Virginia Fair Election Law Sparks Campaign Funding Confusion
Newport News Daily Press finds a loophole in Virginia Fair Elections Practices Act allowing some General Assembly members to collect and spend surplus campaign funds without reporting. The survey cites several cases from 1979 to 1982, including contributions from Newport News Shipbuilding and large unreported expenditures by Alan Diamonstein.
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Newport News
Virginia
General Assembly
Newport News Daily Press
State Board of Elections
Richmond
Gordon Morse
Common Cause
House of Delegates
Del
Richard M. Bagley
D-Hampton
House Appropriations Committee
Newport News Shipbuilding
Bagley
Hampton
Gregory F. Lawson
del. Alan Diamonstein
D-Newport News
Democratic Party
Diamonstein
James S.G. Davenport
Democratic National Committee
Treasury
del. C. Jefferson Stafford
Pearisburg
Stafford
William Bridge
West Virginia native among electees for Rhodes Scholarship
The 1983 Rhodes Scholars include Richard F. Sommer from Morgantown West Virginia, the nation’s 1982 parliamentary debate champion, among 32 recipients from 24 colleges. Recipients are chosen from 1183 applicants to study at Oxford University for two years, with Rhodes Trustees ratification pending acceptance by a college at Oxford.
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Claremont
Calif
West Virginia
Oxford University
England
U.S
David Alexander
Rhodes
Pomona College
United
Douglas Rule
Parkersburg
Princeton University
Harvard University
Radcliffe College
Stanford University
U.S. Naval Academy
Cecil J. Rhodes
Trust
Pat Haden
Los Angeles Rams
Kris Kristofferson
J. William Fulbright
Arkansas
Paul Sarbanes
Maryland
Richard Lugar
Indiana
David Boren
Oklahoma
Larry Pressler
South Dakota
New England
State Supreme Court Overhauls West Virginia Judicial Disciplinary System
West Virginia’s court creates two new bodies to handle complaints and penalties against judges. The Judicial Investigation Committee will review all complaints against judicial officers, and a Judicial Hearing Board will hear cases referred by the committee for further action.
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Charleston
W.va
State Supreme Court
West Virginia
Judicial Hearing Board
Investigation Committee
Cranberry Wilderness Bill Advances in Senate
The U S Senate approved designating 35 600 acres in Pocahontas and Webster counties as the Cranberry Backcountry wilderness area. The measure includes compensation up to 2 2 million to counties for lost property taxes and mineral rights, with CSX owning mineral rights and the area within Monongahela National Forest.
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Charleston
W.va
U.S. Senate
Pocahontas and
Webster Counties
Cranberry Backcountry
Pocahontas
Mike Willard
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
House
Willard
Webster
Federal Agriculture Department
Cranberry
Byrd
Mississippi River
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
Monongahela National Forest
CSX Corp
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
Wyoming Oil Lottery Opens To All In January Ad
Santa Ana California special report details Wyoming public drawings for oil lease rights with entries as low as forty dollars tax deductible. Hundreds of citizens may gain leases on public lands and potential royalties by contacting The B Ryan Snyder Company in Santa Ana for entry cards and instructions ahead of the January 12 1983 deadline.
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Santa Ana
Calif
U.S
Wyoming
B. Ryan Snyder Company, Inc
Oil and Gas Lease Division
East Fourth Street
California
Snyder Company
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