Beckley and Logan Races To Take Over Water Utility
Beckley mirrors Logan as its city council moves to seize the water company. Logan plans to buy Pure Water, cut rates, and run the utility for profit to fund community improvements, while Beckley argues immediate gains and citizen benefit justify action now.
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Beckley
West, Virginia
Cineingatt
Cormunity
Concil
Egister
Price
Beckley: Water Company
West Virginia stadium funding dispute praised by editor
The Register commends State Auditor Edgar B Sims for opposing unauthorized $66,660.97 payments from state funds for athletic expenses at West Virginia University. It argues the stadium’s debt was incurred by the Stadium Corporation and should not fall on taxpayers. The piece notes the stadium’s inflated, unaffordable ambitions and calls for accountability.
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West Virginia University
The
Register
Edgar B.sims
Sims
Budget Commission
Stadium Corporation
West Virginia
West Virginia Smokeless Coal region growth plan
City plans extend boundaries to include Mabscott and contiguous areas with a planning commission guiding growth. Proposals call for a unified water and sewer public utility, a paid inspector led building code, new charter for a city manager form, park area acquisition, and library strengthening. Develop small farms for offseason work and food, boost tourism and recreation, and promote the region nationally with a coal tonnage tax fund. Public structures to meet rising school enrollments in Beckley and Raleigh County.
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Mabscott
West Virginia
Beckley
Raleigh County
Beckley office adds telephone line amid winter notes
The Beckley Newspapers Corporation reports a new outside telephone line added yesterday to improve access for readers and callers about various items. The piece recalls winter weather, local hog processing, a farm manager sustaining burns from hot water, and humorous home repair mishaps. It also notes a Montgomery trip blocked by one way traffic, industrial valley odors, college journalism events, and dog poisoner concerns in Ghent.
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Ernest Wallace
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Mr. Wallace
Beckley
Ghent
Charlie Pack
Hell
Opinions At a Glance by Charles P Stewart
Central Press columnist Charles P Stewart argues that while recession is disliked, many on Capitol Hill see a mild downturn as potentially beneficial. He notes worries over Rooseveltian credit bias and fears of perpetual New Deal governance, yet advocates for democracy and a prudent stance by legislators.
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Charles P. Stewart
Central Press
Washington, D.C
Capital Hill
White House
Topsy World View and Holiday Echoes in a Turbulent Era
The column reflects on a chaotic news cycle from Ruth to Rome Berlin tensions, a fading peace dove, and a humorous note on family life and Christmas anticipation. It mentions a scientist’s claim of returning an Indian tribe from Mexico, a Colorado dust storm, and ongoing wars in Spain and China, all in a quirky, opinionated voice.
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Spain
China
New Books by James Jeans on Science and Music
Sir James Jeans widens the pop science field with a study of sound and music. He argues every tone can be drawn as a curve and explains how overtones beats and instrument design shape tone. The book covers organ nomenclature Boehm flute construction and myths about piano touch and tone.
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Sir James Jeans
Macmillan
James
Sir James
Thanksgiving prayers in a calendar of saints reflection
An excerpt from In The Steeple's Shadow ponders a cherished calendar of saints. It honors diverse figures from youths to strangers, doctors, teachers, and Good Samaritans, praising Christlike kindness, wisdom, and restraint. The author urges gratitude even for crude or misers and intolerant souls who reveal human failings.
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Sus
N. B. Nash
Christs
L. H. Webster
Lord Christ
Two's Company in a Tangled Love Triangle
Nina battles conflicting loyalties as she faces Richard, her stepfather, and Honey, her husband, in a tense dramatic scene of desire, duty, and defiant attachment. The narrative traces their forbidden pull amid a fragile, humorous, and emotionally charged dinner of revelations.
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Nims
David
Sinde
Richard
Taika
Nine
Nina
Atertt
Hester
Mercury power can run ship NorMandie fueled by mercury energy
An Associated Press report says mercury power, the energy of hot molecules, could drive steamships and cut fuel costs. The Normandie may substitute mercury for steam and reduce annual fuel bills by about 400000 without speed loss. William L. R. Emmet proposed the system after eight years of use, with five American plants already employing it though not at sea. Mercury power vaporizes like steam and drives a turbine but utilizes fuel heat more efficiently. Beech wood is replacing cork for bottle stoppers in Germany.
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Associated Press
New York
Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers
William L. R. Emmet
Schenectady
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