Peacher loses bid for new trial in Moreland murder case
Charles Town defendant Charles Peacher Jr. failed to obtain a new trial Monday as Circuit Court Judge Pierre Dostert denied the request. Peacher, 20, was convicted May 27 of the murder of former Jefferson County Sheriff Rowland Moreland and sentenced to life without mercy. He was transported to the state penitentiary at Moundsville. In Huntington, the NAACP announced Rev. Benjamin Ward would serve as acting president of the Huntington Branch with a hearing panel to review a complaint against local president James McDowell who was suspended by the national organization. In Charleston, Larry W. Cochran received five years probation for hiding $5,000 worth of silver pieces stolen from a Washington woman. Joseph Anania got six months and Robert Corns five years probation. In Charleston, the Public Service Commission set a $9.42 per household rate for Fairview District residents, with commercial rates at $14, and monthly bills previously at $7. A Friday hearing will consider Continental Trailways request to cut West Virginia bus service by one third after losses of $239,085 last year.
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Charles Peacher Jr
Jefferson County
Pierre Dostert
Peacher
Penegin
Moundsville
Rowland Moreland
National Naacp
Benjamin Ward
Huntington
William Penn
James McDowell
McDowell
Larry. W. Cochran
Charleston
U.8
Washington, D. C
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Cochran
Joseph Anania
Robert Corns
Public Service Commission
Fairview
St. Albans
PSC
West Virginia Public Service Commission
Continental Trailways
West Virginia
Commission
Richard A. Trice
Trailways
Trice
Daley's Machine Ready for Bilandic Victory
In Chicago the absence of Richard J. Daley from the mayoral ballot marks a first since 1951 as Bilandic's camp braces for a big Democratic win. Dennis Block shifts from 40 to 20 percent as he trails in the race. In Washington a 40 ton superconducting magnet is sent to the USSR for testing in a Soviet power generator under a 1973 cooperative program.
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Michael A. Bilandic
Bilandic
Dennis Block
Rocky
Block
United States
Soviet Union
Energy Research and Development Administration
Russia
Premier Pham Van Dong Meets Brezhnev in Moscow Kremlin
In the Kremlin the Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong met Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The encounter marked high level talks during Dong's visit to Moscow.
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Soviet Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Vietnam
Pham van Dong
Kremlin
Carter Faces B1 Bomber Decision Amid Washington Briefings
President Carter weighed a decision on approving production of the expensive B1 bomber delaying final choice to May. He met with congressional supporters and planned talks with opponents, advisers, and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. Air Force seeks 244 planes costing over 20 billion dollars to replace aging Fifties bombers.
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Oval Office
Paul Landry
New Hampshire
Congress
Pentagon
Municipal elections in four towns begin across Raleigh County
Voters cast ballots as polls opened at 6 30 a m in Rhodell Sophia Mabscott and other towns. Rhodell reports a good turnout with 11 voters by 8 30 a m while 825 residents are registered in Sophia with incumbent Ernest Nichols not seeking reelection. Each party slate lists candidates for mayor recorder and council with competition from Citizens Progressive and Independent lines.
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Kenneth Ayers
Robert Gray
Edward Farley
Edward Parrish
Elijah Craig
Rhodell
Shirley Young
Citizens Party
Clifton Graham
Fay McConnell
Ruby Augustine
Rosa McKinney
Wilma Widick
Les Walton
Goldie Shrewsbury
Luther Fletcher
Geraldine Smith
Jimmy Farruggia
Charles Hornbuckle
Troy Johnson
Robert Anderson
Audrey McGrady
Independent Party
Silvanus Kelley
Della Mae Smith
Edgar Cox
Janes Sargent
Roger Maynard
Frankie Hugbert
Sophia Town Mall
Raleigh
Sophia
Ernest Nichols
Citizen's. Party
Paul Flanagan
Mess Nary McElrath Martin
Jack Branham
R.C. Browning
John D
Don) Farley
David Frame
Ron Taylor
Sophia's
Progressive
Robert Powers
Dennis Saunders
Donald Stone
William Benfield
Michael Sutvak
George Hawley
Bernard Edwards
Raleigh County Sheriff's Office
Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
Mabscott
Storms Roam Atlantic Coast Killing Six Missing Eight
Deadly thunderstorms roamed the Atlantic coast Monday with tornadoes hail and gale winds. At least six killed eight missing and many injured as 30 severe storms and 17 tornadoes swept the region.
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National Weather Service
Atlantic Coast
Chesapeake Bay
Jay Gallagher
Tidewater
Virginia
Norfolk City Hall
Georgia
Lakeside
Joe Telford
Clarksville
Pam
Weather Outlook Warm Southwest and Rain Northeast
Fair skies and cool conditions forecast for much of the nation on Tuesday. Southwest and western Plains to see warm weather, with rain in the Northeast. Extended outlook shows a warming trend into Saturday with daytime highs in the 60s to 70s and nights in the 40s to 50s. River conditions show Greenbrier at 34 feet below, Lake Bluestone normal with 1.8 gates open, and Hinton gauge at 2.0 feet.
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Greenbrier
Lake
Bluestone
Hinton
Slain West Virginia troopers honored under new federal law
The Justice Department awards benefits to families of Trooper Thomas D Hercules and Trooper Charles H Johnson, killed in the line of duty. Parker shot himself after the Jan killings as the manhunt ended in Maryland. Survivors include Johnson’s family and Hercules’s son Allen reflecting on the loss.
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Paw Paw
Thomas D.hercules
oOaw
Charles
H.johnson
Larry
Parker
Justice
Department
Administration
Maryland
G. A. Stevens
Hercules
Johnson
Rainelle
Hilbert Melung
Allen
Saudi Arabia to speed up 5 percent oil price rise
The Middle East Economic Survey reports Saudi Arabia will raise oil prices by 5 percent at mid year boosting the OPEC majority’s 1977 price level. The move follows the failure of North South talks and a rift with other OPEC members over price policy.
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Saudi Arabia
Paris
Middle East
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
United Arab Emirates
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