970 corn blight and bad harvests pushed up beef costs from November to February as corn prices rose and cattle feed costs increased. The Agriculture Department set aside larger corn plantings for 1970, yielding a 5.5 billion bushel crop, while this year it expects about 5.1 billion with 58 million acres planted. A cold wet spring and potential early winter could impact yields, and consumers will feel the effects in beef eggs and milk later.
The piece criticizes permissive education while praising orderly classrooms with benevolent teachers. It contrasts 1970 views on schooling with American college credit and parking concerns, noting credit card culture and campus congestion at Columbia and UNC.
President Nixon charts a political response to blunt Democratic tax reform as an election issue. Treasury aides mull variants, including a value added tax, with aims to spur saving and investment while critics warn the poor would bear the burden. Nixon defends depreciation and depletion while stressing jobs and American industry. Economists disagree, and it remains to be seen if the speech resonates beyond a Texan audience.
Bruce Biossat notes Edmond Muskie contemplates withdrawing from the 1972 race after defeats in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. He weighs options including postponement and a retreat to the Senate, facing money shortages and bleak primary prospects while still viewed by supporters as the best chance to defeat Nixon.
Communists must press for a swift victory in South Vietnam or risk Thieu’s government toppling. President Nixon declares he will cut off Hanoi’s war supplies as one option among withdrawal and negotiation, aiming to choke external support though battlefield logistics remain intact. Refugees flood South Vietnamese highways amid the crisis.
About 2000 high and junior high school choruses from across the county gathered at Woodrow Wilson High School to begin the first annual county chorus festival. Cayton Smith Shady Spring music director and county music chairman called the opening rehearsal very successful.
The article recalls a 1922 dispute at the University of West Virginia sparked by William J. Bryan offering $100 to test a professor’s stance on evolution. It also surveys South Vietnam’s political tensions under Thieu, with rival generals, refugee strains, and a fragile balance of power amid varied opposition.
Reader recalls a Sunday morning drive interrupted by a rambling radio preacher who claimed no schooling yet “knew the truth” in verse like a quadrameter recital. The note mixes humor about politics and culture with jabs at temperance and fashion, finishing with nostalgia for past styles.
A NEA analysis says President Nixon aims to stimulate a rapid economic recovery by accelerating federal spending across the Pentagon HEW NASA and other agencies. Officials seek to move November December and January outlays forward and signal future contracts to spur hiring and inventory buildup. The White House presses Burns of the Fed to increase the money supply to sustain growth while budget deficits risk inflation and higher price controls. Economists warn that aggressive stimulus could raise inflation from three to four percent to higher levels in coming years.
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