Legislators Face Pay Case Over Mental Hospital Budgets
Mental Health Director Mildred Bateman tells lawmakers the department has preserved the scheduled pay raises for hospital staff despite Board of Public Works questions. The Board seeks fuller explanations and wants added details on four state mental hospitals Spencer Huntington Lakin Colin Anderson and related facilities including the penitentiary and Andrew 8 Rowan Memorial Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Bateman
Board of Public Works
State Budget Office
Andrew
Rowan Memorial Home
Spencer, Huntington
Lakin
Colin Anderson
St. Marys
Byrd and Yeager Headline National Youth Science Camp
Sen Robert Byrd and Col Charles Yeager will be two of the speakers at the National Youth Science Camp in Pocahontas County. Byrd opens the camp Sunday at 3 p.m. Yeager will lecture July 15 on current research at Edwards AFB and July 16 on astronaut training techniques. Fifty campers travel from 100 youths nationwide to Charleston then Elkins for lectures field trips and a Washington visit. The camp, started in 1962, is run by WVU's Center for Appalachian Studies and Development.
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Col
Charles
Chuck) Yeager
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
Pocahontas County
Byrd
Col. Yeager
Hamlin
Edwards Afb
Calif
Charleston
Elkins
Washington
West Virginia
Center For Appalachian Studies and Development At
West Virginia University
Skateboards Banned at Auditorium by City Officials
City council and auditorium committee on Tuesday moved to ban skateboards inside the municipal venue. Thomas A. Knight reports the decision aims to curb damage and ensure spectator safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Knight
City Council
Municipal Auditorium
Supermarket gimmick fuels consumer frustration and litter
Louis J. Kravitz of Kanawha City critiques a new bingo style play at leading supermarkets. Shoppers collect small white discs as proofs of purchases and contend with clutter and misdirection while a local aunt reports a distracted crowd.
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Wane
Lannie
Louis J. Kravitz
Kanawha City
Grand Jury Faces Light Docket In Kanawha County
Grand Jury in Kanawha County opens June term with about 50 cases on the docket. Judge William J. Thompson outlines duties and offenses for which presentments may be made. Foreman James Alfred Stogden of St Albans heads the panel with jurors from Charleston Elk Jefferson London Malden Poca Union and Washington. Petit jurors will report next Wednesday.
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Kanawha County Intermediate Court
William J. Thompson
James Alfred Stogden
St. Albans
Ruth Dawson
Leona Goff
Charleston
C. E. Wright
Elk
Emma Wood
Cliff H. Beckett
Jefferson
Melvin Sadler
Frances Farmer
Phil J. Hamrick
L. C. Via
London
John Huddleston
B. F. Reber
Malden
Simon Fisher
Poca
Edith Moses
Pearl Hedges
Union
Paul Painter
Washington
Prisoner Freed in Supreme Court Ruling on Counsel Rights
The West Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday freed Watt Walls and reduced sentences for Walter Kozdr on and Hubert McClure after ruling that defendants were not clearly offered counsel before pleading. Walls faced 11 indictments for sodomy with mixed 1 to 10 year terms. Kozdr on had 30 years to complete after voided consecutive 10 year counts. McClure had a life sentence under habitual criminal act remanded to complete a 2 to 10 year forgery term. The decisions passed 5 to 0 in Kozdr on and McClure, 4 to 6 in Walls with one judge dissenting.
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Associated Press
Supreme Court
Watt Walls
McDowell County
Walls
Walter J. Kordron
Kozdron
Ohio County Intermediate Court
Kordren
Hubert N. McClure
McClure
Boone County
Lincoln County
Wayne County
Kordron
Thornton G. Berry
Din Dunbar Council Delivers Noisy Climax to Turbulent Term
Dunbar city council ends a stormy tenure with a teen dance upstairs as final acts unfold. The lame duck members vote to leave outgoing mayor Dale Long a desk and chair, reject a grocery store rezoning on 18th Street, and direct the sanitary board to pay 613.60 for bond printing. They block gifting Marx Park to the Francis du Pont Co for 8000, a debt the incoming administration must decide, amid ongoing court suits.
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Democratic Council
Lame Duck
May
Dale Long
Planning Commission
18Th Street
Myers Avenue
Santary Board
New York
Marx Park
Francis du Pont Co
Vireginia
du Pont
Four Million Bid On 23 West Virginia Road Jobs
Apparent low bids totaling about four million dollars were opened by the State Road Commission for twenty three highway projects across 71 counties. The largest single bid of 1,740,301 dollars was from the Nella J Teer Co of Durham for the first 20 mile segment of West Virginia 4 from Bell in Maleigh to the Wyoming County line.
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West Virginia
State Road Commission
SRC
Bell
Maleigh County
Wyoming
Nella J. Teer Co
Durham
N.C
U.S. Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Tygart Valley River
Fairmont
W. Va
Insti
Marion
Tygart Valley
U. S. Steel Corp
Fayette
Armstrong Creek
Long Bros. Inc
Bridgeport
Kanawha
Institute
Raleigh - Wyoming
Three Forks
Bolt Road
Nelson L. Teer Co
N. C
Calhoun
Gas Rates Boost Asked by Cabot Corp in WV Counties
Cabot Corp. seeks PSC permission to raise gas rates for 21 000 retail customers across 14 West Virginia counties, projecting about 219 000 dollars more annually. Hearing set for September 1, with rate changes not effective before November 1, affecting Wood Wirt Ritchie Gilmer Calhoun Roane Jackson Putnam Kanawha Clay Nicholas Raleigh Fayette and Summers counties.
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West Virginia
Cabot Corp
Public Service Commission
PSC
Wood
Wirt
Ritchie
Gilmer
Calhoun
Roane
Jackson
Putnam
Kasnawha
Clay
Nicholas
Raeleigh
Fayette
Summere Counties
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Virginia Spector
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Magazine
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Ferris
N Mansfield
Weston
West
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Abercrombie and Fitch
New York City
Wheeling
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Civic Center Board of Directors
Council
J. R. Temple Co
General Glass Co
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R. E. Gibbs
Rg, Gunnee
Charles Knowles
Joe Smith
Dorothy Heinzer
Claude Lacy
Clyde Walker
Mary Jane Vanderwill
Police Department
Manual of Rules and Regulations
Bradley Beckley State
Maple Fork Road
Here
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Finance Committee
Gunnee
10Th Ward
Tom Pelligrew
Oakwood Road
Oakridge Drive
Pettigrew
Shanklin
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James Jeffrey
Elmer Dodson
Gibbs
Carrie A. Bessie
Lacy
Inother Action Council
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Third Avenue
Groce
Oakwood
Cantley Roads
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North Charleston
2Nd St
Morris Harvey College
Machiner Ind
Fire Department
Wardla France Truck Corp
la, Temple Co
Grand Jury
Dunbar
Dunbar City Council
Tiffany's of
FONDO
Tute
Kanawha County
Paving Paving Co
Big Bend
Big Springs
State Construction Inc
Huntington
Mobile Paving Inc
Greenbrier
Andersons
Black Rock Inc
Harrison
Osborne Construcction Co
Clarksburg
Milford - Lost Creek
Andersons’ Black Rock Inc
Charles Town
Summit Point
Potomac Construction Co
Martinsburg
LEWIS
U. S. 19
McDowell
W&h Construction Co
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Mineral
Carl D. Stickley Inc
Keyser
Monroe
Adams Construction Corp
Roanoke
Morgan
Middle Creek Construction Co
Winfield
Pendleton
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