First State Test Case on Obscenity Ordinance Faces Courts
Clarksburg the first city to test its new obscenity ordinance by deciding if Playboy and similar adult magazines are pornography. city attorney DePolo urges merchants to read the ordinance carefully while noting enforcement depends on state and federal law and potential court challenges. other towns like Ravenswood and Princeton have relied on voluntary removals rather than strict enforcement amid uncertain legality.
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Martha Bryson Hodel
Associated Press
Clarksburg
Playboy
John DePolo
DePolo
Ravenswood
Joseph C. Hash Jr
Hash
Princeton
Bluefield
Feuchtenberger
Clergy and Officials Brace for Court Over Obscenity Ordinances
City attorney warns Princeton's ordinance may fail in court though ministers push enforcement. Bluefield Bluefield and Petersburg leaders report voluntary removal of Playboy and similar magazines from stands. Clarksburg set to test new ordinance after Harrison County court overturned prior law amid obscenity arrests.
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West Virginia
Clarksburg
Harrison County
Compensation Changes For WV Public Employees
West Virginia agencies decide between two options to finance unemployment compensation for public employees. DES aims to have accounts set by July 1 to implement a 1978 act making all public workers eligible for benefits retroactive to January. Officials have held seminars statewide to explain financing options and eligibility.
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Herb Little
Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Department of Employment Security
DES
Carolyn Smooth
Legislature folds public employees into state unemployment program
Facing a federal mandate, lawmakers pass a bill to absorb public employees into the regular unemployment system after the temporary program ends. Delta Harrah notes two financing options: a tax-like contribution or direct reimbursement, with turnover shaping costs. The tax rate starts at 1.42 percent on the first 6,000 of wages, with the wage base raised to 4,200 and future experience affecting rates. Some lawmakers warned teachers could claim benefits during summer breaks, but claim concerns are noted as unfounded.
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Delta Harrah
Des
Harrah
Osteopathic School Graduation in Lewisburg
The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine will hold its first graduation in Lewisburg with 33 students receiving degrees. Rep. Harley C. Staggers will give the commencement address. The class began in October 1974 as a private institution and became a state school in January 1976. twenty eight graduates are West Virginians.
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Lewisburg
W.va
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Harley C. Staggers
D-W.va
West
Iron Worker Falls To Death From Tower
Douglas McMahan 19 of Marietta Ohio died after slipping from a beam 100 feet above ground at the Pleasants Power Station site in Willow Island West Virginia. He was among 12 Foster Wheeler workers on the partially completed building, 11 others unharmed. The tower scaffolding collapse that killed 51 occurred April 27 at the adjacent cooling tower.
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Willow Island
W.va
Douglas McMahan
Marietta
Ohio
McMahan
Lyle Corder
Monongahela Power Co
Pleasants
Foster-Wheeler Company
Program funds jobless veterans training in West Virginia
Gov. Rockefeller announced a Labor Department backed on the job training program Help Through Industry Retraining and Employment with 1.69 million dollars. The state will reimburse employers for training costs and the effort is expected to assist 1,130 veterans. The report notes a separate fact about mock orange shrubs, referencing over 70 species of philadelphus.
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Charleston
W.va
U.S. Labor Department
Jay Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Shenandoah Ridership Increasing Shows Growing Use
Rep. Harley C. Staggers cites Amtrak data showing Shenandoah ridership rose 32 percent from Oct 1977 to Apr 1978 versus the prior year, the third largest gain among Amtrak routes. He urges rejecting a Transportation Department plan to terminate the Washington to Cincinnati service amid a bill to block the cutoff.
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Charleston
W.va
Shenandoah
West Virginia
Harley C. Staggers
D-W.va
Amtrak
Staggers
Department of Transportation
Transportation Department
Washington
Cincinnati
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