Budgets Clash Over Pork Spending in West Virginia 1983
West Virginia lawmakers approved a 1.38 billion 1983 84 budget drawing fire for pork barrel projects. Critics point to 1.5 million for a Pineville community college branch and 2 million for Marshall University to buy the Keith Albee Theater, among other allocations. Supporters say needs across the state justify the spending and note pork opinions depend on who benefits. The debate followed final budget actions on Spencer State Hospital funding and a Roane County hospital decision.
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Charleston
W.va
Southern
West Virginia Community College
Pineville
Senate
Warren McGraw
Marshall University
Huntington
Senate Finance
Robert Nelson
House
Charles M. Polan Jr
McGraw
Kanawha County
Nelson
Spencer State Hospital
Roane County Hospital
Jay Rockefeller
Jobs Legislation Snafu Could Mean Lost Benefits
Washington AP reports a Labor Department official warns there is no guarantee of uninterrupted unemployment benefits in West Virginia and 26 other states unless Congress passes a $5 billion supplemental bill. Senate delays and loan funds already spent threaten benefit payments through next week and mid March.
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John Cogan
Senate
Cogan
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Colorado
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Iowa
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Virginia
Wisconsin
Norfolk Marks Centenary Of Pocahontas Coalfield Gift
Norfolk Mayor Vincent John Thomas received a carload of Pocahontas No 3 coal during a 10 am ceremony part of the Pocahontas Coalfield Centennial. The gift recalled Norfolk’s 1883 arrival of coal and its role in making the Port of Hampton Roads a leading coal port with substantial export growth.
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Karen Kaplan
Daily Telegraph
Norfolk
Vincent John Thomas
Bluefield
Robert B. Claytor
Norfolk-Southern
Cheir
Pocahontas Coalfield
Port of Roads
Hampton Road
America
Banks, NC developer eye May bond closing for office complex
Three Bluefield banks and Sunbelt Properties Inc of North Carolina aim to close a 1.1 million bond on May 1 to finance a 2.5 million Princeton Avenue office complex east of the parking building. The project includes 55,000 square feet and 150 new jobs, boosting downtown and tax revenues.
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Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
North Carolina
Princeton Avenue
Dan Boroff
Boroff
First National Bank of
Commercial Bank of
Flat Top National Bank of
Sunbelt Properties, Inc
Drake Hotel
Bluefield Parking Facilities Commission
Budget Panel Trims Reagan Defense Build Up and Approves Democratic Plan
The House Budget Committee voted to cut Reagan's defense buildup by over half and then approved a Democratic budget blueprint for 1984. The package totals 863.5 billion for fiscal 1984 with a 4 percent military growth cap. The Senate passed a 5.1 billion jobs relief package, including unemployment aid, while a Social Security reform stalled on retirement age changes. Kenneth Adelman nomination as arms control director drew mixed reviews from Foreign Relations, with questions of qualifications.
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Washington
House Budget Committee
Reagan
House
Congress
Baker
Senate
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kenneth L. Adelman
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Adelman
U S Calms Reds In NATO Weapons Tiff
Washington officials responded to Soviet threats over NATO medium-range missiles. State Department spokesman John Hughes said NATO missiles would be used only in response to aggression. Soviet officials warned Moscow would deploy missiles near American borders to gain parity if NATO proceeds.
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Washington
State Department
NATO
Soviet Union
Nikolai V. Ogarkov
New York Times
Moscow
United States
Europe
Hughes
U.S
Kremlin
Pravda
U.S.S.R
Communist Party
Georgi Arbatov
U.S.A
Canada
Soviet Academy of Science
Arbatov
Goosens Named Welch McDowell County School Superintendent
Robert I. Goosens, 61, of Northfork, was unanimously awarded a one year contract to continue as Welch McDowell County School Superintendent. He has served as interim since the death of John R. Drosick Jr. last October after the board advertised the vacancy and screened 56 applications, with all five finalists being county system employees.
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Elaine Thompson
Daily Telegraph
Welch
McDowell County
Robert I. Goosens
Contine
Goosens
Northfork
John R. Drosick Jr
Tony Romeo
Romeo
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Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Dan Rostenkowski
Reagan Administration
Wolfe Rock
Wolfe
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Ee Bulletin Board
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Dixon
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SECC
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Jaeger
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