Senate study group weighs tighter strip mine controls
A Senate study group prepares a draft to tighten strip mining rules while preserving industry viability. Meanwhile the Senate considers minor changes to a liquor sales bill for state parks. Key figures include Sen. John Pat Fanning and Sen. Chester Hutcard with amendments brewing in committee action.
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Charleston
UPI
Senate
John Pat Fanning
D-Wyoming
Chester W. Hutcard
Robio
Full Natural Resources Committee
Si Galperin
D-Kanawha
Susman
Carl E. Gainer
Judiciary Com
UPI Histof
D-Nichollas
Alan Susman
Fanning
Raleigh
Givej
Thej
Patione
Naan Tre Sa
Hubbard
R. E. Barnett
Nance
Coal Firms Protest State B and O Tax Hike Sparks Industry ire
Police reports show Eddie Woodrow Gray, 22, pleaded guilty to pistol without a permit and was given six months. seven related charges were waived to grand jury. Separate case involved Libriel Worley and a violent incident at the Raleigh County Armory. State budget and tax debate centers on modernizing the B&O tax, with coal industry arguing higher rates harm an already shrinking sector while lawmakers push for 32 million in new funds.
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Eddie Woodrow Gray
South Fayette St
Beckley
Gray
Lorena Wallace
Teens charged in thefts at Pagoda Motel and other incidents
Two teens Donald Mills nineteen and Samuel Corey eighteen were arrested Thursday by City Police for stealing two fire extinguishers from the Pagoda Motel on Harper Road valued at ninety dollars. The extinguishers were recovered. A professional wrestler alias Jean Madrid Lucha Libre was cited after responding to a smoke call at 110 Tolbert Street causing breathing difficulty for Hattie Gregory. Other items include a two car collision on U.S. 19 21 By Pass with minor damage, a 16 year old from Ragland Road charged with auto theft, and Michael Wayne Legg eighteen who waived to grand jury on grand larceny charges while facing four petit larceny counts. Also noted are drunken driving, speeding and expired registration citations, and obituaries for Virgie Aanes Plumley and Wylie J. Erwin.
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Charleston
UPI
Repubican
Arch A. Moore
B&o
Senate
House of Delegates
Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
Gray
University of Maryland
Pagoda
Beckley
Tolbert St
Hattie Gregory
Gregory
Beckley Hospital
U. S
Day and Night Wrecking Co
Basil W. Meadows
Bellevue Lane
Paul Grygiel Jr
Meadows
Ragland Road
Michael Wayne Legg
jEccles
Wallace
Legg
Bert Eden
Reservoir Rd
David Plumley
Reservoir Road
Montgomery Ward Co
J. C. Penney Co
Mauro Diksrenzo
Temple St
Cline and
Brooks
DiLorenzo
Browning Rules County Boards May Not Cut Teacher Pay
Attorney General Chauncey Browning ruled that county school boards cannot reduce teachers salaries or shorten employment terms even with financial difficulties. He said the State Board of School Finance lacks authority to force such cuts and noted options like casual deficits up to 3 percent or nonpayment orders to fulfill contractual obligations.
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Charleston
Chauncey Browning
Senate
Hans McCourt
House
Ivor Boiarsky
Arch Moore
Browning
State Board of School Finance
County Boards of Education
Board of Education
Cover Up Ends In Raleigh Verdict In Peers Probe
The Peers investigation concludes officers under review for the 1970 Eccles tavern shooting face indictments. Captains Kotouc and Medina accused of involvement in the fatal incident. Henderson and Johnson charged with cover ups amid murder allegations. Prosecution and defense arguments centered on credibility as the trial concluded after months of hearings.
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Star General
Eugene M. Kotouc
Ernest L. Medina
Henderson
Indianapolis
Ind
Johnson
Oakland
Calif
Ronnie Jessie Minor
Eccles
William
Raleigh
Peers
Minor
Calley
Gary Kelly
Pentagon
Lester
Steve Z. Daisy
Thomas
Canterbury
Ned H. Ragland
Jury to Decide Murder Case Involving Daisy Shooting
Key witness Nancy Gray testified along with Ragland about the night Daisy was shot at the tavern. The defense argued Minor acted alone while prosecutors claimed Kelly’s presence and alleged liquor involvement shaped events. Legal options range from first degree murder to lesser charges with potential parole in ten years.
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Nancy
Gray
Minor
Kelly
Ragland
Canterbury
Daisy
Harry L. McCreery
Miss Gray
Bill Nobilis
Vanterbury
Nobilis
Ronnie
Redistricting Counts and Population Shifts Across Districts
The data outlines district boundaries with counts of counties in each district. It details population deviations from ideal by district and notes percentage differences. The text also mentions Harvard University’s endowment and Galileo’s first telescope view in 1609.
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Galileo
Judge Fines Mother In Room Of His Birth
Presque Isle Maine UPI Judge Julian W Turner fines his mother Mrs Marjorie Turner 15 dollars in the room where he was born for driving without an inspection sticker. The courtroom on the third floor of a former hospital hosted the unusual hearing with part of the delivery room in view. The judge noted he may be the only judge born in his own courtroom. The arresting officer expressed sympathy for bringing Mrs Turner to court, but the judge emphasized equal enforcement.
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Presque Isle, Maine
UPI
Julian W. Turner
Marjorie Turner
Rail unions wrap up as Congress ends walkout
Congress ends a rail walkout and sets a 12:01 am Monday expiry. Three unions settle interim deals including the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks signing a 42 month pact retroactive to January 1, 1970. The U.S. Postal Service unveils a permanent contingency plan using air and highway transport to guard mail delivery during a strike.
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Congress
Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks
U.S. Postal Service
Final Rites Scheduled for William Medley and Others
Final rites are announced for Lee Medley 49 of East Gulf Clement 75 of Patch will be at 2 30 p m Saturday at Tabernacle in East Gulf with Johnson Funeral Parlor in charge Burial at Greenwood Memorial Park Ervin Franklin 60 of Bessemer formerly Lochgelly died Tuesday in a local hospital burial in Liberty Cemetery Survivors include wife Dorothy McClintock Franklin a son Wayne three brothers and a sister The Rev Elsworth Webb 38 of Portsmouth Va former Beckley resident died Thursday at Portsmouth General Hospital Funeral at Collingswood Freewill Baptist Church Saturday with Rev Charles Brown officiating Webb is a former pastor at Collingswood Church
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William
Lee Medley
East Gulf
Ervin Franklin
Bessemer
Ala
Lochgelly
Liberty
Church At Liberty
Pe Sos
Emer
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Dorothy McClintock Franklin
Wayne
Bedford
Claude
Angleton
Fox
Roy
Bay City
Tex
Pearl Parson
Anita
Ipleton
Elsworth Webb
Elsworth Dowi Webb
Portsmouth
Portsmouth General “Hospital
Beckley
Glen Daniel
Webb
Andrew \Whitten
Mary Honaker i Webb
Posey
Ilva
Junior
Max-line) Clark
Linnie
Laos Invasion Update From Vietnam Hill 31 Clash Continues
UPI reports Lt Gen Lam says Communists still hold parts of Hill 31 as South Vietnamese paratroopers fight around the area. Cobra helicopter crews describe heavy antiaircraft flak as the battle rages near Khe Sanh airstrip. In Charleston, Rev. Moses Newsome dies after a heart attack following surgery. funeral details and survivors listed.
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Lam
Galloway
Hill 31
UPI
Joseph Galloway
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
WO Ron Pepper
Shreveport
U.S
Desegregation Aid Defended by Education Chief Before Senate
U S Education Commissioner Sidney P Marland Jr testified to a Senate Education subcommittee that the Nixon Administration’s 1.5 billion desegregation aid program includes safeguards against misuse. He noted prior misallocation of 75 million but argued funds aided a calm transition from dual to unitary systems in the South and urged spring action to let districts plan for the next school year.
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Washington
UPD
U.S
Sidney P. Marland Jr
Nixon
Senate
Marland
South
Subcommittee
Sit
Seattle
Wash
UPI
Iwife
Donald N
Niles
Mondale
Mondale denounces Nixon desegregation efforts as scandal
Walter F Mondale D Minn told a subcommittee hearing that Nixon administration desegregation efforts amount to a national scandal. He cited a civil rights study and a DHHS review noting that much of the $75 million in federal aid to districts to defray integration costs was used improperly to maintain segregation.
Obituaries of Henry Reaves and William Vance
Henry Reaves 77 of Ury died 2:30 pm Thursday in a Beckley hospital. He was born May 23, 1393 in Albemarle County Virginia and was a World War I veteran. The body is at Sam Folesong Nease and Neely Funeral Home Mullens. William Harvey Vance 76 of Black Eagle died on arrival at Mullens hospital Thursday from an apparent heart attack. He was born January 7, 1895 and was a retired coal miner. Burial will be in Coal City Cemetery. Friends may call at Sam oglesong Nease and Neely Funeral Home Saturday evening.
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Virgie Plumley
Virgie Aanes Plumley
Cedar St
Calloway Heights
Calloway ‘Heights
Glade
William i Miriam
Virginia Kidwell Johnson
Tom
Thomas A
Cleveland
Ohio
Joseph Lem Plumley
Charleston
Wayman K. Johnson
Beckley
Maude Millner
Fort Myers
Fla
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Moses Newsome
First Baptist Church
Newsome
Charleston General Hospital
National Baptist Convention
West Virginia State Congress of Christian Education
West Virginia Council of Churches
West Virginia State Baptist Sunday School Congress
West Virginia State Baptist Association
William Robert Farrey
Flat Top
Flat Top Missionary Baptist Church
L. V. Basham
Danny
David
Donald
Gary Meadows
Dennis Oakes
Bobby Lester Jr
Leo Lester
Charles Massey
Henry Reaves
Ury
Albemarle County
George and
Sidney Banks Reaves
Gillie Reaves
Sam Folesong
Nease and
Neely Feneral
Mullens
William H. Vance
William Harvey Vance
Black Eagle
Coal City
Mullens Hospital
Reston Vance
Jessie Cory Vance
Albert Lee Vance
Elkton
Gracie Lee Whitt
Ray Vance
MacArthur
Sam ‘Oglesong
Nease and Neely
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R-Marshall
John T. Poffensbarger
Libre
Dillard Orley
Mabscott
Raleigh County Armory
Worley
Appalachian Regional Hospital
Joel Rodriguez
Nes
Julius W. Singleton Jr
West Virginia Coal Association
West Virginia
Jean Madrid
Valley Motor Sales
McVeigh, Ky
Eugene Thor
Raleigh County
Bill W. Cline
Rupert
Edwin R. Brooks
Wylie J. Erwin Wylie J. Erwin
Melton Mortuary
Douglas T. Bryant
Jack E. O'Neill
Johnstown
sickLey, West Virginia
Gleat Scotland
I Mercy
Harvard’ University
Cambbridge
Mass
Rail Union
William Medley
iLee R. Clement
Sequenaeet
Laos
Rev
Myrtle Painter
Dulat
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Princewick
Williams
Sophia
Elzie Cooper
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Pam
Elvin Doss
Thomas Cochran
Ollie Spencer
Frankie McAlpine
J.D. Brakefield
Dewey Lilly
Richard White
Mrs
Alma Adkins
Alma Jane Adkins
Prince
Webb and Neal Funeral
Clifford R. Brittingham
Stanaford
Church of God of Prophecy
Lanark
Pike County
Lacy
Pontiac
Mich
Virgil Adkins
Piney View
Jimmy Compton
Lansing
Mildred Smith
Myrtle Blankenship
Maxine Smith
Leeda Harrah
Rainelle
Lennie Clifton Adkins
Roosevelt Britton
New York City
Minden
Second Baptist
Fayetteville
F. C. Dorcus
Pierce Cemetery
New York
John Bain
Ruth L. Britton
Pearl Britton
Elizabeth
Britton
Chicqueta
Michael
Mitchell Britton
Ardelia Britton
Evelyn Saunders
Cunard
Louise Thompson
Garten
June
Joyce
Jacqueline
Toni
Michelle
John Jr
James
Carl
Freddie Britton
Fayette- Will
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Greenstown
William Farley
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