West Virginia Senate race sees record campaign spending
Del James Simpkins spent 195869 in his bid to unseat Senate Judiciary Chairman H Truman Chafin, averaging 23.70 per vote. Other candidates also spent heavily in Kanawha and Monongalia counties as coal interests and unions played into the race. Chafin defeated Simpkins 12867 to 8264 amid a union versus non union clash.
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Charleston
James Simpkins
D-Mingo
Senate
H. Truman Chafin
Simpkins
Charlie Jones
Kanawha County
Ned Jones
Cabell County
Chafin
Secretary of State’s
E. Morgan Massey
Massey
A.T. Massey Coal Co
Mingo County
Tug Fork
Big Sandy
United Mine Workers
Greenbrier County
Ralph Williams
Greenbrier
Williams
Brackenrich
Stephen Cook
Monongalia
Del
Florence Merow
Dmonongalia
Cook
Merow
Repossession auctions for two vehicles set at bluewell bank sale
Notice lists Peoples Bank of Bluewell repossession of a 1984 Ford LTD and a 1982 Ford Escort Wagon with sale at 2:30 PM on June 25 1986 at the bank front door in Bluewell West Virginia. Also included are public notices of a noncommercial FM station filing for Bluefield area and a low rental housing program in Virginia.
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David Ross
Peoples Bank of Bluewell
Bluewell
West Virginia
Ford Ltd
Pauline Bailey
Onere Communications Commission
Washington, D.C
Virginia-West Virginia Community Radio, Inc
Bluefield
Virginia L. Baker
Vernon H. Baker
East River Mountain
Bluefield State College Library
Rock Street
W.va
Cumberland Plateau Regional
Fairfax Court
Graham Manner
Riverview Terrace
Centennial Heights
Cumberland Plateau Regional Housing Authority
Fox Meadow Apartments
Lebanon
Virginia
Donald R. Pollard
Augustine C. Pollard
Lawrence E. Morhous
Harold D. Brewster, Jr
Mercer County
Commercial Bank of
Commercial Bank of Bluefield
Bluefield Avenue
Donald
Augustine Pollard
Willard
Faye Pollard
Mercer County Clerk’s Office
West Virginia TEDDI Bear loan program launches
State Treasurer A James Manchin unveiled the Educational Development Deposit Incentive Better Education Assistant Reserve program. It offers loans at 3 percent below market rate with $12 million invested this year. Graduates can borrow up to $10,000 annually for three years and undergraduates up to $6,000 per year for five years.
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Charleston
A. James Manchin
West Virginia
Better Education
Manchin
Carbide delayed report on 10 ton river leak investigated
Officials criticized Union Carbide for delaying notice of a May leak into the Kanawha River at its Institute plant. The missing details hinder assessment of permit exceedance. No fines yet. 20 days given to supply more information.
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Charleston
Union Carbide
Kanawha River
Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Carbide
Institute
Marlinton magistrate admits drinking before DUI arraignment
Magistrate Douglas Jett acknowledged drinking beer prior to arraigning Gerald Robinson, 22, on a drunken driving charge. He said he was possibly bleary eyed and smelled of beer, with up to five beers over four hours after a picnic, but denies being drunk on duty. The Robinsons threatened public intoxication charges if the DUI case was dropped.
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Marlinton
Douglas Jett
Jett
R.J. Claus
Gerald Robinson
Claus
Robinson
Robinsons
Baliles pitches literacy plan to congressional subcommittees
Virginia Governor Gerald L. Baliles presented the Literacy Incentive Program nicknamed no read no release to two congressional subcommittees. Senator Stafford praised the plan as a strong step to help functionally illiterate inmates read, while Representative Hawkins asked about fairness of parole considerations tied to reading achievements.
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Washington
Virginia
Gerald L. Baliles
Robert T. Stafford
R-Vt
Senate
Bables
Stafford
Augustus F. Hawkins
Cal
House Committee On Education and Labor
Hawkins
Pitchford to keep most clothes in bankruptcy deal
Clyde B. Pitchford Jr a former stockbroker facing embezzlement and fraud charges will retain a large portion of his wardrobe under a Thursday approval by U S Bankruptcy Judge Blackwell N Shelley The deal lets him keep about part of 31000 in property he claimed as exempt ahead of an auction scheduled Friday to liquidate assets.
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Richmond
U.S
Blackwell N. Shelley
Clyde B. Pitchford Jr
Arch Moore Jokes With Mildred Rodeheaver Over Half‑Million Check
Gov Arch Moore presents a facsimile of a $500000 check to the town as Mildred Rodeheaver, an Albright official, looks on. The funds will be used for local improvements and public works.
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Arch Moore
Albright
Mildred Rodeheaver
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