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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1958
Page
2
A reflective aphorism stressing authenticity over pretension. It urges modesty and integrity, warning that a small amount of genuine value beats grand but empty display. The writer, Coley, cautions against oddness while encouraging courage to stand for truth.
A critique argues IRS rules on advertising deductions censore privately owned power firms, contrasting with TVA publicity. The piece notes global student activism, U.S. campus conservatism, and anticipates a robust American presence at the Brussels International Fair, highlighting funding shifts and exhibits.
Hal Boyle reports from Tiflis in the Georgian Republic where G Life tours describe a factory producing five and a half million bottles of champagne annually. Deputy director Vasili Goglidze notes the plant’s role in fostering friendship and brotherhood as visitors glimpse the Soviet water based champagne operation amid portraits of Stalin and Lenin.
The Tiflis champagne plant plans output growth to six million bottles by 1960. It holds aging cellars with over a million bottles stored neck down for five years, employs 500 workers, and exports to Poland and Czechoslovakia. Two production methods exist, five-year and accelerated one-year processes, with five-year bottles costing 43 to 14 rubles and retailing at 20 to 21 rubles.
Peggy Kessinger rises to captain at James Connally Air Force Base Texas assigned to the 3536th Navigator Training Wing since October 23 1956. The Prewitt family of Beckley West Virginia includes Bertha B Washington, spouse of Mexjon C Prewitt, a 1953 Air Force veteran and Standardization Board member. Meanwhile Sgt Claude F Maynard son of Crab Orchard residents is completing MP and special weapons training in Germany after Army service in 1942 and World War II theater tours in Europe Asia Pacific. Ten area Marines among ranks noted.
A list of soldiers and airmen from Beckley and surrounding areas linked to Atlantic Fleet exercises off North Carolina and Lackland Air Force Base. Names include Zack E Burford Jr and Andrew G Bryant, with spouses and hometowns noted. also Specialist 2 C Robert Livly attending a retreat in Berchtesgaden Germany and background on his service.
Washington AP reports that France’s crisis stems from a split personality and political immaturity. French leaders pursue freedom for themselves, ignore colonial subjects, and rally around Charles de Gaulle without clear policy. French power wanes as they pull forces from NATO to Algeria and endure twenty-five postwar governments.
The piece notes early education in America started with parental and minister instruction, then colleges and laws by Puritans to require schooling. It cites Harvard’s 1636 founding, 1642 literacy laws, and current enrollment figures across elementary high school and higher education.
Betty Hutton, newly baptized Lutheran, joins Hollywood church choir and speaks with God before performances at Lou Walters Cafe de Paris. She reads the Bible daily, shares jokes, and notes her minister enjoys her conversational prayers.
A bust of political questions from the Temperance League of West Virginia and the AFL CIO affiliated Political Education committee targets candidates on alcohol local option Sunday closing licenses and trade union rules. Other probes seek views on minimum wage unemployment benefits severance taxes income taxes and resource taxes. The item notes historic proposals and a Wright brothers crash at Kill Devil Hill, plus marriage licenses and a Beckley fence project.
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