Bluefield College Enrolls More Students in Fourth Session
Bluefield College opens its fourth session with eight new students last week and a steady rise in enrollment. The football team's strong start boosts prestige, attracting hesitant applicants as the campus expands with new gym, library, eight homes for faculty, 108 acre campus, science museum, and enhanced curriculum.
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Bluefield College
Vernon Week
Department of Science
Bluefield
Ling
Millions change spark plugs every year now
A Champion Spark Plug Company official cites a field survey showing millions of motorists replace spark plugs annually for better car performance and economy. The executive outlines historical plug durability and the shift to higher speed engines, noting insulator wear and ignition loss as efficiency declined. A fossil tree, 70 feet long and about 1 million years old, was unearthed in the Asanol mining area of Bengal, India.
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F. B. Caswell
Champion
Spark Plug
Mr. Caswell
Asanol
Bengal
India
Modern gymnasium ready for regular classes at college
Within a few days the new modern gymnasium will be ready for regular gymnastics. The college has lacked a gym for three years and opens the fourth session with this welcome addition. Lockers are in place, outside steps nearly finished, and the building readied for indoor basketball and other major sports.
Divers lift S-51 crew from sunken submarine wreck
Two civilian divers Harry Reinhartsen and William Reid are brought up from the sunken S-51 while Lieutenant Rodney H. Dobson remains inside the craft. The scene includes a close-up of Reinhartsen who retrieved the first body, amid ongoing uncertainties about the fate of the commander.
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Harry Reinhartsen
William Reid
Inset
Reinhartsen
Rodney H. Dobson
Informal Delta Sigma Sorority Party at Athens Concord College
An informal Delta Sigma Sorority party for college girls and faculty women drew honorary members and patronesses. Misses seven and Gladys Bram served at the punch bowl while Charlogue impersonated Aunt Tempe the beloved colored mammy, eliciting an ovation.
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George West Diehl
Ester McClung
Dorothy Kennedy
Evelyn White
Princeton High School
Delta Sigma Sorority
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Gladys Bram Pres
Miss Charlogue
Beckley Women Move to Portsmouth for Winter Posts
Mrs. Daisy Higginbotham and her daughter Mrs. Lewis Hutchinson left Athens for Portsmouth Ohio to arrange extension classes and take nurse positions at the city hospital. Miss Margaret Huffman of Peace Springs and Carl Eades of Alderson returned home for the weekend.
Concord College Debating Delegation Heads to Clarksburg
Concord College representatives to the West Virginia Intercollegiate Forensic Association depart for Huntington then Clarksburg to attend the October 5 meeting at Hotel Waldo. The delegation includes Prof M S Cushman head coach and veterans Paul Daniel and Harold Riffe. The council aims to plan 1926 27 interstate debates and push elimination contests between state colleges.
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Concord State College
Clarksburg
College
M. 8. Cushman
Harold Riffe
Paul Daniel
Huntington
Concord
Marshall College
Concord College
West Virginia Intercollegiate Forensic Association
Waldo
Concord Marshall
Forensic Council of
M.S. Cushman
Cushman
Marshall
Milligan
Eee
Virginia Debating Championship Aim at Clarksburg Meet
The article notes a state final contest to determine the best debating team. Concord intends to perfect plans at the Clarksburg meeting to enable elimination rounds until a single champion from Virginia emerges.
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Concord
Clarksburg
Virginia
Fingerprint plan for deserted babies in Dublin
Dublin reports an increase in deserted infants leading union commissioners to order fingerprinting of babies under three months old discharged from Pellets maternity hospital. Miss Duggan argues the measure will help police identify the mother or foster mother.
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Dublin
Union Commissioners
Healing Concrete and Muskrat Pelts Highlight State News
Prof Duff A Abrams reports concrete can heal itself after cracking with a bridge study showing healed cracks after a year. In Louisiana Batton Rough officials push muskrat pelts as a potential new income, with a naturalist hired to develop the industry after 1 000 900 pelts sold at a dollar each last year.
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Abrams
Batton Rough
Louisiana
Union
Gulf Coast
Department of Agriculture
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