Profits Rise as Glass Makers Target Key Customers
Toledo reports show glass firms boosting profits due to demand from home and office builders and auto industries. Owens-Corning Fiberglass led first quarter gains aided by tax cuts while Libby Owens Ford and Glass Containers chase steady orders. Pittsburgh Plate Glass fell before a March pickup. overall container glass set a new production record with expectations near last year.
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Toledo
Ohio
Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Chevrolet
Dickey Manufacturing Co
Glass Fibers, Inc
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co
L-O-F
General Motors
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Owens-Illinois Glass Co
Knocking On Wood Among 80000 Superstitions
AP Science Reporter notes knocking on wood is a widespread superstition tied to anxiety, envy, and a need for humility. Dr Judd Marmor of UCLA outlines its origins in protecting against imagined higher authorities and its persistence in modern society as a coping mechanism and sign of luck.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Science
ST. Louis
Assn
Judd Marmor
University of California At
Los Angeles
Wood
Marmor
Conveyor Belts to Haul Commuters in Jersey City
Akron and Aurora built a 460 foot belt designed to move up to 11 000 riders per hour on a 10 percent grade linking the Hudson and Manhattan tubes with the Erie terminal in Jersey City The project aims to relieve pedestrian crowding while showcasing the world s first commercial passenger conveyor belt and potential future deployments in New York Cincinnati and Detroit
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Akron
Ohio
New Jersey
Erie
Hudson River
Manhattan
Jersey City
Aurora
Ill
Times Square
Grand
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
Erie Railroad
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Co
Lee Stephens
Illinois
Goodyear
West Virginia Meetings and Local Business Highlight May Events
Morgantown hosts the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute and AIME Central Appalachian Section May 14-15 with three technical sessions and a Friday banquet by L. F. Reinartz of Middletown Ohio. Gump Bus Line of Morgantown sold for 40000 to Thomas Bakker to operate Star City Bus Line. WV Sewage and Industrial Wastes Assn holds its eighth annual meeting Nov 9-10 in Huntington, joint with WV AWWA. Loyalty Permanent Fund reaches 46160. gifts in memory of Roy Hawley total recorded. William D. Nickles named president of Greater Fairmont Development Assn. Mrs. William G. Mertells seeks to become first woman in Harrison County House of Delegates. Thomas J. Cooper wins McMechen mayoral primary with 229 votes. Upshur County 4-H Gail Brady earns strawberry festival plaque with 94/100, harvesting 957 quarts on 1000 plants for $412 gross. Salem College president announces 66th commencement June 3 with Rev. Daniel K. Poling. May 30 sermon by Dr. S. O. Bond.
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West Virginia Coal Mining Institute
Central Appalachian
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Morgantown
L. F. Reinartz
Middletown
Ohio
AIME
Armco Steel Corp
Gump
Thomas Bakker
Star City
West Virginia Sewage and Industrial Wastes Assn
Huntington
West Virginia
American Water Works Assn
Lewisburg
Roy
Legs) Hawley
William D. Nickles
Greater Fairmont Development Assn
William G. Merrells
Bridgeport
House of Delegates
Harrison County
Thomas J, Cooper
McMechon
People’s Party
Upshur County
Gail Brady
Central West Virginia
Buckhannon
Brady
K. Duane Hurley
Salem College
Lark Test Uses Lie Detector On Local High School Students
In La Crosse Wisconsin a mass polygraph quiz is conducted in three high schools to probe the Evelyn Hartley case. A. M. Josephson heads the effort, testing 20 to 30 boys daily to unearth new leads while a new city county crime lab operates with a $10,000 budget.
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LA Crosse
Wis
Wisconsin
Evelyn Hartley
A. M. Josephson
John Bosshard
Josephson
Army
Far East
New la Crosse City-County
Extortion Plot Targeting Dallas Jewish Families Busted
FBI agents arrested James Hollis Jones after he attempted to collect a $200000 extortion from 20 Dallas Jewish families. The operation centered on Julius Schepps and his brother George Schepps, who aided in a drop of a decoy package. Jones was captured near Garland after he fired at agents but missed.
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Dallas
Tex
FBI
Garland
J. K. Mumford
James Hollis Jones
Julius Schepps
George Schepps
Mumford
Dallas Morning News
Jones
Turkey accuses Russia of pressuring through propaganda
Ankara releases a firm note charging Moscow with using propaganda and pressure to derail efforts for collective security. The note says the Soviet Union seeks to sway world opinion and blame peaceful security drives, while Turkey defends its recent alliance with Pakistan and denies Russia’s claims of undermining peace.
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Ankara
Turkey
Russia
Moscow
Anatolia
Pakistan
Karachi
Cclear
Soviet Union
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Richard Hartley
Viggo Rassmunsen
la Crosse State College
Bosshard
Leo Hihm
Hartley
Cnd
Penney
Tal
Cannon Mills
Dupont
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