Former Industrialist Becomes College President at Wabash
Frank Hugh Sparks, a former Indiana tire pump pioneer and Arvin Industries leader, rose from a self declared goal to become a college president. He led Wabash College from 1941, rebuilt after war, and pressed private philanthropy to fund the school while expanding faculty and facilities despite early opposition.
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Butler University
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University of Southern California
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Wabash College
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Wabash
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Frank Hugh Sparks Shapes Private College Aid Drive
The cover feature portrays Frank Hugh Sparks president of Wabash College as he leads a campaign to urge private colleges to avoid federal aid. Sparks, an industrialist turned educator, helped found the Associated Colleges of Indiana and chaired a commission on colleges and industry, backing private funding through the Council for Aid to Education.
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Wabash
Associated Press News
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Wabash College
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Crawfordsville
Ind
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Byron K. Trippet
Trippet
Atlantic City
Indiana College
Dr. I. Lynd Esch
Indiana Central College
Indiana
AAC
Commission On Colleges and Industry
Indiana Group
Do-it-yourself Hobby Ends With Lead Tokens Arrest
New York police arrested Jack Wladyken after he sold improvised coins in a subway station. He crafted large lead coins and pennies filed down to imitate tokens in a basement workshop, earning only small change.
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New York
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Jack Wladyken
Bartletts welcome triplet twins add to 14 children
Verne C. Bartlett of McLouth Kansas notes his large family has grown to 14 children after Donna Marie and Donis Jean arrived as twins. The couple already has three sets of twins, all within a single year, expanding the household.
Girl Corrects Age Reference In Honolulu Paper
A teenage reader from Honolulu writes to an AP story about a girl who liked the piece but objects to being labeled 17 and called a sophomore. She says she is 16 and resents the mistaken age and term.
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Honolulu
Fred Henson to Speak at Colorado Convention
Fred C. Henson of Cedar Rapids and editor of The Conductor and Brakeman will address the American Railway Magazine Editors Association in Colorado Springs. About 100 editors from 40 railroad publications attend ARMEA’s 33rd annual convention. Allan Johnson of the Atomic Energy Commission Idaho Falls will discuss practical atomic power uses including potential railway applications.
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Fred C. Henson
Cedar Rapids
CRCE
United States
Canada
American Railway Magazine Editors Association
Colorado Springs
Railroad System
ARMEA
Allan Johnson
Atomic Energy Commission
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Burglars Hit Lincoln Kennel Take 1200 Pounds Dog Food
Thieves broke into a warehouse at Robert Sanders dog kennel in Lincoln Illinois and carried off 1200 pounds of dog food. Deputy Sheriff Ken Zimmerman said forty dogs housed there did not bark during the break in.
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Lincoln, Ill
Robert Sanders
Ken Zimmerman
Denmark Is Lovely Land Inez Reports
Inez Robe extols Denmark as a land of abundance and ingenuity. She describes Denmark’s rich countryside, prolific pig and egg production, and efficient dairy work, noting exports of eggs and bacon and Denmark’s compact size relative to West Virginia. She praises the Danes for turning limited resources into national strength and humorously credits them with mountain-making imagination.
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Denmark
Zeeland
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Jutland
Europe
England
West Virginia
By Stanley Meisler
A brief byline note credits Stanley Meisler. The fragment identifies the author and provides no further details on a story or date.
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Stanley Meisler
Basin Street’s Transformation From Storyville to Modern Thoroughfare
New Orleans Basin Street, once a famed red light district called Storyville, has been widened and modernized with shrubs and blue street lamps. Storyville housed 200 brothels by 1910 before the Navy closed it in World War I. today cribs and vice sites are gone, replaced by housing projects and a symphony book sale corner, while Basin Street nearby hosts Municipal Auditorium concerts and a shift away from jazz-era vice.
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Wicked Bellows
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Billy Graham
AP News
Lulu White
House of Mirrors
Red Light District
Key Odds in Stolen Car Case
In New Haven, Joseph Murphy unknowingly drove off in a car later reported stolen and similar to his own. Authorities said the odds Murphy's key would fit the other car were 10,000 to 1.
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New Haven
Fall Vacation Hints From Cedar Rapids Motor Club
C. C. Birr of the Cedar Rapids Auto club gave fall outdoor trip tips in Cedar Rapids last week. He urged making a checklist, avoiding poison plants, wearing protective clothing, washing after woods trips, carrying a first aid kit, and safely handling firearms. Remember to bank and extinguish camp fires and keep campsites clean. Travel light but carry essentials.
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Cedar Rapids
C. C. Birr
Birr
Garbage Trouble in Niles City Hall Incident
An irate housewife dumped her overloaded garbage pail in Niles City Hall after delays. The stalled trash removal contract awarded four weeks of pileup, and she left without the pail.
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Niles, Mich
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