Radio telescopes to probe universe in Pocahontas County
Isolation in Pocahontas County spurs two radiastroscopes for probing space. Green Bank hosts 85 and 140 foot dishes, Sugar Grove to house a second pair at 60 to 500 feet. Projects by NSF and AUI cost 10 million and 60 million dollars. Instruments aim to detect distant signals and answer cosmic questions.
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Pocahontas County
Spruce Knob
Green Bank
National Science Foundation and
Associated Universities, Inc
Sugar Grove
U. S. Navy
Mount Palomar
California
Prices as a Political Issue Through the Ages
The piece traces how price concerns have shaped elections from 1910 through 1960, noting Democratic and Republican blame games over tariffs, wartime costs, and price controls. It observes cycles of high living costs affecting campaigns and the hope that both farm prices and industrial wages stay high while consumer prices fall, a difficult balancing act.
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Middle East
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Dr George W Crane on solving marital problems by honest analysis
A couple on the brink of divorce are guided by a program called the Compliment Club to rebuild affection. John an engineer and Alice a homemaker learn to share business worries and praise, improving communication and intimacy within 30 days.
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John
Alice
Wildwood Cemetery prompts Beckley protest over neglect
A Charleston resident protests the neglected Wildwood Cemetery off South Kanawha Street. He cites decayed grounds, unpaid graves, and urges the city to restore the site as a memorial, referencing historic Beckley figures buried there and local trustees' prior appeal. The piece then shifts to a broader note on declines in athletics and a Walton High School football withdrawal after many changes in sports culture.
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Charleston
Beckley
Wildwood Cemetery
South Kanawha Street
Raleigh
Eight Months in the Middle East Planned Departures
Eight soldiers prepare to depart aboard Sixth Fleet amphibious ships in mid September for eight months in the Middle East. The group includes Pic. Paul D. Browning and Cpl. Emery P. Adams of Houston area and Sr. Estel D. McKinney of Ghent. Also listed are Pic. Gene C. Cook of Crab Orchard and Pic. Kenneth C. Marshall of Darlington. Browning and Adams serve with the First Marine Battalion Eighth Regiment, while Cook, Marshall, and McKinney are with the Second Battalion Eighth Regiment.
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Earl T. Browning
Mount Hope
Emery P. Adams
Howard R, Adams
Tams
Sue Smith
Houston
Tex
Estel D. McKinney
Mason A. McKinney
Ghent
Gene C. Cook
Crab Orchard
Kenneth C. Marshall
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Darlington
Arnett
Browning
Adams
Eighth Regiment
Cook
Marshall
McKinney
GOP Candidate Raps Demo Circuit Clerk at Public Office
The Evening Mail Bag reports a GOP candidate in the House of Delegates visit to the Circuit Clerk's office around 11 AM. He objects to a wall sticker reading Vote Democratic in a public building, noting bipartisan support behind it.
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GOP
House of Delegates
PTA
Taffy Tuttle
Mount Vernon
George Washington
R. M. Tucker
Myron Cohen
Perry Como
Earl
Franklin science and political sticker clash in town
A reader recalls Benjamin Franklin and his experiments with grounding and lightning. In a local office, a political sticker dispute escalates as Janice Davis tears down a Democrat’s sticker, leaving a tense exchange about partisan display and a contest judged by observers. John Lubich notes Jeff Wieland of Alameda wins ten dollars for a junior editor question. Tomorrow asks how bull fighting originated.
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Harold Hanks
Hanks
Circuit Clerk
Jeff J. Wieland
Alameda
California
Beckley
Territorial claims linger in Michigan past war end
Factograph notes Great Britain held certain territorial claims in Michigan until 1796, thirteen years after the Revolutionary War’s close. It adds a trivia line about the skin’s weight relative to internal organs and credits Blaise Pascal with inventing the first adding machine in 1041.
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Great Britain
Michigan
Blaise Pascal
Earl Wilson exposes rich addicts and Hollywood squabbles
Earl Wilson reports that narcotic addiction among wealthy socialites is as serious as slums, citing clashes involving Bobo Rockefeller and Elsa Maxwell. The column strings together gossip on Sherry Britton, Buddy Boylan, Milton Berle, Harry Karl and others, ending with humorous lines from Earl’s Pearls and jokes by R. M. Tucker.
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Barney Ross
California
Bobo Rockefeller
Elsa Maxwell
Aly Khan
Elsa
Bobo
Johnny Carson
Betty
Milton Berle
Berle
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Joan
Marie McDonald
Harry Karl
Cohn
Hollywood
Karl
25 Years Ago From the 1933 Raleigh Register
The Raleigh County Medical Society endorsed plans of the West Virginia Tuberculosis Association to give skin tests to Raleigh county high school students. Weather and attendance rules did not stop 1,000 teachers from three counties attending the 13th New River Valley Round Table at Woodrow Wilson High School auditorium. Marriage licenses issued include Freeman Tankersley and Blanche Stanley of Coal City, Homer Mills and Verne Jarrell of Stotesbury, Paul Michalek and Mary Lacek of Raleigh, Henry Adkins and Ruth Sexton of Jonben, William Easley of Laurel Creek and Margaret Miller of Naomi.
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Raleigh County Medical Society
West Virginia Tuberculosis Association
Raleigh County
Beckley
New River Valley Round Table
Woodrow Wilson High School
Freeman Oscar Tankersley
Blanche Marie Stanley
Coal City
Homer Mills
Verne Jarrell
Stotesbury
Paul Michalek
Mary Lacek
Raleigh
Henry Grover Adkins
Ruth Sexton
Jonben
William Lewis Easley
Laurel Creek
Margaret Miller
Naomi
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