Ithaca Eyes Free Bus Ride Plan for Next Year
Ithaca Common Council aims to run a free city bus system by next year pending a $120,000 federal grant from HHFA. If approved, four new buses would operate with city funds and no tickets, counting passengers to measure usage while hoping to ease parking shortages and fund losses from the aging transit system.
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New York
Finger Lakes
Stallman
Mr Sam and Rayburn A House Leader Who Shaped A Era
The piece chronicles Sam Rayburn's long tenure as Speaker from 1940 to postwar years. It notes his close work with eight presidents from Wilson to Kennedy, his disciplined, concise oratory, and his strategic influence on major New Deal measures. It recalls his witty quips, cautious conscience, and a career defined by steady leadership.
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Heroic Telephone Man Recovers Medal for Rescue
CHARLESTON UPI The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co awarded the Vail Medal and a $250 check to Leonard C. Jones a Morgantown supply employee for rescuing a family from a January fire at a Osage near Morgantown home. Jones entered the burning dwelling twice and saved a two year old boy before the building collapsed. The medal honors Theodore N. Vail former AT&T president.
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Management Told To Be Agents Of Change
Montgomery state commerce director Hulett C. Smith urged the Society for Advancement of Management to act as agents of change to boost West Virginia’s economy. He said future management must be people oriented and center on human resource development with maximum freedom for initiative and clear roles for all.
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West Virginia
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State Alumni Campaign Gains Strong Early Support
Aimed at 20 West Virginia colleges and Marshall University, the first phase of the CAUSE program began with a telephone drive in the Charleston area. By Saturday, 2,948 contacts produced 2,319 pledges, a 79 percent response, as representatives prepared for a continuation through Monday and upcoming presidents’ meeting. Three regional kickoff meetings launched the nationwide effort grouping public and private schools.
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UPI
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Marshall University
Association of College and University Presidents
Massimo Frulli Loses Tooth to Hen in Italy
Eighteen month-old Massimo Frulli had one tooth until Friday when Genevieve the hen pecked it out while Massimo’s mother fed the chickens in Luino Italy.
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Ravenswood aluminum plant stalls hoped satellite boom
Ravenswood and nearby areas hoped Kaiser Aluminum would spark a regional boom of independent fabricators. Five years after Ravenswood Works began, only Ravens Metals operates as a sizable satellite, with Belpre’s Kaiser foil plant as a minor extension. Slowed by national recessions and a shift in how aluminum is priced by producers, near‑production fabricators struggle to form. delivery times and technical support remain advantages, leaving open the possibility of future satellite plants if conditions improve.
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Kansas
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Glenville
W. Va
Dillon Rebuffs Dirt Chasing Clark Gable Wife
Hollywood with UPI Josephine Dillon, Clark Gable’s first wife, says anonymous calls and taunting letters haunt her over biographies. She defends his name, notes she worked 10 years with him, and declined to read sensational books. Tina Louise says European women hold court abroad, shaping Hollywood fame and domestic life.
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UPI
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Hollywood
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Clark Gable
Peple
Clark
Gable
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United States
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Tina
Italy
Gina Lollobrigida
Mamma
Rock Hudson
Allied Artists
Rome
New York
Dorothy Heyward Dies at 71 Coauthor of Porgy
New York UPI reports Dorothy Heyward aged 71 and coauthor of the Porgy drama, on which Porgy and Bess was based, died Sunday. Also noted Ecuadorian financier Emilio Estrada Icaza aged 45 died of a heart attack Sunday night. Richmond Virginia's John F. O Grady aged 71, famed for a 50 year St Patrick's Day parade, died Monday. York University chemistry professor died Monday night.
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Ecuador
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Emilio Estrada Icaza
Richmond, Vane
John F. O'Grady
O'Grady
York University
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