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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1958
Page
4
A brief reflection notes that true happiness lies in a life with little need to ponder birth or origins, attributed to Whately, suggesting contentment with simple circumstances.
At Beckley Chamber meeting De Loss Walker urged leadership beyond cooperation. Ex Governor Okey L. Patteson proposes 40 acres near Thurmond and a Bradley factory site to boost industry, enhance employment, and stabilize the regional economy, with Blackburn Patteson pledging active leadership.
Dr George W Crane argues that hospital insurance has fueled hospital overuse and worries about medical costs. He endorses a 50 to 100 dollar deductible to curb frivolous stays and return medicine to the private practice model with hospitals as a subordinate service.
A Virginia campaign urges ministers to promote the claim that the first recorded Thanksgiving occurred in Virginia at Berkeley Plantation in 1619. The piece notes conflicting histories and warns about shifts in textbooks while urging focus on spirit and shared values.
New York AP report profiles Candy Jones born Jessie Wilcox, a former model who rose to run Conover Television Agency. It notes the glamour girl industry pays well with top TV commercial actresses earning 25 000 to 35 000 dollars annually. Jones recalls early earnings and the longevity of some models, including a 17 year old who started at age three and now earns substantial income.
A vivid line describes a dead glacier as brittle yet pliant like toothpaste. It argues that about 75 percent of Americans cannot see clearly without visual aids, underscoring the need for assistive devices and proper vision support.
President Eisenhower rests in Augusta as he weighs a tight year ahead. Russians and East German Communists threaten Berlin while Western Allies consider renewed air lifts. Nixon’s future role and party politics loom, shaping his separate identity for 1960.
A Pilgrim family carries home Thanksgiving dinner from the woods featuring a turkey pumpkin corn and wild rapes as a classroom prompt teaches the Mayflower voyage hardship and the first communal feast. Governor Bradford later declared days of prayer and feasting once crops improved.
New York profile of Susan Hayward visiting Georgia and her Georgia ranch life contrasts with her Brooklyn roots. She jokes about Southern talk while acknowledging Hollywood work and her husband Eaton Chalkley, a former FBI man, and notes her role in I Want to Live and plans for Three quoters in Joeguh. The piece mixes light anecdotes and humor about accents and city versus country life.
Fifty years ago the Raleigh Register reports election results showing defeat of a constitutional amendment and an increase in county court salaries. In Raleigh County the school levy passed 1321 to 201, while a tax on dogs failed 712 to 1283. The state health board in Wheeling ordered strict anti spitting measures in trains and waiting rooms and designated railroad conductors as enforcers to curb disease spread.
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