Treasury boosts coin output 75 percent to ease shortage
The Treasury announced a six month plan to raise national coin production by 75 percent and double it within a year. By next June annual coin output is to exceed 9 billion, triple the 1961 level, with distribution among pennies nickels dimes and quarters and half dollars. Additional steps include mint round the clock operations, bronze and nickel strip purchases, and suspending collector sets after December to curb hoarding.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Treasury
Denver
Philadelphia
Congress
Virginian's Art At State Pavilion at World's Fair
A painting titled Harpers Ferry by Gerald Hennessy of Falls Church Virginia will hang in the West Virginia pavilion at the New York World's Fair as the best of West Virginia The piece was selected at the 10th annual West Virginia art festival in Harpers Ferry The festival's other winner was Thomas Miller for watercolors receiving second honorable mention
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Harpers Ferry
W.va
West Virginia
Gerald Hennessy
Falls Church
Thomas Miller
Governor Addresses Meeting Today
Governor W. W. Barron travels to White Sulphur Springs to address the Great Lakes Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners at the Greenbrier Hotel at 10 a.m. He is expected back in Charleston later the same day.
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Barron
Greenbrier
1964 State Science Camp Opens at Bartow
West Virginia hosts the second annual National Youth Science Camp at a 14 acre Pocahontas County site with 100 teen scientists from every state. Delegates include Dan Kurtz and Ed Jaynes. Neil Armstrong is to visit July 6 7 as lectures and field trips continue.
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Pocahontas County
Dan Kurtz
Charleston
Ed Jaynes
Fairmont
Neil Armstrong
Sawyers Delivers Interstate Road Report in Charleston
State Road Commissioner Burl Sawyers appears before a special legislative interim committee to present a report on the interstate road system. The session opens two days of hearings at the State Capitol with joint Government and Finance committees and the Commission on Interstate Cooperation.
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Burl Sawyers
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Commission On Interstate Cooperatin
Sinks Grove Man Killed in Tractor Accident
Pascal C. Hunter 59 of Sinks Grove Monroe County died Saturday at Greenbrier Valley Hospital from injuries after a tractor slid on him at 3 p m on a Sinks Grove farm. He leaves a daughter Diane Foster and brothers Burnard and Frank with a sister Marguerite McClung. Funeral at Pickaway Methodist Church with burial at New Lebanon Cemetery conducted by Broyles Funeral Home and American Legion graveside rites.
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Monroe County
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C. C. Hunter
Diane Foster
St. Albans
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Frank C. Hunter
Marguerite McClung
Fort Springs
Pickaway Methodist Church
Billee Scott Mick
New Lebanon
Broyles Funeral Home
Union
American Legion Post
Ray Burwell
Frank Hebstrom
James Beckett
Meverell Pence
Marcus White
Paul Gilchrist
Bluefield Lawyer Joins Trial Club
Bluefield Attorney Joseph M. Sanders elected to fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers in Los Angeles California. Next induction at the annual banquet in New York City August 9 1964. The college aims to improve trial standards justice administration and ethics. Membership by invitation of the board of regents.
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Joseph M. Sanders
American College of Trial Lawyers
Los Angeles
Cal
Whitney N. Seymour
Association
New York City
Board of Regents
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