Michigan study urges consolidation of 6,274 districts
A two year commission study in Lansing recommends merging Michigan’s 6,274 districts into about 250 four class districts with at least 3 million dollars in property and capacity for 390 seventh through twelfth grade students. The plan would be enacted by a simple majority and keep existing debts with their original areas. Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, state superintendent, called the proposal a major step toward modernizing education.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Eugene B. Eliott
Elliott
State Supreme Court
School finance reform and district reorganization proposal
A commission urged reorganizing basic districts, removing education posts from elective politics, expanding the state board to eight governor appointed members, and making the superintendent an administrative officer. It called universal school election suffrage, a $10 million postwar fund for buildings, state covering 75 percent of costs with 25 percent by local districts, and raising compulsory attendance to 18.
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State Board of Education
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Senate
Michigan
Big Fish Falls For Salesman's Line
Knoxville, Tenn. The fish are growing in Fort Loudoun Lake TVA's new reservoir. Ernest Fielden a furniture store salesman swore he got a strike but reeled in a loop of line that entangled the fish by the tail.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Fort Loudoun Lake
TVA
Tennessee Valley
Ernest Fielden
She Sees Herself As Others See Her
Miss Eliza Fowler of Maryville and Mrs. K L Keith of Clinton are twins. Fowler, visiting Knoxville, spotted a street mirror and exclaimed Oh, there you are while thinking she saw her sister. the reflection proved to be her own image.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Eliza Fowler
Maryville
K.L. Keith
Clinton
Bombers Toppled Abbey Steeple at Monte Cassino
The first wave of 32 American Flying Fortresses bombed the Monte Cassino Abbey at 9 20 am. the robin egg blue steeple of the chapel disappeared as the monastery, a German fortress, came under heavy fire. NBC reported direct hits and partial ruins as Allied artillery followed.
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Graham Hovey
Monte Cassino
Mns
Abbey of
St. Benedict
Italy
NBC
Highway 6
Abbey
Cassico Valley
Robert D. Johnston
Sidney, O
Nation Needs Many Homes Builder Says
Flint Michigan builder D. D. Arehart argues the country must start large scale home construction now to avoid returning service men living in foxholes after the war. He urges a government financed plan via private firms to help veterans build their own homes.
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Flint
Mich
Fit
D. D. Arehart
Marines Surf Bathing On Bougainville Beaches
Marines report Bougainville offers surf bathing unlike Guadalcanal with six foot waves and sand bottom breaks. Leathernecks ride and dive the surf as if at Atlantic City or California beaches, while Guadalcanal lacked surf. Also reported hotel linen theft in Salem Oregon.
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Bougainville
Sunflower Ordnance Plant A City For War In Desoto Kansas
The Sunflower ordnance works in Desoto Kansas is described as a city for war with extensive services. It includes a plant police force, fire protection, 24 hour medical staff, dry goods, laundry, cafeterias, housing agents, and a complete transportation and communications network. It employs people across many trades and supports induction training, making the facility a self contained community for wartime production.
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de Soto
Kan
Er Ordnance
Sunflower
Ordnance Works
Transportation Department
Sunflower Ordnance Plant
Fox On Runway Delays Morgantown Airliner
Pilot Bill Riley and co pilot Crisfield faced a fox blocking the Morgantown WV runway as they prepared for takeoff. They stopped the plane and debated firing, then tried revving engines to drive the fox away while it watched until the aircraft lifted off.
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Washington
Bill Riley
Crisfield
Morgantown
W. Va
Riley
Boot Camp Buddies Reunite After Fourteen Years
In the South Pacific, two Marines, Pete Ralph M. Blessing of Wrightsville Pennsylvania and Robert J. Plumbley of Galveston Texas, who trained together at Parris Island, finally reunite when both join a Marine Corps unit on this island base.
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South Pacific
Pete Ralph M. Blessing
Wrightsville
Robert J. Plumbley
Galveston
Tex
Parris Island
N. C
Marine Corps
Fixing This Error Was Just a Pipe Fixing This Error Was Just a Pipe
Memphis readers recall a tale about Mrs. Harrell who insulated water pipes to prevent freezing only to learn workers mistook them for gas lines. The mix up highlights a humorous home fix anecdote from local life. A separate brief notes a Fort Worth grandmother enlisting to war, joining her husband and one son in service, another son missing since a March Java battle.
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Memphis
Tenn
W. J. Harrell
Harrell
Fort Worth
Tex
Luther Taylor
Java
Fort Oglethorpe
No Whitewash or Smear Tolerated in State Spending Probe
Supreme Court Justice Ely W. Personius warned a special grand jury that the probe into state legislature spending would be neither a smear nor a whitewash. Special Prosecutor Hiram C. Todd announced plans to subpoena every employee on the Legislature payroll of more than 2.5 million dollars, stressing a direct, thorough, expeditious and nonpartisan approach. The open courtroom contrasted with Albany County proceedings, as Todd said the investigation aims to get to the bottom of questioned payroll items and potential misconduct.
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Supreme Court
Ely W. Personius
Personius
Dewey
Hiram C. Todd
Todd
Attorney General's Office
Elmira
Parton Swift
Grand Jury
Albany County
An Inexpensive Way Of Giving a Present
Mrs. William P. Kerley of Knoxville Tennessee lost her purse containing nine dollars two days before Christmas. Deputy Sheriff John R. Garrison investigated the incident and sought leads in the case.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Willam P. Kerley
John R. Garrison
Purse Found by Fountain City Woman Returned as Gift
A purse found in Fountain City was returned to Mrs. Kerley by her husband. He cleaned it up and Mrs. Kerley discovered the Christmas Day treasure wrapped as a present and placed on the Yule tree.
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Fountain City
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