Segregation Anniversary and Arms Talks Reach Global Focus
The six year mark since the 1954 anti segregation ruling is noted as Georgia balks on pupil placement while surrounding states show varied desegregation progress. Parallel discussions at the Paris Summit touch on arms limits for under developed nations with a four power pledge favored over direct embargo.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Frank A. Hooper
Georgia
Paris
Ghana
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
France
Middle East
Exercise in the City Brings Laughter and Legs to Life
Hal Boyle amusingly notes city life makes real exercise hard yet suggests playful urban routines. He jokes about lifting newspapers, chasing children at the zoo, shoving through crowds, running across one way streets, and racing grocery carts to build metropolitan muscles while critiquing modern medicine’s impersonal pace and on call limits.
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Prescription of care and the old time doctor
A reflective piece by Roylee Harmon on the decline of the personal touch in medicine. The author laments modern, highly efficient doctors losing the ministering angel quality, urges a plan for on call access, and recalls anecdotes of doctors risking long journeys to aid patients. Concludes with a prayer from James W. Kennedy.
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R. C. Mitchell
Editorial Reprint West Va Voters Lauded
The West Virginia primary is praised for focusing on substantive issues rather than religion. Voters chose Kennedy over Humphrey, with Kennedy gaining a lead in delegates but not a decisive win, while the piece urges national readers to move beyond religious debates and consider policy and character.
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West Virginia
Senator Kennedy
Humphrey
Kennedy
West
Vatican
Mr. Kennedy
Mr. Humphrey
Duke
Raleigh Register Subscription Rates and Policies
Beckley Newspapers section outlines subscription rates for mail and home delivery, mentions ownership by Beckley Newspaper Corporation, contact details, tax notes, and that carriers are independent contractors. It emphasizes change of address procedure and responsibility limits for advance payments.
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J. McQuade
Associated Press
AP News
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Philadelphia
Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Greenville
Csessseeee Ee
West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Byrd's Antarctic voyage returns to capital reception
The story notes Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and his crew nearing the capital for a grand reception second only to Lindbergh's 1927 welcome. It also reports a new CCC rule raising age limits from 25 to 28 to remove more men from relief roles. Marsh Fork High School plans May 27 graduation with 28 students, per principal J. L. Hornbeck.
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Anarctica
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Washington
C.C.C
Conservation Corps Administration
Marsh Fork High School
J. L. Hornbeck
Grassroots Opinion Echoes on Education and Understanding
Bethel Ohio and Quakertown Pennsylvania papers cite student exchange as a means to foster international understanding. Editorials argue educated citizens abroad can clarify motives and purposes, strengthening moral and political insight across nations.
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Bethel
Ohio
Bitter Row Over Oberammergau Controversy Opens Season
The Oberammergau Passion Play opens its 34th season amid charges of anti Semitism Nazism and greed voiced by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Prologue features debate over the play’s portrayal of history and religion as Anton Preisinger and the cast face scrutiny while the village touts ticket revenue and record demand.
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Robert Gorham Davis
Columbia University
American Jewish Committee
Davis
der Spiegel
Judas
National Socialist Party
Anton Preisinger
Jesus
George Shuster
Hunter College
Earl Wilson Gossip From Europe And Touring Reporter
Earl Wilson recounts European sojourns with Paris and London notes. Grace Kelly visits Paris Opera with Gene Kelly while Cary Grant and Betsy Drake stay in London. American reporters report unprintable Paris pieces and Nicknames, with Brando Bardot and Fonda sightings, Bardot recruitment rumors, and film gossip from Paris to Las Vegas and New York.
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Paris
London
Hamburg
Grace Rainier
Gene Kelly
Paris Opera
Grace Kelly
Cary Grant
Betsy Drake
America
Bob Goldstein
New Yorker
20Th Century-Fox
Bob
Arthur Captor
Henry Fonda
Strand
Fonda
Sardi
Midnight Earl
N. Y
Morris Lansburgh
Brigitte Bardot
George Jessel
Kodiak Bear Facts and Prehistoric Giants Exhibit
The Kodiak bear is the largest on earth and a cousin of the Alaskan brown and grizzly bears. Kodiak island in Alaska gives the name to these massive flesh eaters, which can weigh up to 1500 pounds and rise ten feet high. Prehistoric giant bears were even larger, but they vanished due to food scarcity.
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Earth
Kodiak Island
Alaska
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