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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1948
Page
3
A Raleigh Register editorial urges support for the United Nations Children's Appeal addressing emaciated war orphans abroad. It notes growing local fundraising drives and appeals readers to donate to provide food milk liver oil shoes and clothing. Local chairman Sinistrati is coordinating contributions.
The New York Times recounts after three years postwar that millions of children in Europe and Asia face chronic hunger and malnutrition. Orphans await artificial limbs while beggars and child prostitutes proliferate. Julle Italo Renzetti, disabled by a hand grenade, reads Braille with his tongue and dreams of playing the flute.
West Virginia University embraces a fresh athletic spirit after hiring Dudley DeGroot, ex Los Angeles Dons mentor, as football coach. The Mountaineers boast five wins and no losses, defeating Waynesburg, Wooster, Washington and Lee, Temple, and South Carolina while losses to Pittsburgh and Penn State loom ahead with Ohio Virginia and Maryland on upcoming Saturdays.
In a homecoming win over South Carolina Morgantown fans see Dad DeGroot as a friendly hands on coach who substitutes aggressively and motivates his team. After a 35 to 12 comeback win DeGroot was carried off the field by his players signaling a hoped for new era and rising school spirit.
A letter urges parent teacher associations to plan legal money-raising events for schools. It notes boards provide some needs, but outside funds are often required. It cautions that bingo remains illegal in the state and suggests focusing on lawful activities to support character building in youth.
In Boyle's column, a battered book on chemical warfare history notes Maj. Gen. Fries’s warning that gas altered warfare. The piece argues no crystal ball can predict future wars, citing de Gaulle, Mitchell, and Debeney, and suggests airpower or atomic weapons dominate today while warning against overreliance on any one weapon.
Nation Today explains how 531 electoral votes distribute among 48 states, how a winner needs 266 to win, and how a candidate can secure more popular votes yet lose by carrying states with greater electoral strength. It illustrates with Dewey Truman scenarios and a possible 12-state sweep totaling 269 electoral votes.
British auto makers are disrupting the U S mass market for small cars. A campaign built like a war has established East Coast, Midwest, and West Coast presence with a Canadian flank along the St Lawrence River and Great Lakes. Sales may reach 12,000 in 1948 and double again next year.
AP News features discuss television self censorship as industry groups draft a code of ethics. The piece recounts early broadcast challenges from risqué acts to on air slips and notes how networks rely on trial and error.
A bold plan to create an Institute of Russian Studies would draw staff from escapees across the Soviet world, including generals, scientists, officials, and intellectuals. The idea faces pre election resistance, while many escaped Russians languish in Germany with little US support. The piece notes missing Soviet maps hinder future bombing and cites large escapee populations.
A Soviet intelligence critique urges creating an Institute of Russian Studies in the United States to systematically locate and interview Soviet emigres and experts. It argues this would yield vital strategic information and deeper understanding of the Soviet state to guide American foreign policy.
Redhaired Charles Bickford says actors face brutal salary cuts amid economic woes. He notes some peers drop from 1000 to 300 dollars weekly, while many top actors work only 12 to 15 weeks yearly. He resists lowering his own fee and warns studios are under pressure as the industry strains.
The Mercer Philatelic Club in Princeton heard Dr. John Grecar of Princeton and formerly Charleston present a first day cover stamp collection. He displayed several albums during the regular meeting last week.
A German critic portrays Mann's Doctor Faustus as a study of Adrian Leverkuhn, a genius who sells his soul to Satan. Zeitblom’s exhaustive detail over 500 pages leads to a slow paced narrative that leans on theory over feeling, yielding less impact than anticipated. The reviewer faults the book for bogging down in program notes and favoring philosophy over vivid heart.
Four Nicholas County men were among 163 Scottish Rite Masons at the Bath reunion in Charleston. William Campbell Askew of Tioga Orange Walter Grose of Poe French Edgar Snow and Lean Thomas McClure of Richwood were among those receiving ceremonial and official degrees this week.
Oak Hill City Council meeting postponed from tonight to November, May or R. R. Thomas announced. General election votes will be cast in the council meeting room, making the postponement necessary.
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