Parker flags congestion in Raleigh County schools
George M. Parker, assistant superintendent of Raleigh County schools, told 60 Beaver P T A members that the county faces a building fund need due to overcrowded schools. He pointed to Stratton and Woodrow Wilson schools where two shifts operate daily and urged earmarked funds to build facilities over years. He urged constitutional amendment to guarantee nine months of school and raise teacher salaries. The Beaver P T A marked its tenth anniversary since 1927.
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George M. Parker
Raleigh County
Beaver School
P.T. A
Stratton Negro School
Woodrow Wilson
Parker
West Virginia
Ils
T. A
Beaver
Shady Spring High
J. Terry
Colow
Cripples Fund Receipts Rise at Raleigh Ball
The Rotary club gained 270.90 for crippled children in Raleigh county, representing 70 percent of President's Birthday ball receipts. The remaining 116.10 funded the Warm Springs infantile paralysis sanitarium. Committee members were W. H. McGinnis, John C. Ward, and Lou Scherer. payments included 165 to Walt Sears orchestra and 40 for the dance floor.
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Rotary Club
Raleigh
Warm Springs
W. H. McGinnis
John C. Ward
Lou Scherer
Walt Sears
From Frame School to Brick Building at Shady Spring
The present president, Owen Lilly, was once principal of the school. He later taught social studies at Shady Spring high school. Since then the old frame school building has been replaced by a ten room brick one.
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Owen Lilly
Lilly
Shady Spring High School
Illness Strikes Stonecoat Folk
Illness ranging from influenza to pneumonia confines several residents to homes or hospitals in Coal City. Mrs. Earl Davenport of Resaco is a pneumonia patient at Beckley Hospital. Rosemary Mooney, daughter of C. T. Mooney, has chickenpox. Nora Vena Lilly is ill at home. Alice Hughes recovers from influenza at her parents’ home. Jack and John Houchings recover from chickenpox. Mrs. John Hughes is seriously ill at her Killarney home.
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Register
Coal City
Earl Davenport
Resaco
Beckley Hospital
Rosemary Mooney
C. T. Mooney
Nora Vena Lilly
L. Lacy Lilly
Alice Hughes
Kelley Hughes
Jack
John Houchings
John Hughes
Killarney
Brazilian inmate drives taxi into asylum steps
By The Associated Press Rio de Janeiro Nery Soares De Mura, once an inmate of an institution for the insane, convinced authorities they should keep him under observation indefinitely. He drove the taxi with which he made his living right up the institution's steps and into the main corridor.
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Associated Press
Rio DE Janeiro
Nery Soares de Mura
Mabscott Man Fractures Ankle At Home Incident
Ben Malcolm of Mabscott broke his ankle while walking at a barn near his home. He twisted his ankle after his foot caught in a hole. The bone was set at Beckley hospital.
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Ben Malcolm
Mabscott
Malcolm
Beckley Hospital
Great Vicory Pleases Murray in Detroit UAW Victory
Murray, chairman of the steel workers organizing committee, hailed the UAW win in Detroit and urged talks with the American Iron and Steel Institute. He noted unions are now recognized in the automobile industry, including General Motors, marking a historic shift in labor relations. Murray, in Washington for coal miners’ wage talks, called the achievement a milestone.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Philips Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
United Auto Workers
Detroit
American Iron and Steel Institute
Murray
Washington
General Motors
Industrial unions claim sweeping victory in Detroit drive
A union committee declares a great victory and says industrial unions are firmly entrenched in automobile, glass, rubber, coal and other industries. They claim rapid growth in steel and plan to use the win to push the campaign to quick completion and to open negotiations with the American Iron and Steel Institute.
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Co Ittee
Detroit
American Iron and Steel Institute
£500000 Spent To Muffle A Railway In London
London plans a 500000 pound program to quiet underground rail traffic this summer. The work covers welding about 500 miles of tracks and other hush measures. Rails 90 feet long will be used and dents removed. Officials expect a 60 percent noise reduction. A shield projecting from tunnel walls may cut an additional 20 percent, nearly touching train footplates.
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Associated Press
London
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