Facilities Inadequate For WVU Students Urged
Parkersburg speech by President Irvin Stewart pressed a substantially larger university budget to raise faculty salaries and expand facilities. He warned current infrastructure cannot handle enrollment now near 6,600 and predicts peak enrollment by 1948 or 1949 with no decline until after 1951.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia University
Irvin Stewart
Parkersburg Chamber of Commerce
Stewart
New Treatment Announced For Mountain Fever
Wilmington Delaware December 13 four hospital research specialists report dramatic clinical improvement from a nine month trial of para-aminobenzoic acid a vitamin B complex drug used by Army physicians in treating typhus forms for Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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Wilmington
Del
Delaware Hospital
Brakeman Fails to Find Ground Falls 36 Feet
G L Caldwell of Bluefield Virginia a 28 year old Norfolk and Western brakeman swung from a locomotive on a bridge in Welch and plunged 36 feet into the Tug river. He survived with injuries described as not serious by hospital staff.
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Welch
G. L. Caldwell
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western Railway
Union Wages Controversy Seeks Court Ruling on Liability
A petition from the United Mine Workers argues the union, as an unincorporated association, should be held liable only for acts by its officers or agents with clear proof of participation, authorization, or ratification after knowledge. the court is asked to hear arguments on this claim as workers resume duties.
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UMW
Watkins Urges Education Program On Beer
Huntington scene reports beer wholesalers and brewers meeting as part of a convention. Fred B Watkins and James R Nicholson urged a broad educational program to steer underage youths away from beer places while E E McMurray warned of prohibition threats affecting veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Huntington
E. E. McMurray
Ravenswood
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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