NEA to Finance Suits Against Radford College
The National Education Association will fund legal action against Radford College over nonrenewal of four professors. The suits, totaling 250000, contest academic freedom and civil rights claims tied to NSP and ACLU activities, with one professor citing criticism of administration and march in Washington.
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NEA
Radford College
Radford
National Education Association
Roanoke World News
Roanoke
Haubner
Carroll E. Smith
National Society of Professors
NSP
Charles K. Martin Jr
Donald Johnson
Washington
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American Civil Liberties Union
Martin
Radford Board
Tree Picker Demonstrates High Output Harvester
Virginia officials unveil a tractor drawn machine that lifts and bags a million pine seedlings daily, replacing nine men with forks. The device, built at Charlottesville and tested at New Kent, drew interest from 11 states and foreign observers in Sweden Australia and New Zealand.
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Richmond
Australia
Virginia
George Dean
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Dean
Virginia Division of Forestry
Charlottesville
New Kent
Sweden
New Zealand
New Kent Center
The Riddle of Rhabdomancy Water Witches and Dowsing
An exploration of divining rods, known as dowsers, and their methods. A local dowser uses forks from fruit trees to locate underground water, claiming three fruit-tree forks must agree on a site. He cannot explain how it works but notes the rod bends downward over a stream and may indicate shallower depth when bent strongly.
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Elmer L. Smith
New Hampshire
Henry Gross
Kenneth Roberts
Gross
Local Dowser Henry Gross Probed for Water Depths and Belief
The article recalls Henry Gross the famed dowser and his talking rod as he searches for streams and water with wooden forks. It contrasts his trance-like tapping with scientific skepticism from geologists and parapsychology perspectives. Readers are invited to share experiences via Madison College Harrisonburg Virginia.
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P.O. Box
Madison College
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Blue Grass Festival to Aid Frederick County Fairgrounds
The Blue Grass Music Festival at James Wood High School on March 20 features The Country Gentlemen. Proceeds support the county youth and a push for a permanent fairground in Frederick.
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Fund For Fairgrounds
Frederick County
James Wood High School
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