Four Foreign Scientists Win Kennedy Awards for Mental Retardation Work
Washington AP Four scientists from Norway Canada Indonesia and France were honored by President Kennedy at a Kennedy Foundation dinner for discoveries advancing understanding and prevention of mental retardation including PKU. Awards totaled 225 000 with 25 000 grants to Folling Barr and Le Jeune each. Tjio and Le Jeune received 25 000 each for research support. Tjio's work is funded by the US NIH.
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Washington
Kennedy
Kennedy Foundation
Norway
Canada
Indonesia
France
Ivar Asbjorn Folling
Jerome Lejeune
Lejeune
Joe Hin Tjio
Murray L. Barr
Lemuel A. Kirk
University of Illinois Research Institute
Folling
University Hospital Clinical Laboratory
Oslo
Foundation
Barr
Tjio
U.S. National Institutes of Health
Labor Dept to Hold Hearing on Foreign Farm Labor Wages
The U S Labor Department will hold a December 17 hearing in Winchester Virginia on the impact of foreign farm workers on wages and conditions for domestic harvest labor in Virginia and West Virginia. A wage threshold of 80 cents per hour in Virginia and 85 cents in West Virginia may be imposed to protect domestic workers. Winchester sits in the Appalachian apple region where migrant labor peaks each fall.
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Richmond
U. S. Labor Department
Winchester
Virginia
West Virginia
Labor Department
National Bituminous Production Is Down
The National Coal Association reports a weekly bituminous production of about 8,865,000 tons for the week ended Dec. 1, down from 9,056,000 tons the prior year. For the week ended Nov. 24 production reached 7,325,000 tons, with the Jan 1 to Dec 1 period totaling about 387,695,000 tons versus 369,969,000 tons a year earlier.
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Washington
National Coal Association
Pearl Harbor Radio First American Voice Reaches Europe
A veteran recalls broadcasting the first American version of Pearl Harbor to continental Europe from Lisbon as Japanese bombed P-40s and Allied casualties mounted. He notes Hitler’s undecided war stance at first, then declares war at 2:23 Lisbon time, and reflects on the 21 years since those losses marked by a bronze plaque on the Honolulu mole.
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West
Ing
Fish
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Europe
Hitler
Berlin
Lisbon
Kroll Opera House
Legation
United States
Honolulu
Morris Harvey Receives $300000 Gift
Morris Harvey College announces its largest single donation since 1888 a $300000 grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation as part of a 75th anniversary fund drive bringing total pledges to $1005215 over three years.
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Charleston
Morris Harvey College
Leonard Riggleman
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
Benedum Foundation
Pastor Appointed At Church Of Nazarene
Rev. James E. McCormick of Miami West Virginia will begin pastoral work at the First Church of Nazarene in Bluefield on Sunday December 9 succeeding Rev. Frank Spiker who moves to North Charleston Church of Nazarene in Charleston.
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James E. McCormick
Miami
W. Va
First Church of Nazarene
Bluefield
Frank Spiker
Spiker
North Charleston
Sunday Selling Crackdown Set
Huntington plans a renewed crackdown on firms doing business on Sundays under the blue law. Authorities target discount houses and note past arrests and court outcomes. Sheriff Harold Frankel will add Civil Defense Auxiliary Police as special deputies to bolster enforcement.
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Huntington
Cabell
Russell Dunbar
Harold Frankel
E. E. Harper
Dunbar
Huntington Police Department
Sheriff's Office
Circuit Court
Common Pleas Court
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Frankel
Civil Defense Auxiliary Police
Soviet disarmament talks show deep Soviet mistrust
In a mixed view at the UN and Geneva, the United States and the Soviet Union agree disarmament would aid world economics yet the Soviets reject practical steps. Telstar is cited as a potential peaceful space use while also fueling Cold War propaganda. The piece argues Soviet faith in a communist economy rests on war and fears a non communist world.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Soviet Union
United States
Geneva
Telstar
Act of Congress
Russia
U.N
Cuba
India
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