Bingo Proceeds Not All Going To Charity
West Virginia bingo in 1981 82 drew 5.9 million in license period with only 36 percent for charity as law required half. Tax Department records show licenses 259 organizations and cautionary steps as lawmakers boosted prize allowances to 65 percent or 100000 cap.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
West
Virginia
Barboursville Lions Club
Tax Department
Herrold
Commonwealth Attorneys oppose Virginia intermediate court plan
Virginia Beach AP The Virginia Association of Commonwealths Attorneys and Circuit Court judges oppose the state's new intermediate appellate court proposed for 1985 They urge expanding the Virginia Supreme Court to 11 justices with civil and criminal panels and warn of up to 5 million in costs They favor other bills including extending the death penalty for certain crimes and loosening spousal testimony rules The issue shapes the General Assembly session and Gov Robb has signaled a veto if the court is blocked
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Virginia Beach
Virginia Association of Commonwealth
Virginia Supreme Court
Intermediate Appeals Court
General Assembly
Charles S. Robb
Virginia
Association
New Intermediate Appellate Court
State Supreme Court
Commonwealth
West Virginia AT&T workers join national strike
Mountain State Briefs report that 675000 AT&T employees walked off the job nationwide just after midnight Sunday. In Charleston and Huntington CWA locals picketed and 369 members were notified. Union leaders rejected AT&T wage offers as unacceptable and demanded retraining for potential job losses due to technology.
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Associated Press
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
West Virginia
At&t
Ma Bell
Communications Workers of America
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Telecommunications International Union
Charleston
C&p
Huntington
CWA
Lowell Damron
Damron
Technology Increasing Health Costs in West Virginia Hospitals
James Heaton, former head of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Northern West Virginia, says rising hospital costs stem from hospitals not retiring old equipment when new technology arrives. Heaton, now directing the merged Blue Cross Blue Shield divisions, argues that bills include costs for both old and new machines, not the technology itself.
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Charleston
W.va
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
James Heaton
Heaton
West Virginia
State Pays For DOH Legal Fees
About 30 highways department workers were paid by the state to assist lawyers defending a patronage suit filed by 12 former DOH employees against Gov. Jay Rockefeller and other officials. The workers traveled to Clarksburg on state time for interviews, with costs kept minimal.
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Clarksburg
W.va
State Highways Department
DOH
Anthony Haskins
Doddridge
Jay Rockefeller
NEA Softens Stance On Standardized Tests
The National Education Association, once pushing for a test moratorium, approved a more positive testing policy at its Philadelphia convention. Delegates, with little debate, backed revisions aimed at fairness and ongoing assessment, while leaders noted changes in attitudes toward standardized exams and test use.
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Washington
National Education Association
Philadelphia
NEA
Iowa
Albert Shanker
American Federation of Teachers
Don Cameron
Linley Stafford
Educational Testing Service
Princeton
N.J
Nine Killed In Weekend Lightning Strikes
Weekend storms in Tennessee and New York killed nine people and injured ten. In Tennessee twelve picnicgoers at a Dechord front yard were struck by lightning. three died when a large oak tree sparked the strike. In New York Citys Flushing Meadows Park two soccer players died and another was injured after sheltering under a tree as a downpour hit.
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Associated Press
Tennessee
New York
Dechord
Tenn
Charles Williams
Franklin County
New York City
Flushing Meadows Park
Long Island
Cops Help Break-In Rescue In Tazewell
In Tazewell Virginia patrolmen Jim Higginbotham and Jerry Moorehead aided a resident who broke a key in his apartment door and had to climb through a window. Officers provided a rope lariat and helped him reach safety, ending with the rescuer's praise for the officers.
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Wilson Ramsey
Daily Telegraph
Tazewell
Jim Higginbotham
Jerry Moorehead
Gordon Cline
Tennessee Distributes Nuclear Accident Pills Near Sequoyah Plant
Tennessee will again distribute potassium iodide tablets to about 6,000 homes within five miles of the Sequoyah nuclear plant. Residents have two weeks to pick up 14 tablet bottles at two centers as public health staff answer questions on use and emergency procedures.
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Chattanooga
Federal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee
Sequoyah
Commissioner of Health
Sarah Sell
James Word
Feds Probe Yamscam in North Carolina
In an inquiry nicknamed Yamscam the U S Justice Department probes alleged price fixing in North Carolina the top yam producing state No indictments yet but several growers report the probe focusing on price fixing James Bardin a Wilson grower says he turned over two years of records and doubts any price manipulation Others describe grand jury appearances and requests for five years of records from major shippers and the North Carolina Yam Association Authorities are seeking whether price fixing occurs at trade meetings or private gatherings and the yam association invites the lead DOJ lawyer to its annual meeting
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James Bardin
Wilson
Justice Department
Bardin
Raleigh
N.C. Yam Association
Shippers’ Trade Group
The
Yam Association
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Erzurum
Turkey
Mountain State Briefs
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Bluefield State College
Office of Admissions Today
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Mike Carson
Anchorage
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Lake Leelanau
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Norris Holloman
Queens General Hospital
Holloman
Jones Beach
Bland County Medical Clinic Inc
Association of
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration
TVA
Feds
Eno
Charlie Daniels
Earl Thomas Coniey
Beach Boys
Stella Parton
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Hot Ieaun
Mickey Gilley
Janie Frickie
Charlie Daniels Band
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