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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1966
Page
4
A Beckley reader letter from Patty Johnson, a Lincoln sixth grader, urges community action for a public pool. The note cites lack of nearby facilities, suggests fund drives and donations, and critiques local leadership while urging equality and civic responsibility. The writer, signed JH, apologizes on behalf of his generation for not delivering better results.
Washington reports 35 year old Adlai E Stevenson III, active in Illinois politics, may lead a state ticket with Sen Paul Douglas. Douglas seeks his campaigning help and possible future roles, with Stevenson soon to campaign on the same platform. Rivals, party dynamics, and Daley's stance frame a rising political path.
A United Nations session on cocoa opens in New York May 23 amid rising cocoa prices. Accra Cocoa wholesales at 24 1 4 cents a pound, up from last July and a year ago, with Hershey and other producers contemplating size and packaging changes as prices climb and some retailers raise chocolate prices. Mexico's Aztec Indians prized the cocoa bean highly.
Richard Spong notes cocoa price climbs as 125 nations meet at UN to craft a global agreement on marketing and production. West Africa is the main source with Nigeria Ghana and Ivory Coast. Brazil leads in Latin America. Weather bad for harvest, demand up, and grinding totals hit a record in early 1966.
UPI analyst PHIL NEWSOM notes the 17 nation Disarmament Conference in Geneva remains stalled after five years. He cites flaws: non nuclear powers guiding talks, absence of China and France, and the mismatch between space ban agreements and earth disarmament, urging U.S. action amid distrust.
A reflective piece discusses aging and changes in vision with bifocals and the social shock of a child leaving for college. The author weighs wearing bifocals versus tri focals, jokes about eye strain, and laments time passing as the eldest heads to a West Coast university in a summer session.
A devotional prayer urges heartfelt welcome of Jesus beyond words. The unnamed speaker, Lawrence W. Althouse, pastor of Calvary E U B Church in M o h n ton Pa, asks believers to avoid pomp and make their hallelujahs a lifetime commitment in Jesus name.
Washington columnist Robert G. Spivace analyzes internal strains in China under Mao and Lin Piao, noting aging leadership, the rise of a hard liner, and how China’s turmoil could affect the U.S. and Soviet blocs. The piece compares Lin Piao’s stance to Khrushchev’s earlier shifts and the potential for reform.
In a Raleigh Register 1941 clipping Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek proclaimed China could confront Japan without expeditionary forces or naval action, relying on material and economic aid. L Ebersole Gaines of New River and L T Putman of Raleigh Wyoming Mining led the Southern Coal Operators Wage conference back to talks with UMWA for a two year contract.
The notice lists subscription rates by mail where no delivery service exists and home delivery options by carrier or distributor. Rates cover Daily and Sunday for one year six months, Daily only for one year or six months, with weekly, half-month, and monthly pricing variants. Multiple cities are mentioned for representative advertising services.
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