One Year Contract Approved in Railroad Talks
Chicago reports that management and 11 unions representing 450000 off train workers agreed on a one year contract granting a wage increase of 10.28 cents per hour. Unions met briefly with management before chiefs huddled to finalize the dispensation. The deal follows a prior principle agreement for a 10.2 cent raise recommended by a presidential fact finding board. Nonoperating personnel average about $2.42 per hour.
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Chicago
Virginia Tech Area Grads Are Listed
Virginia Tech will award 1 201 degrees at its 9th commencement on June 10 with Col gate W. Darden Jr. as speaker. Degree candidates from southern West Virginia districts include Boone County and multiple counties with names and counts of graduates. The railroads agree to follow the presidential board's recommendations on a 10.2 cents per hour pay rise to ease labor costs, while unions seek more changes. Labor secretary Arthur Goldberg calls the agreement satisfactory and notes it follows Railway Labor Act procedures as negotiations continue over work rules involving about 210 000 workers.
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Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Presidential Board
James E. Wolfe
Arthur Goldberg
Washington
Leverett Edwards
National Mediation Board
Conservationist to Speak Today Before Capitol District Board
Glendon Burton of Parkersburg, area conservationist for the U S Soil Conservation Service, will address the Capitol Soil Conservation District board at 10 a m today in the new Federal Building. He will discuss a long term soil survey in Kanawha County and its use for zoning and land use. Also on the agenda is progress on watershed projects and an engineering team from Morgantown report on surveys of Nitro and Armours Creek areas.
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Glendon Burton
Parkersburg
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Board of Supervisors
Capitol Soil Conservation District
Federal Building
Burton
Kanawha
JUSCS
Morgantown
Armours Creek
End of School Year Nears in Kanawha County
Thousands of Kanawha County pupils celebrate the last bell as about 120000 feet of classrooms close for summer. County public schools run on a full schedule today while teachers finish paperwork and prep for next term. Parochial schools wrapped up Monday. a few weather disrupted sites will resume Thursday.
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Kanawha County
Residents Seek Injunction Over Amherst Coal Dump
Mr and Mrs James F Bryant of Youngers Branch Campbells Creek sue Amherst Coal Co and Carl Clay in Circuit Court seeking a injunction to stop a garbage dump on adjoining land. They demand 25000 dollars damages claiming the dump harms health and lowers property value after the company gave lay permission on April 23 1960.
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James F. Bryant
Younger’s
Campbells Creek
Amherst. Coal Co
Carl Clay
Coal Company
Dr. S. R. White To Be Honored With Service Pin
Dr. S. R. White of St Marys district veterinarian for the USDA will receive a three year service pin today in a short ceremony at the Federal Building. White heads animal disease eradication in western Ohio for the USDA and began with the agency in 1932 as a Logan veterinarian. Dr. Lee G. Berg of Charleston, the USDA veterinarian in charge for the state, will preside.
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R. White
St. Marys
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Federal
White
USDA
Logan
Lee G. Berg
Charleston
Cigarette Discounter Faces Second Suspension Ruling
Oak Hill merchant Hardesty Jr is suspended again for six months under the 1961 cigarette sales law. The case challenges the act as unconstitutional and claims it interferes with free competition. Local authorities argue enforcement protects public health and fair trade.
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C. Howard General Store
Perest
Aas
Hardesty Jr
Hardesty
Feres
Oak Hill
Morris C. Wender
Wender
New Contractors Named to Build Scope Radio Telescope
Three firms Westinghouse Electric Corp Sam Ship Building and Dry Dock Co and Pacific Crane and Rigging Corp were chosen to construct major components of the troubled 140 foot diameter scope at GREEN BANK NSF aims to finish in 1964 with a fixed price of 1 574 060 dollars. The previous contract with E W Bliss Co was terminated amid fabrication and brittle fracture delays.
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Green Bank
National Science Foundation Unow
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Sam Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co
Chester
Pacific Crane & Rigging Corp
Paramount, Calif
NSF
E. W. Bliss Co
Canton
Ohio
Carnegie Tech to graduate three students from West Virginia
Three students from southern West Virginia will receive degrees at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh on June 11. John R. Glasscock of Richwood Ernest Lee Holmboe of South Charleston and Ronald B. Snyder of White Sulphur Springs are the graduates.
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Carnegie Tech
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Carnegie Institute of Technology
John R. Glasscock
Richwood
Ernest Lee Holmboe J
South Charleston
Ronald B. Snyder
White Sulphur Springs
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James A. Purdy
Charles R. Campbell
James E. Moore
Orval B. Warner Jr
Gordon P. Baley
Lucien D. Blake
John FE. Dawkins
Frank 5. Harkins Jr
Carrold B. Harrah
Charles R. Hodges
Andres M. Jackson
Vincent F. Kohlbecker
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Charle P. Blankenship
William M. Boyd
Jimmy L. Crewer
William E Hall
Allen FE. Lambert
Jame P. Ray
John F. Sage
Mingo County
John F. Cornell
Lazarus A. Messemian
Monroe County
James Ball
James 0. Meadows Jr
Raleigh
Richard A. Wolfe
James E. Foster
Summers County
Eugene V. Fife
Wyoming County
Rickey D. Tolley
S. R. White
Ford Dealer Shingtine
Hiram Walkers
Hiram Walker
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London
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