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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1969
Page
1
McKever is convicted and faces life in prison. Court arguments focus on whether the verdict aligns with evidence and law. Prosecution notes Day's wife shooting. defense questions key witnesses and attempts for a directed verdict of not guilty.
Gov. Moore files settlement papers in the W. K. G. Taylor estate, noting a final plan for distribution of 114,442 to the IOOF Grand Lodge Educational Fund Inc while detailing executor fees and changes in stock holdings. The estate, valued by stock holdings and taxes, faces a county court review before final approval.
A 10 day period starting May 29 saw a rump Progressive move to establish a separate polling place at the water company building. The county court faces motions over filings and the legality of the plan as candidates were not primaries nominees. Attorney fees of 6000 are noted amid ongoing disputes and ballots at the fire department are discussed.
Voters in 158 communities go to the polls to elect mayors and council members and to decide on bond questions. Huntington Morgantown Clarksburg lead the major cities with turnout expectations near 30 percent.
Outside the state and within it litigation delayed, the property was sold by Mr and Mrs Buell Paul Jr to the Second Baptist Church of Little Rock for a Christian family recreation ministry. Dr Dale Cowling, pastor, said Paul is employed as maintenance. He expects no segregation problems and will offer memberships by principle, not race. NAACP counsel Jack Greenberg hailed the 1964 Civil Rights Act as broadly construed to open accommodations regardless of race. The case references white only policy at Little Hunting Park Swim and Tennis Club in Fairfax County Virginia with a future ruling expected to impact private clubs.
City police charged two brothers with breaking and entering after they were found hiding inside Sun Shine Cleaners at 1940 Seventh Ave. They were identified as Jack Smith age 23 of 711A Washington St. W. and Shelly A. Smith age 21 from Poca Ti. Officers said they were found behind four washing machines after police were dispatched to the scene about 2 30 a.m.
Sidney Gibson thirty-year-old Huntington truck driver was listed in satisfactory condition Monday at Laird Memorial Hospital Montgomery after a spectacular fire and explosion at a Riverside service station. He suffered third degree burns over forty percent of his body when the blaze destroyed the truck and station.
A new plastic cream named Fixonent promises dentures that stay firmly in place with an elastic membrane allowing upper and lower teeth to be held more comfortably. It enables firmer bites and easier chewing while resisting coffee stains. The ad promotes Fixodent as a daily home use product and urges seeing a dentist regularly.
A fragmented forecast shows Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia expecting cooler, mostly cloudy conditions with a chance of showers. Ohio and Kentucky anticipate considerable cloudiness, cooler temperatures, and scattered showers, with highs ranging from the 60s to the 70s and overnight lows in the 40s to 60s.
A closed door meeting is set today between Gov. Moore and Logan County officials to discuss the proposed routing of Appalachian highway Corridor G. Sen. Bernard Smith seeks clarity as Logan County residents fear changes could delay construction. a public hearing in Logan will follow.
The council unanimously adopts a resolution to raise sewer charges by 15 percent and authorize a city federal transit study partnership. Estimated city share with noncash credits ranges 5000 to 6000 dollars, as project total nears 33000 dollars.
City officials outline a turnkey public housing project of 100 units to be built by a private developer and sold to the CHA. HUD has four proposals to consider while the Triangle Urban Renewal Project faces land and water company considerations and possible legal actions. The TOPICS program aims to boost capacity and safety with half funding from the federal government, targeting July 1 start. Concurrently, naval history notes surface about destroyer Evans and air craft carrier Melbourne with details on construction, service, and crew.
Four miners filed claims with the State Court of Claims seeking reimbursement for wages and out of pocket expenses when subpoenaed to testify at a Farmington mine disaster hearing. Hershel Mullenax requests 120.20 dollars, Layman Hall 124.17, Dan Thomas 119.22, and Alfred Christner 99 dollars. The hearing occurred in December in Fairmont.
President Nixon departs from Andrews Air Force Base at noon on a two campus swing to General Beadie College in Madison and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He will address moral values, military roles, and meet South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu on Midway Island. He will also chair an early Cabinet and NSC session updating on Rogers Asian talks.
The Charleston Fire Department logged several Monday calls including a 11:12 a.m. crash at Patrick Street and Sixth Avenue with $30 damage, a 12:53 p.m. assistance call at Elizabeth and Washington streets, a 2:29 p.m. car wreck at Second Avenue and Stockton Street with no damage, a 6:25 p.m. wreck in the 100 block of Cantley Drive, and a 7:23 p.m. second assistance call at Elizabeth and Washington streets.
Mary Lou Jones of Charleston West Virginia will receive a degree Friday from Appalachian State University in Boone North Carolina.
At the Paris Air Show a vodka party aboard a large Russian plane brought together three U S astronauts James McDivitt David Scott and Russell Schweickart and two Soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov and Alexei Yeliseyev. They viewed Apollo 8 and exchanged technical notes through an interpreter, delaying their next appearance by nine minutes.
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