Truck Drivers Tested On Special Skills
Omaha, Neb. up Nebraska safety engineering consulting service screens truck driver applicants for Nebraska Motor Carriers Association. Directed by safety engineer Donald E. Renner of Lincoln, the survey lists traits like intelligence, stability, reliability, moral character, politeness, humor, health and coordination as essential for big-road pilots.
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Nebraska Motor Carriers Association
Nebraska Safety Engineering Consulting Service
Donald
E. Renner
Lincoln
Renner
Driver Fitness Tests Screen Applicants for Safety
The association aims to weed out drivers who may build up poor safety records. Unfit individuals will be reassigned to other jobs with the company. Tests include a written exam on traffic and driving knowledge and psychophysical assessments. New applicants and any driver involved in an accident take the tests. They cover eye vision glare recovery distance judgment and eye foot reaction.
University Faculty Increased This Year at Alabama
The University of Alabama announced the appointment of 52 new faculty and staff across colleges and schools. Names span College of Engineering, Education, Home Economics, Commerce and Business Administration, Arts and Sciences, Chemistry, and the Extension Division, with several individuals listed in each department.
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Thomas W. Humble
Jack H. Menning
Horace NH. Washburn
Richard C. Brewer
Harry A. Lipson
Will H. Carroll
Ria Jane Clinkscales
Marion K. Coley
Howard A. Folts
Charles N. Moore
Duncan Whitten Murphy
John P. Noland, Jr
Bette H. Sawyer
College of Arts and Sciences
Richard Brough
A. M. Harvis, Jr
Elizabeth Archibald
Frank V. Cosby
Paul Ramsey, Jr
C. Stewart Tinsley
Allen Agnew
Irene A. Nassau
Venice Poulos
Frederick S. Elland
Charles W. Scarritt
Margaret Berger
Louis Jaffe
Arylene M. Jones
Hassell Palmer
Nell M. Reid
James Suttles
Eva Clapp
Glenn Abernathy
Frederick D. Ogden
Solon T. Kimball
Marion Gallaway
John A. Dean
Robert B. Scott
Juanita Lassett Lee
Doris L. Krout
Commerce Extension Service
Robert E. Tyler
Conscience Restores Lost $76 to Fort Worth Man
Paul Rathgeber, once an insurance collector in 1919, received an unsigned letter and the $76 he had lost. The letter explained the money was found by someone who needed it badly, and the writer asked Rathgeber to keep the memory of the act.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Paul Rathgeber
Rathgeber
Western democracies unite against Soviet aggression in Berlin crisis
DEWITT MACKENZIE notes France, Britain, and the United States present a united front against Moscow after Shearman confirms solidarity at the United Nations in Paris. Western ministers in Paris discuss coordinated military resources and possible mobilization should tensions over Berlin escalate, signaling resolve to defend Western Europe and deter Bolshevik aggression.
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France
America
Britain
Russia
Sheuman
General Assembly of the United Nations
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Moscow
London Daily Telegraph
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United Nations
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Youth mobilized in Poland aid drive valued at 625000
Youth brigades aged 16 to 21 under In Service of Poland have completed reconstruction work totaling 625000. They receive 16 hours monthly military training and basic sustenance with minimal personal pay. Brigades from Czechoslovakia Hungary Bulgaria France Norway Denmark and Finland assisted. About 2 million Polish youths expected to join by 1948.
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Poland
Warsaw
Edward Braniewski
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Hungary
France
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Teals Noted for Beauty Among Ducks
Green-winged teals, the smallest ducks, are famed for beauty and rank just behind the wood duck in plumage brilliance, a fact highlighted in regional bird notes.
Shrimp Dominates Pamlico Sound as Top US Catch
NOA Morehead City reports the Pamlico Sound shrimp fishery becomes America's No 1 catch this fall. A 500-boat fleet targets shrimp at 32 cents per pound paid to fishermen, dealers ice and sell at about 85 to 90 cents to consumers.
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Morehead City
N. C
NEA
America
Pamlico Sound
North Carolina
Florida
Englehard
Gulf Stream
Radio men fail to fry egg in 100 degree heat
Merrill Wisconsin United Press reports that several radio men from Station WLIN attempted to fry an egg on a sidewalk in temperatures over 100 degrees. They only managed to curdle the edges of the egg, not fry it.
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Merrill
Wis
WLIN
Stonewall Jackson Home Now 4-H Camp Site
Jackson’s Mill in Jackson County West Virginia has become a 523 acre 4-H camp. The former boyhood home of Stonewall Jackson sits on the original five acre tract donated in 1921 for 4-H and leadership training. The site includes an old mill building and has grown into a major agricultural extension facility with 13 cottages housing about 360 campers and staff.
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Jackson
W. Va
Stonewall Jackson
West Virginia
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company
4. H Center
Agricultural Extension Service
Thys
Free fluoride treatment to prevent tooth decay for South Dakota children
About 8,000 children in the South Dakota area will receive free dental care this year. Each child will get a tooth cleaning and four applications of a sodium fluoride solution as part of a new decay prevention program.
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Pierre
S. D
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Soiagt
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