Mountain State Briefs: Uniontown Klan official and WV trials
A Fayette County man charged with murder in the 68 year old Bennie Fletcher Sr. shooting was identified as a Ku Klux Klan officer, unclear if still a member. Other items: Eugene Clawson fights new trial for two student killings, and West Virginia reviews ARC-funded projects amid budget cuts.
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Uniontown
Fayette County
Ku Klux Klan
Terry Chidester
The
Invisible Empire
Chidester
Lemont Furnace
Grand Kialiff
Pennsylvania
James Locke
Bennie Fletcher Sr
Locke
Fletcher
Morgantown
W.va
Eugene Paul Clawson
West Virginia
New Jersey
Charleston
Jay Rockefeller
Appalachian Regional Commission
Patrick Gallagher
ARC
Gallagher
Rockefeller
Congress
Schoolgirl Letter Helped Steer Justice To Quit
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said a February 1980 letter from a Minnesota schoolgirl prompted his retirement plan. He submitted resignation to President Reagan on May 18, effective July 3, saying an early move avoided politicizing the court during an election year. Stewart emphasized his age 65 with 15 years service as retirement criteria and noted the girl’s note as the tipping factor.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Potter Stewart
Stewart
Reagan
High Court
Jimmy Carter
St. Cloud
Minn
Donna Gallus
Technical High School
Fossil rock mistaken for West Virginia dinosaur
Morgantown paleontologist Kevin McCartney of the State Geological Survey debunked a Pocahontas County claim that a 149 foot backbone was a dinosaur. He ruled the so called backbone as concretionary rock formed by sedimentary processes. He did recover a genuine intact crinoid fossil on the site.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Kevin McCartney
Morgantown
State Geological Survey
Coal Division
Snowshoe
Pocahontas County
Chip Rettzo
McCartney
Rettzo
Urgent warning before blunt talk sparks caution
A barbed admonition urges speakers to estimate a listener’s potential for a counterpunch before delivering a direct rebuke. The guidance implies weighing risk and impact in candid exchanges to avoid escalation.
CAB approves West Virginia airline changes but finds no clear deficiencies
The Civil Aeronautics Board eased service limits for Beckley Lewisburg Bluefield and Parkersburg while not ruling on state transit problems. They authorized added flights if airlines schedule them and designated hubs in Greensboro Columbus and Pittsburgh or Cincinnati to serve Bluefield Princeton and Parkersburg. Senators Randolph Byrd voiced mixed reactions to the ruling.
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Charleston
W.va
Civil Aeronautics Board
West Virginia
George Lawless
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
Beckley
Lewisburg
Bluefield
Parkersburg
Lawless
CAB
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Mountain State Briefs
Uniontown Herald-Standard
Clawson
Monongalia County
Randolph County
Point Marion
Karen Ferrell
Quinwood
Mared Malarik
Kinnelon
N.J
Ceramic China
National Guard Armory
Brushfork
Justice
William J. Brennan
Haney-Campbell
Mercer Mall
Janten
Jack Nicklaus
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Sansabelt
CourTeus Wana
Freeman
Bluefield Plaza
Dad
Zod
Haney-Campbell Ltd
of Lane Campbell
Randolph
Sen
Robert Byrd
Roanoke
Pitt
Sburgh
Cincinnati
Greensboro
N.C
Bluefield-Princeton
Columbus
BBC
Cumberland Road
Sale Hub
BUCK
Green Valley
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