Autoworkers braced for a three week Ford strike
United Auto Workers led a coast to coast walkout against Ford Motor Co with 170000 workers off the job in 22 states. Negotiations paused with no quick path to talks, as union leaders warned of a strike lasting at least three weeks and Ford said talks could resume before Monday.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Woodcock
Ford
UAW
AeroMech Commences Flights From Mercer County Airport
AeroMech Commuter Airlines launched service from Mercer County Airport with three daily Pittsburgh round trips. Beech 99 turboprops fly nonstop to Pittsburgh or via Morgantown, with schedules 10:35, 1:45 and 7:30 a.m. departures and 9:00, 12:10 and 5:30 p.m. returns.
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Jim Terry Angelo Koukoulis
Clarksburg
Pittsburgh
Morgantown
Mercer County
Koukoulis
Mercer County Airport Authority
Bill Kell
AeroMech
Greater
Airport Authority
Walter Burton
Bluefield Hospital Fund Reaches Near $1.2 Million Milestone
Local campaign officials announced Wednesday that the Bluefield hospital fund drive has surpassed 1.19 million toward an 18 million project. The drive plans a 250 bed facility on a 2 acre site near Cherry Street and Stadium Drive with 20 private beds and an ICU unit.
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Bluefield
Andre
Ronald A. Clyborne
Clyborne
Shott
Cherry Street
Stadium Drive
Bluefield Sanitarium
Bluefield Community Hospital
Supreme Court wraps test suit over eight new judgeships
Telegraph reports arguments are completed in a test suit challenging 1976 legislation creating eight new circuit judgeships in the state. The note appears on Page 21.
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State Supreme Court
Hope
Bluefield Jaycees
Bob Hope
Brushfork Armory
Ford Opens Campaign With Jobs Promise at Michigan
President Ford formally opened his fall campaign with a speech at the University of Michigan pledging a job for all who want work and a home for every family. He cited goals of affordable health care quality education tough law enforcement and peace for all mankind. Carter countered from Minnesota and Dearborn attacking Nixon era policies and accusing Ford of economic missteps amid a renewed primary momentum.
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Associated Press
Ford
Michigan
America
University of Michigan
Jimmy Carter
Walter F. Mondale
Minnesota
Carter
Nixon
Soviet Union
Ronald Reagan
Morris K. Udall
Schorr Won't Disclose Source Of Spy Report
CBS reporter Daniel Schorr faced possible jail after defying a congressional panel by refusing to name the source of a secret House report on U S intelligence. The ethics committee members showed split views on contempt risk, with seven votes needed to act and Flynt warning of penalties.
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Schorr
Washington
Daniel Schorr
Congressional Committee
House
U.S
House Ethics Committee
Congress
John J. Flynt Jr
D-Ga
Flynt
CBS Newsman
Oklahoma Parents Lose Custody Over Religious Beliefs
Oklahoma City couple from the Church of the First Born have a healthy three year old made a ward of the court after the death of their infant daughter from pneumonia when they refused medical care. A five to one jury allowed state monitoring of the child. The judge noted it as a rare intervention where no emergency exists.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Associate District Court
Charles Halley
Douglas Owens
State Welfare Department
Halley
Glenn Owens
Church of the First Born
Lisa
Douglas
Richlands Claypool Hill water hookup approved
Richlands town council approves a plan allowing Tazewell County to tap Richlands water system to serve Claypool Hill. Details pending. project tied to Raven-Doran plant, a 400000 dollar extension and a future Little River Project, with county funding and joint committees forming.
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Richlands
Claypool Hill
Jim Gilberth
Tazewell
Tazewell County
W. J
Bill) Hankins
Raven- Doran
Hankins
Richlands Recreational Park
Hawkins
Carlyle Mahaffey
Doug Taylor
Don Horton
J. P. Webb
O. L. Martin
Richlands Water and Sewer Committee
Little River
Tazewell Water and Sewer Authority
Wardell
Mahaffey
Raven-Doran
Cumberland Plateau Planning Commission
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