Four Johnston brothers face muscular dystrophy plight
The Johnston family of Princeton faces a genetic muscular dystrophy that has already struck four of six children. Eldest Jack, 13, and siblings J E Johnston 10, Glen 8, Harold 6, show progressive weakness. A two year old Billy and four year old Joan complete the brood. Dr G L Todd notes a fifth may be affected, with the condition likely worsening into their teens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlie Johnston
Edith Tuggle
Johnston
Princeton
Jack
J. E. Johnston
Glen
Harold
Billy Johnston
G. L. Todd
Memorial Hospital
Joan
Todd
University of Virginia Hospital
Charlottesville
Conductor's Daughter Controls Social Register Arbiter
Miss Bertha Eastmond a Summit New Jersey social arbiter edits the Social Register as a business. The Cosmo Magazin e article notes her inheritance of the Register after Louis Keller and Charles Keller Beekman. Her selections show anomalies, sometimes elevating one family member while excluding another. Dukes and Earls may be tolerated despite modest origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Social Register
Yale
Harvard
Summit,n. J
Bertha Eastmond
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Miss Eastmond
Louis Keller
America
Register
Keller
Charlies Keller Beekman
Miss Eattmond
Miss Besimond
Milk Mixture For Stomach Ulcers
A new medical discovery praised by doctors and hospitals for treating stomach ulcers from excess acid. The home remedy uses two teaspoonfuls of Lurin in half a glass of milk. If not satisfied, money is refunded. Sold by Mann's and drug stores everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia
Ik Costa
Mann's
Drup Etoren
Annual NCEA Meet Opens on Thursday
Asheville hosts the 62nd annual North Carolina Education Association gathering March 23 to 25 with 2,500 registrants and 1,787 elected delegates. Western schools may close Friday for attendance as C. W. Phillips of Greensboro will be elevated to succeeding Annie Tr ie McDonald. State boards and education officials attend. Dr Paul S. Henshaw will speak at the first session. Harriet Elliott will address Friday’s program on the United Nations Education Conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
North Carolina Education Association
North Carolina
C. W. Phillips
Greensboro
Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina
NCEA
Annie Trie McDonald
Hickory
Lee
State Board of Education
United Forces of Education
Wvaly Ees of Public Instruction
Paul S. Henshaw
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Clinton Laboratories
Clyde A. Erwin
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Harriet W. Elliot
Woman's College of the University of North Carolina
Teacher Pay Goes Up In This State
North Carolina public school bulletin data from 37 states shows a 25 percent salary rise from 1941 to 1945. Minimum pay $90 to $125 plus a $120 annual supplement, more married teachers, rural shortage, and 1950 supply forecasts. Also compares per pupil costs, NC ranking sixth from bottom at $66, with New York and New Jersey at $185. High school accreditation: 907 of 980 schools. 725 white and 182 Negro schools accredited. 135,241 pupils enrolled in 1943-44 term, 2,818 in nonaccredited schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina Public School Bulletin
Indiana State Teachers College
North Carolina
Georgia
South Carolina
Alabama
Arkansas
Mississippi
New York
New Jersey
Two Women Undergo Vocal Paralysis Surgery
SEATTLE March 23 A 21 year old Canadian girl Missy Tryne of Vancouver and Mrs. John Reed of Anaconda Mont underwent delicate surgical operations to restore voice after vocal cord paralysis. Dr Brien T King performed his 73rd and 74th operations, noting a 10 to 14 day period to judge success and citing a technique inspired by pediatric orthopedic procedures from 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Montana
Missy Tryne
Vancouver
B. C
John Reed
Anaconda
Mont
Brien T. King
Children’s Orthopedic Hospital
Tryne
Unnamed Mountain Second Highest In North Carolina's Blacks
Raleigh reports that North Carolina hides a taller peak than Mt Mitchell within the Black Mountain range. The article notes Black Brothers south fork at 6,663 feet, nine peaks above 6,000 feet, and the Black Mountains as the eastern crown with rugged, clouded slopes and ancient Appalachians shaping botany and geology.
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High Point
N.C
THE
Enterprise
North Carolina
Big Tom Wilson
Clingman
Mitchell
South Fork
Black Brothers
Washington
New England Mountains
U. S. Geological Survey
Carolina
Rockies
Alps
America
Appalachians
Virginia
Unaki, Iron, Or Smoky Range
Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge Range
Black Mountain Range
Mt. Washington
Yancey County
Mt. Mitchell
Smokies
Potato Hill
Potato Knob
Mt. Cele
Trygve Lie Proves Big Man For Big Job As Referee For UNO
Trygve Lie of Norway, first UN secretary general, handles a tough start in London. The longtime Norwegian foreign minister balances family life with 7am to midnight duties at Church House, skiing back home with wife and daughters. He regards his election as a tribute to Norway, vows to serve 51 nations and world peace without a country of his own.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trygve Lie
UNO
John A. Parris
London
Norway
United Nations
Peace and Security Agency
Lie
Sidsel
Guri
Mette
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
U. S
Europe
Oslo
Trygve Halvdan Lie
Labor Movement
Oslo University
Labor Party
Oe of Trade and Industry
John Nygaardsvold
Labor
Haakon
Halvdan Koht
Mama Sara Builds Hope Through Work and Faith
Norman Bradley profiles Sara Murphy of Cedartown Georgia a devoted Black foster mother who has run an orphanage for 15 years housing nearly fifty children. She built a two room school in 1929 later chartered as Sara Divinia Murphy Home now with 49 residents. She emphasizes work faith and education planning dormitories a larger school and even a local college with a $1000 bond support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Bradley
Cedartown
North Georgia
Sara Murphy
Kankakee Anderson
Polk County
Sara
Grady
Marion Murphy
Marion
Sara Divinia Murphy
Gallilee Baptist Church
Breakfast In Hollywood
Leenara
John Clark to Head State Alumni Again
John W. Clark of Franklinville and Greensboro is renominated for president of the general alumni association of N C State College. Nominations were made for 12 offices by a five member committee led by W Z Betts. Polls close May 15 with results announced shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
John W. Clark
Franklinville
Greensboro
General Alumni Association of
N. C. State College
W. Z. Betts
State College
State College News
Joe M. Harris
Ahoskie
James M. Peden
M. K. Berkut
Neill M. Dal
Shelby
Forrest H. Shuford
R. V. Terry
Newport News
J. Leroy Townsend
Lumberton
W. A. Tripp
Greenville
Athletic Council
G. C. Lassiter
Spring Hope
W.F. Metts
Hampton
J. M. Johnson
Clark
Greensboro Daily News Company
Advancement of State College
Lumber Freight Rate Hearing Set For Wednesday
RALEIGH March 23 The state utilities commission will conduct a hearing next Wednesday into requests by railroads for permission to increase freight rates on wood. Shippers protest and are expected to be represented. Railroads seek five percent raises on pulpwood acid wood extract and similar woods and on fire wood and cordwood. The case has been pending about two years and has been postponed several times at carriers request with shippers concurring. Next Thursday in Charlotte the commission will hear the request of the A and C Bus Lines Inc of Charlotte for permission to carry passengers between Derita and Salisbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
State Utilities Commission
Charlotte
A. and C. Bus Lines, Inc
Derita
Salisbury
Santo Tomas Nurse Begins Boston University Studies
BELMONT Mass INS Helen Cassiani Nestor former Army Air Force nurse and ex first lieutenant spent three years in a Jap camp near Manila. Now a freshman at Boston University of Liberal Arts she plans to major in music and study English history and music appreciation. Her husband Edward Nestor Harvard history major and business student also served. she notes veterans back in college demand alert professors.
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Belmont
Mass
INS
Alees
Manila
Helen Cassiani Nestor
Boston University of Liberal Arts
Santo Tomas
Corregidor
Nestor
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West Virginia
Harold Johnston
Gien
J. E
Conductor
Social Register Arbiter
Jeanette Smits
International News Service
Homart
Sears
North Main ST
Little
Frankfurt
Passau
Germany
By Bill Sharpe
Great Smokies
Lordly
Elisha Mitchell
Thomas L. Clingman
Black Mountains
Church House
Mama Sara
Mamara
John Clark
State
North State
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