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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1961
Page
4
A compact saying notes that what the heart has owned and cherished cannot be lost. Attributed to H. W. Beecher, the remark reflects on enduring attachments and memory.
In New Haven a planned challenge to a Connecticut birth control statute is planned with Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut proposing a clinic at Temple and Trumbull streets. Officials note the legal hurdle of enforcing a four score year old law that criminalizes use of birth control devices and discuss constitutional questions and enforcement challenges.
The doctor shortage prompts doctors to recruit students nationwide. In Project MORE by the American Academy of General Practice, youths will visit offices and homes to observe a doctor's life, highlighting drama and glamour. Pilot starts in Binghamton New York, with Omaha next month and expansion planned nationwide.
Science Today outlines a youth outreach plan to boost medical careers amid a looming manpower gap. Mayor proclaims M D Career Month. academy chapters visit high schools to form Medica groups, indoctrinate students with doctor life, and tour hospitals. Recruits get a preceptor and a day with a physician, highlighting rising doctor shortages projected by 1975.
Washington column notes Carl Sandburg spoke at the Library of Congress Civil War exhibit and, while reporters pressed him on Tropic of Cancer, he delivered remarks described as unprintable. Scribes recorded his quotes, a radio station taped the exchange, and word spread quickly through town.
West Virginia officials plan a 4.5 million allocation to the Natural Resources Department for the next fiscal year. Director Warden Lane says most funds would fund recreational improvements in southern West Virginia, including McDowell County 500000 Fayette 400000 Wyoming 250000 Mingo 5000 Raleigh 30000.
In 1936 Raleigh County notes Dan iels PLA speaker Owen P Lilly Shady Spring High School. WVU athletic director H A Stansbury visits his mother Glen Daniel. Democratic county majority 9295 voters. W R Stephens injured in wreck. Lane proposes multi county recreation funding including Valley Falls state park near Fairmont and various county allocations for parks pools lakes and camping sites.
Bruce Biossat portrays Cheddi Jagan as a charismatic yet evasive figure on Soviet power. An Estonian exile survey shows 1944 to 1959 shifts to industry and rising output, while real wages fell. It argues Moscow drained satellite economies, framing Estonia as a warning within the Soviet mosaic.
Speeches at Raleigh Mining Institute banquet feature L B Holiday S W Settle J W Herron and others. The piece notes over ten years 30,000 miners killed and 75,000 injured in the United States and cites a Pittsburgh demonstration showing coal dust as a greater menace to workers than gas.
Raleigh Register lists mail and home delivery rates with West Virginia tax, notes carriers and distributors are independent, urges address change details, and credits Beckley Newspapers Corporation as publisher. It lists rates for daily, Sunday, and combined subscriptions, plus six month and yearly options and a three percent tax.
Widow in her sixties laments three sons who keep her in poverty and threaten old age care. The column compiles reader letters and responses about familial duties, independence, and blame, with voices like Happy Scrubmaid Henrietta Bess Sidney and others.
A devotional reflection urging constant alertness to seize chances to help others and lead them toward a saving sense of divine unfailing guidance. The speaker appeals to the Father for daily strength to act rightly and constructively in service to others.
Earl Wilson recalls a quirky flu episode early in the season, joking about the December-January outbreak and narrating his misadventures with popcorn, parties, and a doctor’s verdict. The column bundles Hollywood notes and gossipy blurbs about Mitzi Gaynor, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, and others around the flu tale.
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