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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1957
Page
29
Class A Children Litteracy below right William Pflock Pike 5t Monongah. Class B Activities Vanishing Craft below Jet Mrs Howard Brewster Box 143 Holden. Class A Animals and Pets Old Country Boy right Anne Henson 140 Tenth Ave South Charleston.
Three privately supported West Virginia colleges will get checks totaling 212500 this week from the Gard Foundation. Bethany, Davis and Elkins, and West Virginia Wesleyan College receive the second and final payment to raise faculty salaries. The 417500 grants go to the colleges endowment funds with income used for higher salaries for lowly paid professors. Bethany in Brookery will receive 83500 this week.
Six members of the Charleston Civitan Club will attend the Civitan International Convention in Chicago Illinois starting today through Thursday. Attending delegates include Paul Jefferson president Bert Morris past president Kyle King vice president Belford Roberts Charlie Roberts and Forbes R Clarke district governor. The Ford Foundation provided 260 million for a program aiding 630 private colleges with salaries tied to 1954 55 instructional costs and NEA notes low faculty pay as a key shortage.
In Hoffmann Politics column, jury debates whether Harry Hoffmann misquoted or adapted the "Cabots and Lodges" line. McCormick claims misquote, Knight argues for adaptation, with sources Bartletts Book, Hoyts Cyclopedia, and Bushnell cited. Knight notes Yale parodies and proposes crediting Hoffmann with an adaptation rather than a misquote.
Williamson June 22 Mingo County begins the new fiscal year July 1 free of debt after paying $9598.77 in bills leaving a general fund balance near $10,000. County commissioners president Grant Kennedy announced the achievement and noted the improved financial position.
West Virginia funds public schools with 61 percent state aid and 34 percent local taxes, a reversal of the national pattern. Kanawha County shows 55 percent state aid, 40 percent local taxes, and 5 percent federal. The Tax Limitations Amendment of 1933 shapes funding, with a November 1958 vote on a local-finance focused Better Schools Amendment.
A Gazette staff column reflects on Uncle Bob, a southern Ohio coal miner who died in 1943 after a life of low pay and unsafe, harsh conditions. It argues the UMWA could have provided safety, welfare, and burial funds, contrasting his fate with union protections and broader miners’ rights.
West Virginia officials including state tax commissioner John A. Field Jr and Circuit Judge K K Hall will address sessions of the West Virginia Association of County and Circuit Clerks at the Ruffner Hotel. The meeting includes tax panels, round tables, a joint session, a reception, banquet, and a Saturday schedule with officer elections. Host clerks are Kanawha County Clerk Paul E. Wehrle and Circuit Clerk Lewis A. Hatcher.
The study shows Kanawha County urbanizing faster than most US areas since 1950 with new housing roads factories and shopping areas. Population rose since 1930 by 1.8 per cent and density reached 269 per square mile while average after tax income rose from 1106 in 1960 to 1671 today.
Huntington reports the high profile murder case as Elmer David Bruner, 40, goes on trial in Common Pleas Court for the bludgeoning death of 58 year old Mrs. J. E. Miller in her South Side home last May 27. Prosecutor seeks the death penalty while Bruner’s defense vows a fair trial amid threats to families.
Three West Virginia teachers receive $250 fellowships to attend a two week science teaching techniques conference starting in College Park Maryland at the University of Maryland. The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. also awards $230 fellowships to 43 teachers across Maryland Virginia Pennsylvania New York and South Carolina sponsored by the firm and the National Education Association.
Patrick Connell, assistant director of the State Department of Employment Security, will be a panel speaker at the June 20 to 28 convention of the International Association of Employment Security Personnel in Miami Florida. He will discuss Current Developments in Employment Security Research.
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