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...Nevada's President Leon W. Hartman. It also carried a column ("Church Bells") by Sponsor Thomas. Biggest scoop was a poll of Reno High School students. Results: 93% condemned Russia in Finland; 73% opposed U. S. entry into World War II; 75% opposed upping taxes for WPA, CCC, PWA; 76% favored compulsory military training in CCC; 83% believed something was gained by going to church; 65% had decided on what jobs they would like; consensus was that boys should marry at 21 to 25, girls...
...Oklahoma. Red Phillips was against it from the start. Oklahoma did not want it, said Oklahoma's aggressive Governor. According to Governor Phillips, the dam would destroy $889,275 worth of the State's highways. To his way of thinking, a $350,000 bridge built by PWA did not compensate the State for the loss; PWA owed Oklahoma another $500,000. And he vowed he would never let the dam be finished until that account was settled...
Having moved his troops in, Governor Phillips did go to court, got a temporary injunction against the dam's completion. If the court makes his injunction permanent, said he, he will withdraw his soldiers. If not, he "will keep the troops on hand until the PWA puts the money on the line...
...last fortnight South Carolina's Public Service Authority announced that it was closing its Charleston office, moving to the State capital at Columbia. Reason given: the Charleston headquarters were only for preliminary work, now done. Along with the Authority would go PWA employes in Charleston...
...meet the approval of the many high state and national government officials who protested suspension of the School in 1936--the University would be doing itself irreparable harm in abolishing the autonomy, if not the existence, of its Planning School. Whether Harvard's Administration likes them or not, the PWA, TVA, and WPA are carrying out the will of the majority of Americans that certain jobs be done, and done efficiently. And to do them efficiently, they need well-trained regional planners. Abolition of the Planning School will only have the effect of lowering the standards of these agencies...