Piney Woods Educator, Still Going Strong At 72
Laurence Jones, founder of Piney Woods Country School in Mississippi, marks his 72nd birthday while overseeing expansion plans for a large electrical plant in Mason County West Virginia. The piece highlights his life’s work uplifting Black education and the school’s origins from humble beginnings to influence in the region. Absent is any police record among alumni.
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Princi
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United Press
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Jissippi
Booker T. Washington
Cotton Blossom
Ieee
Jones
Sion
Bet Beach
Mason
Mississippi
Hugh J. White
State to rule on food hotel wage proposal
Ohio officials plan a decision within 10 days on wage board recommendations for a ten cent minimum wage for non service workers in food and lodging. The department may finalize the rule with possible court appeal only if challenged. Testimony favored the increase. opposition argued competition already provides fair wages.
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Columbus
Margaret Mahoney
Fantain Ho Moawerv
Dr. Jones
Hari
Vard
Willie Mae Bush
Hern
Arkansas
Webster’s Elementary Dictionary Aimed at Young Readers
A New York column examines Webster’s Elementary Dictionary for children in grades four through seven. The 576 page kid friendly lexicon offers simple definitions like Atom bomb defined plainly as the energy release in an atom. The Merriam brothers publish the work continuing Noah Webster’s legacy with clear meanings for easy to use words.
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New York
INS
Noah Webster
Noah
Merriam Brothers
Merriam Boys
Webster
Consolidated Freightways seeks coast to coast buyout plan
Consoli dated Freightways Inc of Portland Oregon asks the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to acquire six eastern trucking firms at about eight million dollars to create a national service. It proposes issuing 250000 shares of common stock to finance the deal. The target firms include Liberty Motor Freight Lines Secaucus New Jersey Motor Cargo Akron Ohio Bell Lines Charleston West Virginia Rutherford Freight Lines Bristol Virginia Shippers Dispatch South Bend Indiana and Silver Fleet Motor Express Louisville Kentucky.
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Washington
Consolidated Freightways, Inc
Inter-state Commerce Commission
Portland, Ore
Consolidated
Liberty Motor Freight Lines
Secaucus
N.J
Motor Cargo, Inc
Ak‘Iron
Ohio
Bell Lines, Inc
Charleston
W.va
Rutherford Freight Lines
Bristol, Va
Shippers Dispatch, Inc
South Bend
Ind
Silver Fleet Motor Express
Louisville
iKy
Consolidated Stock
Steel Mills Schedule 99.8 Percent Capacity This Week
The American Iron and Steel Institute reports U.S. steel mills will run at 99.8 percent capacity this week, about 2,458,000 tons, the lowest since September. Last week was 100.2 percent for 2,466,000 tons, with a month ago at 101.2 percent and a year ago at 100.3 percent.
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New York
American Iron and Steel Institute
Word Similarities Hint at Sanskrit Latin Eskimo Link
United Press reports Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson argues there may be a linguistic connection across Sanskrit Latin Eskimo words. He cites Eskimo terms for chewing gum and fire resembling ancient and distant tongues, noting evolving scholarly views and long curiosity since 1906.
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Vilhjalur Stefansson
Alaska
Greenland
Brazil
Stefansson
India
Rome
Guage
South America
Noard
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