Washington Lacks Plan of Coping with Sudden Blow
Washington lacks an adequate civilian defense plan for a sudden crisis or atom attack. A INS correspondent found widespread fear of mass hysteria and mass evacuation, with few officials or responders confident in any deployed traffic control or contingency duties.
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Washington
INS
Lavenues
Boy Awarded 35000 for Loss of Leg in Explosion
William L. Beasley, 12, was awarded 35000 in damages after he lost a leg and sustained injuries when a confederate shell exploded at a quarantine station on April 1, 1947. The case found the U S government negligent for failing to stop Beasley and others from tampering with the shell.
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Charleston
S. C
William L. Beasley
Quarantine Station
J. O. Beasley
U. S
J. Waites Waring
Young Beasley
UMW Ordered To Stop Pressure on Miners
National Labor Relations Board ordered John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers to halt efforts to compel employees at four West Virginia coal companies to join the union. The action cites an existing agreement that illegal organizing has ceased and won’t resume. Companies Ruthbell Hartman Kefover Borgman coal firms in Kingwood and Borgman employ about 445 non union miners.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
District 31 F
Ruthbell Coal Company
Hartman Coal Company
George Kefover Coal Co
Kingwood
W. Va
Borgman Coal Co
Borgman
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