Transfer of hospital supervision debated at State Medical Association
Dec 30 Parkerburg council of the State Medical Association approved transferring medical supervision of state mental and tuberculosis hospitals to the Health Department while opposing moving fiscal control from the board of control. Health committee measures would shift both fiscal and medical supervision, with the board resisting due to burden. Proposals include licensing hospitals, a 250000 funding plan for indigent care, merging local health units, and extending county services to operate 24 hours.
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Parkersburg
Board of Control
Health
Council of the
State Medical Association
Health Department
Ilwicensing
Department of Public Assistance
West Virginia University
Pittsburgh Flash Holdup Gang Suspected In String Of Robberies
Police report four arrests in a spree of 13 rapid holdups ending with shootings and assaults. Victims included pedestrians. a long pistol was used in several robberies. Loot was small cash and jewelry. Detained: Theodore Fischer, 34, Pittsburgh. Pfc. Frank Sebroski, 23, Moundsville. Stella Sebroski, 27, Pittsburgh. Bobbie Lee Smith, 21, Pittsburgh. Sebroski claimed furlough. material witness and accessory charges noted. Additional suspect sought as seven more holdups occurred. Magistrate Zappl a held the initial four for further inquiry.
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Pittsburgh
Frank J. Zappala
Theodore Fischer
Pfc
Frank Sebroski
Moundsville
W. Va
Sebroski
Stella
Bobbie Lee Smith
Camp Stoneman
Calif
Pacific
Ste
Third Floor Leap Results In Serious Injuries
In an early Sunday morning fire at 634 West Main Street the home of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Knight and their three children was destroyed. Carl McGee 22 leaped from a third story window to escape the blaze injuring himself. Mrs McGee suffered a broken back but is improving at the city hospital. Firefighters fought the blaze for over two hours, leaving only a skeleton of the structure. Police say the fire started in a clothes closet on the first floor.
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Kenneth
Knight
West Main Street
Carl McGee
Joe Mask
McGees
Knight Home
McGee
Knights
Main Street
City Fire
Mask
Mach
Students March in Peiping Over Rape Incident
U S military personnel and families were ordered off Peiping streets as about 2000 Yenching University students marched into the city to protest an alleged rape of a Chinese girl by a U S Marine. Chinese authorities urged calm while gates remained open and nearby universities anticipated joining the protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Peiping
Enching University
U.S
Yenching
University
Fujen Catholic University
National Peking University
Shanghai
Notable December Warmth Drops Sharp by Noon
The article notes a three day forecast miss as a drastic December cooldown occurs. Yesterday’s high reached 65 degrees before rains, with a low of 27 and a noon reading near 29 today. Rainfall registered as 6 feet, a trace of snow lingered, and ice formed on steps and bridges making walks hazardous.
Institute Butadiene Plant To Be Sold
The War Assets Administration will auction three butadiene plants including the Institute site in W Va operated by Carbide and Carbon Chemicals during the war. One plant may be kept as emergency producer. others are in Louisville Kentucky and Kobuta Pennsylvania. The WV plant cost about 38.7 million dollars and spans over 300000 square feet, with full production and processing equipment.
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Richmond
Institute
W. Va
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
War Assets Administration
Charles J. Blair, Jr
WAA
Louisville
Kobuta
West Virginia
Death Toll On West Virginia Highways Reaches 362
State Trooper E C Guthrie released year end figures showing 362 highway deaths in West Virginia this year. Pedestrians accounted for 136 victims, with 112 passengers and 109 vehicle drivers. Speeding, right of way violations, and drunken driving cited as top causes.
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Charleston
West Virginia
E. C. Guthrie
Department of Public Safxy
Guthrie
Fle
Goebel Named Vice President of B and O Personnel
Roy B. White, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, announced Frank J. Goebel has been elected vice president in charge of personnel, effective January 1. Goebel has led the personnel division since May 1944 after long service as assistant general solicitor, based in Cincinnati.
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Baltimore
Roy B. White
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Frank J. Goebel
Greenbrier Haital Goes Back to G and O at Richmond Today
Colonel Charles J. Blair Jr. of War Assets Administration morning delivers title to the Greenbrier hotel at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company officials in Richmond. Purchase price for about 7,000 acres and nearly 100 buildings was 2 950 024 with restoration planned at an estimated 1 600 000. The Greenbrier hotel corporation, a C&O subsidiary, formed to operate the property.
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Richmond
Charles J. Blair, Jr
Real Property Disposal
War Assets Administration
Grenboar
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Ooffeiss
Chesapeake and ‘Io Railway Company
W. T. Lownaster
Ashford General Hospital
WAA
Robert J. Bowman
Greenbrier Hotel Corporation
The
Railway
Propsee Greenbrier
Wilson Appointed As Atomic Commission Boss
President Truman appoints Carroll Louis Wilson a 36 year old engineer as general manager of the U S atomic energy commission. Wilson aided Vannevar Bush in wartime weapons work and has served as a consultant since October after an exhaustive nationwide inquiry.
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Washington
Truman
Carroll Louis Wilson
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Wilson
Vannevar Bush
Commission
Charles G. Ross
First Airport Grants Likely Announced Next Week
The Civil Aeronautics Administration will disclose on January 7 a partial list of sponsors approved for airport funds under a seven year program ending June 30. Total allocations by state include Delaware 481,764. the District of Columbia 901,112. Maryland 3,087,175. North Carolina 7,938,360. Pennsylvania 16,004,883. South Carolina 400,329. Tennessee 6,634,388. Virginia 6,027,989. West Virginia 3,098,144.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Delaware
District of Columbia
Maryland
North Carolina
West Virginia
United States Likely to Oppose German Frontiers Revisions
Berlin dispatch reports reliable diplomatic sources predicting the United States will strongly oppose revisions to Germanys western frontier at the peace treaty talks. The US is expected to oppose France claim to the Rhineland and any modest changes unless the involved peoples genuinely seek a change.
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Wes Gallagher
Berlin
Germany
Jaar
France
United States
Rhineland
Holland
Belgium
United
U. S
Jack the Snipper Scare Hits Sixth Victim in City
Washington police report finding a sixth young woman who says a lock of hair was removed by the so called Jack the Sniper. Last week five girls had described a young man shaving their hair while they rode in street cars or buses.
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Washington
Jack
Taft Vandenberg Appeal To Ault Taft Vandenberg
Senators Vandenberg and Taft prepared to appeal to GOP colleagues over an expected insurrection against the 80th Congress leadership. They and Reed of Kansas clash with White of Maine over control of the commerce committee while Butler warns firm action could derail prearranged committee assignments. House Republicans also brace for a four way fight for majority leadership under Martin of Massachusetts.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Taft
80Th Congress
Fri- As
Michigan
Ohio
Senate
Reed
Kansas
White
Maine
Commerce Committed
Butler
Committee On Committees
Senate Republicans
House Republicans
Rep. Martin
Massachusetts
Charge Russians With Enslavement in Postwar Debate
Special House committee on postwar economic policy leveled charges of economic enslavement, political terrorism, religious repression, and broken promises against Russia. It urged the United States to assert positive leadership in European economic affairs and warned that use of German war plants to rearm could jeopardize Western alliance.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Russia
Special House Committee
Capitol Hill
Soviet Union
Germany
United States
Potsdam
Russlans
Inquest Into Shannon Plane Crash Adjourned
An inquest into the deaths of 12 victims of the TWA Constellation crash at Shannon was adjourned until January 28. Witnesses described very dark, cloudy, misty conditions at the time of the crash on the Shannon river island, with the wreckage spread over about an acre and still burning.
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Ennis
County Clare
Hire
Shannon
John Hickey
Trish
Wiggins Named Treasury Undersecretary Nominee
President Truman selected A. M. Wiggins of Sartsville Washington to be undersecretary of the treasury. The White House said he will succeed O. Max Gardner once Gardner becomes ambassador to Britain. Gardner remains in post until that time.
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Washington
Truman
A. M. Wiggins
Sartsville
D. C
Treasury
White House
Wiggins
American Bankers Association
O. Max Gardner
Britain
Charles G. Ross
Senate
Gardner
Trea Uty
Bride waits as guard foil payroll raid and saves wedding
Private James M. Hill of Robinson Washington earned hero status after repelling six gunmen who tried to loot $250,000 from Hamilton Field payroll. His fiancée Rosemary Watson, due to marry Saturday, learned the news as he spoke to MPs and the FBI. Hill exchanged shots, saved the funds, and now plans a quick wedding with his 17 year old fiancée, Mother approves.
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San Francisco
Rosemary Watson
James M. Hill
Robinson
Hamilton Field
Army Air Base
FBI
Hill
Rosemary
Jimmy
O. K
Ham and Bacon Show Revives Morgantown 1947
The West Virginia 4 H Ham and Bacon Show, paused during the war, will resume in 1947 and be held March 20 with plans announced from Morgantown.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
Russia charges atomic energy used for war, calls for outlaw
Soviet Russia charged atomic energy is still used for aggressive war and urged a treaty to outlaw atomic weapons and destroy stocks. It rejected the U S veto waiver on atomic matters, saying the move would revise the United Nations charter. Gromyko pressed item by item discussion to prepare an international convention and urged immediate action.
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Francis W. Carpenter
Lake Success
Soviet
Russia
United States
Andrei A. Gremyko
Bernard M. Baruch
Commission
Come
United Nations Security Council
Gromyko
United Nations
Sssembly
U. S
Funeral services announced for Emma Waller
Emma Waller, longtime local resident, has died. The Rev George Manson will officiate the funeral at St Matthias Episcopal Church with interment in Bluemont cemetery. The arrangements are handled by Bartlett Funeral Home. Her body lies in state at Miss Bess Kennedy’s home, 631 Maple Avenue, until the service.
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Emma Waller
Neurday
Tomonowy
Bess Kennedy
Maple
George Manson
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
Bluemont Cemetery
Bartlett Funeral Home
Miss Kennedy
Eae
Robert
Puneral
Republicans Return Analysis After Prep Year Start
Washington reports official 1946 election figures show Republicans strongest in the east and midwest capturing 207 of 246 House seats. The Associated Press notes GOP outpolled opponents in these regions, signaling expanding party strength as new session looms.
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Washington
Associated Press
East
Midwest
GOP
House of Representatives
Grafton Theatre Presents Bad Bascomb Starring Beery and O'Brien
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs. Mary Lang of Pearl Street to tonight's presentation of Bad Bascomb at the Grafton Theatre, featuring Wall ace Beery and Margaret O'Brien in the lead roles.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
J. W. Kinney
Grand Street
Milwaukee
Dennis Morgan
Jack Carson
Strand Theatre
Dixie
Mary Lang
Pearl Street
Wallace Beery
Margaret O'Brien
Grafton Theatre
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Strand
Anita Lavin
Joan Mary Henn
Charles Henn
Greenrier Haitel
Atomic Commission
Reich
Jack the Snipper
Grafton Lodge No
A.M
Ault Tumault
Congress
Jack Bell
Senator Tobey
R-N. H
Tobey
Republican Conference
Senate G.O.P
Republican Committee On Committee
Jim
Waler
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