Engleman Warns of Obsolescence Threat to U.S. Schools
Connecticut education commissioner Finis E. Engleman warned that the American school system risks obsolescence unless curricula and teaching adapt. He urged constant teacher re education and cited Connecticut overcrowding, rising class sizes, reduced kindergarten, and funding pressures as signs of looming decline.
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Engleman
New Haven
Connecticut
Finis E. Engleman
Yale
WTIC
Hartford
U. S
America
Airline Workers End 4 Day Strike
More than a thousand American Airlines employees return to work after a four day sit down strike that halted 172 flights. American sues the Transport Workers Union CIO for 250000 and seeks a permanent injunction. The union accepted mediation board arbitration to settle the dispute.
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New York
American Airlines
Transport Workers Union
CIO
National Mediation Board
Newark Airport
Newark
American
TWA
Mediation Board
Michael J. Quill
Vessels Visit Rotterdam in One Month Reach Record Totals
During a single month, 1,170 merchant ships totaling 2,057,922 net tons visited Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Rotterdam
Netherlands
Yale 251st Commencement Opens with Roots of Education
Yale President A Whitney Griswold warns that Western civilization faces threats similar to Rome but says education now has deep roots to withstand them. He urges graduates to nurture the intellectual strength of schools and universities to avoid another near extinction of the life of the mind.
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New Haven
Yale
A. Whitney Griswold
Europe
Griswold
British Ocean Depth Record Reached by Challenger
British surveyors on H.M.S. Challenger report a new world depth record in the western Pacific. After an echo sounding nearly seven miles down, the vessel measured 35 640 feet at the ocean bottom in an undersea canyon south of Guam.
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H.M.S. Challenger
Guam
Pacific
Lost Child Patricia Sheffield Killed by Train
Patricia Sheffield, two, wandered from home in Columbiaville Michigan and was struck by a northbound New York Central train. An all-night search by 300 National Guardsmen, 100 farmers, state police and deputies found her body two miles from home at dawn with fatal injuries.
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Columbiaville
Mich
Patricia Sheffield
Patricia
Roland Sheffield
New York Central
Donate Blood to Save A Life Today
Red Cross blood bank operates today from 1 to 6 p.m. at chapter headquarters 271 Park Avenue. Donors urgently needed to meet the quota. Call 50191 for an appointment. C.8. Naramore, blood bank chairman, urges that you or a loved one may live because you give today.
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Red Cross Blood Bank
Park Avenue
Naramore
Blood Bank
Second Funeral-in-Advance for Jim Gernhart Falls Short
Burlington Colorado June 8 AP Jim Gernhart 76 held a second funeral in advance this year an evangelical service not a real funeral. Rev S H Mahaffey urged the crowd of about 100 that the service was an opportunity to preach the gospel. Last year 1200 attended with a full ceremony. Gernhart plans another service next June and has spent part of his fortune on a copper casket a granite monument and burial plot in Goodland Kansas. He canceled plans for a 65 piece band due to cost and dignity concerns. The service was held in his front yard with attendees in cars and no attendees at home if they chose.
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Burlington
Colo
Jim Gernhart
S. H. Mahaffey
Kanorado
Kan
Gernhart
Mahaffey
Goodland
Kansas
Deaf church dedicated in Indianapolis
A hand sign church dedicated in Indianapolis marks Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Deaf as Indiana’s first permanent chapel for deaf congregants. The church features sign language worship and sermons conducted without audible speech.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Deaf
Indiana
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