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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1971
Page
1
Austin Minn AP reports J Knox Dye, publisher and GM of the Austin Daily Herald, was named to a similar role at Monessen Valley Independent in Pennsylvania. Dye has led the Herald since September 1969 and will take the Monessen post January 1. He is a Marshall University graduate and former editor of the Point Pleasant Register with career across Canada and Ohio papers.
Reads as a dense ledger of transfers and grantor grantee pairs across Charleston and surrounding districts. Names include Hanshaw, Menwhaws, Tackett, Strader, Roe, Turley, Medley, White, Mason, Harmon, Paxton, Bird, Justice, and others with parcel references such as Armor View Addition, Kanawha River Addition, Hidden Valley Subdivision, and Rt 36 Jalley Fork.
Seven new donation plaques are installed at Montgomery to honor donors. A $50 gift each funds seven memorial signs for the Tech National Defense Student Loan program. The college aims to raise $135,000 with a $13,500 matching loan fund through low interest education loans.
Fragments show a December 1 1973 forecast with highs in the 20s to 30s and mixed clouds across Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia. The same column outlines armed robberies in Charleston with several suspects in Kanawha County jail including Elisberg Brooks and Hardy and notes legal actions in the Pentagon Papers case.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers will pay 210 500 and Jack J. Dreyfus Jr 2 468 000 as part of a 5 million settlement over Dreyfus Fund management fees. The stipulation was approved by U S District Judge Edward C McLean after trial concluding June 14.
A five member NBC news team will speak at a January 13 luncheon sponsored by the Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce in the Daniel Boone Hotel. Speakers include Herbert Kaplow Ras Scherer Paul Duke Douglas Riker Phil Brady and Bob Bruner will introduce and moderate. They will discuss American foreign policy in an election year and take questions. Reservations are being taken for the Dutch treat event.
Kentucky based Bay Re titres Corp reports completion of well No 101 in Perry County. The Big Lime zone yields daily 2.28 million cubic feet of gas and 600 barrels of Pennsylvania-grade fertilizer oil. The 30,000 acre field is developed by Ray Resources Kentucky River Coal Corp and Lindsay Elliot Co with Ray owning a third. Two rigs operate now with four more wells planned soon.
Young disputed a report claiming WV public services are deficient noting 1964 data to claim 43rd rank in education spending while 1971 figures and tax revenues show improvement. He argued the author is not an economist and the report misrepresents facts.
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