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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1971
Page
2
VD Pandemic Lingers Despite Public Health Alarm
A nationwide VD crisis persists with 14 million infected, many under 24. California reports 115000 cases in 1970 and 2000 new gonorrhea cases weekly, with underreporting high. Experts cite promiscuity mobility ignorance and public health underfunding as factors. Military and stigma amplify the challenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
American Social Health Association
California
Louis Saylor
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Viet Nam
P.C
Misnomer in Freeways as Concrete and Glass Roads Emerge
Nashville Banner notes the 77th anniversary of the first concrete highway near Bellefontaine Ohio in 1894. It contrasts Macadam paving from earlier centuries and California experiments with glass roads, calling the term freeway a misnomer given high costs and evolving materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellefontaine
Ohio
J. L. Macadam
Millenia
California
Nashville
Tenn
Law Muddled by Marijuana Case and Narcotics Rulings
The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld an 18 year old’s conviction for trace marijuana found in a jacket lining, while a Washington DC judge freed a heroin addict as a sick man. The cases illustrate chaotic drug law enforcement, uneven sentencing, and rising police protectorship of heroin trafficking in cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
Robert Siirila
James Otis
Minneapolis
Siirila
District of Columbia
Superior Court
Tim C. Murphy
Congress
Science studies itself will it find responsibility
Oak Ridge Tenn UPI reports scientists reexamining their role in society amid rising environmental concerns. Dr David Rose MIT engineer now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory notes a shift from elitist aims to broader accountability and long term consequences. A $1.5 million NSF grant funds environmental studies and lifestyle questions. The trend shows scientists embracing planning roles for technology's societal impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl A. Vines
Oak Ridge, Tenn
UPI
David Rose
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rose
National Science Foundation
Sleep and physique linked to personality in studies
Army researchers say long and short sleepers show distinct traits with long sleepers leaning creative and introverted while short sleepers are more active and sociable. Georgetown Harvard studies find mesomorphs more achievement driven and aggressive, endomorphs friendlier, ectomorphs withdrawn. Further work needed to connect sleep and build patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph L. Myler
Washington
UPI
Army Medical Research and Development Command
Georgetown University
Army
Juan B. Cortes
S.J
Georgetown
Florence M. Gatti
Harvard
Cortes
Gatti
Dog Snupy of Becks Killed Guarding Plant in Florida
Lucrative war service noted for the four year old dog of Mr and Mrs Herbert G Beck of Edwight who served in the K 9 Corps during the Pacific war but was accidentally killed while guarding a plant in Elgin Florida Captain Arnold Moore commander of Company D State Police since May 20 1941 retires effective April 1 and thanks Beckley residents and local newspapers for cooperation
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snupy
Herbert G. Beck
Edwight
Elgin
Fla
Arnold Moore
State Police
Solon’s Humane Law Against Speaking Ill of the Dead
Plutarch notes Solon the Athenian lawmaker forbade speaking ill of the dead as pious and to avoid stirring discord. He extended restrictions to the living in temples courts public offices or games with penalties of three drachmas to the person and two to the public. He urged self control of passion and laws aimed at reform over punishment of many.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solon
Computers Change Classrooms From Kindergartens To Colleges
Harvard economist Otto Beckstein predicts unemployment above five percent for five years with a 330-equation computer model. Dartmouth under John G. Kemeny leads in timesharing and wide campus use, with students feeding data to the Kiewit Center from New England. Schools from Columbia to McComb, Mississippi expand computer facilities, while professors explore applications from linguistics to rock erosion profiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Beckstein
Harvard
Economic Council
William H. Simon
Princeton
University of North Carolina
Diderot
UNC
School of Library Science
Library of Congress
University of Michigan
Grand Canyon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Dartmouth
John G. Kemeny
Albert Einstein
Kiewit
New England
Kemeny
National Geographic
Peter T. White
April month of months and weeks parades many events
The piece catalogs April’s history and celebrations including births of Jefferson and Shakespeare, festivals, days like Intolerance Day and TGave Day, and Daylight Saving Time starting April 25. It notes figures like Roy Lee Harmon and humorously muses on timeless April lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mildred Wooster
U. S
Thomas Jefferson
James Buchanan
Ulysses Simpson Grant
James Monroe
Hans Christian Andersen
Brothers Grimm
Aesop
Denmark
William Shakespeare
Stratford-on-Avon
Merrie Olde England
England
William Wordsworth
William Booth
The
Salvation Army
Jose de Diego
John Howard Payne
Hirihito
Japan
Rome
Siam
Thailand
B.C
Rama I
Mormon Church
Joseph C
Reform Scented Talk on Welfare Sparks Ohio Debate
Ohio Legislator Robert E. Netzley objects to replacing the term welfare with a fancier name, arguing that substance matters more than labels in social aid policy. His stance follows a colleague's push to retire the word.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Netzley
Ohio
Dynamite Damage Strikes Willis Branch Coal Inclines
Unknown parties caused destruction to the Willis Branch Coal Company property last week by blowing up two inclines at the mine. One incline carried coal and the other transported workers, and both were wrecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis Branch Coal Company
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United Press International
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West Virginia
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Richard Spong
Hanover
WTSL
Kiewit Center
Penn State
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Stanford University
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