Governor Rockefeller Delivers WV Funds for McDowell Projects
Governor Jay Rockefeller visited McDowell County to distribute about 70,000 dollars for two community projects. He handed 15,000 to County Commissioner Pete Blair and 28,571 to Welfare Administrator Betty Jo Jones for a Modular Senior Center in Jaeger, plus 24,500 for Davy water system improvements. The total 71,500 grant last year funded similar work. Rockefeller praised the senior center plan to serve nutrition and activities for about 200 seniors and urged ongoing cleanup efforts with Summer Youth Program participants receiving Be Proud, Keep West Virginia Clean shirts. A Bradshaw senior objected to feeling left out, and the governor promised to keep trying.
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Ward Morgan
Daily Telegraph
Welch
Jay Rockefeller
McDowell County
Pete Blair
Betty Jo Jones
Laeger
Davy
Mary Hale
Rockefeller
Hale
Rockfeller
West Virginia
Jaeger
Bradshaw
Guidelines Set For Computers In West Virginia Vote
West Virginia Election Commission outlined steps to adapt the CES punch card voting system to 1982 electronic voting law. The plan covers 21 counties with demonstrations planned in September, addressing third party and straight ticket issues for the November ballot.
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Charleston
W.va
State Election Commission
Keith Long
Computer Election Systems
California
CES
Long
Bean
Commission
Hatfields and McCoys 100th feud anniversary events planned
Williamson West Virginia hosts a Hatfield and McCoy festival to mark the 100th anniversary of the feuding families two decades after the Aug 7 1882 deadly incidents. Local officials rename streets for the occasion as broadcasters arrive with footage and interviews.
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Sam Kapourales
Second Avenue
Hatfield Avenue
Third Avenue
McCoy Avenue
Matewan
Bob McCoy
McCoy
Dutch Hatfield
Hatfields
Elwood Hinkle
J.C. Penney Co
Williamson
Hinkle
Hatfield and McCoy
Tug Fork Valley
NBC
CBS
ABC
Beckley
Grandview State Park
Fred Briggs
NBC Nightly News
Chicago
America
Sally Holm
Hatfield-McCoy
Coal Miner's Arm Reattached After 7-Hour Surgery
Virgil Casini a 30 year old Pennsylvania coal miner from Lake Lynn had his right arm nearly severed when a cable snapped at Consols Blacksville No 2 mine. Surgeons at West Virginia University Medical Center Morgantown spent seven hours reattaching the limb after midnight.
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Morgantown
W.va
Pennsylvania
Consolidation Coal Co
Virgil Casini
Lake Lynn
Consol
Blacksville No. 2
Dick Toren
WVII
West Virginia University Medical Center
Toren
George Record
Jobless Rate Up In McDowell
Jackson County shows high unemployment, but McDowell County bears a worse burden with a 20.5 percent jobless rate in June up from 17.9 percent in May. The area relies on metallurgical coal for steel, and layoffs in coal spur losses as the steel industry falters nationwide.
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Charleston
W.va
Jackson County
McDowell County
Ralph Halstead
State Department of Employment Security
Halstead
Mine cited mine closures and state unemployment data in Pikeville report
Federal mining officials ordered six of eight working sections closed at Leslie Coal Mining Co due to falsified records and high methane levels. A roof fall had already idled two sections. three closed sections later reopened after company corrections. An admin law judge ordered temporary reinstatement for two fired foremen amid a discrimination complaint filed January 27 by James Justice and James D. Tincher.
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Pikeville, Ky
Leslie Coal Mining Co
Pike County
Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration
MESA
James Justice
James D. Tincher
Leslie Coal Mining
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Princeton
Bridgeport
Ralph J. Bean Jr
U.S. Senate
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Socialist Workers
Cabell County
House of Delegates
Bluefield
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Panhandle
Pendleton
Jefferson and
Hardy
Washington, D.C
Welfare Department
Leon Ginsberg
Ginsberg
Clay County
Reed
Kay Jewelers
The
Diamond People
Alan Green
Steel Homes
Gil
Mercer
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