Return Voyage Home From Manila Bay Aboard West Point
Thomas F. Stafford remembers sailing from Manila Bay aboard the USS West Point for the first time in two years. He details the 13 000 mile voyage via Pearl Harbor and Panama, with memories of ports, camaraderie, and longing for home and ocean life.
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Manila Bay
Queen
United States
West Point
America
Manila
Bay
John Gob
Bay Entrance
Mount
Bataan
Fort Drum
Corregidor
China Sea
Luzon
Western Pacific
Marianas
Pearl Harbor
Pearl
Ward
Panama
New York
Wacs
Red Cross
Bill Aims to Abolish Sheriff Fee System For Prisoners
West Virginia legislators consider a comprehensive bill to end the sheriff’s prisoner feeding fee, with House and Senate study panels urged to act. Governor Meadows backs the measure, but risk of death in committee and end-of-session scramble looms without broad support from both houses and local delegations.
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House of Delegates
Senate
Meadows
Delegg
Frank Knight
D-Kanawha
FiBase
Sheriff's Lobby
West Virginia
Sclons
Raleigh County
Market Loses Five Coal Locomotives in KC Yard Scrapping
Kansas City Terminal yard scrapped five coal burning locomotives from an original 38 as diesel switching takes over. The Kansas City Star editorial hails a cleaner city with diesel engines and anti smoke rules cutting coal use, a blow to Beckley where the coal market supports livelihoods.
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Kansas City Terminal
The
Kansas City Star
Iron Horse
Beckley
Kids May Be Right About Water Shortage Warned
Ogden JonesKansas geologist warned the nations water supply is giving out and that H2O may have to be rationed. He notes kids have heard streams and lakes drying up for generations, joking that Four H Lake may become a mill pond and the New River a babbling brook.
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Ogden Jones
Kansas
Not So Bad After All Cost of living may slide down
Authorities say the cost of living may have passed its peak and begun to fall. Government statistics are cited in support as prices ease from their high point, suggesting inflation pressure could ease in the near term.
Early postwar price notes on butter and war impact
The text notes price rises after World War I and during the 1920s and 1930s. It compares a 108 percent rise since the war began, a 40 percent rise from 1930 to the present, and questions butter costing a dollar a pound. It reflects inflation and wartime effects on food costs.
Greenwich Village Home And The Joys Of Living
HAL BOYLE writes about moving from a cherished Greenwich Village apartment after the landlord’s death. The couple savor warmth and memories built over seven years, with fireplaces, a writing den turned workroom, and a life shaped by love, art, and a stubborn fondness for their old place. The future is uncertain, but home remains a state of heart.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Greenwich Village
Pacific
Middle West
New York Central Railroad
Richard Harding Davis
Edgar Elton Poe
Washington Square
Pau‘pers
Frances
Eleanor Roosevelt
England
Algiers
Manila
Francees
Britain tightens control on atomic research publication
Nature reports Britain's Atomic Energy Act curbs free publication by physicists, with ministerial approval for what can be published. The act risks hampering basic work such as Rutherford’s nitrogen disintegration and cyclotron research, potentially excluding foreign researchers from labs.
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Howard W. BL
Science
New York
Nature
Britain
Minister of Supply
New Atomic Energy Commission
Reme
Rutherford
Mona Freeman A Hollywood Beauty With Dimples
Hollywood star Mona Freeman recalls early remarks on her beauty from her father and classmates. Now 20 yet able to pass for 16 she acts as Betty Grable's daughter in Mother Wore Tights while pursuing art.
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Hollywood
Mona Freeman
Mona
Daddy
Shirley
Betty Grable
Pelham
Memorial High School
Educator in Korea Seeks to Modernize Its Higher Education
Dr. Frank Eversall, veteran college president, leads American efforts to reorganize Korea's higher education. He notes strong student drive but resistance to rapid westernization and outlines a five year course setup with long term building plans. He highlights Korea's heavy class loads and past system reliance on lectures.
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Duane
Mer
Marin Lakota Agricultural College
Fargo
Huron College
Huron
S. C
Wood Ward School
St. Louis
Seoul National University
Seoul
College of Agriculture
Suwon
College of Fisheries
Fusan
Korea
Eversall
Eversault
U. S
iavHt
Tennsen
Bas
Professor urges teachers to learn teen slang at Columbia
Dr. Irving Lorge of Columbia University proposes a new course on the psychology of communication to help teachers understand adolescents. He emphasizes awareness of linguistic trends and the psychology behind a secret personal vocabulary rather than classroom slang use.
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Associated Press
New York
Irving Lorge
Columbia ‘University
New York Daily Mirror
Cognoscenti
Big Wheel
Mystery of the marbles haunts Laurie Trent in amnesia tale
Laurie Trent shelters a stranger with amnesia named Johnny Doe and, aided by Dr. Haaslet, searches for his identity through fingerprints and clues like four marbles left by a visitor. Laurie uncovers a torn newspaper clipping about Cady Vance, a San Francisco parolee, deepening the mystery. Lieutenant Penfield hints the case may reach Washington as Laurie ponders connections to Monica.
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Laurie Trent
Bart
Atranger
Monica
Art
Annie
Laurie
Nicholas Haulet
Johnny Doe
Page
Johnny
Nick
Public Library
Mapleton
Cady Vance
Vance
Mon
Fica
New York
Central
Penfield
Washington
Europeans Crushed by Visa Delays For U S Quotas
Reported by Edward E. Bomar the delays facing European immigrants to the United States could reach ten years as consular backlogs grow. Greece Italy and Poland show severe waits while many others face two years or more for first or preferred visas. War stranded Americans abroad also face prolonged renewal and travel bottlenecks.
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Edward E. Bomar
James Marlow
Washington
State Department
Athens
Greece
Congress
Conulate
Italy
United States
Budapest
Rome
Warsaw
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Norway
China
France
Germany
Hungary
Netherlands
Palestine
Trans-Jordania
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
Extension Classes Planned For Oak Hill
Extension classes for the second semester will be organized at Morris Harvey College in Charleston at a meeting Monday night at 7 30 oclock in the Oak Hill Elementary School. The college emphasized that all interested persons attend the first meeting since the instructor would not likely make another trip for the organization of classes. Hot dry air is not only detrimental to house plants but encourages white fly red spider and aphids.
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Roelsler
Morris Harvey College
Charleston
Oak Hill
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Boyle
Gene Handsaker
Epec Rte
John Powers
Austria
Hows
Estard Hughes
Ireland
San Francisco
San Quentin
U.S
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