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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1964
Page
4
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev tours Bergen Norway amid mixed receptions on his Scandinavian visit. He is photographed greeting residents and exchanging smiles, contrasting with tense street scenes in parts of the tour.
The long view on Herbert Hoover, nearing his nineties, shows renewed esteem despite blame for the crash era. Once wartime relief organizer and engineer, he faced late life in New York’s Waldorf Astoria, defying speculation of demise, while remaining a durable figure in Republican circles and American history.
A reader denounces police harassment while praising lawful behavior, calls for equal treatment under the law, and questions prosecutor Berkley Lilly’s commitment. The writer contends serious crimes deserve focus, cites false arrest risks, and warns of escalated court actions if enforcement falters.
Howard W. McKinney of the West Virginia Human Rights Commission spoke at Huntington Unitarian Fellowship urging real integration beyond desegregation. He noted only four Negroes in supervisory county school board or state education staffs and three Negro principals in truly integrated schools, calling for an immediate, long-term effort to change attitudes and practices, with goals for ending all Negro schools and greater use of Negro teachers, plus active programs of human relations in schools.
President Johnson should avoid extensive in person campaigning and crowd exposure. The piece argues for more televised appearances to reduce risk while noting the Warren Commission found security measures flawed but reasonable, and questions practicality of mass surveillance. It cites past leaders and security trade offs, urging restraint despite Johnsons popularity.
An article discusses Red Chinese plans to test a nuclear device in Sinkiang in November and simultaneous Russian political theater aiming to shape U S public opinion. It notes RAND estimates on power prestige and potential blackmail and cites Mao’s reliance on military manpower and 1962 People’s Daily cautions that weapons alone do not win wars.
A discussion tracing how public figures faced disgrace over sexuality and how U S security policies evolved from 1950 to 1953. It cites Dr George W Henry’s views on draftees and the Hoey subcommittee findings and notes the Eisenhower era broadened the security risk definition to include sexual perverts and other disqualifying traits. It mentions Newsweek data on homosexuals in the army and Kinsey estimates, and cites a September memo signed by Walter Jenkins advising FBI checks before appointments.
UPI reports on wartime memoirs and cultural critiques. Stanley Weintraub recalls a unique UN POW hospital clash in The War In The Words, a edited memoir from wartime notes. Edwin P Hoyt questions American culture in The Golden Rat, due Oct 28. Marilyn Monroe biography by Hoyt is in progress at Appleton-Century. Alvin Toffler’s The Culture Consumers argues US cultural inferiority and debunked stereotypes, arriving Nov 10. Harper & Row publishes The Journals of David E Lilienthal in two volumes totaling 1400 pages.
23 years ago from 1939 Raleigh Register reports George W. Bright of Beckley was elected at a Fairmont meeting to serve as lay leader of the United Methodist Conference. The report notes ongoing German lightning war threatening Poland near Warsaw and predicts rapid capitulations within about 48 hours, with experts emphasizing mapping as a postwar step.
C L Graham, veteran Beckley blacksmith, rents the new stone building behind Union Cash Store for a shop. Japan has declared war on Germany, and the German ambassador in Tokyo is to be sent home, with German interests handled by the American embassy.
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