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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1956
Page
2
An editorial runs a brief thought for the day praising Sir Isaac Newton’s claim that no sciences are better attested than the belief in the Bible. The note frames Newton’s religious stance as a model of evidence for faith.
The West Virginia Board of Education and Superintendent W. W. Trent clash over using improperly certified teachers to keep schools open. The piece argues for higher salaries to attract qualified teachers and criticizes moves to extend excess levies, calling such measures evasive and damaging to long term school finance.
Entomologist Dr. Harlan R. Schuyler places Los Angeles as the nation’s 12th largest roach population center, with Dallas and other cities ranking higher. He notes roaches’ ancient lineage and quips about migration westward alongside urban growth.
A taxpayer is described as someone who works for the government without a civil service exam. A clever mind sees another's problems, but an understanding heart solves them.
Draft TV show precis recounts the 1905 1906 Baltimore and Ohio line tale set in Pickens West Virginia. It centers on George Rachid Syrian leper and his isolation amid frontier mob fear with Naseeb Dr J L Cunningham and a railroad nurse as key figures.
The account recounts George Rachid, an immigrant with leprosy, kept in a Pickens railroad shelter guarded by Dr. Cunningham. After a boxcar return from Parkersburg, Rachid dies on day 100 as a mob threatens his body. The State Department intervenes, and the physician buries him in an unmarked grave with quick lime.
New York gossip notes Rocky Marciano shifting toward acting with signals of interest from Kay Thompson for Eloise CBS and Red Skelton for a Las Vegas act. The piece recounts Marciano’s timing nerves at 8:55 pm and NBC mixups, plus quirks about YABUT slang and other showbiz tidbits across a busy night in entertainment circles.
Dr. George W Crane discusses adoption and family bonds urging acceptance of nonbiological parenting. He argues against labeling babies as illegitimate, explains chromosome facts, and promotes adopting children of all ages. He offers a home-study test packet for prospective parents.
Fact notes report Greenland's ice cover at five percent of its area and snow fields along with glaciers covering about thirteen percent of ice land. It estimates fifteen million Americans have never left 250 miles from home and that about one in ten Americans is left handed. Angel's Flight in Los Angeles claims to be the world’s shortest railroad, less than 40 feet long, yet ferries more than 6,000 people daily on the Bunker Hill incline.
James Marlow reports the presidential campaign has shifted from lofty rhetoric to a bare fighting field. Both Eisenhower and Stevenson trade charges as they press peace, Korea’s end, and prosperity while accusing each other of twisting facts and leadership.
Hal Bayte profiles Eric L. Cosby of Kent Inc who redesigned the common comb into a flexible plastic shell that fits heads and massages the scalp. The invention, priced at one dollar, is pitched as a simple, water driven improvement with mass market appeal over expensive grooming tools.
A reader complains about misquoting and miscrediting a West Virginia Conservation Commission article in The Register. The letter requests citation of Section 2291 to clarify hunter landowner fencing statements and corrects Bachmann spelling. The second letter applauds Rep Byrd for opposing a costly cross continental water transport project.
A Pacific island greeting involves a sharp hook and crack of the middle finger. About 38 percent of Americans drink wine beer or liquor. John Adams was the first U.S. president to designate Washington D C as capital. Blue ice layers appear inside icebergs. France uses about 15 million ice cycles. Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake entirely within one state.
Prayer poem invoking God to create a clean heart and cleanse selfishness. It asks for beauty of holiness to shine in the speaker's life and community. Signed by Hoover Rupert of Jackson Michigan, minister at First Methodist Church.
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