Quick-Thinking Teen-Ager Saves Boy From Overflow Ditch
In Birmingham, Doris Jean Schatz, 17, ran nearly a mile to reach an underground culvert and rescue Johnnie Shores, 2, who fell into a foaming ditch. She pulled him from the water, started artificial respiration, and after forty five minutes he opened his eyes. The town learns of the daring rescue today.
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East German Czechs set Sudeten pact in renewed denazification pledge
Berlin reports East Germany plans a pact with Czechoslovakia renouncing German claims to the Sudetenland mirroring last week’s Poland agreement. In New York, a grand jury probing the Amerasia case heard Peyton Ford, as the jury’s term nears its end amid unconfirmed speculation of government influence to drop the case.
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Study to Improve State Stream Conditions at WVU
West Virginia University biology department announced plans to press studies on stream restoration. Professor G. Anderson described using tiny crustaceans related to crawfish to gauge toxicity in the Shenandoah River segment below Front Royal Virginia. Where Daphnia survived, water appeared safe for fish, guiding wildlife management and pollution reduction efforts.
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West Virginia Negro Boys State opens in Charleston
Twenty one of Charleston's youths join eighty five participants at the ninth annual West Virginia Negro Boys State held at the Washington Carver 4-H camp. Sponsored by the American Legion department of West Virginia, the session began yesterday and will run all week with a program to foster citizenship through party membership and local government study. T. C. Gregory presided at the opening.
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Estate Appeal Granted By State High Court
The State Supreme Court granted yesterday an appeal by the estate of the late T. K. Haner Sr. of Cincinnati. The case challenges a $10,308 award to the estate of his brother H. B. Haner of Charleston. Kanawha Circuit Court had refused the appeal from the county court award based on a commissioner's finding involving a supposed three brother agreement to share costs of support.
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Charleston
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Coal Production Falls In State In April Report
West Virginia coal output for April reached 12,318,757 tons, down 2,002,008 tons from the same month in 1849, according to the Mines Department. First four months total 36,815,037 tons, 25 percent below the prior year’s cumulative output.
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Gas Station Burglary Reported At City Intersection
City police say a burglary at Johnny Stuart's service station on Court and Washington Streets netted $185 in cash and $47 in checks. Detective Capt. Dewey Williams reports entry was gained through a forced rear door.
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Charleston Taxicab Rates Commission Seeks Uniform Schedule
The commission notes inconsistency in taxi rates in Charleston and urges full cooperation to develop a uniform schedule. Officials stress the need for a clear, equitable tariff across providers and regulatory oversight.
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Mundy taxi rate trial continues with mixed results
The three Mundy companies report April profits and March losses under the new 25 cent base while May shows gains amid driver strikes. Auditors note revenue per mile and per hour shift with old versus new scales and propose meters and a 35 cent minimum with 21 cent per half mile.
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Aetna Finance Opens Near Summers Street
The new Aetna Finance office at 145 Summers Street in downtown Charleston offers a Get Acquainted 60 loan for 30 days at total cost 1.75. Eligible worthy persons can obtain cash quickly by signing two notes and leaving with funds. The office also handles First and Second Mortgage Auto Lines from 60 to 300, with a second loan for existing car debt. John J. Conway is the manager.
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Four Admitted To Citizenship In District Court
Four individuals were admitted to United States citizenship yesterday in District Federal Court. Anita Gertrud Angelo, Frank Beaumont Kenworthy, Thressa Thuransky, and Germaine Louise Bailey received naturalization. The applicants held British, French, Hungarian, and German nationalities. Edith Kowisky, who had lost her citizenship through marriage, was repatriated.
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Huntington
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Culloden
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Scarbro
Callihan Enrolled in 13 Week Life Insurance Course
Harvey F. Callihan of Charleston West Virginia a special representative of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co is attending a 13 week life insurance marketing course at Per due University in Lafayette Indiana The program aims to train professional life underwriters studying taxes business insurance estate analysis and advanced underwriting to equip about 50 agents to advise clients on insurance matters.
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Democrat Sell Out Continues in Court Fight
Sam MacCorkle, a Charleston lawyer and WV governor’s grandson, is spotlighted as a challenger to Hanna-Brawley in the August 1 primary. The piece suggests voters can derail the deal by nominating MacCorkle in the Democratic primary.
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Hinton student earns summa cum laude at Bethany College
Billy J. Hannon of Hinton graduated summa cum laude at Bethany College's 16th annual commencement held yesterday. He also received the Oreon EF. Scott award for the senior with the highest academic record over four years of college.
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Oreon EF. Scott
Farmers Report Rise in Prices in West Virginia May 15
The Cooperative Crop Service reports a two point rise in the May 15 price index to 238 percent of the 1910-14 base, with higher prices for meat animals grains fruit and miscellaneous products offsetting declines for dairy eggs and poultry. Prices for crops include corn 1.51 a bushel oats 92 cents and barley 1.15 while hogs cattle veal calves and lambs rose to 17.10 20.50 26.40 8.50 and 24.59 per hundredweight. Chicken prices fell to 25.8 cents per pound eggs at 28.2 cents per dozen and wholesale milk at 3.80 per hundredweight.
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Cooperative Crop Service
West Virginia Steel Hit By CIO United Steelworkers Strike
About 450 union members from CIO United Steelworkers walked out at West Virginia Steel and Manufacturing Co in Huntington. Company President William G. Summer cited firm viability and failure of local 37 to agree on a new contract after the prior expired. Negotiations had dragged on for weeks with unclear issues.
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West Virginia
Goldthorpe Returns From Cambridge Business Conference
TFF Goldthorpe, professor of business administration at Morris Harvey College, has returned from Cambridge, Massachusetts where he attended the 20th National Business Conference by Harvard University Business School Adsoc. The program featured speeches and panel discussions by business leaders from across the nation. He is a 1926 Harvard graduate.
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Harvard
West Virginia students garner degrees at Virginia Medical College commencement
At the 113th commencement of the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond on June 12, 264 degrees were awarded including 31 to West Virginians. Recipients included Kenneth L. Clark and others earning doctor of medicine, Thomas King of Marlinton earned dental surgery, Barbara J. Powell of St Albans earned pharmacy, and Margaret Arbuckle Lyda Bullington and Norma East Beck received nursing education bachelor of science degrees. Sea water evaporates more slowly than fresh water.
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Police Kill Escaped Convict After Salem Jail Break
IPSWICH Massachusetts June 32 7 Police shot and killed an escaped prisoner and captured two others soon after the trio trode from Salem jail The dead man was Coleman F Nee 32 of South Boston serving a year for larceny He was shot as he and his companions fled into the woods after abandoning an automobile used in their getaway
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Boston
The Chaff and Wheat in Christian Science Teachings
Awakening through Christian Science light brings relief from pain and fear, with Jeremiah 23 28 cited. Readers learn that God is infinite good and theory translates into practical restoration. Readers may request information and a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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