Boards’ Unannounced Pay Hikes Stir City Controversy
The Bluefield board of directors that left office July 31 gave city manager Howard Leist a secret $1000 annual raise, while the new board that took office Aug 1 approved small raises for nine city workers and doubled the city attorney’s salary without public notice. State records and court challenges loom as officials clash over public access to payroll details.
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Bluefield Board of Directors
Howard Leist
Leland Carter
Leist
A. L. Tyree
Daily Telegraph
Tyree
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
New City Board
City Hall
Editorial urges openness in Bluefield city government
The Daily Telegraph criticizes unannounced salary increases for the city manager, city attorney, and staff. It vows to challenge secrecy in payroll records, and to attend the board’s closed session as required by the Bluefield Charter. The editors vow legal action if access is denied and aim to set a precedent for public oversight.
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Bluefield Board of Directors
A. L. Tyree
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bluefield
Daily Telegraph
Troops Celebrate Return of 82nd Airborne Unit
Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne learned their unit was safe and prepared to return, shouting in relief and embracing one another after days of anxious waiting. They gathered by a radio, hoping for good news as they awaited confirmation of their status and deployment outcome.
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82Nd Air
Troops Celebrate Return As 3rd Brigade Withdrawn
News broadcast reports 3rd Brigade soldiers airdropped from Vietnam duty with 50 guarding a Hoc Mon canal bridge north of Saigon. Frantic celebration by troopers as civilians cheer, then announcement that only some will be withdrawn after completing 12 month tours. others reassigned. Weekly casualties cited 143 Americans killed in action.
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Nixon
Armed Forces
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Hoc Mon Canal
Saigon
3Rd Brigade
Vietnam
Highway 1
South Vietnam
The
Voice
Nixon appeals to UN to push peace in Vietnam and curb arms race
President Nixon urged all UN members to work for peace in Vietnam and pressed the Soviet Union to help defuse the Middle East crisis and halt the strategic arms race. He spoke to the 126 nation General Assembly, signaling readiness to begin arms talks and proposing UN leadership on global cooperation including hijacking, population control, and an international peace corps.
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Nixon
U.N
Vietnam
Soviet Union
Middle East
General Assembly
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
U.S
United States
North Vietnam
United Nations
International Peace Corps
United Nation
U. S. Peace Corps
House approves end of Electoral College proposal
The House passed a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and elect the president by direct popular vote with a 339 70 roll call. The plan would require Senate approval and ratification by 38 states, making 1972 election implementation unlikely.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Alabama
George Wallace
Wallace
Second Pump To Assist In Clearing Mine Of Water
A second pump will drain water from Consol No. 9 coal mine near Farmington West Virginia joining a 6 inch hose pump to speed dewatering. The pumps, with total capacity 1500 gallons per minute, target Mod's Run area where rescue teams have been blocked by deep water and rock falls since the November 1968 disaster that killed 78 miners. Recovery efforts resume as crews work to restore haulage, power, and supplies while miners seek hazard pay for dangerous work.
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Farmington
W.va
Consolidation Coal Co
Mod
Viet Cong Denounce Nixon Plea at United Nations
Viet Cong spokesman Duong Ding Thao dismissed President Nixon's peace plea at the United Nations saying the UN has no business with the Vietnam war. He called Nixon a drowning man and accused the U S of deceitful war aims as Hanoi and Viet Cong denounced U S troop withdrawals as trickery.
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Paris
Nixon
United Nations
Thao
General Assembly
U.S
Hanoi
Vietnam
United States
Saigon
Strongest mine safety bill clears House committee
The House Education and Labor Committee approved a strict mine safety measure 29 to 3. It mirrors a Senate bill to cut coal dust exposure, fund lung X rays and health records, and create a federal compensation program up to 272 dollars monthly for pneumoconiosis cases, with phased dust reductions and a two cent per ton tax on operators.
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Washington
Congress
House Education and Labor Committee
Senate
Autopsy Request In Kennedy Case Aired In Pa Hearing
A hearing was ordered on a Massachusetts autopsy petition for Mary Jo Kopechne after District Attorney Edmund Dinis said blood was found in her mouth and nose at death and later revealed stains on her shirt. If autopsy results show a cause other than drowning, the inquest may proceed accordingly.
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Wilkes-Barre
Mary Jo Kopechne
Atty
Edmund Dinis
Massachusetts
Edward M. Kennedy
Dinis
Miss Kopechne
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Larksville
Pennsylvania
Donald R. Mills
Dukes County
Mass
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China
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Consol No. 9
Viet Cong
Wearing
Common Pleas
Bernard C. Brominski
Cist der
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