Elections Test WV Cities Across Statewide Balloting
The Charleston Gazette reports results from June 1959 city elections across West Virginia. Democratic and independent tickets win mayoral and council seats in towns including Glasgow East Bank Pratt Pratt Haven Haven Fork and Morgantown. Turnout varied with party gains shaping city governance and daylight saving time endorsements.
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Eve Buckley
Bryan W. Hammock
Offe.e
Pny
Buckley
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Canterbury
Recorder
William W. Brace
A. E Tontalbert
Cecil Perry
Quincay E. Velie
William L. Wileshire
Peoples
East Bank
Thomas L. Black
mPark Chapman
Other Peoples Party
Charles K. Orr
Richard Tyalls
Harolds
James Franklin
Geneush
Jack Foster
Zat Pratt
William H. Baughan
Paulf Noel
Robert Dew
Wilson Hall
Manuel Arvin
Claude Snead
L. E. Salamy
Council
Morgantown
Voters Endorse Daylight Time While Local Races See Shifts
Unofficial returns show 2 279 votes for continuing daylight time and 1 486 opposed. In West Virginia many local leaders were elected or reelected including William R. Ross and mayors in Weirton Matewan and East Rainche. Incumbents George Rodak Delbarion Melvin Brooks and others won seats as voters weigh timing and leadership.
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Wwe
William R. Ross
West Virgina University
Ross
Glen Morgantown
Herman V. Walker
Republic
Weirton
David T. Frew
Joseph Ferrence
Samuel Jusic
George Rodak
Robert Leach
Edward Rowland
Rodak
West Virginia faces staff shortages in state mental health services
A state bulletin warns personnel resignations at West Virginia’s mental health facilities threaten care, naming Col Joe Cole Dr Margaret Ross and Jack Rhody as examples and urging Gov Underwood and Dr Lilly to keep key staff. News from Central America follows with Somoza facing a general strike and closures, plus regional tensions and a 9½ pound gold nugget found in the Magadan region.
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Margaret Ross
West Virginia
Ross
Lilly
Lloyd Presses Berlin Stand in West Berlin Crisis
British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd rebuked Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko and asserted Western rights to stay in West Berlin until a peace treaty with a united Germany. He suggested a possible agreement preserving the current Berlin status with changes to appease Soviet objections, while the Big Three remain opposed to Soviet proposals to station Red Army troops alongside Allied forces.
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Gromyko
Selwyn Lloyd
West
Berlin
Germany
Lloyd
United States
Britain
France
West Berlin
Agriculture ads boost 1957 newspaper investment by 9 percent
Advertisers in agriculture increased total newspaper investment in 1957 by nine percent over the prior year, signaling growing market attention and spending in farming sectors.
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