The Raleigh Register Evening Edition Saturday and Sunday Morning
Raleigh Register notes publication schedule and delivery areas with postal details and circulation figures. It lists Beckley West Virginia and Hinton addresses, editor Randolph Norton, and advertising representation by The Katz Agency, along with subscription rates and terms for daily and Sunday editions.
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Beckley
W Va
Hinton
Wo Va
Randolph Norton
Associated Press
Katz Agency
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Dallas
West Virginis Net
State Mine Inspector backs conservation aims in Beckley area
Bill Moore the State Mine Inspector and T M Bealey visited the Beckley upland region to note strip mining impacts. Moore says no bonds have been posted or released and urges forest recovery reseeding and broader conservation measures while criticizing the current law and urging revision.
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Bill Moore
Suday
Moore
Morgantown
Winding Gulf
T. M. Bealey
New River Company
Beckley
Register
Patele
Aeterap
Crow
State Department of Mines
Peace Time Prosperity Projections for Mines and Workers
The article forecasts a postwar shift to peace time living with a drop in coal demand, fewer overtime hours, and more workers needed at lower take home pay. Returning veterans and wage earners will face reduced incomes as prosperity eases. Mines in the stokeless coal region expect job growth but lower earnings.
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Ural
One Foot on the Land and One in the Mine
A plan urges heads of families to buy land near a job and combine subsistence farming with mining work. Paying for land with small down payments and saving via war bonds can fund a future home and education. The idea pairs steady mine pay with farming during slack seasons, a proven approach in the region.
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Ford
Yellow dog reverse critique of forced union membership
A writer argues against compulsory union membership or coercion to join a union before employment. Citing freedom of speech and assembly, the piece compares forced unionism to Nazi coercion and asserts that democracy fails when coercion drives workers to join unions or pay dues. It urges voluntary participation.
Thanksgiving with Bonds Drives West Virginia Leads
Raleigh county reports strong participation in war bond drives and expects another robust response in the sixth hand drive opening tomorrow. Officials urge gratitude through bond purchases, noting the war’s costs and the need to prevent delays or further casualties.
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Raleigh County
West Virginia
Raleigh Farm Bureau to Honor Three Deceased Leaders
Three charter Raleigh county farm bureau members who died in the past year will be honored at a candle-light memorial during the annual fall roundup on Tuesday night November 5. County Farm Agent Meg Br. Thoms said the service marks a new bureau tradition.
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Raleigh County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Devember 5
Meg “Br. ‘Thoms
Crockett D. Pittman
Glen White
Vinson Suuffer
Surveyor
Re Eb, Surbaugh
Pluto
Thomas
Ibut
Bureau
Glenn W. Stewart
Court House
County Four-H Council
Prank N. Gang
Beckley National Bank
Ing
State Chamber of Commerce
Minor Scott
Early Beckley clan heirs of Isadore Mead Meadows recounts
The piece traces Isadore Mead Meadows a 19th century Beckley pioneer and early West Virginia figure. It notes his coal land dealings and public service in Raleigh County as circuit and county clerk, his family’s rise and decline, and the upbringing of his sons Clarence and the Meadows children amid Beckley’s wartime boom and social scene.
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Isidore
Mitchells’ Ridge
Abney
Hinton
Isadore
Isadore Mead- Ows
Clarence
Raleigh County
Fintan Isadore
Beckley
Meadows
New River Company
Crab l Orchard Coal and Land Company
Ke Prince
Meadowses
A Williams
West Virginia
Isadore Meadows
Sare
Neville Street
Cinele [Ke
Detroit
Tobby
Beckley Institute
Beckley High School
Youth Returned To His Parents
Malcolm Bragg a Charleston juvenile was released from Raleigh county jail by Judge Clay S. Crouse and sent home after promising to attend school and stop running away. His mother complained he had run away three times and asked Charleston juvenile authorities to handle him.
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Malcolm Bragg
Charleston
Raleigh
Clay S. Crouse
Crouse
Bragg
Meade
Tracy Williams
Crab Orchard Man Jailed on Drunken Driving Charge
Herbert Thompson of Crab Orchard was in Raleigh County jail yesterday on a drunk driving charge after being arrested Friday night on City Avenue. Oliver Gore of Dorothy, a Black man, was jailed Friday night by Deputy Ira Price on a felony charge and waived a hearing to face the next grand jury after a preliminary trial before Magistrate C. R. Clay of Pettus.
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Herbert Thompson
Crab Orchard
Raleigh
City Avenue
Oliver Gore
Ira Price
Gore
C. R. Clay
Pettus
Major Smith Returns From Overseas After Ten Months
Major Harold M. H. Smith husband of Mrs. Billen J. Smith of Beckley has returned from ten months in the European theater aboard the US hospital ship Dagwood. He is hospitalized at Stark General before transfer and has received a Purple Heart and a Pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon.
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Harold MH. Smith
Billen J. Smith
Eien Jarrell
North Kahawha Street
United States
Dagwood
Stark General Hospital
Army Hospital
Beale County notes and Memory Lane memories
The column mixes humor about a cigar taxicab tip in New York with local Beckley news. It covers the Mountaineer Hunting Club meeting at A. J. Lilly's Hardware in Beaver, a Beckley weekend visit by Corporal Wooster and Mrs Wooster, WWI anecdotes, and a tree planting ceremony at the airport in Skelton. It promotes Memory Lane memories honoring Irene Hambrick and urges donations to plant trees along U S 1921 in Raleigh county to memorialize veterans.
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New York
Boston
A. Ray Fink
Big City
Mal
Mountaineer Hunting Club
Beaver
A. J. Lilly’s Hardware
Spice Run
Sifvale
Parahonias
Clarence Noel
Glen Morgan
Beckley
West
America
New England
Sophia
Armed Services
Bug
Irene
U. S. 1921
Raleigh County
Price Hill
Flat Top
Beckley Business and Professional Woman's Club
Government Ready To Open World News Exchange Talks
The Associated Press reports plans to begin international discussions on global news exchange. AP officials say such talks could start soon and appear on a United Nations agenda early in 1945, with broader aims of a world free press.
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Associated Press
Morgantown
Paul Miller
West Virginia
Miller
Kyle Mettormick
Princeton
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Kent Cooper
Oliver J. Keller
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
W. H. Barger
Keyser
Gilbert C. McKown
Martinsburg
Charles Eib
Barbour Democrat
Philippi
Public Forum views on strip mining from wartime visit
Letter from Raleigh Register reader recounts R. E. Lazarell mining engineer’s report after studying British methods in World War II. He notes British strip mining alongside repurposing land to restore scenery and urges West Virginia to balance resource recovery with preservation of ancestral lawns and landscapes.
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Pinecrest Sanitarium
Beckley
W. Vassitor
Raleigh Register
R. E. Lazarell
Island Creek Coal& Co
Holden
Lopan County
England
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Lazzell
Lazaell
West
Virginia
West Virginia
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National Guards
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Bug Custome
Harold M. Riffe
R. L. Wooster
Williamson
M. McGlothlin
Wooster
McGlothlin
California
Hawaii
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Fullerton
Robert L. Perberton
St. Marys
J. H. Long
Col. Long
Huntington
Ben Reed
Waterford
P. F .Reed
School of Journalism
State Newspaper Council
Washington
Cooper
Mr. Cooper
Versailles
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