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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1962
Page
4
A Bruyere inspired takeaway urges choosing companions who are estimable to gain lasting respect and esteem. The line emphasizes moral discernment in social ties and personal influence.
Snyder William G. is named leader of the Curtain Callers for the year and as president of Raleigh County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations. The editorial urges the PTA council to act as a county lobby for strong schools, condemning apathy and urging broader impact at state level.
The 1962 World Trade Fair in New York opens a 12 day stand with the American Look exhibit occupying the Coliseum third floor. About 100 American exporters or entrants will show products linking good engineering with visual appeal across home appliances china and apparel. The fair promotes exports amid federal state and local backing as Kennedy aims to halt gold outflow. The fair also features 60 nations with sections on food and beverages light industry consumer goods and trade promotion.
The article outlines Franco regime fears of left and right pressure. It notes 60,000 Asturian miners strike across Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa, government censorship, and demands for greater freedom. Despite gains from U.S. aid, Spain faces housing shortages and lagging modernization while Franco proclaims a democracy unmarred by free elections.
Wall streeters and analysts debate if wage and price fears drove the market slump. The Shield Survey suggests the wage price conflict is exaggerated while calling for a cooling off and a government labor market accord amid deficits and inflation fears.
Bug Dust Knob Hill water tanks receive repaint. rust mass noted on one tank. A discarded No Parking sign lies near West Avenue and Harper Road. woodchip debris dumped at Hill Park Harper Road lot. An unusually pruned apple tree blooms at Higgins place. antennas found atop tanks. Reader comments reflect on communism, postwar shifts, and space-age metaphors.
NEA report details White House and State Department pressure on disarmament and nuclear testing. Quakers stage silent vigils April 29-30 in Washington with rallies at Calvary Baptist Church. DAR opposes Arms Control Agency and U.N. funding while public mail on disarmament surges, with 520 of 1,446 communications tied to organized lobbying. Russians blamed for peace campaign postwar. antiwar activity grows on campuses amid Calls for restraint.
Beckley Newspapers Corporation lists subscription rates and home delivery options with prices for daily and Sunday editions, per week, half-month, and month options. The notice includes office contact details, management, and advertising representation, plus tax note and regional circulation notes.
Newspaper Enterprise Analyst Leon Dennen lampoons Deszo Nemes for claiming American misery hides a Communist future. He cites Khrushchev and Nutter to argue the Soviet Union cannot surpass U.S. industrial output by 1985. Dennen notes Nemes misreads data and labels the Hungarian leader as humorless yet hopeful about revolution in America.
The Q and A cover symbolism in Revelation with the black horse famine the pale horse death the red horse slaughter and the white horse conquest. A second item notes a solar eclipse lasting about seven and a half minutes and asks about St Columbia. Another question confirms the Chicago River once flowed into the Sanitary and Ship Canal.
Dr Alexander S Wiener, a leading blood scientist in New York, denounces biometric statistics and hereditary blood group theories as unfounded. He argues genes neutral to disease risk exist and criticizes relying on mathematicians to interpret medical data without subject knowledge. Wiener, author of a major blood groups text, champions caution in scientific conclusions.
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