Editorial on annual voter list cleanup and voter engagement
The Editorial supports a West Virginia law that clears registration rolls of nonvoters who have not voted in three years. It endorses the Kanawha County clerk’s removal of 5 460 names, arguing active citizenship and up-to-date rolls justify the action. It urges better voting turnout and notes deaths and moves necessitate list pruning. Better vote on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register
West Virginia Supreme Court
Kanawha
Brannan Calls for Higher Food Production Amid Price Supports
Secretary Brannan urges farmers to boost output to feed Americans and build strategic reserves while critics accuse the administration of maintaining high prices for political gain. The piece argues Brannan prioritizes votes over the masses, condemning price support schemes and consumer hardship.
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Agriculture
Brannan
Europe
Good Servants All A County Court Clash Sparks Dispute
A Republican Post-Herald attack accuses County Court President Jack Nuckols and member H. G. Farmer of injustice. It cites a rival paper quote suggesting Harry Anderson and Jim Shrewsbury be retired to alter the court’s complexion.
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Jack Nuckols
H. G. Farmer
Republican Post-Herald
Harry Anderson
Jim Shrewsbury
Nuckols
Farmer
Anderson
Shrewsbury
County wage politics and park plans praised in brief column
A Raleigh County opinion argues that Nuckols and Farmer run effective offices and favor Republican clerks and court members. It lauds the current court for reducing county overdraft, improving Little Beaver Park, building an airport, and starting a Negro park, and asserts public service will continue without taxpayer waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Beaver Park
Farmer
Nuckols
Shrewsbury
Democrats Sweep Raleigh County in Heavy Turnout Push
An active Democratic entourage visited Saturday night to rally party supporters for tomorrow’s election. The piece stresses a two to one Democratic edge in Raleigh County to counter GOP gains in neighboring areas and urges large turnout to back the school and veterans bonus amendments, with candidates including Robert Byrd and H. P. Meadows.
Flannery quotes Bible as attack on voters at rally
A Courthouse rally speech by William E. Flannery, speaker of the House of Delegates, drops homey lines then cites scripture in a critique of voters. He recalls 1946 Raleigh County and a Republican Congress and warns of un-American sentiments before urging forgiveness for his words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uts
William E. Flannery
House of Delegates
Flannery
Raleigh County
West Virginia
United States
Calvary
Fair Deal flawed in Midwest as Brannan and Ewing plans flop
The piece argues Truman’s Fair Deal lacks support in the Midwest with the Brannan and Ewing plans seen as political liabilities. It notes Indiana and Iowa campaigns show opposition to the plan while labor mobilizes for Democratic candidates. The article predicts Republican opportunity but warns anti me too rhetoric may fearfully boost GOP gains.
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Truman
Middle West
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Brannan
Ewing
Indiana
Oscar Ewing
Alexander Campbell
Senate
Campbell
Chicago
Harry Truman
Scott Lucas
Iowa
Albert Loveland
America
William Boyle
Ohio
Joseph Keenan
Sen. Lucas
Lucas
Mid-West
Mid- West
Horrors of War Seen Through a Korean Woman’s Eyes
In Paekchon Korea a woman bears a baby as she passes bomb craters filled with dead, and soldiers, while seeking meaning amid a ruined village. A 16 year old son explains his father’s antiwar stance before authorities take him away. The woman moves on with her child, the empty rubber shoe her only tangible link to the casualties.
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Tom Lambert
Hal Boyle
Paekchon
Korea
Koreen
North Korea
South Korea
Army
Stars and Stripes
Ballot Battle Charts Nationwide Campaigns and Seats
James Marlow reports on the nationwide vote outlook with about 42 million expected voters, 36 of 96 Senate seats and 432 House seats at stake, and 33 governors to be elected. Democrats lead the Senate 54 to 42, Republicans need seven seats for control, and House GOP must gain 49. Governors show 29 Democrats to 19 Republicans.
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James Marlow
Washington
Senate
Maine
House
Herman E. Talmadge
Georgia
Gordon Browning
Tennessee
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Ohio
California
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Richard M. Nixon
Robert A. Taft
Joseph T. Ferguson
St. Louis
Congress
White House
Judge Waives Waiting Period for Couple
A Raleigh County Circuit Court order signed by Judge Ben H. Ashworth on Saturday waives the three day marriage license waiting period for Alfred E. Wills 22 of Crab Orchard and Betty Lee Roderick 22 of Beckley. Other license applications filed include Charles Bert Pauley 30 of Dorothy and Christina Everleen Toney 24 of Colcord as well as Vernie H. Toney.
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Raleigh County Circuit Court
Ben H. Ashworth
Alfred E. Wills
Betty Lee Roderick
Wills
Crab Orchard
Goff Wills
Miss Roderich
Beckley
Edgar Roderich
Raleigh County
Albert E. Pauley
Christina Everleen Toney
Colcord
Goldie M. Toney
Vernie H. Toney
Literary Guidepost Portrait of a Man Dimmed by Modern State
The excerpt traces Johann Moritz, a Romanian husband and father, coerced by modern power into a Jew label and labor battalions across Nazi camps from 1938 to 1945. Traian questions what remains of humanity as Johann dehumanizes into a number and a tool, with the novelist’s faltering yet rising prose conveying a haunting downfall.
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Johann Moritz
Susanna
Johann
Hungary
Germany
Dachau
Traian
Koruga
Nora
County Sanitarians Attend Conference in Charleston
J. E. Williams and E. M. Hall of the Raleigh County Health Department returned to Beckley Saturday from the Sanitarian In Service Training Conference in Charleston. Z. H. Legg and Charles Farley of the Fayette County Health Department joined the trip. About 50 men attended Friday's conference in the Capitol building. The meetings, held periodically, aim to keep sanitarians informed on new regulations procedures and administrative policy.
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J. E. Williams
E. M. Hall
Raleigh County Health Department
Beckley
Charleston
Z. H. Legg
Charles Farley
Fayette County
Election Roundup Shows Voters Confused by Party Lines in West Virginia
Charleston observers say voters and politicians alike are tangled in party lines ahead of the election. West Virginia voters will choose six congressmen, a supreme court judge, state treasurer, attorney general, a new House of Delegates, 16 state senators, and county offices. Hatfield, an elder statesman, attacks Holt as untrustworthy and sends 6,000 letters urging a vote against Holt. AFL backs Given. Ritchie gets mixed signals. CIO backs Thompson. Blizzard supports Kee.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Supreme Court
House of Delegates
Henry D. Hatfield
Huntington
Rush D. Holt
Cleveland M. Bailey
Hatfield
U. S
Holt
William Blizzard
United Mine Workers District 17
Blizzard
Kanawha County
CIO
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Leslie E. Given
Charles Ritchie
Given
Ritchie
Cyrus Hall
William Thompson
Hillis Townsend
United Mine Workers
Thompson
John Kee
Fifth District
House
House and Chairman of That Body’s Foreign Affairs Committee
Williams
Kee
Mingo County
Republican Organization
Republican National
Guy Gabrielson
Harold Stassen
Gabrielson
Stassen
Senate
The Feast Chapter 14 cliff rescue near Penditack hotel
In a tense coastal scene Hebe Gifford signals rescuers as Gerry Siddal and Evangeline Wraxton aid two Coves children after they leap from Dead Man's Rock. The party returns to the hotel with fear and relief as Mrs Cove and Mrs Paley brace for consequences while Bruce and Nancibel offer plans for a party and a hopeful future.
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Penditack
Hebe Gifford
Gerry Siddal
Evangeline Wraxton
Nancibel
Bruce
Mrs. Paley
Evangeline
Hebe
Caroline
Mrs. Siddal
Sir Henry
TVE
Porthmerryn
Giffords
Gerry
Fred
Miss Ellis
Lary Gifford
Eirene
Mrs. Cove
Feast Plotting After Dark in a Gifford Household
Blanche discovers Mrs Pearce’s carved figure in the suitcase and contemplates a plan. Nancibel offers a feast as Blanche wrestles with scarcity and fear. Blanche hides the carving by throwing it from the window, deciding to remove it from her mother’s reach.
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Beatrix
Maud
Blanche
Giffords
Mrs. Pearce
Nancibel
Angie
Gerry Siddal
Siddals
Mrs. Paley
Fred
Wife Charges Sprague Man With Non-Support
Walter Eaten of Sprague was jailed in Raleigh County Jail on a non-support warrant sworn by his wife. Magistrate T N Thurman issued the warrant and Eaten awaited appearance today. Drew Epplery, 34, of Christiansburg Virginia, was also jailed on drunkenness and trespassing charges after a Sophia police arrest.
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Sprague
Walter Eaten
Raleigh County
T. N. Thurman
Eaten
Thurman
Drew Epplery
Christianburg
Epplery
Sophia Police
Raleigh Register Evening and Sunday Morning Publication
The Raleigh Register is published evenings except Saturday and Sunday morning by Beckley Newspapers Corporation and entered at the Beckley post office as second class mail matter under state and national codes.
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Beckley
W. Va
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William Marland
William Ansel
Stewart
Boyle
Literary Guidepost
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Harry W. Ball
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