House committee calls for overhaul of safety rules on passenger ships
Washington AP The House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee urged immediate changes to safety rules for foreign flag passenger ships after the Yarmouth Castle disaster. It proposed fireproof construction, inclusion of transferred ships, sprInkler and smoke detectors, emergency squads, and radio requirements. Pending international adoption, U.S. clearance should be denied to noncompliant vessels. Senate hearings on the Yarmouth Castle may produce legislative action.
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Lindbergh Surprises His Hometown On Return Visit
Charles A Lindbergh 64 visits Little Falls Minnesota his old family home now a state park researching his fathers life. He tours the 110 acre Lindbergh farm visits a missing building and seeks parts for the Saxon car once stripped after the 1927 New York Paris flight. He is joined by his sister Eva Christie and heads to Crosby to visit Uncle Frank Lindbergh.
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Charles A. Lindbergh Sr
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New York
Paris
Camp Ripley
Defense Department
Library of Congress
Pan American World Airways
Darien
Conn
Eva Christie
Red Lake Falls
Crosby
Frank Lindbergh
Instant Rehabilitation housing experiment in New York
A roof collapse marks the launch of Instant Rehabilitation. The plan aims to rehab seven pre-1901 tenements by dropping in prefabricated apartments within 48 hours per building, cutting costs from 13 000 to 7 000 per unit and reducing tenant disruption. The project, funded by a 390 000 grant, starts with three buildings purchased by a private foundation.
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New York
Edward Rice
Frederic Berman
Berman
Ihis
Institute of Public Administration
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Robert C. Weaver
Five southern colleges flagged for possible federal aid loss
Washington AP reports Sweet Briar College and four other southern schools face possible federal aid withdrawal over Civil Rights Act compliance. Sweet Briar, near Lynchburg, seeks $14,331 in federal funds and contends it may pursue a hearing. A related lawsuit seeks to integrate its student body while other institutions improved assurances. In other news, a miner died in a truck mine accident in Wise County, and Shenandoah Apple Blossom Queen is to be crowned in Winchester.
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Sweet Briar
U. S. Office of Education
Peter V. Daniel
Lynchburg
Nore
C. G. Quesenberg
Amherst County Circuit Court
Office of Education
Marion Institute
Marion
Ala
Mississippi College
Clinton
Miss
Bob Jones University
Greenville
S.C
Freewill Baptist Bibble College
Nashville
Winchester
Godwin
Jane Henderson
Shenandoah
Henderson
U.S
Nigel Henderson
England
Social sickness warned as health risk to workers
CHARLOTTE AP Dr Robert Collier Page says a person’s social life including work, home, and relationships can cause illness more than cancer. He argues boredom and job dissatisfaction foster physical and mental health issues, urging collaboration among labor, management, and medicine to keep people healthy.
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Woman slain on New Bern street in early morning attack
New Bern North Carolina police report a 43 year old Dorothy Kirkman was struck on the head with a heavy instrument on a New Bern street corner around 7 am Tuesday. No arrests have been made and the case is under investigation.
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Richmond
Henrico County
Wendel Herbert Hatterman
Ft. Benning
United States
Viet Nam
Shirley H. Roberts
Halterman
State Medical Examiner’s Office
New Bern
N.C
Dorothy Kirkman
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