Retired Teacher Returns to Millersville for Diploma
Roger C. Herley, 84, returns to Millersville State Teachers College Pennsylvania to seek a diploma in January. He accepts textbooks from secretary Mrs. Carl B. Neil before summer session and recalls teaching until 1936 before moving to bookkeeping. Now in Morgantown West Virginia. AP Wirephoto.
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Roger C. Herley
Millersville State Teachers College
Millersville, Pa
Carl
B. Neil
Millersville College
Morgantown
W. Va
School Board Faubus Appear Headed for Row
In Little Rock the School Board and Gov. Faubus clash over desegregation plans with the governor proposing mixed integration and segregation by school. The board plans to use a state pupil assignment law as 55 Negroes registered to attend white schools seek placement. Faubus argues for white parental control and division of students between Hall Horace Mann, leaving Central and Technical segregated. The district faces federal desegregation orders. In New York, Joan Fontaine leads a national tour plan for the comedy Hillary with Bookings via Theatre Guild and related groups.
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Little Rock, Ark
Little Rock
Orval E. Faubus
Everett Tucker Jr
Faubus
Hall
Horace Mann
Central and
Technical
Central
L. C. Bates
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
George Shearing Soars From Blindness To Music Prowess
George Shearing, renowned composer and pianist, was born blind yet learned to play the piano by age 12 and rose to prominence through his virtuosic jazz and classical blend.
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George Shearing
Benson wraps Virginia tour with farm visits in Bedford County
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson completed a whirlwind Virginia swing with a two hour tour of Bedford County farms including a beef cattle and tobacco operation a dairy farm and a 70 acre orchard. He urged less federal control arguing most agriculture is free enterprise and criticized subsidy programs as carryovers from depression and war while calling for more education research and new markets.
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Lynchburg
Ezra Taft Benson
Virginia
Bedford County
Benson
Chamber of Commerce
Richard H. Poff
R-Va
Virginia Agriculture Conference Board
Blacksburg
Agriculture Secretary
Roanoke
Virginia Assn. of Electrical Cooperatives
Grant to Theater Keeps Fort Lee Stock Company Open
Actors Equity donated $2,500 to sustain the Fort Lee stock theatre in New Jersey. The union required the venue to remain a permanent non profit organization despite threatened closure and protests from actors who had worked there.
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New York
Actors Equity
Union of Performing Artists
Fort Lee
N. J
Equity
North Jersey
Rural Electrification Debate Sparks Criticism at Roanoke Meeting
Del. Robert Whitehead and Clyde T. Ellis challenged Agriculture Secretary Benson's proposals to abolish the Rural Electrification Administration and replace it with a federal banking structure. Whitehead called the plan shocking, while Ellis argued many cooperatives face debt service strains and are not breaking even.
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Benson
Roanoke
Del
Robert Whitehead
Nelson County
Rural Electrification Administration
Whitehead
Virginia Cooperatives
Secretary of Agriculture
Clyde T. Ellis
Arkansas
Rural Electric Cooperative Assn
Ellis
Judge Hutcheson Planning Retirement From Federal Bench
U S Judge Sterling Hutcheson of Virginia is reported to have applied for retirement after 15 years on the federal bench. The Richmond Times Dispatch cited an unnamed Justice Department official confirming plans to retire soon as Hutcheson nears the 65 age. Hutcheson presided over the Prince Edward County school desegregation case and has long urged patience and time in tackling segregation issues.
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Richmond
Virginia
U. S
Sterling Hutcheson
Hutcheson
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Justice Department
Boydton
Mecklenburg County
Prince Edward County
Prince Edward
U. S. Supreme Court
4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
No Saite
Ug Eee
Ton
District of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William and Mary
University of Virginia
George Cooper former tobacco executive dies at 78
George Cooper of Richmond Virginia aged 78 died Monday. He was a former president of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp and a director of the British American Tobacco Co. His leadership spanned major roles in the tobacco industry.
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Richmond, Va
George Cooper
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp
British-American Tobacco Co
Rotary Plans Business Session After Luncheon
The Rotary Club will hold a regular business session after its weekly luncheon tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the George Washington Hotel. Reports will cover the student loan charity fund and include treasurer and budget chairman notes. Dr. Clarence A. Peters of the Dale Carnegie organization will make a brief announcement.
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Rotary Club
the George
Washington Hotel
Clarence A. Peters
The
Dale Carnegie Organization
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