Man of the Year Ad Image Misidentifies WV Miner Model
West Virginia Coal Association promotion for a Man of the Year uses a Baltimore ad executive, Richard Zineog, as the model in miner attire. Agency art director reportedly posed as the “composite” miner while officials say no specific miner is depicted.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Coal Association
Richard Zineog
Baltimore
Coal Association
Zineog
Robert Goodman
West Virginia
Mountain State
Ron Wilner
Wilner
Ford to propose 1977 budget with SS tax hike and defense rise
President Ford will send a 1977 budget to Congress proposing a 0.3 percent increase in the Social Security tax, lifting the total rate to 6.15 percent and the maximum tax to about 1014 dollars. The plan also calls for defense spending to 101 billion, and cuts in certain federal grants and taxes.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Chessie evaluates half million damage from Sandstone wreck
Chessie System officials estimate damage from a 24 car derailment and explosion on the Chessie main line at Sandstone in Summers County may reach 500000 dollars. The crash at 6 30 am Thursday damaged a 125 foot trestle and halted main line service in southern West Virginia.
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Chessie System
Chessie
Summers County
Sandstone
West Virginia
Norfolk & Western Railway
Kenova
Bluefield
Roanoke
Glasgow
Hinton
Tom Johnson
Huntington
Clifton Forge
Johnson
Kenneth Morriss
Zaire Threatens War Over Angola Clash Feud
Zaire claims casus belli after MPLA reports of attacks on border settlements. Mobutu’s regime warns of war against the Communist backed faction in Angola while FNLA leader Holden Roberto flees toward Kinshasa. MPLA seeks Soviet Cuban support and Nigeria pledges aid.
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Associated Press
Zaire
Angola
Tass
National Front For the Liberation of Angola
FNLA
Holden Roberto
Kinshasa
Mobutu Sese Seko
Roberto
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Nigeria
Lope de Nascimento
Lagos
Two McDowell County men jailed after Bradshaw store raid
James Webb and Allan Bruce Canellas, both 18 of Raysal, were jailed in Welch on charges of attempted armed robbery and armed robbery stemming from a morning break in at Island Creek Company Store Number 6 and a Bartley Post Office heist. They were arrested without resistance at the Canellas home in Bartley after noon. Deputies said the men entered the store at opening, held three workers at gunpoint, and fled three miles into the woods before hitting the Bartley Post Office and escaping with $127.
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David Williams
McDowell County
Welch
Bradshaw
U.S
Bartley
James Webb
Allan Bruce Canellas
Raysal
Justice of the Peace
G. S. Maynard
Harold Wolfe
Canellas
Island Creek Company
Nathan Hale
Cecil Smith
Hale
Minnie Hurst
Suspect Named In WVU Coed Slayings
Monongalia County prosecutor David L. Solomon identified Eugene Paul Clawson as the suspect in the 1970 dismemberment slayings of two West Virginia University coeds. Clawson is in Camden County New Jersey jail. no arrests or warrants in the case. Governor Moore said state police held a 36-year-old man who confessed to the six year old slayings.
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Morgantown
W.va
Monongalia County
David L. Solomon
Eugene Paul Clawson
West Virginia University
Solomon
Clawson
Camden County
N.J
Arch A. Moore Jr
Charleston
Moore
Hearing Set Jan 23 in R D Bailey Strike
A Friday January 23 hearing is scheduled in federal court over a work stoppage at the R D Bailey Dam site in Wyoming County. Western Contracting Corp of Iowa obtained a temporary restraining order against Local 132 and several unions and individuals to end the strike and lockout that began December 2.
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Maryanne Stevens
R. D. Bailey Dam
Wyoming County
Western Contracting Corporation of Iowa
Chuck Thomas
Thomas
U. S. District Court
Dennis Knapp
Laborers District Council
The
Teamsters
West Virginia Council of Carpenters
Iron Workers Local 301
Ezra Keyser
Moses G. Keyser
Robert Keyser
Reappraisals Of Coal Lands Stall Tax Windfalls For Counties
West Virginia counties await higher coal land values as reappraisals roll out. Two counties already show a net tax revenue gain of 250000 to 500000 for Wyoming and 1000000 for Harrison, with results due in about two months for four more counties.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Wyoming County
Harrison County
Richard L. Dailey
Ohio
Upshur
Raleigh
Greenbrier
Mountain
Dailey
Daily
Legislature Adjourns After Brief Session Seeks Early Bills
House and Senate met brief sessions Friday and adjourned until Monday. A measure would extend the magistrate candidate entry deadline from February 7 to February 27 for the May 11 primary to enable setting up the magistrate system. Bills also address public employee strikes and tax exemptions with hearings listed for next week.
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HOUSE
Senate
Justices of the Peace
Publc
Donald L. Kopp
Charrison
Fire Department
George Seibert Jr
K-Ohio
D-Mercer
Pat Hamilton
D-Fayette
Dell
Jammes M. Moler
D-Jefferson
Clyde W. Hagedorn
D-Monongalia
Virginia to revive on track horse race betting hope
The Virginia General Assembly is urged to approve on track horse race betting this session after prior failures in 1973 and 1974. Backers led by Sen. Peter K. Babalas of Norfolk push a bill now set for a Wednesday public hearing before the House General Laws Committee, aiming for passage this year.
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Virginia General Assembly
Virginia
Peter K. Babalas
Norfolk
House
General Laws Committee
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