Higher education boards in states face regional needs
Dr Klein surveys show centralized boards can create dead levelism across state colleges and universities. Regional boards, he says, better reflect local needs and may avoid political pressure, though no formula solves all tensions among institutions and budgets.
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New York State
Board of Regents
Klein
California
State University
State Board of Education
Ohio
Purdue
Indiana University
Iowa
Missisippi
North Dakota
Iowa S
University of
Division of Higher Education
U. S. Office of Education
Oregon
George Works
State College of Connecticut
Fred Kelly
University of Idaho
Ohio State
Count Lustig Death Revealed At Camden Court Hearings
New York reports Robert V. Miller known as Count Victor Lustig died March 11 1947 in a Missouri federal hospital at age 57 from a brain tumor. Brother Emil Lustig disclosed the death at a Camden New Jersey court hearing after Miller’s 1935 Alcatraz sentence. Miller and Watts produced about 2.34 million in bogus currency 1930–35. He escaped detention in Manhattan and duped bankers politicians and women with schemes including a money making machine.
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New York
Robert V. Miller
Victor Lustig
Camden
N. J
Miller
Secret Service
Lustig
U. S
William Watts
Watts
Alcatraz
Federal House of Detention
Lower Manhattan
Los Angeles
Tekes Mark Anniversary
Tau Kappa Epsilon opened its golden jubilee meeting in Chicago with 70 college and 20 graduate chapters attending through Sept 3. Delegates travel to Bloomington Sept 4. Founding at Illinois Wesleyan on Jan 10 1899. Early chapters formed at Millikin, Illinois, and Knox. Founders J C McNutt and Clarence Mayer to attend Bloomington. Rev Eugene Beach to speak Sept 3. National officers listed with their locations.
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Chicago
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Teke Brothers
Bloomington
Ill
Illinois Wesleyan University
Millikin University
Decatur
University of Illinois At
Urbana
Knox College
Galesburg
University of Illinois
Urbana, Ill
F. B. Scott
Washington, D. C
H.C. Kuhnle
Columbus
Ohio
F. G. Kettelkamp
Ritual
J. Kuhnle
SS Geant-At-Arms
San Francisco
Leland F. Leland
St. Paul, Minn
Drug Protects Animals From Radiation Doses
Argonne National Laboratory researchers report cysteine shields animals from lethal radiation. In tests 70 to 80 percent of treated rats survived X rays versus 20 percent untreated. The chemical can be made artificially or from horsehair or wool and given before exposure. Effects last about one hour.
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Chicago
Argonne National Laboratory
Cobden Native and Penn Mutual Leader Dies at 63
John A. Stevenson 63 longtime Penn Mutual Life Insurance president and prominent national business educator and civic leader died today at University of Pennsylvania Hospital. A Cobden Illinois native he served as trustee of the American College of Life Underwriters and chaired the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania and the Institute of Life Insurance.
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Philadelphia
John A. Stevenson
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co
University of Pennsylvania Hospital
Cobden, Ill
Stevenson
American College of Life Underwriters
Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania
The
Institute of Life Insurance
Annulment Granted After 26 Years of Marriage
Mrs Sophie Nichols of Detroit obtained an annulment from circuit judge Chester P. O Hara after 26 years of supposedly married life. Walter Nichols disappeared after the wedding reception on December 23 1923 taking wedding presents and ladies pockets. Nichols has not been heard from since.
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Detroit
Sophie Nichols
Walter Nichols
Chester P. O. O’hara
Nichols
Study of Clerk Fund Shortage Opens In Will County
Joliet Illinois August 31 State's Attorney John Irving Pearce said he will study charges of a $7785 shortage in the Will county clerk's office accounts before court proceedings. The county board asked Pearce to demand the money after an auditor's report revealed the shortage dating to 1944. Pearce sought time to review the auditors' records before filing charges.
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Joliet
Ill
John Irving Pearce
Will County Clerk
Will County Board
Pearce
Two Bombers Recovered After Jet Bomber Crash
A B 45 jet bomber from Barksdale field crashed near Belcher Louisiana at 10 30 am after hitting high voltage power lines. Two men were killed and two others were reported missing. Wreckage covered about a half mile with engines buried in a cotton field. Witnesses saw the plane fly low with one engine on fire and no parachutes observed.
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Belcher
Niles
Barksdale Field
Air Force
Shreveport
Lee Haygood
Dallman Named Chair of Illinois State Museum Board
Vincent Y. Dallman editor of the Illinois State Register in Springfield is named chairman of the Illinois State Museum board. He has served since 1935 and succeeds Dr Fay Cooper Cole of the University of Chicago who remains on the board.
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Dallman
Springfield
Ill
Vincent Y. Dallman
Illinois State Register
Illinois State Museum
Fay Cooper Cole
University of Chicago
Cole
Du Quoin State Fair hosts Grand Circuit races and livestock shows
Grand Circuit racing features a 25000 Castleton Farm stake for 2 year old trotters along with the Big Five Pace and the Egyptian State racing events. Beef and dairy cattle judging, heavy horse and sheep contests headline livestock exhibitions. Numerous breed champions are named across Hereford Guernsey Brown Swiss and other classes with multiple firsts and awards recorded.
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du Quoin
Castleton Farm
Rash
Hereford
C. A. Walker
Carleston
Wayne Acklin
Wheeler
G. E. Wilcox
Blue Mound
Bob Cresap
Seymour
Guernsey
Howard Gallagher
Olney
Gallagher
Springfield
Jerry Merriman
West Frankfort
Leckton Dairy
Salem
Dr. Snow
Centralia
Mayer's Dairy
Morton
Lady In Vogue
H. L. Atlas
Wheaton
Ranger Bette
Marilyn Kuechenmeister
St. Louis
N Y C Petition Opposed Road Seeks Harrisburg Run Drop
A committee formed to oppose the New York Central’s plan to discontinue the Chicago Harrisburg passenger run will ask the Illinois Commerce Commission for a Southern Illinois hearing. The group aims to extend NY C service to Cairo and to press Springfield hearing on Sept. 20. Leaders include H J Raley Mt Carmel and several city and state officials.
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Chicago-Harrisburg
New York Central Railroad
Illinois Commerce Commission
Illinois
H. J. Raley
Harrisburg
Raley
N. Y
Southern Illinois
Cairo
Chicago
New York Central
Defense Committee
Mt. Carmel
Frank A. Johnson
Lightning Fatalities Amid Windy City Rainstorm
Two men Julian Dinkins aged 33 and Leonard Davis aged 40 were struck and killed by lightning while seeking shelter under a tree during a severe windstorm on Chicago's South Side. A three flat collapsed as basements and streets flooded while other areas remained sunny. Safety engineers warn tall structures attract lightning and should be avoided during storms.
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Julian Dinkins
Leonard Davis
Widow Finds Lindsay Data Core of Lindsayana in Springfield
The widow of poet Vachel Lindsay, Elizabeth Connor Lindsay, reports the stored papers form the core of Lindsayana. The collection includes original manuscripts, drafts, six unpublished books, extensive correspondence and about 50 diaries from 1912 to 1931. She plans to sell the set as a single unit to a Midwestern library, not broken up.
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Springfield
Vachel Lindsay
Lindsay
Elizabeth Connor Lindsay
Hilliyer Junior College
Hartford
PATE ROOFING AND INSULATING CO Ad
Roofing and siding firm offers no down payment and three years to pay. Located at 821 N Park Ave, Herrin, Illinois. Call 25271 for services and estimates.
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N. Park Ave
Herrin
Ilinois
Eight Girls Escape Arkansas Reform School Night Break
Eight inmates fled the Arkansas Girls Training School after smashing two doors in the main dormitory. Six had been involved in the August 14 disruption that spurred a grand jury probe and led to indictments of two former officials. Police have not yet found the escapees as the school sits near Little Rock.
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Arkansas Girls’ Training School
Avanda Pruitt
Little Rock
Board Begins Steel Report On Possible Settlement
Presidential fact finders open the steel dispute file with nonbinding suggestions due by September 10 to influence talks between steel companies and the CIO United Steelworkers. The three man panel abandoned mediation and will weigh evidence for a settlement ahead of a September 14 strike deadline.
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Carroll Daugherty
C.I.C. United Steel Workers
Truman
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