Charleston Housing Authority Wins Federal OK for Two Public Homes
The Charleston Housing Authority won federal approval for two 100 unit housing complexes on Central Avenue West Side and West Washington Street North Charleston with project costs about 1.62 and 1.78 million. HUD signed off following remarks by Senators Randolph Byrd and Rep. Slack.
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Central Avenue
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Washington Street
Charleston
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Jennings Randolph
Robert C. Byrd
John M. Slack Jr
CHA
Russell Morena
Philadelphia
City Park
Mission Hollow
Morena
North Charleston
Gibbard Named Acting Dean at West Virginia University
Dr Harold A Gibbard has been named acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University to succeed retiring Dr Carl M Fraisure Dr Delmas F Miller has been interim in the College of Human Resources and Education while Dean Stanley Ikenberry is on leave WVU President James G Harlow said Friday
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Harold A. Gibbard
Col Lege of Arts and Sciences
West Virginia University
Carl M. Fra
Delmas F. Miller
College of Human Resources and Education
Stanley
Ikenberry
WVU
James G. Harlow
Heist Targets 100-Pound Cement Donkey Statue
Early Friday a 100 pound cement statue of a donkey was stolen from A. Andrew Smolder on Gordon Drive. Mrs Smolder heard a 2:35 a.m. noise and saw a man taking a flower cart attached to the donkey. The thief tripped as the cart smashed and he and a companion fled in a truck with the donkey loaded in back.
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A. Andrew Smolder
Gordon Drive
Georgia-Pacific Plans Plant Near Huntington
Georgia Pacific reports plans to erect a 25,090 square foot facility in the Kyle Industrial Park near Huntington West Virginia. The project outlines include site location and scope, signaling expansion for the Georgia Pacific company in the region.
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Portland
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NAACP Leader Urges Church to Fund Equal Opportunity
Opal Ripley reports West Virginia Baptist Congress heard NAACP President Herbert H. Henderson urge the church to divert funds from buildings to black empowerment. He argued churches must embrace integration, use legal rights, and pressure education boards to enforce total school integration, citing Bluefield State and Concord College as examples.
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Hilltop
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
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West Virginia Baptist Congress
Herbert H. Henderson
Huntington
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America
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Henderson
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Bluefield
Concord College
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Father and Son Win $315,000 Verdict in School Fall
In common pleas court Friday F Herbert Lacy and Fred Lacy Jr won a $315,000 verdict for injuries from a fall off a scaffold at St Albans High School during decorations for a Christmas program. Defendants named James Keadle Joe Erwin and Kenneth Whittington. The suit claimed Fred Lacy fell while working on school decorations.
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F. Herbert Lacy
Fred Lacy Jr
James .Keadle
Joe Erwin
Kenneth i Whittington
Fred Lacy
Morris Harvey Receives FMC Gift for Chemistry
FMC's American Viscose division contributed $1.00 to Morris Harvey College for the chemistry department. The funds support a $600 scholarship for an outstanding junior or senior chemistry major and equipment purchases. The college has received similar grants since 1957.
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Morris Harvey College
Trent Faces U S Ruling On Charges
Curtis B. Trent a former powerful Georgia political figure faces a U S District Court ruling on three federal income tax indictments returned over two years ago. Indictments allege he evaded 13656 in taxes during a three year period. Trent also faces a separate indictment in a stolen car ring probe.
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Curtis B. Trent Ir
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W. W. Barron
Walter E. Hoffman
Hoffman
Norfolk
John Field
Morris
Bluefield
Youth Given To Carolina Authorities
Nineteen year old Ralph Edward Taylor Jr. of Star Route Tornado surrendered to South Carolina authorities after a Kanawha County hearing. He was jailed since April on a fugitive warrant and held beyond 30 days until a writ of habeas corpus led to the extradition hearing. The defense argued the SC warrant was invalid.
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South Carolina
Kanawha
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Gov. Moore
Cleo Jones
Two Suing C&O For Injuries
Two personal injury suits filed in Kanawha County Common Pleas Court target Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Charles Dickinson of Ashland Kentucky seeks 250000 for injuries while working as a conductor near Winchester Kentucky on July 11 1968. Keith Taylor and Willie Bishop seek 200000 each for injuries while working as a brakeman and manager on weekends and at a Price gas station.
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Common Pleas
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Charles Dickinson
Ashland
Winchester
Wood
Vee Taylor
Fred .Ma Price
Columbia
S.C
Keith
Price
Willie Bishop
Taylor
Weather forecast across states with scattered storms
The report outlines Saturday weather across Kentucky West Virginia Virginia Western Pennsylvania and Ohio with cloudy to partly cloudy conditions warm humid afternoons and evenings and scattered thunderstorms. Highs mostly in the upper 70s to low 90s with lows ranging from the 40s to the 60s.
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Bugging Details On Mafia Usefulness Stings New Jersey Probe
Federal, state, and local officials conceded no indictments would stem from 13 volumes of wiretap transcripts on New Jersey mob activity. The FBI tapes reveal Mafia links to politics, labor racketeering, and extortion, with witnesses naming figures and discussing cases. Legal barriers and evidentiary rules limit prosecutorial use despite broad surveillance reforms. Public reaction varied from cynicism to stoic acceptance as officials weigh admissibility and potential prosecutions.
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United States Atty
David M. Satz Jr
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Nework
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Bayonne Joe) Zicarelli
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Life
Gun Control Law Violation Charged to Man
Leonard L. Lake Jr a 37yearold Garden Street resident was arrested by agents of the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Division on a federal gun control act violation He allegedly gave false information to a federally licensed firearms dealer during a gun purchase and appeared before U S Commissioner B Pettigrew waiving preliminary hearing and posting 1000 bond.
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West Side Carnival Folds Tents for New Site
Deggeller Shows faced city code hurdles delaying a permit then found the West Side site on old Bigley School land zoned residential and needing State Road Commission approval. A variance would be required, so the carnival plans to pull up and relocate while sponsor Henry J. C. Shares pursues another nearby site for fundraising the Northeast Midget Football League.
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Carnival
Bigley School
Duffy Horan
Vincent Reishman
Reishman
State Road Commission
Zoning Board of Appeals
Henry J.C
Happy’? Shares
Kanawha
North Charleston
Nitro Student Attends Rollins Tread Lightly or Got To Jail
A chaotic clipping reports Nitro student Unterweger, a 39 year old widow, receiving a 10 day jail sentence after a neighbor's testimony. The article mentions Rollins College in Winter Park Florida, a plan for a wholesale building material distribution center, and references to a judge ordering jail for disruptive behavior. The piece includes garbled dates and unrelated newspaper boilerplate.
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Italy
Argyle Unterweger
Winterpark
Fla
Samueljed
Rollins
National Science Foundal
Indictments Against Rose Are Dropped
In Katawha County circuit court Judge George Wood dropped the two remaining indictments against Roth lert Rose 44 a former Charleston city official and treasurer who had pleaded nolo contendere to a third indictment for falsifying city records He received a one to ten year sentence Wednesday A seven count federal indictment for embezzlement and falsification at City National Bank remains pending and a plea cannot be used in that case
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Katawha
Roth
Lert Rose
George Wood
Rose
Charleston
City
National Bank
U.S. District Court
Parts Depot Opens On Optimistic Note
MARTINSBURG AP Ed ward N. Cole GM president says the auto industry will stay strong through 1969 and a new 1.7 million square foot GM parts plant will employ 1100, stock 75 million parts for 15 domestic centers and 179 overseas countries. Governor Moore cites Martinsburg as ideal for industry growth.
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Edward N. Cole
General Motors
G.M
U. S
Cole
Girls State Opens Sunday in Jacksons Mill
Nearly 3500 girls from across West Virginia will arrive to participate in Girls State at Lewis County's Jacksons Mill. The program features elections, discussions, and speeches by state political and judicial leaders. The session runs through June 21.
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Girls
Lewis County
West Virginia
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