Bill to set up junior colleges by county boards
The trucking industry urged Congress to maintain the Taft Hartley Act to shield U S cities from truck driver strikes. Edgar Idol of the American Trucking Associations cited past union tactics in New York and argued Taft Hartley preserves bargaining with employer representatives, while CIO AFL drives threaten organizing across a large non union workforce.
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Washington
Trucking Industry
Congress
Edgar S. Idol
American Trucking Associations
Senate Labor Committee
Teamsters
Idol
New York City
New York City, Local 807
AFL Teamsters
Taft- Hartley
Promptan
CIO
AFL
J. Fodsdick
Chicago
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Any County Could Establish Thirteenth Fourteenth Grades
Funeral services are planned for Dexter Isaiah Bayley at 2:30 p m Sunday in Flemington Methodist Church with burial in LO.C.F. cemetery. Bayley, 75, longtime Taylor County Court commissioner, died at his home 309 West Washington Street. He served as court president for four years and had been a member for 10 years. Surviving relatives include his children and grandchildren, with several siblings and Mrs. Lara Moran Bayley preceded him in death. He belonged to St Johns Methodist Church and local fraternal orders. A legislative item from Charleston discusses allowing counties to establish 13th and 14th grades in high schools.
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Flemington Methodist Church
Dexter Isiah Bayley
Taylor County Court
West Washington Street
E. L. Arnold
L. G. Robinson
C.F
Fey
Bayley
Rosemont
Samuel P. Bayley
Margaret Sharp Bayley
Lara A. Moran
Hazel B. Onien
Margaret B. Glenn
G. A. Bayley
Pittsburgh
A. C. Bayley
Clarksburg
Arthur
William Bayley
Webster
Gus Flint
Minnie Moore
Earl McLaughlin
Pearl Mahan
Ethel Williams
Warren, Ohio
St.John’s Methodist Church
Polio Campaign Surpasses Goal in Taylor County
Ronald L. Knotts led Taylor county 1949 polio fund drive to exceed its 1200 dollar target, drawing 1683.68 from sources including a Elks lodge benefit dance 520, coin boxes 352.50, schools 341.23, theater 169.80 and personal gifts 315. Half the funds stay local to aid county polio victims, the rest go to the national foundation.
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Taylor County
Ronald L. Knotts
Elks Lodge
Knotts
National Foundation
Tai
Lost One Girl Skirt Found In Hamburg Street Car
In Hamburg a curious incident occurred as a street car conductor paused fare collecting to announce a missing skirt. A young woman checking under her coat recovered the garment, blushing and buttoning up before returning to the ride.
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Hamburg
Germany
Acheson to Face Senate Panel on Atlantic Treaty Issues
Secretary Acheson will meet the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to seek prompt agreement on critical North Atlantic security treaty issues. A tentative treaty text is ready, with debate over the defense clause likely. The State Department backs a strong statement of American intent to join allies against aggression, while some leaders doubt a specific commitment to military action.
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Acheson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
Senate
State Department
Truman
Department
United States
Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
Tex
Fist Fights Erupt as Taximen Return to Work
In Philadelphia AFL taxi drivers returned to work while 11 000 streetcar and subway operators remained on strike. Skirmishes occurred between working cabbies and holdout strikers. one driver was hit by a thrown object. Police arrested a cab driver for disorderly conduct after a dispute with the garage manager.
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Philadelphia
AFL
Yellow Cab Company
Emmanuel Robinson
H. J. Berger
Poor Bookkeeper Learns How To Make Gold Moral Tale Of 24 Karat Heart
Hal Boyle recites a fable about a poor bookkeeper who toils to turn silver into gold using chemistry. He discovers gold only when his wife's tears and compassion mix with the alchemical mud, yielding a lasting riches of care. The story ends with the moral that a wife with a 24 karat heart is the poor man's true wealth.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Ishly
Seven Men Held Without Bail In Martinsville Rape Case
Martinsville Virginia seven East Martinsville Negro men were ordered held without bail after a circuit court grand jury action following a preliminary hearing in the city police court. The defendants pled not guilty to charges stemming from a January 8 mass rape against a 32 year old white woman. Names listed include Joe Henry Hampton and Booker T Miliner among others. Seven Page 3.
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Martinsville
Circuit Court
Joe Henry Hampton
Booker T. Miliner
Moore Retires After 49 Years From B and O
W L Moore of 307 High Street retires after nearly 49 years with Baltimore and Ohio. He began April 10, 1900 in Graf ton as a sheet metal worker. retirement is effective February 14. He is married to Lucretia Reese Moore and father to three daughters Idabelle Johnson Winona Marquess Ada Reese. Taylor county reports no population change with two boys and no girls at City Hospital this week.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
W. L. Moore
High Street
Moore
B. and O
Grafton
Byers Spokesman For Operators In Protest Actions
Embattled small mine operators from six Central West Virginia counties protested a new mine safety bill at the State Capitol. About 75 operators from Harrison Upshur Barbour Taylor Lewis and Braxton counties arrived in a motorcade to drill home their objections to provisions banning solid shooting without cutting the coal at the face requiring continuous fans firing bosses of all mines and classifying small mines as gaseous. William E. Byers of Grayston chaired the protest warning 10,000 miners could lose work and 40,000 dependents could be affected. The visitors milled through legislative corridors and the rotunda.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Harrison
Upshur
Barbour
Taylor
Lewis
Braxton
William E. Byers
Grayston
Taylor County
Byers
Rotunda
Trent Proposes Certificate Route to Ease Teacher Shortage
State School Superintendent W. W. Trent urged legislation allowing teachers to qualify under the public school certificate for work in both elementary and high schools. He cited about 2,000 vacancies in elementary schools and over 1,800 emergency certificates issued to fill them as of September.
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Charleston
W. W. Trent
Trent
Addea
Senate floor fight promised over vet bonus sales tax
A split vet affairs committee voted 5-4 to back financing the 90 million veteran bonus proposal by raising the sales tax from 2 to 3 percent. The measure moves to the Senate with uncertainty over whether a tax increase will be approved, amid protests from veterans groups and prior House support. Del. Rairden pushed to bring a local option beer bill to calendar, removing it from the temperance committee.
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Senate
Charleston
Veterans Affairs Committee
House of Delegates
House
del. Rairden
R-Mason
Temperaece Committee
Governors Favor Morgantown Site for New Medical School
West Virginia University Board of Governors formally backs Morgantown as the location for a proposed four year school of medicine and dentistry, while urging careful study of impact on other university functions. The board notes Morgantown currently hosts the two year medical program and seeks no convincing reasons to relocate activities.
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Charleston
West Virginia University Board of Governors
Morgantown
Chenistry
Patteson
William G. Thompson
Montgomery
Council of the
State Medical Association
Charlestonn
and' A Medical Association
Ie i
Mutilated Body Is U S Airman Identified in Greece
A mutilated body found near Karpenisi Greece has been positively identified as Lt Col Selden Redner American air force officer. Redner 30 of San Jose California served in Europe during the war with the American Eagle Squadron and U S Air Force and earned British and American Distinguished Flying Crosses and Air Medals. He was a prisoner in Germany from March 1944 to April 1945.
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Athens
Karpenisi
Selden Redner
Edner
San Jose
California
Royal Air Force
Karpénisi
Europe
Eagle Squadron
France
Germany
Child Must Fight Pneumonia Now
Three month old Joanne Louise Allen in Pittsburgh battles pneumonia after surviving an unusual birth and earlier thymus treatment. Her father drove a bus to deliver her at birth and an RH negative mother posed initial risk. An X-ray revealed a collapsed left lung, taking 16 days to heal before pneumonia struck last Saturday. Doctors remain hopeful for recovery as the family hails her as a fighter.
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Pittsburgh
Joanne Louise Allen
Joanne
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