Panel Okayed Beall plan splits counties into new districts
The Beall redistricting plan rotates the 17 districts and two senators into 11 districts with varied population margins from 4.1% to 14.7%. It keeps 44 counties intact but moves parts of several counties into new districts including Ohio into the 2nd and 1st districts, Ritchie split between the 3rd and 13th, Marion Grant and Union into the 15th, Monongalia split between the 14th and 15th, and Cabell into the 4th and 5th districts with parts of Wayne County.
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Senate
Ohio
Marshall
Wetzel
Marion
Monongalia County
Monongalia
Cabell
Grant
Union
Mason
Putnam
Jackson
Roane
Wayne County
Redrawn West Virginia Senate District Boundaries Detailed
The document outlines senatorial and district changes by county. Cabell Mingo McDowell Greenbrier Kanawha Nicholas Mineral detail realignment into 5th 6th 7th 8th 10th 11th 15th and 16th districts with multiple counties joining, adding two senators per some districts.
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Wayne
Cabell
Mingo County
McDowell
Kanawha
St. Albans
Lincoln
Boone
Logan
Northfork
Elkhorn
Mercer
Summers
Monroe
Greenbrier
Nicholas
Jefferson
Gilmer
Braxton
Webser
Upshur
Randolph
Pendleton
Mineral
Panhandle
UMW to Seek $500 Monthly Pension and Dues Increase
The union committees propose a $500 monthly pension with an escalator plan to raise coal royalties from $1.40 to $2.40 per ton by May 12, 1977, followed by automatic increases if needed. Dues would rise from $5.25 to $9.75 monthly with income split among local, district, and international offices. The report to the floor began Monday with further debate anticipated.
Court rejects bid to bar Watergate testimony from Hughes aides
A U S district judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Senate Watergate committee from hearing privately more than a dozen Hughes employees. The panel investigates a 100000 cash payment to C G Bebe Rebozo via Hughes associates and potential links to Donald Nixon and the Hughes Tool Co. Davis plans an appeal. James Hamilton of the committee said the claim of private sessions to leak stories is false.
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U. S. District Court
Senate Watergate Committee
Howard Hughes
Aubrey Robinson
Hughes
Chester Davis
Davis
James Hamilton
C. G
Bebe” Rebozo
Nixon
Rebozo
Watergate Committee
Democratic National Committee
Lawrence O’brien
Donald
O'Brien
Donald Nixon
Hughes Tool Co
Charleston Gazette Subscription Rates and Delivery Rules
The Charleston Gazette is an independent Democratic daily published in Charleston West Virginia. It explains subscription options including daily with Sunday Gazette Mail and carrier or mail delivery, with rates outlined for various terms and locations and notes about tax and payment.
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Charleston
W. Va
Independent Democratic
The
Daily Gazette Company
Virginia St. E
Gazette-Mail
Charleston Newspapers
Charleston Gazette
Huge outlines split fund into welfare and pension trusts
He proposed dividing the fund into welfare and pension trusts to gain tax exempt status and said a week end announcement on tax exemption could come. He noted a $4 million yearly surplus amid $25 million monthly flows and warned the fund could cover only one to two months of benefits if a strike hits with a coal contract expiring in November 1974.
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Huge
Salvation Army drive in Charleston trails goal by year-end
In Charleston a letter to consumer protection notes a donor sent $10 to aid the Salvation Army drive for needy residents. Welfare director Jo Harless said 130 elderly people will receive $5 food basket gift certificates this year. The campaign is about $4,000 behind last year with two weeks left to raise $20,000. Bells will be rung today by the Woman's Club of Charleston and the Charleston Association of Insurance Women.
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Consumer Protection Department
Theiling
Salvation Army
Army Welfare
Jo Harless
Woman’s Club of Charleston
Charleston Association of Insurance
Kellys Creek Man Arrested In Larceny
State police at Chelyan arrested Danny Samko 25 Mammoth on Kellys Creek on grand larceny charges. Trooper T E McCallister said Samko took two shotguns a tape player binoculars sleeping bag and two camping stoves from a truck owned by James C Hughes of Hugheston. Samko was arrested Monday for a theft that occurred Sunday.
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Chelyan
Danny Samko
Mammoth
Kellys Creek
T. E. McCallister
Samko
James C. Hughes
Hugheston
Weather forecast for Charleston and surrounding areas
The report covers weather for zones in Charleston and nearby regions on Tuesday December 11 1973. It notes partly cloudy and cold conditions with highs and lows in the 20s in several zones while others expect snow flurries and gradual clearing. West Virginia Pennsylvania and Virginia sections describe cold, partly cloudy, and occasional snow flurries with varying temperatures.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Bragg Trial Set to Begin in Kana wha Court
Dale Eugene Bragg age 18 of Charleston faces rape murder charges in the August killing of 7 year old Rebecca Bricker. Preliminary motions were heard by Judge George Wood starting Monday with a private hearing and an open session on Monday morning regarding Bragg’s statements and seized property. A jury is expected to be impaneled Wednesday at Kana wha Intermediate Court.
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Dale Eugene Bragg
Rebecca Bricker
Charleston
Kana
Wha
George Wood
Bragg
Bricker
Danner Road
Hill expected to resign as defense official to become ambassador
Washington reports Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert C. Hill plans to leave the Pentagon after seven months to accept a post as U.S. ambassador to Argentina. A Nixon ally, Hill previously served as envoy to Spain and as ambassador to Costa Rica El Salvador and Mexico in earlier decades.
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Washington Post
Washington
Robert C. Hill
Pentagon
U.S
Argentina
Nixon
Spain
Hill
Costa Rica
el Salvador
Mexico
Bank
New Hampshire
Defense Department
IPSC Completes Rate Hearing on $95 Million Hike
The Associated Press reports Public Service Commission hearings on Appalachian Power Co. rate increases of $95 million, with rebuttal testimony and cross examination of PSC staff witnesses. The utility serves about 294,000 West Virginia customers.
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Associated Press Public Service Commission
Appalachian Power Co
PSC
Kian
West Virginia
Weekend Free From Deaths In Washington
Olympia AP reports a Washington weekend with no traffic deaths for the first time in eight years. The last such occurrence was the Christmas weekend of December 24-26, 1965, noted by the State Patrol.
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Olympia
Wash
Washington State
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Rlee
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High Political Council
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Republican’ Party
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IPSC
Wurlitzer
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Scholl
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Windsor
SONAC
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piotVess
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Remington 600
HEVCO
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