Burning Our Candle a Call for War Controls
The Beckley Raleigh Register urges price and wage controls and prewar cutbacks to strengthen internal economy amid military buildup. It argues free enterprise is at risk from rising costs and urges sacrifice to avoid costly future wars and ensure readiness for armed peace.
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Aleigh Register
Beckley
W. Va
Raleigh Register
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Hinton
Omas F. Statford
Associated Press
AP News
Katz Agency
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Dallas
ONRA
West
Virginia
Texas
America
Air Force
Texas Swaps Citrus For Swedish Houses Pact
South Texas fruit growers explore trading citrus for Swedish prefabricated houses. Swedes pay with currency shortages while Texans gain ready built homes. If successful, it bypasses loans and subsidies, cutting costs for American builders and expanding commerce between nations.
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Texas
Riding a Boom The city manager plan in Beckley
The city manager plan, first tried in Beckley, faces old-guard opposition yet gains momentum. If trends hold, council manager systems may dominate by 1960. Beckley’s elected council hires a manager to run day to day, while the mayoralty and patronage politics resist change. Beckley officials delay surveys and elections, despite many U.S. cities adopting the reform.
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Staunton
Clarence C. Ridley
International City Managers Association
Beckley
United States
Bug Dust Sheds Light On Seasonal Notes And Chestnut Research
In a column filled with seasonal musings, the writer laments late spring and early autumn quirks, praises autumn warmth, and notes a city show and airport view mix up. He cites government fuel talks, car engine concerns, and rising prices while urging readers to collect chestnut nuts for a WVU horticulturist studying blight. The piece ends with a call for readers to bring damp chestnuts to the office for proper packing.
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Bug
Roger Pease
West Virginia
University Hiticulturist
Koreans Hungry and Broken Under Red Rule
HAL BOYLE reports from Korea on North Koreans after five years of Communist rule. Villagers cheer the South Korean advance but hunger and disease haunt them. In Yangyang Rok troops carry wounded. a nurse shows calm as a gun slips from a private, then a harsh officer beats him for damaging a rifle. The piece portrays a weary, disciplined army fearing weapon loss more than life.
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Hal Boyle
Nonin Korea
Orient
Rok
South Korea
Yangyang
Norglo
Tokyo
Seoul
MacArthur
38Th Parallel
United Nations
Inchon
Joint Chiefs of Staff
STATE
Defense Department
Defense Departments
Louis A. Johnson
Washington
Korea
Tall Television Towers Push Skyscrapers Higher
The Nation Today notes rapid height growth in 1950s towers led by Atlanta’s 1,057 foot WCON-TV antenna, rivaling the Empire State and Chrysler Building as engineers discuss plans for even taller non military structures worldwide. The piece lists the seven tallest non military structures, recounts a visit to Atlanta’s tower, and describes its slim, pencil like form with a three sided base up to 800 feet and a slender antenna above.
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Atlanta
Chrysler
Empire State Building
New York
Empire State
Auarter
Des Moines
Iowa
New York City
Wcon-Tv
Chrysler Building
Budapest
Hungary
Eiffel
Paris
WKY
Oklahoma City
Wall Tower
Wall Street
Agnes Moorehead recalls burlesque offer and film prep
Hollywood interview with Agnes Moorehead outlines a 1937 near-burlesque stooge offer for Minsky's, details her film preparation habits, and notes her Boston and Wisconsin roots. She discusses method acting, repeat takes, and plans to film in southern France and Paris. Moorehead owns a 320 acre farm near Zanesville Ohio and holds degrees from Wisconsin and Muskegum College.
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Hollywood
Agnes Moorehead
the Magnificent Ambersons
Mrs. Parkington
Johnny Belinda
Ben Bernie
New York
Joey Fay
Minsky’s
Boston
Mass
Reedsburgh
Wis
Zanesville, C
University of Wisconsin
Muskingum College
New Concord
Whitesville OES Members Serve at State Meet in Charleston
Whitesville Chapter 142 members participate in the state meeting with Mrs H R Priestly serving as page and W R Martin as guard. Other attending officers include Mrs Lloyd Hottle and Mrs Robert Walton Jr with Mrs Peres Skidmore and Mrs Robert ite among the attendees. In Olney Illinois Charles Butler mistakenly pours molasses into his truck’s oil tank then has it changed at a garage.
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Whitesville
Associated Press
Olney
Ill
Charles Butler
Butler
Cows Named by Birth Year At Illinois Dairy Farm
Champaign Illinois Dairy data shows cattleman Rhode of the University of Illinois proposes naming calves by birth year using alphabetical initials. For 1950 heifers begin with Amber Bonnie Barbara and continue through 1975, assigning each year a distinct starting letter.
Indochina threat looms larger than Korea for U.S. security
In a stark critique, Joseph Alsop argues that U.S. policy delays after Korea’s victory risk empowering Communist forces in Indo China. He warns Formosa fears distract from China’s internal weakness and asserts Beijing’s aid to Ho Chi Minh endangers Southeast Asia. The piece urges decisive action to capitalize on Korea and prevent a broader crisis.
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Indo-China
U.S
China
Formosa
Korea
Chou En-lai
Lenin
South China
Kunming
Indo- China
Nanning
Langsan
Ho Chi Minh
Best Seller Serial Little Boy Lost Chapter 13
Hilary Wainwright, seeking his lost son in postwar France, finds a hopeful but wary meeting with a boy in a provincial town. They share trains, a cafe, and a tentative bond as Jean recalls Africa and London while Hilary reads the signs of potential reunion amid war’s shadows.
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Hilary Wainwright
France
Pierre
Hilary
Jean
Monsieur
A Visit With Jean at the Orphanage
Hilary spends time with Jean, a quiet boy in an orphanage, sharing small details of life from fried potatoes to Africa, promising future visits, and leaving with a chaste meal offer from the Mother Superior as he seeks solitude to process the encounter.
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Hilary
Africa
Jean
Monsieur
Robert
CHAMPION ROAD by Frank Tilsley reviewed
The October Literary Guild selection CHAMPION ROAD follows Jonathan Briggs from Tollerton Clough Lancashire to post WWI success, detailing his cache of coins, early mill work, and rise with Kemp Shaw and Boylance. Nellie Greenhalgh partners in a wary romance, as real estate fortune arrives but the book’s second half lands flat with a too-true ending.
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Champion Road
Frank Tilsley
Julian Messner
America
Jonathan Briggs
England
Jonathan
Tollerton Clough
Lancashire
Taunton Clow
Tolton Clew
Hesketh's
Hesketh’s
Nellie Greenhalgh
Grinno
Grinnal
Kempshaw & Boylance
Nellie
Kempshaw’s
Literary Guild
Mrs Ruby Jarvis to undergo asthma treatment in Biloxi
Hazy resident Mrs Ruby Jarvis leaves today for Biloxi Mississippi to stay at the Hotel Biloxi for a week of asthma treatment at the Gay Clinic beginning October 6.
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Register
Hazy
Ruby Jarvis
Biloxi
Miss
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