Highway Department To Fire 1 000 More Workers
Charleston AP report details that about 1,000 state Highway Department employees will lose their jobs before month end as budgets tighten. Rounds of layoffs followed earlier cuts, lowering the workforce to around 6,500 amid declining highway tax revenues and a capped budget for the next year.
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Charleston
W.va
Gary Chernenko
Highway Fund
Chernenko
Highway Department
Rockefeller
Arch Moore
Tax Cut Accord Reached With Bi Partisan Group
President Reagan announces a bipartisan House coalition backing a 25 percent cut in individual tax rates and a two-year easing of the marriage penalty for two paycheck families. Treasury Chief Regan outlines phased penalties relief and extra IRA access as part of the plan.
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Washington
Reagan
House
Senate
Majority
Howard Baker
Barber Conable
R-N.y
Kent Hance
D-Texas
George Bush
Associated Press
White House
Oval Office
Rose Garden
Treasury
Donald T. Regan
Regan
Man Sought In Hikers Deaths Case
Virginia authorities seek questioning of a prime suspect in the Maine hikers murders. A composite sketch exists but has not been released. The person, a Wytheville Community College student, was held on a theft charge and picked up during an Appalachian Trail hike in Georgia.
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Perrisburg
Virginia
Virginia State Police
Carroll Delp
Wytheville
Wytheville Community College
Wythe County
Georgia
Mercer County drops flash flood warning plan
Mercer County Commission will not join the National Weather Service and West Virginia emergency system. They cite unknown costs and infrequent flooding, turning down $15,000 to $20,000 in gauges with initial county spending of $2,000 to $3,000.
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Princeton
Mercer County Commission
National Weather Service
West Virginia
Parker
Courtney Joslin
State Office of Emergency Services
Mercer
Church Heckled in Wheeling Over Coal Contract Talks
UMW President Sam Church faced boos and jostling from about 30 miners in Wheeling West Virginia outside WWVA during an interview on a proposed contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. Miners criticize a clause allowing mine subletting to non union operators and warn of job impacts for construction workers. Church notes federal court limits on excluding non union subcontractors as the 70 day strike nears its sixth coal state visit.
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United Mine Workers
Sam Church
Wheeling
W.va
Church
WWVA
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
BCOA
B.R. Brown
Pennsylvania
UMW
Weekend Outlook With Showers and Warm Temperatures
Scattered showers and thunderstorms today increase tonight and Saturday. Highs in the mid 70s to low 80s, with lows in the 60s. The extended forecast calls for partly cloudy skies Sunday with a chance of showers and mostly sunny Monday. Highs near 80s, mountain areas mid 70s, lows upper 50s to 60s.
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National Weather Service
New Coal Contract Offer Compared With Rejected Plan
United Mine Workers vote on a new contract differing from the March 23 rejected proposal. The terms raise non-union coal royalties to 2.07 per ton in 1982 and 2.23 in 1983, keep royalties on non-union coal, increase wages about 38 percent over 40 months, add 15 cent quarterly cost of living raises, boost evening night shift differentials by 10 cents, offer a $150 back to work bonus, provide a $95 widow’s pension starting 1982, add a post Thanksgiving holiday, and raise sickness and accident benefits to 185 per week by the third year.
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United Mine Workers
UMWA
Sam Church
Church
BCOA
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Hinton
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