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West Virginia Briefs Highlighted Local Labor and Court News
Clarksburg workers push for reopening of Weirton Steel plant after bond of 850 workers pledging not to strike. Marion County court reporter Nuzum critically ill after heart attack. Holt campaigns for senator with NRA support and UMWA backing. Child injured in lawn mower accident in Sardis. State board renames leaders and fills posts at colleges including Potomac State and New River, plus Concord and Marshall appointments. Fatal mountain combat in Raleigh County leaves one dead and two men in custody. Juvenile held after hitchhiking from Manchester seeking aid. Hawkins held on murder charges for double slaying at Stewart Station along Kanawha river.
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Clarksburg
Weirton Steel Company
Jotal
Wierton
W. C. Reid
Raleigh County
State School For Negro Deaf and Blind
Institute
James I. Hill
New River State College
Montgomery
W. L. T. Crocker
Lee Morris
James T.laing
Charleston
Concord Teachers College
Athens
Marshall College
Huntington
Beckley
Pear
Raleigh
Mary
Armine Plumley
John Craycraft
A. Scalise
Craycraft
Plumley
F. R. Small
Quinnimont
Scalise
Hawkins
Parkersburg
Fred Hawkins
Fairmont
Kanawha River
Stewart Station
Virginia Kimes Wiseman
Harold Headley
Headley