Property tax push meets opposition at Charleston hearing
About 150 attendees filled a two hour public hearing on tax measures to fund teacher pay increases. Opponents, including Labor Rep. Robert Edwards, urged higher property values for two firms to raise 3.6 million dollars. others fought sales tax extensions and new levies on corporations and utilities.
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Charleston
House of Delegates
Del
Loop
D-Kahawha
House Finance Committee
Robert Edwards
Huntington
United Mine Workers, C10
AFL
Railroad Brotherhoods
West Virginia
Edwards
State
Philip Nearman
Lapenski Rites Set in Pittsburgh
The body of Mike Lapenski aged 74 of 212 N Heber St will be shipped to Pittsburgh Pa from Caffee Funeral Home tonight. He died about 2 43 a m Tuesday after an extended illness. Tentative services are planned for 9 a m Saturday at St John the Baptist Catholic Church Pittsburgh with Father Michael Kindey as celebrant.
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Mike Lapenski
N. Heber St
Pittsburgh
Caffee Funeral Home
Lapenski
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Michael Kindey
West Virginia Merges Deaf and Blind Schools and Plans Integration
Mrs. Blosser notes integration is in advanced stage as the 1955 merger of the Institute for Colored Deaf and Blind at Institute with Romney’s White Deaf and Blind School becomes effective. The move consolidates 49 Negro and 132 white students into combined elementary, secondary, and vocational training.
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Lakin
J. E. Blackburn
West Virginia
Betty S. Tions
Blosser
Colo
Industrial School
White Children's Home
Colored Children’s Home
St. Mary's Training School
McKendree
Denmar Sanitarium
White School For the
Eumty
Davis-Thomas
Pruntytown
Salem
Huntington Industrial School
McKendree Home For
Wom
Eisenhower Gives Cautious Talk on Re election and Medical Exam
President Eisenhower indicated he will decide on another term after a mid February medical exam and did not commit to running. He said chief justice nomination should not mix politics and the Supreme Court and declined to name a running mate or discuss Nixon’s future plans.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Ei- Eisenhower
Earl Warren
Nixon
Thef
Res
Fol News
Warren
United States
Supreme Court
White House
Maj
John
Turnpike Extension Financing Talks Held in Public Hearings
Public hearings in Charleston featured Senate and House Judiciary committees examining financing for a West Virginia Turnpike extension. Proposals include up to 200 million dollars in bonds, with options for revolving or non revolving issues and state road fund pledges. Also on the agendaคือ questioning William Waggy about renting state warehous e property at Dunbar and related costs.
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Moundsville
David D. Johnson
Charleston
West Virginia Coal’ Assn
Johnson
Ernest K. James
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Vincent Merendino
Clarksburg
West “Virginia
West Virginia
Senate
House Judiciary
House
Bow Nes
A Garnett Thompson
The
Turnpike Commission
Coverdale
Ernest G. Gadd
Mabecotthas and
Colpitts
Raleigh County
van Hunter
Gadd
Robert L. Stewart
Beckley
Stewart
Kilarney
Lillybrook Coal Co
Hunter
Mabdecott
Ane Gadd
Mabecott
William Waggy
Department of Public Assistance
Dunbar
Det
Fumich
Db Monongalia
Wagey
Legislative
Audtocy
C. H. Koontz
Waggy
Mother's Fatal Error Shatters Alabama Baby in Fire
In Prattvillle Alabama a mother half asleep snatched a bundle from a burning bed and fled the home only to discover she had seized a pillow containing her infant Otis Roper Jr. The child perished in the blaze despite her frantic efforts to save him.
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Prattville
Ala HA
Otis Roper Jr
States push veterans home funding decision to House panel
Delegations from West Virginia Georgia and Oklahoma appeared before the House Veterans Affairs Committee seeking reversal of a GAO ruling that state soldiers homes do not qualify for federal aid. Officials stated about a thousand veterans are in such homes with federal funds from prior promises, and GAO will rule within 30 days after new facts were reviewed.
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Washington
House Veterans Affairs Committee
West Virginia
Georgia
Oklahoma
Welch
U.S
Okahoma
William Morrow
GAO
Morrow
Salvation Army Annual Meeting Highlights Finances and Youth Programs
The Salvation Army held its annual report meeting at El Chico where Captain Robert H L Boyce outlined the 1955 expenses of 22 860 11 and a 1956 balance of 331 44. Captain Melvin E Jewett discussed local to international programs, stressing juvenile delinquency prevention and faith in America’s future. Harlow Warren praised the Boyces, while James K Edmundson spoke on fund drive challenges and scheduling. Ten civic and women’s representatives attended.
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el Chico
Robert HL Boyce
Beckley
Raleigh
Fayette
Wyoming
Melvin E. Jewett
Huntington
Salvation Army
Harlow Warren
Capt
Trial in Court Sees Calloway Heights in First Case
The first trial this term centers on a charge involving Calloway Heights. Prosecutor A. J. Sparacino alleges the defendant enticed a 12 year old boy for an act of sodomy on June 30 1955. Defense attorney Benjamin Tissue calls it an inquisitorial inquiry into truth.
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Robert Nagle
Callo Melanie Nadas Paz Teal
Seeth County
Eee
A. J. Sparacino
Williams
Sparacino
Benjamin J. Tissue
Assistant Manager Named for Beckley VA Hospital
Charles A. Van Sluyter, formerly assistant manager at Newington VA Hospital, becomes assistant manager of the Beckley VA Hospital. Dr. Paul R. Copeland confirms the transfer details with no fixed arrival date. Van Sluyter, born 1909 in Grand Rapids, has a long record in VA administration and hospital roles.
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Charles A. van Sluyler
Veterans Administration Hospital
Newington, Conn
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Paul R. Copeland
Beckley Hospital
van Skuyter
F. T. McQueen
Memphis
Grand Rapids, Mich
van Sluyter
van Sluyer
Dr. Copeland
H. V. Highy
Washington, D. C
PTA Regional Meet Slated for Beckley
The State PTA plans a regional meeting in Beckley with two sessions at the Vocational School auditorium. Mrs. Fred J. Perry, president of the State PTA, will present in Raleigh Mercer and Summers regions under the theme United Efforts. Sessions are at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
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State
Parent - Teacher Association
Fred J. Perry
Beckley
PTA
Will
Beckleymeeting. Ium
United Efforts
Raleigh
Mercer
Summers
Anders
Timber Crew Aids Injured Man After Embankment Fall
In Mullens a Mercer County man survived a fall from a steep embankment while job hunting with a timber crew. He landed near a crew at a scene, was treated at Wyoming General Hospital for a fractured vertebrae and other injuries. Two other workers were treated at hospital for injuries including a sprained ankle and eye irritation.
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Mullens
RNL
Mercer County
Wremieg General Hospital
Tees
Amd
Maine
Denver
Sarewsberg
Bermen
Fountainside
Ambulence
Covel
Wyoming General
Donald McKinney
Herndon
Shrewsbury and Screwsbeary Lumber Co
Clay Walther
Moliens
Ree
Une Veceilie
Gre
Ta. Beckley
Snowstorm’s Early State to Be Covered
West Virginia faces a developing snowstorm expected to melt some of the fresh fall. The Weather Bureau said southwestern counties including Huntington reported an inch of snow two hours after onset, with three inches indicated for the area and roads turning slippery though no serious accidents were reported.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Huntington
Huntington Man Fined in Drunk Driving Charge
Huntington man settles with a $50 fine and costs on a drunk driving charge at a hearing before Magistrate J F Meehows today. State Police arrested the man. the charge carries automatic six month license suspension. Snow and cloudy conditions affect Central and South Perlins, with frigid tonight and cooler Thursday.
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Settle
Huntington
J. F. Meehows
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del. Joe Gentry
Cabell County
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Gentry
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Salvation Army Report
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Trupp
Prince
Sprague
Prosperity
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Wade H. Trump
Crawford St
Frank G. Turner
Paul J. Fourney
Fourney
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Coal City
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Larry” Tulley
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U.S. Army Medical Corps
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New York Hospital
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