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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1965
Page
4
Conservative MP John Hunt lashes at the Beatles criticizing their lack of practical help to youth clubs seeking funds. He argues the band’s wealth and fame contrasts with the needs of young people, calling their support insufficient.
The piece recalls a Selma Alabama protest where nonviolent marchers faced a helmeted sheriff and police. It questions whether businessmen should stay out of social issues or actively shape public opinion, weighing moral duty against potential customer backlash and economic risk.
President Johnson delivers a stern briefing on national security and Viet Nam to steel executives and union leaders, urging compromise. Wirthz and Califano push for a shared frame, leading to an agreement in principle as Ackley reframes the figures.
John Hodell reviews John R. Bunting The Hidden Face of Free Enterprise noting the contrast between professed support for Adam Smiths market ideals and observed tendencies toward price manipulation risk shifting debt and cautious planning by business leaders. The piece discusses Keynes influence and the push pull between market forces and government controls. A closing prayer by Webb Garrison Evansville Ind Methodist minister adds a religious reflection.
A shortage of workers in diaper service prompts a government effort. The Labor Department plans to spend 141,854 dollars to train 700 unemployed people in diaper service skills. An industry official notes fewer people want to start at the bottom in this field.
Washington reports President Johnson has deepened his grasp of local and state politics aided by Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien. The pair shaping Democratic strategy for 1966 and 1968, with O'Brien orchestrating nationwide registration and continuous campaign efforts while Johnson pursues a lasting political influence across urban centers and key states.
The drought across the Northeast boosts private water system sales, with 1965 projections near 81 million dollars, up from 58 million in 1960. Pumps dominate. tanks and other gear could lift totals 20 percent. Sprinkler kits rise as homeowners drill deeper wells to secure water.
From the 1940 Raleigh Register file, City Engineer Phil Wilson led four council members on a Beaver Creek and Glade Creek drainage basins tour to justify Big Beaver Creek as the preferred Beckley water supply site. Also noted is the Aug. 21 death of exiled Russian figure Leon Trotsky in Mexico City from pickax wounds.
Vitangelo Valentine from Italy, ready to join the war against Austria, was crushed under a coal car at Eccles on August 10. The body was buried in Beckley Catholic cemetery. O C Hedrick, ex-deputy sheriff of Raleigh county and now a farmer near Richmond, Va., was visiting area this week.
Watch On The Potomac reviews the House GOP Committee on Planning and Research white paper Viet Nam Some Neglected Aspects of the Historical Record. The piece argues the document oversimplifies the Vietnam conflict and misreads changing conditions in a war theater shaped by Diem, Tonkin, and U. S. policy shifts under LBJ.
Beckley Newspapers Corporation lists mail subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, with annual, semiannual, and daily options. It notes home delivery by carrier, change of address procedures, state sales tax in West Virginia, and that distributors are independent contractors not responsible for advance payments.
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