AMA rejects national gun control push but backs stricter penalties
In San Francisco the American Medical Association urged strict penalties for crimes with firearms while declining to endorse broad national gun control legislation. Delegates debated two gun related resolutions submitting by Ohio and DC, with DC proposed record support for national gun laws rejected. Dr Milton Halpern cited New York City gun linked homicides as part of the push.
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San Francisco
American Medical Association
AMA
Ohio
District of Columbia
Milton Halpern
New York City
Tinker Toy Captures Two Wins at Southwest Virginia Show
Tinker Toy owned by Ann Litz of Bluefield Virginia won the Championship Fine Harness Stake and the Open Fine Harness classes at the Southwest Virginia Horse Show in Wytheville. Driver Terry Honaker of Bluefield piloted the horse in both events.
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Tinker Toy
Ann Litz
Bluefield
Wytheville
Terry Honaker
Thieves Loose in the Jail Baltimore
The Baltimore city jail faces losses as warden Hiram L. Schoonfield says inmates steal for pay. He estimates about fifty to sixty inmates work for them and steal faster than imagined during inmate labor.
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Baltimore
Hiram L. Schoonfield
Schoonfield
Air Force grounds entire F111 fleet after two crashes
The Air Force orders a precautionary grounding of 215 airframes at bases including Nellis Cannon and Mountain Home after two F111 crashes. Two crewmen died when an F111 hit Choc tawhatchee Bay following takeoff from Eglin. A prior incident from Mountain Home saw an in flight explosion with crew bailout.
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Washington
Air Force
Nellis Air Force Base
Nev
Cannon Afb
N.M
Mountain Home Afb
Idaho
Strategic Air Command
Upper Heyford
England
Choctawhatchee Bay
Eglin Afb
Fla
Hechler Seeks Halt to Rowlesburg Dam Funding
Rep. Ken Hechler urged Congress to strike the 200000 land acquisition appropriation for the Rowlesburg Dam on the Cheat River West Virginia. He warned the project would ruin farm land and tax base while Tucker County opposes it and Preston County supports it. The note on horseshoe crabs at the end appears unrelated.
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Ken Hechler
Congress
Rowlesburg
Cheat River
West Virginia
West Virginia Democrat
House
House Appropriations Committee
Tucker County
Preston County
St. George
Hechler
West Virginia Regents reject student fee for SPIRG funding
The State Board of Regents on Tuesday rejected a proposal to let colleges and universities impose a $2 per semester fee to fund the West Virginia Student Public Interest Research Group. The plan would have run two years with a 60 day cancellation option and refunds if students changed their minds. Institutions would collect the fee with tuition.
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Charleston
W.va
State Board of Regents
West Virginia
Wv-Spirg
Protesting Marshall University engineering phaseout in Charleston
Huntington group led by Harold Swann pressed the West Virginia State Board of Regents to delay cutting Marshall University engineering. The board reiterated plans to concentrate undergrad engineering at WVU and WV Tech, citing cost and capacity, with no pledge to postpone.
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Charleston
W. Va
Huntington
Marshall University
State Board of Regents
Citizens Committee For the Preservation and
Harold D. Swann
Marshall
Regents
Swann
Prince B. Woodard
Board of Regents
West Virginia
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Woodward
Citizens Committee
Ernest F. Leaberry
Huntington Alloys
International Nickel Co
Robert E. Yancey
Ashland Oil Inc
Tri- State
Dan G. Johnson
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Frank Sampson
The
Economic Development Administration
Patrick H. Morgan
College of Applied Science
Cabell County
House of Delegates
Freda N
West Virginia University
United Holy Church To Install Officers
The Princeton New River District of the United Holy Church will install officers on Saturday. Services start at 10 a.m. with Bishop J. H. Easley speaking. At 3 p.m. Mrs. Christine Menefee will install officers and at 7 p.m. Rev. Nelson Staples of Mount Zion Baptist Church Beckley will speak with his choir and congregation.
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Princeton New River
United Holy Church, Inc
J. H. Easley
Christine Menefee
Nelson Staples
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Beckley
Ambidextrous Writer President Garfield Demonstrates Skill
The text describes President James A. Garfield mastering ambidexterity. He reportedly wrote with both hands, using Latin with one and Greek with the other, in a single simultaneous gesture.
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James A. Garfield
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