Steel Employees Officers Offered New Stock Plan
National Steel Corp announces a stock option plan to increase holdings of officers and key employees across National Steel and six subsidiaries. Options: stock at not less than 85 percent of market value, initial 350000 shares over seven years, max 5000 per option, reaching about 400 officers and key staff. Stockholders vote August 25 in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
National Steel Corp
National Steel
E. T. Weir
FBI Captures Grafton Worker
DETROIT The FBI announced the arrest of Thomas E. Freeze 25 of Grafton West Virginia in Wayne suburb for involvement in the June 5 Abingdon Virginia police shooting. Freeze worked under an assumed name in a railroad yard and was one of three men surprised while breaking into a safe. One officer was wounded in the ensuing gunfight. two accomplices were captured.
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Detroit
FBI
West Virginia
Abingdon
Charles W. Brown
Thomas E. Freeze
Grafton
W. Va
Wayne
Brown
Freeze
Ostrex Tonic Tablets Advertised For Energy Boost
A vintage ad claims husbands and wives suffer fatigue from iron deficiency and promotes Ostrex Tonic Tablets as an iron containing supplement. It touts a 50 percent smaller “Get acquainted” size and urges purchase at all druggists.
Bounce block stutter aids intelligibility in noise
March of Science reports that Dr John J Dreher at Ohio State says bounce block stuttering improves transmission through noise such as aircraft communications. Research compares single and double bounce blocks to determine which yields better intelligibility. Prematurity research links sex hormone deficiency and early uterine activity to early births at University of Colorado Medical Center, supported by Playtex Park Research Institute. A Health Information Foundation survey with Beth Israel Hospital studies antibiotics and sulfa drugs impact from 1932 to 1952 to guide hospital design and treatment improvements.
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Columbus
Ohio
John J. Dreher
Dr. Drener
The
Speech and Hearing
Ohio State University
Dreher
Denver
E. Stewart Taylor
Paul D. Bruns
Rudolph M. Anker
Vera E. Drose
University of Colorado Medical Center
Playtex Park Research Institute
Dover
Del
New York
George Bugbee
Health Information Foundation
Bugbe
Beth Israel Hospital
Boston
Bugbee
Army Reservists Fire Small Arms At Summer Camp
CAMP BRECKINRIDGE Ky West Virginia Infantry and Engineer Army Reserves finish familiarization firing of small arms during the second and last week of summer training More than 800 West Virginians fired the M 1 and carbine rifles recoiless rifle 42 and 81 mortars and machine guns 278 recruits completed M 1 qualification Lt Col James Ned Watson praised the 17 and 18 year olds for their enthusiasm The 398th Infantry Regiment was commended for mess facilities as heat eased to about 80 degrees after days in the 90s
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Camp Breckinridge
West Virginia Infantry
Engineer Army
West
Watson
Second Army
West Virginia Military
Theft of Jail Blankets Paid In Brigham City
A nameless man entered the Brigham City police station and offered to pay for two blankets he took from a jail cell three years earlier. Officer H. C. Hampton quoted the price as $8, which the man paid before leaving, saying conscience drove the repayment.
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Brigham City
Utah
H. C. Hampton
Texas Longhorns Expand Offense With Belly Series
The University of Texas football team, after four seasons of the split-T, adds the belly series to its playbook this year, aiming to diversify the rushing attack and confuse defenses.
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University of Texas
Racing Commission Pike Bonds Set for Study Today
Charleston The State Racing Commission faced scrutiny from a joint Legislative committee as Auditor Clarence Koontz presented findings on the Racing Commission and a study of West Virginia Turnpike bonds. The hearing covered education, municipal taxation, water resources, and other 1955 mandated reviews with progress reports due ahead of the January session.
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Charleston
State Racing Commission
Joint Committee On Government and Finance
Commission On Interstate Cooperation
Clarence Koontz
Koontz
West Virginia
E. L. Lindman
Peabody College
Nashville
Tenn
Frasure
Lindman
John E. Brewton
Cate
Martyn Lugar
Charleston High School
Plumbers Strike at Med Center Reaches Fifth Day
In Morgantown sixty plumbers from Local 152 AFL halted work at the University Medical Center for five days. They press for a higher foreman to worker ratio on the basic science building project run by William Singleton Co. Project manager L L Pierce says the union will await action from the International Union before returning. No pickets or other trades currently on strike.
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Morgantown
University Medical Center
AFL
William Singleton Co
L. L. Pierce
International Union
Pierce
Basilio the welterweight champ hunts and fishes
Carmen Basilio, the welterweight boxing champion, is described as a keen hunting and fishing enthusiast. The piece highlights his outdoor hobbies alongside his boxing fame, portraying a public figure with varied interests.
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Carmen Basilio
Sounds From Hall Heard by Interim Committee Too
The legislative interim committee met as scaffolding surrounded marble pilasters in the Charleston statehouse corridor. Custodian C. Miller said decorative slabs have shifted up to half an inch and Kuhn Construction workers planned to remove and reset three to four pilasters with repairs similar to those done nine years earlier. Workmen could not say how long the job would last while hammering echoed through the building.
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Charleston
Legislative Interim Committee
Statehouse
Cr. C. Miller
Capitol
Kuhn Construction Co
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Forrestal
Newport News
International Soundphoto
March of Science
Kei Puyaway
God
Floor
Arents
Racing Commission
Carl Frasure
West Virginia University
Political Science Department
Med Center
Hall
Mation
Washington, D. C. Ly
Charlottesville
N. Y
Philadelphia
Beckley
Mount Hope
Beckley Hardware & Supply Co
New River Co
Universal Home Equipment Co
Hinton
Meadows Furniture Co., Inc
NAOMI
K&s
Maytag Furniture Co
Oak Hill
Home Outfitting Co
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