Race Relations Live North and South Wide Apart
Detroit reporter BEM Price surveys race relations across Baltimore New York Chicago and Detroit. He notes integrated schools and anti discrimination laws in the North while pointing to private housing barriers and occasional mob actions. He contrasts Southern segregation with Northward progress in hiring housing and social life.
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Dan Ryan
Detroit
Henry McCarthy
New York City
Alvin Rose
Chicago
Ryan
Tions
New York
Baltimore
South
State to Profit from 75 Years' Health Experience
Charleston WV with 75 years of organized public health West Virginia will use its background for better plans for the future Health Director N H Dyer says The Legislature set up the first State Board of Health on March 8 1881 but it did not take effect until June 8 that year The first board had a 1000 appropriation and was made up of eight physicians Governor appointed for four year terms The coming year's appropriation will be 734745 Dr Dyer said formal recognition will come when he reads a paper to the first general session of the annual State Public Health Conference here on June 7 He told a news conference Thursday that Dr T L Harris of Parkersburg a member of the State Public Health Council from 1923 25 will address a banquet that night on Seventy five Years of Public Health in West Virginia Pays Off He contrasted today’s policies with those of 75 years ago in 1681 the principal effort was toward fighting and controlling communicable diseases Now the focus is on chronic but not necessarily contagious elements He stressed today public health has a broadened concept emphasizing better living environment to curb and prevent disease.
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Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
New York
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Parkersburg
State Public Health Council
West Virginia
Employment Up in State's Mines
Charleston reports 56,754 West Virginia mine workers in March, continuing a rise in employment for 1956. For January through March the average was 56,436, up from 51,509 the prior year, with total coal tonnage through March at 37,318,744 vs 31,109,017 in 1955. March production reached 13,360,986 tons, above last year. Fatal accidents totaled 36 in the first quarter, with 1,036,632 tons mined per fatality, up from 914,971 a year ago, as all 36 deaths occurred in large commercial mines.
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Charleston
State Mines Department
West Virginia
Dr. Irvin Stewart To Receive State Humanities Award
Parkerburg will honor West Virginia University president Dr. Irvin Stewart with the State B nai B rith Humanities award on May 20 at the spring council meeting. Previous recipients include the late Harley M Kilgore and Henman Gieske. Leo Levey of Huntington to be installed as president.
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Parkersburg
Irvin Stewart
West Virginia University
U. S
Harley M. Kilgore
Henman Gieske
Stewart
Leo Levey
Huntington
Coal Industry Attracts Aluminum Buyers to the Valley
Pittsburgh reports the coal industry is courting new buyers as aluminum producers plan three big plants in the Ohio River Valley. Arthur F. Johnson of Olin Mathieson notes cost-conscious aluminum makers return to coal due to improved coal use and lower electric costs. He cites 10 pounds of coal per pound of aluminum and calls for expanding coal use across more industries.
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Ohio River
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Aluminum Co. of America
Kaiser Aluminum Corp
Arthur F
America
Niagara
North America
United States
Canada
Johnson
Ohio Valley
Coalmew
Iowa honey output ranks third among states
Des Moines Iowa reports New statistics show Iowa farms produced about 18 975 000 pounds of honey last year ranking Iowa third among commercial producers California and Minnesota led the list.
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Des Moines
Iowa
California
Minnesota
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