Pruntytown Overcrowding Forces Juvenile Appeals
West Virginia officials report severe overcrowding at Pruntytown and other juvenile institutions. President Burdett notes capacity limits at Pruntytown of 250 with 270 to 275 possible, yet 295 inmates and 15 hospital beds are filled. Several facilities show cramped conditions and fire marshal concerns. Officials consider a pilot youth camp this summer if funds are found, amid a legal framework for camps with no financing.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Burdett
Salem
Industrial School For Girls
Industrial School For Colored Girls
Huntington
Carl J. Johnson
Logan Boy Drowns After River Escape From Deputy
Orville Davis 13, of White's Addition, was found dead yesterday in Island Creek. Deputy Sheriff Leo Barnett and an 11-year-old brother jumped into the swollen stream while in custody. the brother swam to safety. Orville was to appear before Circuit Judge C C Chambers March 12. The body was recovered near the Island Creek bridge a mile below the escape point.
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Logan
Orville Davis
Cecil Davis
White’s Addition
Island Creek
Leo Barnett
Barnett
Orville
C.C. Chambers
Edwards Funeral Rites Held Today at Rhodell Church of God
Mrs. Lettie Edwards 70 died Saturday after an extended illness at her Rhodell home. Funeral rites were held at 1 p.m. today at Rhodell Church of God with burial in Coal City Cemetery.
Son of Evangelist Killed in Car Crash
William Ashley Lakin 31, son of evangelist Dr. B. R. Lakin, formerly of Fort Gay and Ona, West Virginia, was killed in a car accident near his Titusville Florida home Sunday night. Funeral services will be held here Thursday. Dr. Lakin was once pastor of Cable Tabernacle in Indianapolis.
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Fort Gay
W. Va
William Ashley Lakin
Ona
Lakin
B. R. Lakin
Titusville
Fla
Dr. Lakin
Cable Tabernacle
Indianapolis
Greenbrier Cadet Band Heads to Washington for Blossom Festival
Greenbrier Military School cadet band with color guard departs Lewisburg bound for Washington DC to officially represent West Virginia at the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The group will march in the illuminated night parade on Thursday.
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Lewisburg
W.va
Greenbrier Military School
Washington, D. C
West Virginia
Hero Boy Rescues Classmate From Canal Drowning
In East Moline Illinois Jesse Drown, nine, saved Rose Jones, a first grade pupil, from drowning in the Hennepin canal with help from an unidentified adult. Both attend Black Hawk School on Big Island. Ross was unhurt but scared, while Jesse was praised as a hero.
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East Moline
Jesse
Rose Jones
Hennepin Canal
Black Hawk School
Big Island
Ross
Wright brothers diversely built devices and bicycles
Lyons Nebraska announces a teenage center called the Lion's Den. Insurance payments for 1954 hurricanes Carol and Edna totaled about 138 million dollars, excluding auto and marine losses.
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Lyons
Neb
Carol
Edna
Boy Kept Alive By Dog Lung At Minnesota Hospital
Arkansas boy Calvin Richmond, 13, underwent a three hour operation where a dog’s lung, sized about a foot, ventilated with pure oxygen, and was used to oxygenate his blood during heart repair at University of Minnesota Hospitals. Blood was pumped through the animal lung in a dry field as surgeons closed three heart holes, then warmed and returned to his body.
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Minneapolis
Arkansas
Calvin Richmond
Pine Bluff
Ark
University of Minnesota
Calvin
Gilbert S. Campbell
Experimental operations on living animals and a boy
Dr. E. B. Brown Jr. and Dr. Norman Crisp of the University of Minnesota conducted 100 experimental operations on one animal while operating on another. A Richmond boy was treated by a team led by Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and Dr. Richard L. Varco. Dr. Campbell called the system in its infancy but promising, with time as a better judge.
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E. B. Brown Jr
Norman Crisp
University of Minnesota
Richmond
C. Walton Lillehei
Richard L. Varco
Campbell
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