Bygone Era Recreated With Toots
River buffs gathered in Sistersville Aquila to hear historic steamboat whistles echo through the valley. Veterans like Charlie Stone of Point Pleasant recounted lifelike memories and pilots recalled steaming down the Monongahela as the crowd enjoyed the brass and iron tones of restored whistles.
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Sistersville
Aquila
A. B. Skeets
Bessie Merrell
Lumkerheimer
J. T. Hatfield
Evergreen
Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio
Kanawha
Appalachian
Charlie Stone
Point Pleasant
Pompidou keeps Gaullist tilt in new French cabinet
Paris France President Georges Pompidou named a cabinet that retains a strong Gaullist flavor despite centrists in three key ministries Premier Jacques Chaban Delmas led two days of talks with de Gaulle allies and ministers. Foreign affairs remained under the Gaullist camp with Maurice Schumann and Valery Giscard d Estaing mentioned for future roles.
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Paris
Georges Pompidou
Jacques Chaban-Del
Mas
Gotiating
de Gaulle
Pompidou
Mimis
Charles
Gaulle
Faure
Valery Giscard
Minis
Andre
Malraux
Pierre Messmer
Edgar Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
Andi ‘Faure
Maurice Conve de Murville
Powell endorses Lindsay for New York mayoral race
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell said he will not back Maria Procaccino and may support John V. Lindsay, who appears on the November ballot as a Liberal after losing the GOP nomination. Powell called Lindsay the only candidate able to ease tensions, and denied linking his stance to any back pay settlement.
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New York
Adam Clayton Powell
Maria A. Procaccino
Harlem
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
John J. Marchi
Powell
Procaccino
Congress
Homan announces campus crackdown against disturbances
Sugar Grove Pennsylvania veteran leader Richard Homan announces an attorney general ordered crackdown on campus disruption and violence. He cites a federal task force and Civil Rights Law provisions while urging immediate action to protect education and maintain peaceful campuses nationwide.
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Sugar Grove
Richard Homan
Veterans of Foreign Wars
John Mitchell
Homan
Pen
Cushiee Department
Charleston Workers Pilot State Traffic Data Project
Charleston police will access a statehouse computer to pull accident data by intersection. The model aims to speed up traffic safety analysis, with May 1 as a starting point and a $70 monthly charge from July 1.
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Charleston
Statehouse
Chesapeake
Kanawha
C. R. Roe
Police Department
State Road ‘Commission
Heyerdahl Crew Out of Chicken in Ra Voyage
Cairo newspaper Al Ahram reports Thor Heyerdahl and six crewmen have eaten their last chicken aboard the papyrus boat Ra as it sails from Safi Morocco on May 26 toward Italy. The voyage has covered a distance equal to the Egypt Italy span.
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Cairo
Thor Heyerdahl
al Ahram
Egypt
Italily
Safi
Morocco
Traffic forms align state accident investigations
The SRC and traffic engineering division report a new conformity in accident investigation forms across the state. Lee and Bary Warhoflig from the SRC designed the form after fieldwork with Charleston police officers.
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SRC
Lee and
Bary Warhoflig
Charleston
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Aytan Yt
Sherwin-Williams Paints
Sherwin-Williams
Joly
THE
Sherwik-Williams Co
Lee Street
FIG Aw LD Seeangy Pur
Heyerdahl
Grant Lee
Neur
Charleston Optical Co
Donald PF. Cohen
Quarrier ST
Holly Ohopely
WaterOn
Ire
BOC
Kanawha City
Housman-Huffman
McCorkle
Hoylman
ST. Albans
Huffman
Hoylman-Huffman
Maccorkle Ave
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