Lung Benefits For Children Are Approved
A House subcommittee approved a bill to extend Black Lung benefits to dependent surviving children of miners who died of the disease. Current law pays benefits to miners or widows. the measure, by Rep. Carl Perkins, would require the child to be unmarried under 18 or a student under 23 with limitations, and unable to self support. Some members questioned cost and effects on state workers compensation laws.
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Washington
House Education and Labor
Carl D. Perkins
D-iry
House Education and Labor Committee
John N. Erlenborn
Liquor Stores To Close On Monday
West Virginia Day observed Monday after June 20 falls on Sunday. State Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner J Richard Barber announced the holiday postponement, closing all liquor stores in the state for the observance.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Alcohol Beverage Control
J. Richard Barber
Virginia Women Press For Equal Rights And Abortion Debate
Virginia groups ask for pregnancy counseling adoption rights and non discrimination in law, urge access to sterilization and contraception, and push for more women in higher offices and law enforcement. The Roanoke Valley Coalition submits thirty recommendations while Planned Parenthood backs sex education and birth control access.
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Roanoke
Virginia Commission On the Status of Women
Allan Zagrodnik
Lynchburg
Virginia Society For Human Life
Virginia General Assembly
Roanoke Valley League For
Planned Parenthood
Lela Spitz
Commission
Virginia
Roanoke Valley Womens Coalition
Elizabeth Nichols
Commonwealth
MercER County Jurors Excused to June 25 Report
Jurors scheduled to report Wednesday in Mercer County Court are excused until Friday Judge F Morton Wagner set a new report time for 9 30 a m June 25 at the Princeton courthouse.
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Mercer County Court
F. Morton Wagner
Princeton
All golden hamsters trace to 1930 Aleppo litter
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes golden hamsters originate from a 1930 litter captured in Aleppo Syria and raised at Hebrew University in Israel recounted in its articles.
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Aleppo
Syria
Hebrew University
Israel
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Huntington Becomes West Virginia Largest City in 1970 Census
Official census figures show Huntington at 74,315, up from 83,627 in 1960, becoming the state's largest city while Charleston declines to 71,505. Other WV cities over 5,000 include Wheeling 48,188 and Parkersburg 44,208 with further town counts listed.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Huntington
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Morgantown
Weirton
Fairmont
Clarksburg
Beckley
South Charleston
Bluefield
Martinsburg
St. Albans
Moundsville
Vienna
Dunbar
Elkins
Nitro
Weston
Buckhannon
Princeton
Keyser
New Martinsville
Grafton
Point Pleasant
Williamson
Westover
Dance To Be Held In Honor Of Queen
A dance at the Princeton Youth Center on Honaker Avenue honors 1971 Festival Queen Lisa Vance. The Blue Chords of Bluefield provide music from 8 p.m. to midnight, with Youth Center rules in effect except for membership card requirement. Admission is $1.25.
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Princeton
Lisa Vance
Honaker Avenue
Carl Howard
Blue Chords
Bluefield
Howard
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Penny Roebuck
Shirley Smith
James Miles
Fred Dunford
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Boards of Education
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The
United Business Schools Association
Business College
Commerce Street
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Golden Hamsters
Fat Af
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Maryland & Frederick Sts
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