Accord Reached On Sewage System Policies In Beckley
City and federal authorities along with prime contractor Christopher Construction Co reached an accord covering sewage system policies. The agreement includes land acquisition rules under the Housing and Urban Development Act, negotiated purchases before eminent domain, and 75 percent of appraised value before possession if price is disputed.
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HUDI
Beckley
Ocr
Christopher Construction Co
Columbus
Ohio
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Economic Development] Administration
Beckley Sanitary Board
Striking Coal Miners Meet Striking Coal Miners in Morgantown
In Monongalia County 600 miners from Blacksville No. 8 and Humphrey No. 7 walked out over policies. Blacksville workers meet today to seek deductions for group insurance. Maidsville workers plan a Thursday meeting over vacancies for motormen. The Kanawha County walkout ended as miners returned to work at two mines.
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Morgantown
UPID
Christopher Coal Co
Monongalia County
Blacksville
Humphrey No
Maidsville
West Virginia
Kanawha County
Kanawha
West Virginia streamlines welfare department reforms
Gov Arch Moore announced reorganization of the State Welfare Department to increase federal matching from 60 to 67 percent. Twenty seven district offices will be eliminated and staff reduced in 28 counties to handle food stamp distribution and welfare services, with 27 remaining locations.
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Charleston
UPI
Arch A. Moore Jr
Day
State Welfare Department
Virginia
Wheeling
Fairmont
Parkersburg
Martinsburg
Hunjvices
Andington
Welch
Elk States
Beckley
Welfare reform plan faces fall hearings and staff shifts
The effort would place professional staff in high welfare recipient areas with 55 fully staffed counties. House committee leaders anticipate hearings this fall with no decisions until next year as internal debate centers on including the working poor and expanding coverage from 10 to 22.4 million. Tentative area offices are listed across multiple counties to align county offices with the new reform structure.
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eMergencrs
Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
John W. Byrnes
GOP
Finch
Romney
Hampshire and Mineral
Petersburg
Grant, Hardy
Pendleton
Martinsburg
Berkeley
Jefferson
Morgan
Huntington
Cabell
Mason
Hamlin
Lincoln
Putnam
Lewisburg
Greenbrier
Conroe
Wayne
Wayne County
Williamson
Mingo
Welsh1
McDowell
Wyoming
Beckley
Raleigh
Oak Hill
Fayette
Sutton
Braxton and
Clay
Charleston
Kanawha
Princeton
Mercer
Summers
Ways
House
Senate
Dinis
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Guianes
Congress
Nixon
Israel Jordan clash erupts near Dead Sea cease-fire line
United Press International reports heavy fighting along the Israeli Jordanian cease-fire line one day after King Hussein reshaped his government to give Palestinian guerrillas more say in the war. Israel says Jordanian tanks opened fire near the Abdul lah Bridge and Jordanian artillery joined the attack. Israel returned fire. Earlier, Israeli jets hit Jordan's Ghor canal cutting water to east bank farms. Israeli leaders warned Jordan and Lebanon accounts for guerrilla raids.
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United Press International
Hussein
Israel
Tel Aviv
Abdullah Bridge
Dead Sea
Jordan
Ghor
East Bank
Lebanon
Four youths die after inhaling cheap high at Carnegie station
Four teens bought a burn lotion insect repellent mix for 1.79 dollars and inhaled it at the Carnegie Railroad station platform. Three blacked out. Raymond Steinherter, 20, suffocated from the fumes. Survivors told authorities the incident occurred Sunday night. Autopsy confirms Steinherter died from asphyxiation.
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Pittsburgh
UPL
Raymond Stein- Herter
Neatby
Carnegie
Steinharter
Carnegie Railroad
Nixon faces Vietnam war fears and tax spending clash
President Nixon weighs strategic moves in Vietnam amid fears of a renewed enemy offensive and blasts Congress over education spending. He plans a Los Angeles state dinner with 1,500 guests before returning to the Pacific coast.
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Ronald Reagan
California
Commerce
Maurice
Vietnam
Nixon
Congress
House
Department of Health
Education and Welfare
Asi
Los Angeles
Washington
Congress Ends Longest Session With Sept. 3 Recess
Congress adjourns for a lengthy break until Sept. 3 after a seven month session marked by limited enacted bills. Dirksen and Ford defend record while major tax reform and defense spending issues loom. appropriations lag and debt limits rise.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
House
Gerald R. Ford
Pentagon
Autopsy Request Faces Court Hurdles in Kopechne Case
Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis seeks autopsy on Mary Jo Kopechne killed in Edward Kennedy car crash. He mailed a petition to Luzerne County courts where she is buried but officials say a court order is required. Blythe Byrne Jr. Luzerne County DA warns petitions are insufficient.
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New Bedford
Mass
UPI
Edmund S. Dinis
Mary Jo Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
Dinis
Luzerne County
Miss. Kopechne
Luzerne County Dist
Atty, Blythe Pvane Jr
$35.5 Million More For SRC Budget Boost
An audit to the legislature reports an extra 35.5 million for the State Road Commission this fiscal year. Funds will back primary and secondary improvements under SRC plans. The audit cites 70 million in assets and 20 million in bond authorizations, not counting U.S. Treasury bill investments. Governor Moore says he will take 0.36 million from bonds tied to the Appalachian Highways bond issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPD
Joint Committee On Government and Finance
State Road Commission
SRC
Parkersburg
Dean Stamlich
U. S. Treasury
Arch A. Moore Jr
Autopsy requested in Chappaquiddick inquest
The inquest into Mary Jo Kopechne's death on Chappaquiddick Island July 18 will include an autopsy after a petition was filed though her parents reject the request and pledge to fight in court. The report mentions Kennedy as the driver during the fatal plunge into a tidal pond, while other obituaries note multiple local deaths and funeral plans across West Virginia communities.
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Sunpop
Miss Kopechne
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Joseph Kopechne
Berkeley Heights
N.J
Sarah Jane Cook
Oceana
Kopperston Freewill Baptist Church
Lawrence Miller
Kopperston
Cook
Beckley Hospital
Pineville
Denny
Ezra
Fairdale
Qza
Dewey
Woodrow
Sabine
O. P
Cocoa
Fla
Lacy
Dennis
Brazil
Ind
Gracie Risner
Youngstown
Ohio
Evans Funeral Home
Commie Attacks Reported Across Vietnam Front Lines
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked multiple bases around Saigon, An Loc, and Da Nang. Allied forces repelled assaults, killing hundreds of Communist troops while suffering U S losses of dozens killed and hundreds wounded. Reports cite near Da Nang running battles and a large armored clash near An Loc.
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An Loc
Loc Ninh
Saigon
U.S. Cavalry Division
Phuoc Binh
U.S
da Nang
Leathernecks
Costly Pot Of Beans Files Against Beckley Tenant
Charles Montgomery, tenant at Woodlawn Terrace Apartments in Beckley, is defendant in a suit for 934.58 dollars filed by owner E. Carl Meadows. Meadows alleges beans boiled dry caused smoke and fire damage to the building. Suit filed today in Raleigh County Clerk's Office.
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Woodlawn Terrace
Beckley
Charles Montgomery
E. Carl Meadows
Raleigh County Clerk's Office
Operators Claim New Health Laws May Close Some Mines
Washington officials report coal industry groups warn new health and safety bills could force mine closures. The National Coal Association says stringent dust limits may trigger power blackouts and steel mill shutdowns if many mines cannot meet the limits within deadlines.
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Washington
UPI
Consolidation Coal Co’tional Coal Association
Mannington
W.va
Senate
Stephen F. Dunn
the Association
Ducers
Ducers and Coal Sales Company
Steel Mills
Indusio ‘Iines
Sap
Manda
Congress
United States
Dunn
Marriage Permit Applications From Haleigh County Clerk
Marriage permit notices list pairs including William Eugene Goins and Linda Karen Young in Beckley and Richard Martin Lewis with Denise Hollandsworth. Other couples include Leonard Nichols with Lillian Mentz, Denzil Wilson with Rosie Wade, and James Hill with Linda Stover, among several Beckley pairs.
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Appliaton
Haleigh County
William Eugene Goins
Beckley
William
Leola Wenger Goins
Linda Karen Young
Joseph
Carmen Pack Young
Richard Martin Lewis
Benjamin
Alice Ramming Lewis
Denise Hollandsworth
Dennis
Bertha Polaski Hollandsworth
Leonard Nichols
Maggie St
Conrad
Hazel Jay Parsons
James Mack Hill
Belle
John
Sybil Meadows
Hil
Linda Rose Stover
Mount Hope
Freda Cooper
Stover
Roland Lester Henry
New Castele
Dek
Oscar
Bessie Jackson Henry
Delilah Goode
New Castle
Emmitt
Lucinda Hawkins Goode
Fred D. Linksweiler
M. B. and
Stelen
Nicholas Linksweiler
Klair Sue McCoy
Mary Dalton McCoy
Donald McCoy
Donald Stafford Mays
Warry
Francis Witt May
Suzanne Viola Phillips
Annie Halstead Phillips
Roger Lee Russell
Charleston
Maxine Fox — Russell
Pauline Patrick
Sundial
Ronald
Madeline Truneau Patrick
Charles Henry Wade
Glen White
Vinnie Bonds Wade
Patsy Darnell Hill
James and
Inez Reynolds
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Kenneth M. Dunn Construction Co
South Charleston
H. J. Schneider Constructions, Inc
Down Chemical Co
Dow
City Recorder
Larry F. Stover
Christopher Construction
G. B. Fitzpatrick
Cincinnati
H. D. Leland
Equal Employment Opportunity of
U. S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration
Robert van Hoose
Assisltant
Robert L. Martin
Christopher “Oak Co
A. A. i Friedsam
Holley-Kenny-Schott
George A
iTice
John W. Smith
Sanitary Board
Imembers
L. E. Wilkes
Russell D Weely
E. M. Payne
Itt
E. Warden
Dept. of Welfare
Wir Geen
Washinguton
UPT
Economic Development — Administration
Boy
Gunther’s
Kanawha Street
W. Va
S&h
D.A
Nabisco
Armour
Vegator
Hygrade
Franks
Topp-Cola
Sunkist Oranges
Vozen
Daisy Fresh
Stokely’s Grapefruit
Jewel
Mae Noell
Florida
Autopsy
United Penecostal Church
J. L. Ellis
Gallaher St
Donald Crawford
Donald K. Crawford
Mercer St
Wyoming County
Edna Graham Crawford
Terre Haute
Sharon Elizabeth Covin
Beaufort
D. C
Gloria Tanner
Victoria Lynn
JoAnn
William Lavvton
Robert
Keyser- Bryant
Mrs. Sarah Cook
Geraldine Joseph
Coal City
Williams Funeral Home
MacArthur
Kenneth Overdorf
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Clifftop
Fayette County
Green Criddle
Bert Joseph
Maxine Spade
Charles
Piney View
Johnny Criddle
L. D. Brooks
School St
Oak Ill
Tyree
Luna Stoneman
Corinne
L. M. England
Mullens
Samuel and
Juliaa Lambert
Buel
Marion
Curtis
Tenn
D. H. Sizemore
Elkton
Nease and Neely Funeral Home
Ida Sutphin
Woods Ave
Tyree Funeral Home
A. Alexander
Alberta Alexander
Lansing
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
Fayetteville
Maron
Ironton
Jessie
Sarah Willis Duncan
Baptist Church
Trummie Belle Childress
Dayton
Nettie Neal
Phu Binh
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