Apathy of Parents Blamed for School System Faults
Public school teachers from across the country say parental education is key to fixing flaws in the U S school system. A Columbia University summer session study finds Midwest apathy blocks progress, the South cites facilities gaps, and the East links low salaries to parental inattention.
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WNDU
United States
Columbia University
Midwest
South
East
James Robertson
Springfield
Detroit
Helen Gilmartin
Mary E. Evans
Booker T. Washington School
Richmond
Inap Gates -Quee't. Pely
E. H. Ralls
Thankful Elementary
North Wilkesboro
N. C
Robert K. Stuart
la Moille Central Academy
Hyde Park
Stuart
Aviation Notes Blame Parents Groups and Delinquency
After World War II the aviation industry enters a busy postwar year with over a billion dollars in unfilled aircraft orders and personnel nearly quadrupled. The piece cites attitudes toward education and parent involvement, contrasts rural and urban views, and notes widespread gains in civil aviation, aircraft production, and pilot certification alongside continued military demobilization. It also highlights farmers showing higher airplane adoption and lists common rural uses for small planes.
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Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Troubles Multiply For Farm Family In Colorado
GREELEY COLO. Trouble strikes the Louis Andolsek family when Ed Andolsek’s haystacker contacts a 7,000 volt line pinning him to the wire. The father and another brother are burned rescuing him, a brother-in-law pulls them free, and soon afterward Mrs. Ed Andolsek suffers acute appendicitis. All are reported recovering.
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Greeley
Colo
Louis Andolsek
Ed Andolsek
John
John Adams
John Andolsek
Andelseks
Woman’s clothesline theft targets stockings and slips
In Great Falls Montana a theft from a clothesline took a pair of nylons a pair of rayons three slips and six unmentionables. A woman's footprints were found at the scene.
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Great Falls
Mont
Night-time Fire Strikes Mattress Plant in Pauls Valley
In Pauls Valley Oklahoma at 1 45 a m firefighters responded to an alarm at a mattress factory. Smoke poured from the building as volunteers arrived and found a factory employee calmly smoking cigarettes by the flames.
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Pauls Valley
Okla
Air Transport Association Proposes New Airport Rating System
The Air Transport Association suggests classifying airports by hourly operations in a forthcoming manual. It is the first in a six part series showing scheduled airlines’ facility viewpoints. A second manual on lighting facilities is also prepared for distribution.
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Air Transport Association
Queen Elizabeth Maiden Voyage Set From Southampton
Queen Elizabeth, Cunard’s 83,763 ton luxury liner, will sail from Southampton to New York for its maiden voyage on October 16 with the return trip October 25. The ship has been reconverted from war transport to a luxury liner, replacing gray war paint with black hulls and white superstructure, and outfitted with thousands of furnishings and fittings. One-way tourist class fares begin at $165, up to $365 for first class.
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Cunard
New York
Southampton
Atlantic
Cunard Line
United States
Australia
One-man School Expands to Certify 2318 Veterans
Dr. John C. Unger, Colorado education chief, runs a two hour high school equivalency program in the Colorado statehouse senate chamber in cooperation with the Veterans Administration. The effort certifies veterans from across the state with credits for military training, aiding employment and college entry.
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Denver
Colo
John C. Unger
Colorado
Senate Chamber
State House
Veterans’ Administration and Armed Forces Institute
Unger
Trinidad
Camp Carson
Colorado Springs
Lowry Field
Fitzsimmons General Hospital
Glass ignites on bag in 105 degree heat
In Topeka Kansas Deora Lanham waits for a bus as the thermometer hits 105. Her purse bursts into flames after sun rays pass through a glass handle on the bag. The incident underscores extreme heat danger in the city.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Deora Lanham
Wedding Drinks Tip Most Britons Off Wagon
London reports Britons admit weddings prompt drinking as toasts tempt guests off the wagon. Teetotalers cite not wishing to be different as the hardest push. The British Temperance League survey lists four motives for tipping the bottle: wedding toasts loneliness and enjoying the fraternity.
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London
British Temperance League
Tipplers
Yugoslav Incidents Tied to Reds Peace Pressure Plan
Western Newspaper Union analysis argues Tito regime’s Yugoslav incidents are part of a Soviet drive to pressure the West. It claims Russia uses nerve tactics to weaken Anglo American resolve and push Communist demands, with Yugoslav actions cited as a factor in a potential move against Turkey and the Dardanelles.
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Washington
Russia
Hitler
Mussolini
Machiavelli
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Romania
United Nations
Outer Mongolia
Britain
Trans- Jordan
Eire
Albania
Trieste
Turkey
Dardanelles
Germany
U. N
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Alliance, Ohio
Ohio
Orville Wright
Queen OF the Seal
Santa Monica
Binaie Ae
Parl Mallon
Western Newspaper Union
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
Mission St
San Francisco
Calif
FIERE
Soretone
Fleischmann
America
Fredericka Home and Hospital
P. O
San Diego
Chula Vista
California
O. S. Burkholder
Wielands
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