Production chief chosen for wartime system at Washington
General Electric chief Charles E. Wilson has agreed to accept a wartime post as head of a new war production agency. The 64 year old executive, previously vice chairman of the war production board, will oversee units across government departments in a mobilization drive. No official appointment date has been set. Wilson, a New Yorker, helped mobilize industry in World War II and returns to national service amid a crisis.
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New York
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Company
Wilson
War Reduction Board
Truman
United States
War Production Board
Washington
General Electric
Roosevelt
Donald St. Nelson
New Yorker
Kansas students vote on alma mater change
The University of Kansas plans a spring vote on adopting Onward, Spirit of Kansas as the alma mater, replacing Far Above the Golden Valley. The proposal stems from a 1939 production for the university’s 75th anniversary with words by George Barlow and music by Jack Laffer and Allen Crafton.
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University of Kansas
Spirit of Kansas
Golden Valley
Annie Lisle
Cornell University
New York
George Barlow
K. A
Jayhawk
Jack Laffer
Wichita Insurance
Allen Crafton
Laffer
Graduate Student Wins Second Haworth Award
John E. Hickox of Topeka receives the Erasmus Haworth award for outstanding geology graduate students at the University of Kansas. Hickox pursues an MS in geology with a stratigraphic study of West Texas sediments toward Carlsbad New Mexico. The tartan was illegal in Scotland 1707 to 1782.
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Haworth Award
John E. Hickox
W. 19Th
Topeka
Erasmus Haworth
University of Kansas
Haworth
K. U
State Geological Survey
Hickox
West Texas
Carlsbad
N. M
Scotland
Flying Saucers Belief Split With Odd Explanations
A Galaxy magazine poll of 500 Americans finds 61 percent believe flying saucers exist while 17 percent deny them as real. Explanations ranged from space smoke from Canadian fires to divine displeasure and suspicions of a cover up. Lawrence Daily Journal World notes Army Air Force hires Earl Bellinger for a two year Germany assignment as civilian store manager.
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Galaxy Magazine
Canada
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Air Force
U.S. Army Air Force
Germany
Bellinger
New York
Liberty Memorial. High School
School of Business
K. U
Institute of Foreign Trade
Phoenix
Ariz
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General Electric Head
Universal Military
Fred A. Noll O. D
Dale H. Sillix O. D
Mass. St
Hearst
Lawrence
Telephor 978
Earl Bellinger
Army
Bhat
Balingeepe
Warren Decker Myron
Decker-Keys Agency
University Radio Recording Studios
Bell Music Co
Massachusetts
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