Nixon Urges Insurance Cost Disclosure Move
President Nixon pressed state insurance commissioners to back fuller disclosure of life insurance costs. Consumer advisor Virginia Kanner cited banks and firms using an interest-adjusted method, illustrating with a $10,000 policy costing $14.50 under classic methods but $75.10 with interest adjustments. The push follows a letter to the Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting in Washington.
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Nixon
Virginia Kanner
Kanner
Bankers Life of Town
Prudential
Equitable
Association of Insurance Commissioners
Senate backs speed limit cut to save gasoline
The Senate approved an amendment urging nationwide speed limit reductions on federal aid highways. Sponsored by Sen. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, the measure would lower speeds by ten miles per hour or to 55 mph where limits exceed 55. It also calls agencies to boost public awareness during the fuels crisis.
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Senate
Jennings Randolph
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Randolph
Moore seeks party status in budget veto suit
Gov. Moore petitions the State Supreme Court to join a case filed by legislative leaders challenging budget items in the 1973-74 session. He argues his equal protection rights and gubernatorial powers are at stake and that the House clerk is the only nominal party in the suit.
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Associated Press
Moore
State Supreme Court
John E. Carrigan
Legislative
House
C. A. Blankenship
Nursing Home Chief Enters Guilty Plea
Former Four Seasons Nursing Centers chairman Jack L. Clark pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate federal securities law amid a $200 million swindle. He faces up to five years in prison. sentencing set for Sept. 10. Clark bought a 1730 acre ranch near Ada Oklahoma for beef cattle and reported $10 million in illicit profits.
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Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America
Jack L. Clark
Clark
Oklahoma City
Anta Inc
U.S. District Court
Thomas P. Griesa
Ada
Okla
Walston & Co
Four Seasons
Walston
Gordon McCollum
Paradise Valley
Ariz
Glenn R. Miller
Glenview
Ill
Ohio
West Virginia
Fairmont
Parkersburg
Moundsville
Two Men Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Exams in Dam Plot
U. S. District Judge K. K. Hall ordered Wallace Leroy Hess and Sheredith L. Hamrick to undergo psychiatric examinations after FBI and state police arrested them on federal warrants charging attempted extortion and illegal use of the U.S. mail. A threatening letter sent to Gov. Moore demanded 1 million dollars in cash or else the Summersville and Sutton dams would be destroyed, with details of the plan and a 10 month to year window for payoff. The letter warned not to inform police or press and claimed 30 men were involved while promising bombs would stay connected until payoff.
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Summersville
Sutton Dams
Wallace Leroy Hess
Sheredith L. Hamrick
Muddlety
FBI
U.S. Mail
Asst
Robert King
Moore
Sutton Dam
Logan County
Buffalo Creek
Ravenswood Man Dies After Motorcycle Crash
Raymond Edward Buckley 45 of Ravenswood died Sunday at Jackson General Hospital after a motorcycle crash near Lockhart U S 21. Buckley elder at Ravenswood Church of Christ owned Sunshine Car Wash in Parkersburg and worked as a trade draftsman. Survived by wife Jean Roott Buckley children Belinda Karen and David Ray Buckley parents Ethel McVey and Joseph Buckley, sister Martha Club, brother William Buckley, half brother Guy Wiley. Services set for 1 p.m. Wednesday at Ravenswood Church of Christ. burial Arlington Memorial Gardens Parkersburg. Friends may call after 1 p.m. today at Chambers Funeral Home Ravenswood.
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Jackson General Hospital
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Parkersburg
Ravenswood Church of Christ
Sunshine Car Wash
Jean Roott Buckley
Belinda
Karen Buckley
David Ray
Joseph Ethel McVey
Martha (Club
William Buckley
Vienna
Guy Wiley
Baltimore
Ohio
Edward Allard
Arlington Memorial Gardens
Chambers Funeral Home
Tractor Trailer Collision Claims Virginia Man
A tractor trailer crash on the West Virginia Turnpike near Princeton killed James Henry Thompson, 51, of Bristol Virginia. Thompson died at Princeton Community Hospital after the Monday afternoon crash reported by state police.
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Here
Monay
West Virginia
James Henry Thompson
Bristol
Thompson
Princeton Community Hospital
Bills Presented in West Virginia Legislature Monday
Bills introduced in the West Virginia Legislature include HB265 by Herndon to exempt retirement incomes of public employees from state income tax SB74 by Galger to mirror H3224 Pinecrest repriation and H8285 proposing a $1 million appropriation for Education. Georgetown graduates three area students from Charleston William V Depaulo Leo P Gaten and Michael R Masinter earned degrees.
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HOUSE
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Pinecrest
Galgerr
Department of Education
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Emsiages
Georgetown
Washington
William V. Depaulo
Leo P. Gaten
Michael R. Masinter
Charleston
Georgetown University
City Man Charles Painter Found Dead Near Home
The body of Charles William Painter, 42, of Rt. 4 Charleston, was found Sunday in a wooded area near his home. Troopers say the death appears to be from a shotgun blast to the head in what is described as a personal safety related incident. Painter had been missing since Sunday. The body is at Cunningham Funeral Home in Charleston.
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Charles William Painter
Rt. 4
Charleston
Painter
Cunningham Funeral Home
St Albans Man Hurt in Wreck In St Albans Sunday
Theodore N Watson II of 419 Riverbend Blvd St Albans was injured Monday in a motorcycle crash at Ninth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue He was admitted to Thomas Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition. He was transported by R and R Ambulance Service. LIBERTY Putnam deputies and state troopers searched a private pond for a drowning youth near here late Monday The victim was not identified.
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Riverbend Blvd
St. Albans
Ninth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Watson
Thomas Memorial Hospital
R & R.ambulance Service
Putnam Boy
Liberty
Putnam County
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Frankel Institute Plans Festival At Morris Harvey College
The Lawrence Frankel Institute will award participants aged 5 to 93 on June 15. For the first time the Children’s Gymnastic Festival merges with other exercise programs, including classes for the elderly. The event runs from 7 to 9 p.m. at Eddie King gymnasium Morris Harvey College.
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