05 Oct 1972
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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1972
Page
1
Rockefeller questions Moore’s road fixes and asserts no commitment to replace police head Bonar. McGovern rails against Nixon’s secrecy and urges the president to come out of hiding as Agnew accuses McGovern of pork-barrel tactics for South Dakota.
Weather zones across the region show mostly cloudy skies with chances of showers or thundershowers and varying high temperatures from the 60s to 70s. In Kanawha County a Charleston doctor faces a $400,000 malpractice lawsuit over alleged negligent ovarian surgery in 1970, with Linda S Menninger Midkiff named as plaintiff.
Rep. Wright Patman pressed the General Accounting Office to investigate Watergate. a preliminary report by October 26 could trigger more public discussion before the November election of Nixon campaign fund matters. Mitchell cites Watergate as a reason for quitting as Nixon’s campaign manager.
The report notes resignation tied to Watergate and wife Martha as claimed by the subject, while sources suggest Watergate helped pressure his exit from Nixon's campaign. It covers a New York City antitrust suit against General Motors over public transit buses, plus updates on missing airmen, war crimes probes, asbestos cancer links, shellfish safety, and cloud seeding patent suits.
The West Virginia Association for Future Farmers of America will be represented by 127 members from 27 state chapters at the National FFA convention in Kansas City Missouri next week. Five members will receive the American Farmer Degree: Ronald Grimes Middlebourne Eugene Rice Peterstown Olint Shockey Ravenswood Joe Stemple Aurora and Manely Zinn Gilmer County. More than 12 000 people are expected to attend the event.
Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan will headline a Democratic rally and dinner Oct 34 in Beckley West Virginia. U S Senator Jennings Randolph said Gilligan may appear at other West Virginia events before the banquet. About 1 000 people are expected at the Raleigh County Democratic Executive Committee sponsored event.
West Virginia Tech hosts singer Ja mie Lewis performing Monday through Oct 14 in the Bear's Den with guitar mandolin and harmonica an afternoon schedule plus a season-opening play at Conley Hall nightly Oct 13 8 30 p m free admission.
Mrs Ila Pennington twin sister of Eleanor McGovern will campaign for George McGovern in Wheeling West Virginia. She will speak at the Catholic Charities Neighborhood Center and later visit Wheeling Hospital School of Nursing and a vocational school with campaign workers.
Baldwin and Cassidento approved the Times article after review while government lawyers pressed to halt publication. Baldwin detailed keeping logs from the Nixon committee listening post and rewrites by McCord, but legal advice barred sharing specific conversations. He denied paid compensation beyond the right to tell his story as he saw it.
A mobile X ray unit from the State Health Department will operate in Putnam County under local health department sponsorship and the Putnam County Tuberculosis Association. The program targets residents aged 17 and older.
Glenville State College reports a 7.9 percent total enrollment increase. President Dr. D Banks Wilburn notes 1 565 students enrolled this semester versus 1 450 in the first semester of 1971 72. On campus enrollment reaches 1 527, up 5 3 percent from last year.
U S Depart of Labor approves a $115 000 grant to Pride County for an Operation Mainstream project. The program will employ 60 jobless adults with emphasis on workers 55 and older. Alfred D. Smith Murrin joins the SUNY Agricultural and Technical College faculty as residence hall director and meat and beautification program pro-residence hall director.
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