Thought For Today Warns On Holiday Highway Dangers
A West Virginia editorial urges extra travel time during Labor Day weekend to reduce crash risk. It cites speed as the top killer, cites a National Safety Council forecast of 450 traffic fatalities, and promotes defensive driving and rest. It also condemns self appointed Democratic party “king makers” in Raleigh County and vows to expose them.
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West
Speed
Mark Twain
National Safety Council
Democratic Party
Raleigh County
Democratic
FBI Story reveals its lighter sides in grim history
Hal Boyle writes on the FBI's serious, deadly work and occasional humor as Warner Bros. adapts Don Whitehead's bestseller. The piece notes agents' sacrifices and the bureau's drive for authenticity in film research, highlighting rare lighter moments amid danger.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Warner Bros
Don Whitehead
FBI
Bureau
FBI Missteps and Moments of Humor
A collection of anecdotes shows FBI work mixing seriousness with comic lines and odd incidents. A 19 year old accused accessory jokes about robbing another bank while bail is set at 5000 dollars. In Houston agents arrest two car thieves, one in a bathtub. a funeral assistant helps with a burial. A fugitive uses a wanted circular and an ex convict keeps an updated FBI ID after stealing it.
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Houston
FBI
Bureau
Midnight Earl
Mary Martin
Porfirio Rubirosa
Paris
Doris Duke
Robert Paige
Tvv
Bess Myerson
Tony Curtis
Janet Leigh
Switzerland
Nancy Carroll
George Sanders
Bill O'Dwyer
Mexico
Montgomery Clift
Haya Harareet
Jackie Gleason
Jackie
Tommy Sands
Columbia Pictures
Jimmy Rodgers
Ricky Nelson
Atlantic City Steel Pier
Lorri Scott
Hwood
Earl
Eisenhower Dominates U S Foreign Policy In Last Months
Washington reports that President Eisenhower now governs U S foreign policy with greater initiative than at any time since 1953 His push for peaceful Soviet solutions may reflect last year in office aims Khrushchev’s Berlin pressure helped prompt his activity Herter’s low profile contrasts with the era when Dulles drove policy Heineken notes Dulles worth and influence before his 1955 Geneva leadership faded due to illness and Herter’s absence The piece weighs how the policy shift emerged from Khrushchev Berlin tensions and the absence of a strong secretary of state to share the spotlight with Eisenhower
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Washington
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Fisenhower
West Berlin
Christian A. Herter
John Foster Dulles
Herter
Geneva
Berlin
America
Europe
Dulles
Khrushchev
Khrushchevy
Raleigh Y Register Subscription Rates and Notices
Raleigh Y Register lists Beckley Newspapers rates for mail and home delivery with prices for daily and Sunday editions, six months and one year. It notes tax, change-of-address guidance, and that carriers are independent contractors not responsible for advance payments.
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West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Open Letter Clarifies Funeral Car Check Incident In Herndon
In a letter to The Evening Mail Bag Editor of The Register, Mrs. Elmer Shelton defends deputies Verne Morgan and Trooper Eppling who checked car licenses during a funeral procession. They state no warnings or tickets were issued and apologize for any misjudgment. The piece credits Morgan for his traffic direction at funerals and thanks the Raleigh Register for space to set the record straight.
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the Register
Verne Morgan
Eppling
Princeton
Mr. Morgan
Verne
Alexander Pope
Herndon
Raleigh Register
Elmer Shelton
Albacore noted for long pectoral fin fact
The albacore is a tuna distinguished by its very long pectoral fin. Dr Henry Carey, born in London around 1696, wrote the British national anthem. New York City and New Orleans are major U S coffee centers. The Grand Banks off Newfoundland are the world’s largest offshore fishing grounds.
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New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Henry Carey
London
New York City
New Orleans
U. S
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Inventions Quiz Traces Umbrella In History
The article notes umbrellas began as sunshades from Ninevah and Egypt, named from umb ra meaning shade, used by Greeks and Romans, spread to Italy and England by 1650, with modern ribs by Samuel Fox in 1892, and invites a color drawing prize with a mailing address for submissions.
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Ninevah
Egypt
Italy
England
Samuel Fox
Bug Dust Reflections on Western TV Cliches
Roy Lee Harmon criticizes Western TV fare as repetitive and dull. He lampoons hero tropes, barroom plots, outlaws, and damsels, arguing the genre mocks reality, misses spice, and fatigues viewers despite stagecoach and gunfight imagery. He notes overuse of chase scenes and predictable outcomes.
Hollywood Cruelty to the Little Guy, Binns Says
Hollywood studios are cruel to non stars while New York treats bit players with respect says actor Edward Binns star of CBS Brainerd. He recalls learning acting, serving as an Air Force captain, and notes fame size and bankroll drive attention. Other brief items note Arnold Stang’s recovery, socialites delaying elopement, Sherry Britton’s signing, and various TV plans and showbiz rumors.
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New York
Hollywood
Edward Binns
CBS
Brea
N.Y
Cleveland Playhouse
Binns
Arnold Stang
Natalie Trundy
Charles Hirshon
Sherry Britton
Jerry Lewis
Cinderfella
Nancy Kovak
Abc-Tv
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J. McQuade
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Brooks & Finley, Inc
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Chicago
Detroit
Boston
Cleveland
Atlanta
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Joanne Cevada
Taunton
Mass
Roy Lee Harmon
Podner
Lester
Earl Wilson
Little Guy
Pat Suzuki
Martin Kane
Sports Illustrated
Pat
Dick Belmar
Greenville
S. C
Jack Waldron
The
Lambs Club
Toots Shor
Leon and
Eddie
Toots
Sammy Fuchs
Sam Goldwyn
Jessie James
the James Boys
Las Vegas
B'way
Timothy Gray
Jessie
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