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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1952
Page
3
The Raleigh Register outlines Beckley growth aims including new hotels and motels to boost tourism, a stadium and municipal auditorium, extended city limits, paved roads and parking, a Grandview Park improvement plan, a youth center, a library and history museum, and a stronger industries program. It calls for a City Manager charter, cleaner government, and the elimination of vice and gambling to attract the 14 county region.
Defense Mobilizer Henry Fowler reports in cooperation with agencies that price wage credit and material controls should stay in place, even on standby, to curb inflation. The quarterly review notes late summer inflation signals but no new movement, cites limits of current laws, and flags rising defense material outlays expected to peak by mid-1953 with a deficit forecast for the next fiscal year. A strong tie-up with the FBI is noted.
Raleigh FBI and the House un American activities committee is expected in the event Republicans win control of the House in November elections. A former FBI agent will take over the chairmanship of the committee as a result of a GOP victory. He is Rep Harold H Velde of Illinois, top Republican. He moved from the FBI to a state judgeship and then Congress. He is expected to work with his former boss J Edgar Hoover and other FBI officials if he takes over guidance of the committee. The liberal wing of the GOP frets over Eisenhower's endorsement of McCarthy, but sees Tide lands oil stance as prudent. Democrats led by Truman attack Ike's halo while GOP strategists insist Ike's hero status resists attack. A political observer says voters may see reasons to vote Democratic if the General would remove the halo.
Frank P Walsh shoots his television set in a protest against a noisy world. He loses his job and laments his situation at home, saying the $258 set and two years of payments are gone and he remains in the doghouse. Mrs Walsh expresses loss and uncertainty about replacing the device.
Frank Walsh, 38, a former night worker for a private detective agency, shot at a television in his home after insomnia and anger over not sleeping. He discarded his pistol and permits, losing his armed guard job but hoping to find electrical work. His wife and children were present. no one was injured.
Washington observes John L. Lewis unleashing a purple prose attack on the Wage Stabilization Board and miners. He accuses eight board members of thievery over a $1.50 raise while denouncing Roger L. Putnam and labor critics as timid dilettantes and moronic footpads. Some readers sense a growing mellowness in his style despite the same sharp rhetoric.
A New York advertising genius dreams of beaming commercials onto night clouds while a humor column notes rain as a preferred gift. Detroiters are jailed for rum running whiskey into Canada echoing Prohibition era reversals. Bread production nears 14 1 2 billion loaves annually per Factographs and a sage quip praises abundance though two railroad tickets remain scarce.
Malenkov’s keynote at the All Union Party Congress shows a purge underway as he chastises 1200 delegates for lax discipline. Pravda notes stormy applause before a long discipline section, urging stricter membership through Komsomol and Pioneer lines and barring recruits without proper ranks.
Hollywood profile of Donald O Connor outlining his Universal and Paramount contracts, his work on Singin in the Rain, and his roles in Call Me Madam. He writes songs with Sidney Miller, plans a music publishing firm, and aims to own a production company with his manager Noel Singer. He envisions his own show and eventually directing and producing films while alternating between comedy and musical roles. He also writes screenplays and a World War I novel, using writing as emotional escape, and spends time with his daughter Donna.
U S economy showed strength overall but coal and metal mining faced strain. Coal production fell due to a sudden strike while metal prices dropped to two year lows amid foreign competition.
SAM DAWSON reports that consumer costs eased in September with wholesale prices down and the return of inflation relief whispers. The piece notes a slower rise in the consumer price index, predicts steady 1953 food prices, and cites wage, freight, and tax increases offsetting raw material declines as manufacturers push prices higher.
Washington gossip centers on protocol questions if Stevenson wins the 1952 election. Carolyn Hagner Shaw, editor of The Social List of Washington, evaluates who qualifies as official hostess and how rank is assigned when the first lady role may pass to relatives. The Green Book guides social rank, but arrangements hinge on the president and State Department decisions.
A Wall Street brokerage tale shows Astanger gifting a 200000 dollar certified check and asking for trading to a million while his broker earns commissions and dines him. Lord Roseberry jokes about happiness from false teeth as an enemy comments on his aging.
The Republican candidate, Chap man Revercomb, spoke in Beckley on Friday. In wartime news, Vice Admiral Ghormley was removed from command in the Solomons and Vice Admiral Halsey assumed directing duties. Raleigh County praised for collecting 10,000 tons of scrap metal, the best in the state, per W. H. Skees.
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