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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1955
Page
9
Seven doctors from New York and New Jersey report 41 autopsy cases show smoking histories correlate with overgrowth of lung reserve cells. They caution no final conclusions and note the study excluded women and minors. The American Cancer Society supports further research.
New York June 2 The Tobacco Industry Research Committee chairman says a New York and New Jersey medical group report linking smoking to lung cancer is too inconclusive for discussion. He cites Dr Auerbach and notes a larger coordinated study with $90 000 funding and about 1800 cases in its first year. The effort aims to publish findings only after sufficient data. In a separate brief, four youths tried to ride a drive in trunk for two admissions at Wood River Illinois, prompting staff to intervene.
The U S Court of Appeals directed a hearing by June 7 on Otto Nathan’s passport application and stayed a District Court order to issue the passport. The panel requires a quasi judicial review with evidence for Nathan, executor of Albert Einstein’s estate, who seeks to attend a July 11 meeting in Bern to discuss Einstein manuscripts.
The Public Service Commission will hear next week the Virginian Railway plan to discontinue its remaining West Virginia passenger trains between Page in Fayette County and the Virginia line near Hales Gap in Mercer County. New York Central seeks limited summer service in Kanawha County trains 641 642 643 644 and the Hessil Gas Co requests rate increases in Princeton.
Former Charleston councilman Willard Brown was named Charleston’s delegate to a conference of NAACP leaders in Atlanta to discuss further integration in public schools. Legal advisors and NAACP representatives from 117 states will meet to map plans for advancing desegregation without delay.
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