Elementary School Problems Studied at Two-Week Workshop
A two week workshop opening at Marshall College will study how to develop well rounded personalities in elementary pupils. Attendees include state education officials teacher trainers from colleges county superintendents and assistants Dr Louis E Raths of Ohio State University and Dr Kate Wofford of State Teachers College Buffalo join Dr Helen Macintosh of the U S Office of Education. The program runs two weeks with formal sessions only initially four days and later smaller group discussions. This is the second such workshop in the state following last year’s one week session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Marshall College
Louis E.” Raths
Ohio State University
State Departments of Education
Kate Wofford
State Teachers College
Buffalo
N. Y
Helen Macintosh
A. Cliff Hamilton
German Assets Sale Aids Nazi Victims Rehabilitation Plan
London reports that nine-tenths of a 25 million dollar fund from German asset sales will aid Jewish victims of Nazi persecution under Allied oversight. France Britain USA and others map the program, with distribution through an intergovernmental refugees committee to public and private groups. The grant funds rehabilitation and resettlement, not individual compensation, targeting non-repatriable victims. The remaining ten percent will assist non Jewish refugees persecuted by the Nazis who seek emigration or resettlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
France
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Paris
Inter-Governmental Committee On Refugees
Germany
Austria
Wetzel County Lands Certified for Sale
Wetzel County, second only to Kanawha for delinquent parcels, had 2 471 tracts certified for sale to the circuit court. G W S Grove said the parcels, mainly coal oil and gas lands, push Wetzel to 32 counties completed with 45 659 total tracts certified. Braxton and Monongalia follow in counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wetzel County
Kanawha
G. W. S. Grove
Land Department of the Auditor's Office
Circuit Court
Braxton County
Monongalia
C. Chapman
New Martinsville
Wetzel
County Reserve Officers To Hold Meeting Today
Ka Nawha chapter of the Reserve Officers Association meets at 8 p.m. today in the Daniel Boone hotel. President J. C. Setters notes the agenda includes extending the Selective Service Act in its original form for at least one year without proposed changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ka- Nawha
Reserve Officers Assoc
Daniel Boone Hotel
J. C
Chicken Feed Costs Rise as Hatchings Decline in West Virginia
Feed scarcity and higher prices depressed commercial hatchings of chicks in West Virginia by 12 percent last month from May. The Cooperative Crop Reporting Service said total hatchings were 90 000 versus 1 075 000 in May 1945 and 1 172 000 in May 1943, still the third highest May on record. Eggs in incubators on June 1 also dropped notably from a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Fire From Lightning Triggers Bar Move In West Virginia Repair Effort
Weather and state reports note minimal damage from a lightning fire near Bar Jewish resettlement areas. Crops show generally good conditions with above normal temperatures. hay harvest delayed by rains. UN refugee council debate on Palestine related issues influenced by crop outlook and regional speculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dewey M. Fair
Hgg
Roosevelt Av
West Virginia
Nanawha
Palestine
United Nations
Eea
Raymond Bousquet
Economic and Social Council
Malik
World Refugee Organization
Wotld
Canaan Valley
Ohio
Hinton
George L.warren
U.S. Representat J
Parsons Tive
U.N
Longness Is Fatal To Founder of Pen Co
Walter A. Sheaffer, 78, founder and chairman of the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co., died after a long illness. He pioneered a self filling fountain pen and built a large, steady business. Born July 27, 1867 in Bloomfield, he started the company in 1912 with seven employees after working as a grocery delivery boy and in jewelry and music stores in several towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pen Co
Fort Madison
Walter A. Sheaffer
W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co
Bloomfield
Bloom- Cold
Centerville
Unionsville
Remembrance Sunday to unite war dead observance
Prime Minister Attlee announced in Commons that Britain would observe a single national day for the dead of both World Wars, merging Armistice Day into Remembrance Sunday with King George V approving the plan. The date would be the Sunday before November 11 unless that Sunday falls on the 11th or 12th. A national day of remembrance for both wars will be observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Attlee
Britain
George
Home Secretary
False Teeth Stay in Throat Four Days Before Removal
George Glass a 48 year old store manager from Eric Pennsylvania swallowed a piece of a dental plate with two teeth and a metal hook while eating four days earlier. Doctors at Temple hospital located the fragment by X ray and removed it with an esophaguscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
George Glass
Eric
Temple Hospital
Glass
Cab Company Sued Over 310000 Damage Claim
The Checker White Cab Co of Charleston was sued for 310000 in circuit court by Charlie Rhoades of Cabin Creek. He seeks damages for the injury to his wife and hospital costs from an accident last Sept 14 when his wife was a passenger as the cab skidded and she was thrown out. The suit lists Community Recreations of Welch Inc as the non profit organization involved with incorporators L E Reed, Rogers, O E Linkous and J W Blakely of Welch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cab Company
Checker White Cab Co
Charleston
Charlies Rhoades
Cabin Creek
Rhoades
Company Cab
Community Recreations
Welgh
Inc
Reed
Rogers
E Linkous
J. W.content
Blakely
Welch
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The
Charleston Gazette
Mentary Education
U. S. Office of Education
Hare
Canada
Exelvelve
Ferenuia
Mullens Drug’ Co
Mullens
Ward Wylie
Carl E. Moran
D. H. Arnold
Taylor County Turf Club
Grafta
X Cooperative
Francis L. Welch
D. W. Sayres
Elta B
Sayres
Grafton
Weirton Improvement Co
Weirh
F. M. Hesse
Paul E. Shroads
M. B.arden
Pittsburgh
State Line Hunting Club
Monon
Kansas City
John Myers
Blue River
Mrs. Myers
Myers
Arthur Otis
Delbert Holman
Sali 2
Louise McKinnon
Ethel D. Jeffers
Emmanuel Baptist Church
T. E. Jeffers
Kanawha City
Payng
G. B. Rader
B. C. Flint
Dewey Burdette
Joe B. Quermyer
Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church
C. E. Mudd
Synodical and Presbyterian Missions
Harry T. DeHart
Kanawha Valley
Youth For Christ
Mahan Comunity Church
Mahan Church
Valley
Bell Stores
Galia County
Lenhart
Opal Fowler
Alva G.rude
Monongalia County
Hixson
SASS
Roger & Gallet
Baby's
OSS A
Wrisley’s
Bath
Wrisley
Toilet
Lifebuoy
LUX
Woodbury
Palmolive
Bocabelli
Soune Ie
Capitol
Bath Ensemble
Roycemore Shower
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