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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1944
Page
2
The piece argues the nation spends about eight billion dollars monthly on war with West Virginia receiving roughly one hundred million per month for three years. It says public works would create jobs, improve living standards, and add value to the state once wars end, urging the planning board to expand recommendations and the legislature to act.
Mrs Cora Lilly learns her son Staff Sgt Willard Lilly and two fellow soldiers shared a Vmail letter with mothers in Texas and Wisconsin. Lilly earned the Distinguished Service Cross for singlehandedly advancing under fire near Myitkyina to destroy an enemy machine gun and save his unit.
The piece contrasts private enterprise led growth with broad public works as methods to reduce unemployment. It urges planning boards to pursue genuine needs, including flood control, reforestation, rural road building, and airports, while criticizing the historic extraction of the state's natural wealth without reinvestment.
The Beckley planning body argues adjacent Mabscott Callaway Heights Pinecrest Raleigh Heights New Raleigh Road should join Beckley to share in future growth. A proposed charter change would bring these neighborhoods inside the city limits and into the ward system for equal representation.
Douglas Whitehead, a World War II sergeant, is noted for exemplary conduct in France on July 21 while his wife, Mrs. Gaye Whitehead, reports his Purple Heart and a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster for later wounds. The article links his unit, the 83rd Infantry Division, to taking St Malo and Brittany with over 12,900 prisoners. It also recounts staff sergeant Vendal Lindsay, home from England with the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal after seven enemy missions. The piece notes Lindsay’s ties to Sullivan and his brother in the Marines.
Dr Ralph Lockman spoken on Washington chaos and congestion at Beckley West Virginia Diamond Jubilee. A seven year old cousin visits from Chicago cites colds, and Samuel Hale writes to the Democratic Executive Committee. The Beckley barber shop hosts talk of Dr W W Trent hair and a surprise wedding. A pastor marries two locals in his study and a letter discusses stable peace after war and postwar service issues.
Maj. Gem Curtis Lemay of the 20th Bomber Command says B-29s in their first nine raids suffered seven losses to action but no authenticated ship downed by Japanese interceptors. In the same period B-29 gunners claimed 37 planes down, probably 36 destroyed and 59 damaged. Japanese pilots retreated by the fast out maneuver.
Former Governor H G Kump gave a wholehearted endorsement to Judge Clarence W Meadows the Democratic nominee for Governor. In Elkins he urged support for the Meadows ticket statewide and nationally and said he would attend a reception tonight for the candidate. It marked his first fall campaign statement.
Cherry Mayne, a 26 year old nurse and stewardess aboard the SS Coroman del on a return voyage to England, shelters in a world of intrigue. She meets Rory King and faces Julia Scott Price’s tension as seven year old Terry bonds with her aboard ship.
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