West Virginia travel features buoy Virginia tourism push
A memo from Robert Bowers of the Commerce travel division details West Virginia feature coverage in major outlets including the New York Daily News and Glamour. He notes 30 plus travel features boosting tourism and cites a U S 60 establishment reporting a 25 percent rise in travelers. The piece ends by asking if the Saturday Evening Post carried a related item.
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Robert Bowers
Department of Commerce
West Virginia
U. S
Nigerians Seek Arts Council Models in U S
Mrs. Nera Majekodunmi, wife of Nigeria’s health minister, visits the United States to study arts councils under a Rockefeller Foundation grant. She tours the American Symphony Orchestra League and notes Nigeria has had an arts council since 1959. She aims to learn modern operating methods for a Nigerian program.
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Niger
Arts Council
Nera Majekodenmi
Rockefeller Foundation
American Symphony Orchestra League
Charleston
U.S. Arts Council
League
Arts Councils
Fite
Majekodunmi
Nigeria
Council of Art and Culture
England
Canada
Niigeria
Morgantown Plant Bids Rejected
Government reports all 14 bids for the Morgantown Ordnance Works unsatisfactory. GSA told West Virginia lawmakers a Thursday meeting will review future plans. The top bid was 1 171 777 dollars from Ko Valchick Salvage Co. Indiana Pennsylvania. The plant cost about 1.64 million to build during World War II.
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Washington — i
Morgantown
W. Va
Ordnance
General Services Administration
Morgan ‘Town
GSA
Ko Valchick Salvage Co
Indiana
Institute Seeks Pool for Blind Rehabilitation
Lawrence Frankel Institute seeks a swimming pool to aid blind children and include instruction in the summer schedule. The nonprofit group focuses on rehabilitation research and physical training for three years. Leslie Skeen chairs the 42387 group. Kanawha Two Mile Watershed Assn meets Thursday at 7 30 p m in Skeen's Appliance Store Sissonville Drive. a public meeting will announce a watershed tour near Princeton with footage of the project.
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Lawrence Frankel
Frankel
Leslie Skeen
Skeen
Sissonville Drive
Ka Ysnaweha
Princeton
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Scenic Dr
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