Senate Should Reform To Avert Future Baker Scandals
Editorial argues the Senate hides the Bobby Baker case and calls for ethics reforms to prevent future corruption. It cites Sen. Smathers and Sen. Byrd as vulnerable and urges Monroney to push a constitutional overhaul, contending the Senate has lost public trust and must act before Baker’s legacy poisons government.
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Bobby Baker
Senate
Baker
George Smathers
D-Fla
Nation
West Virginia
Sen
Byrd
Melpar
Beckley
Mike Monroney
D-Okla
Monroney
Claghorns
U. S. Senate
Howard Hughes
Joseph Valachi
Readers' Forum argues Christmas roots in sun god rites
In a letter to the Gazette, Bruce T. Dunlap is urged to recall the true meaning of Christmas. The writer contends December 25 origins trace to Roman celebrations and argues gifts were offerings to Christ, not exchanges, urging teaching children a Christ-centered meaning.
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Christ
Lord Jesus Christ
America
Road Executive Pay Ridiculous in West Virginia
An editorial argues WV road commissioner, at 14 000 dollars yearly, is underpaid compared with his subordinates whose salaries would rise to 16 380 17 580 and calls for raising the commissioner's pay to 1 000 dollars over the highest paid engineer to reflect his top governance role and recruitment needs.
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Virginia
Road Commission
Rights of Way
West Virginia
Highway Department
Congo policy crossroads sparks urgent Western diplomacy
The United States and allies face a high stakes choice in the Congo crisis as Soviet arms shipments to rebels and foreign intervention threaten central government stability. The article urges immediate coordinated action by the US Belgium France and Britain to deter Moscow curb Algeria and UAR influence and push for a UN backed transition with regional support.
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Paris
U. S
Congo
Africa
Soviet Union
Sudan
Algeria
United Arab Republic
Khartoum
Juba
Castro
Maj. Guevara
Algiers
Aleksandr Shelepin
Cairo
Tshombe
Contro
Congo Republic
U.S.A
Belgium
Viet Nam
Katanga
NATO
Russia
China
France
Britain
North Africa
Leopoldville
Nasser
Bella
Lumumba
Washington’s
Brussels
Uncle Tom
OAU
Journey to Bethlehem with camels and angels in a child's tale
A child and narrator recount a Bethlehem journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem with camels and donkeys. They describe cloud mists above Galilee, hill country olive trees, grapevines, and fields. They discuss travel hardships, mutton stew, and lodging in a Bethlehem barn before Jesus birth then Egypt.
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Sea of Galilee
Nazareth
Bethlehem
Nazarene
Egypt
Ephraim
State records purge reveals vast volumes stored in dome
State Finance Commissioner Truman F Gore reports a mountain of uncontrolled records in the dome including 75,045 volumes of West Virginia Reports and 12,172 volumes of West Virginia Acts. The effort aims to reduce storage costs by centralizing records and adopting depositories as shown by other states.
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Truman F. Gore
Records Management Division
West Virginia
West Virgina
Legislative
Journal of the
Senate
House of Delegates
Gore
West Virginia study cites large records storage savings
The records management division reports 72 365 cubic feet of usable records in offices with one fourth fit for a central center. Office storage costs about 34 dollars per cubic foot annually versus 24 266 96 dollars in a centralized depot, predicting savings of 580 861 14 yearly and a future build plan adding a central repository to free space and cut rents by at least 150 000 annually.
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State Tax Department
Income Tax Division
California
Sacramento
Louisiana
Illinois
West Virginia
Gore
Central Records Depository
Statehouse
Potomac Fever and the New Yorker at Odds with Space Age
A satirical U S columnist riffs on waves of media, labor and politics. References include a wildcat strike at Cape Kennedy and a New Yorker buying property for a pole vault parking lot. The White House hosts a puppet show for children with congressmen invited back next month.
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Cape Kennedy
Third Avenue
White House
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