GOP Race Tight as Campaigns Enter Final Florida Push
Ronald Reagan accused Ford of inconsistent foreign policy and poor economic policy as he sprinted across Florida. Ford urged workers to stay active before a pivotal presidential primary. Democrats Carter Jackson and Wallace made final bids, with Jackson claiming to have stalled Wallace and Carter aiming to win ahead of both.
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Ronald Reagan
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Reagan
White House
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Georgia
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Washington
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Alabama
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Wallace
George Wallace
Massachusetts
Carter
Stuart
Tallahassee
Pennsylvania
Milton J. Shapp
Shapp
Coral Gables
J.J. Exon
Nebraska
Lincoln
Morris K. Udall
North Carolina
New York
Wisconsin
Moore Lawyers Question Succession Amendment Validity
Gov Arch Moore Jr lawyers argue a serious question exists about the 1970 succession amendment's adoption due to an error in the House Journal and say the amendment may be misapplied in a case challenging Moore's eligibility for a third term. The suit targets the two consecutive terms rule and the Legislature's ratification process.
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Herb Little
Charleston
W. Va
Arch A. Moore Jr
State Supreme Court
House of Delegates Journal
Supreme Court
John E. Carrigan
Oliver D. Kessel
Moore
Melton Maloney
Maloney
Carrigan and Kessel
House
Senate
Coal Miners Return to Work After West Virginia Strike
Southern West Virginia mines resume near normal operations as about 250 miners rally in Boone County and vote to end picketing. Federal court fines threaten UMW locals and leaders amid ongoing disputes over stronger black lung legislation and related injunctions.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Boone
Logan
Wyoming
McDowell
United Mine Worker
U.S. House of Representatives
West Virginia APCC may ease sulfur oxide limits
At a House Rules Committee hearing, APCC Director Carl Beard II said the commission may moderate its sulfur oxide secondary emission limits set for 1978. Commissioner Gus Douglass noted federal standards leave room for easing, as Appalachian Power and Monongahela Power pressed for review of both current and 1978 limits.
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W. Va
West Virginia Air Pollution Control Commission
Carl G. Beard II
Gus R. Douglass
APCC
Beard
Douglass
House Rules Committee
Commission
Appalachian Power Co
Monongahela Power Co
Dels
Guy R. Smith
D-Tucker
T. J. Scott
D-Mcdowell
Robert D. Harman
R-Mineral
Scott
West Virginia
Appalachian
Monongahela
Adonis S. Hunt
Fairmont
David Flannery
Apenaction
Welch Hospital Strike Affects Doctors Memorial \
About 150 members of Local 1199 Hospital Workers of America walked off at 6 a.m. Monday from Doctors Memorial Hospital in Welch over pension plan revisions. Supervisory staff replace striking workers. elective cases paused, emergency and clinic services continue. both sides negotiate in good faith with a settlement hoped in days.
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Maryanne Stevens
Hospital Workers of America
Barry Cohen
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Welch
Cohen
Doctors Hospital
No Further School Closings Forecast In Mercer County
Mercer County health officials and the school superintendent announced that schools will not close due to influenza at this time. Absentees declined from about 3,000 to 2,700 as a county nurse screens students for illness.
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Mercer County
N. Allen Dyer
Clinton D. Lilly
Dyer
Lilly
Board of Education
Board of Health
Acme Union Reach Picketing Accord in Mercer County
Acme Supermarkets and the United Steelworkers of America reached a voluntary accord in Mercer County Circuit Court over picketing at two Mercer County Acme markets. Talks followed a Feb court session. the unresolved strike at six area stores continues while the union appeals NLBR on prior rulings.
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Jim Gilreath
Acme Supermarkets, Inc
United Steelworkers of America
Afl-Cio
Mercer County
Howard M. Jarrett
USMA
Acme
National Labor Relations Board
Princeton
Blue Prince Plaza
Stanley Hostler
Jerry Cameron
Cameron
Jarrett
Hostler
Wilburn E. Boothe
Beckley
Blue-Prince Plaza
Richlands
Tazewell
Westgate
Virginia
West Virginia
USWA
NLRB
Union
Pay Raise Approved by State Senate in Charleston West Virginia
The West Virginia Senate approved a 720 across the board annual pay raise for about 33 000 state employees as a possible step toward breaking a budget deadlock with the House. The vote, along with proposed budgets and coal tax distributions, frames a tense budget standoff and potential compromises.
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State Senate
Charleston
W.va
House
Senate
Fanning
Warren McGraw
Wyoming
State Board of Regents
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Kanawha Valley
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D-Webster
Welch Hospital
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D McDowell
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Rroane
McGraw
Jones
Samuel N. Rush
Hancock
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Clarksburg
Harrison College
Salem College
William Moreland
Monongalia
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