ICC Asked To Restore Train Runs
Washington dispatch reports the Interstate Commerce Commission is urged to order Chesapeake and Ohio to reinstate two passenger trains cut last year. The petition seeks continuation of the Ashland Detroit train and argues the Portsmouth Charlottesville service was intrastate and not ICC jurisdiction. The petition says all three trains form a package. the agency will decide if a full restoration is merited after the railroad faces a 20 day response.
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John W. Yago
Washington
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
National Tion
Agsn
Ashland
Washington Chaelndie
Portsmouth
Charlottesville
ICC
Virginia
CLO
West Virginia
C&o
Virginia Mae Brown
Snyder Explains Southmoor Choice For High School Site
Walter F Snyder released a letter Tuesday explaining why the Kanawha County Board of Education selected Southmoor Country Club as the site for a new South Charleston High School. He notes that a Jefferson Road parcel offered by the state police would have required costly land acquisition and development, while Southmoor provided about 30 acres suitable for rapid development under a legislative swap.
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Southmoor Country Club
South Charleston High
Walter F Snyder
Jefferson Road
Southmoor
Snyder
Kanawha
Synder
Gov. Smith Ee
Eedin Ae
Jeferson Road
South Charleston
Joseph Dunn
Salvation Army Camp Happy Valley Nears Opening
About 50 boys and 50 girls will rotate through five two week sessions at Camp Happy Valley Teays Valley Putnam County opening Sunday. Maj Don Vendeville says campers receive a summer camping experience despite delays from rain. Camp covers 58 acres. $50 000 investment with 350 youths expected this season. dedication July 7 with Col Ernest Pickering and Brig Gen John Needham in attendance.
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Edward Peeks
Camp Happy Valley
Putnam County
Salvation Army
Teays Valley
Don Vendeville
Charlie R. Thom Jr
Charleston High School
Maj
Vendeville
George Ray Fletcher
Maj. Vendeville
R. M. Venable Jr
Salvation Army Advisory Board
Robert Daley
William Smith
Emory Mick
Happy Valley
Ernest Pickering
Atlanta
John Needham
Richmond
Camp
Brenda Stiles
Charlie Thom
Carol Reed
Lewis Raines
Honey in the Rock Trip From South Charleston Planned
South Charleston recreation department schedules a Saturday trip for city residents to see Honey in the Rock at Grandview Park near Beckley. Recreation Director Bob Anderson says 20 reservations remain, call the center. A chartered bus departs at 6 p.m. and returns to Charleston around 11 30 p.m. Tickets plus bus cost six dollars per person.
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South Charleston
Recreation Department
Grandview Park
Beckley
Bob Anderson
Anderson
Charleston
State Plans Science Camp Cook Finds Hands Full
More than 20,000 state workers will get July 1 pay raises under the first of several new schedules approved by the Board of Public Works. Most civil service employees receive one step increases. noncivil service workers gain about 5 percent. Total fiscal year pay rises to about $70 million. Governor Smith notes pay levels compare unfavorably with federal salaries and questions adequacy.
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Board of Public Works
Joseph Peters
Peters
Hulett C. Smith
Smith
Student Yields and Gets Haircut From Principal
Steve Williams 15 of Ridgemont Road yielded to Charleston Midh School summer program rules after Principal Frank Given required a haircut. Despite initial denial, Williams was allowed back to class with a second haircut, with county board backing and plans to make up missed work.
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Steve Williams
Ami
G. Chambers Williams
Steve
Ridgemont Road
Charleston
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George Lawless
Bartow
Patricia Cummings
Cummings
Chicago Commodity Exchange
West Virginia University
Patsy
Yale Law School
Phil
Senate Public Works Committee
Jennings Randolph
Phil Cummings
California
West
Charles N. Cochran
WVU
Pocahontas County
Patricia Cum
Mings
Ferrell Fried
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