Parkersburg girls hurt in lumber party blast burn injuries rise
Four Parkersburg girls suffered burns from an explosion at a storage building during a lumber party. Michelle Walters and Belinda Munday remained in critical or serious condition in Ohio and West Virginia hospitals, while Denise Goodnight stayed in intensive care. Dee Dee Collins was treated and released. Separately, Clarence E. Winebrenner filed a federal suit against the Employment Security Commission for sex based discrimination in a Greenbrier County office. A Powellton Coal Co. permit hearing drew mixed opinions as the EPA plans no additional hearings.
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Parkersburg
Ohio
Michelle Walters
Children’s Hospital
Columbus
Belinda Munday
Denise Goodnight
Camden Clark
Dee Dee Collins
Greenbrier
U.S. District Court
Employment Security Commission
Ronceverte
Clarence E. Winebrenner
Winebrennier
Winebrenner
Winébrénner
W. W. Boyd
Deportation Fight for 87 Year Old Australian Woman
Florente Fleming an 87 year old great grandmother from Australia has been asked by the U S Immigration and Naturalization Service to voluntarily leave the United States The request followed denial of permanent resident status on grounds she could become a public charge Her daughter Muriel Cody condemns the move as humiliating in San Antonio Texas The article also covers Lyndon Johnson leaving the 1968 race and comments from former White House aides about Lady Bird Johnson and fears for her sons in the Vietnam era
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Florente Fleming
Australia
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
United States
San Antonio
Tex. J
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Acd
White House
George Clitston
Lady Bird Johnson
Forry Spair
Christian
Robert A. Taft Institute of Governmenit
Trinity University
World Confrontation Expected At Belgrade Conference
Observers anticipated a clash between Moscow and Washington over Helsinki human rights guarantees at the Belgrade meeting. Western diplomats said Moscow sought to avoid fireworks, presenting a cautious stance on rights issues during preparatory talks led by Yury Votovitsov. Kenneth Kaunda arrived for a two day visit after the Commonwealth Conference in London with talks planned in Rome with Leone and Andreotti. Luis Echeverria Alvarez visited China and toured Tibet's Agronomical Research Institute to view Mexican wheat hybrids.
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United States
Yilly Vototitsov
Kenneth Kaunda
London
Giovanni Leone
Giulio Andreotti
City Hall
Rome
Capitoline
Luis Echeverria Alvarez
China
Tibet
Echeverria
Lhasa
The
New China News
Idi Amin Carrying Britons Sparks Kampala Spectacle
A group of 19 Britons carried Uganda's President Idi Amin through Kampala as he urged calm toward British residents amid a ban on travel and tension with Britain. He defended relations with Britain, warned against harming Britons, and referenced an espionage case involving Bob Scanlon.
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Idi Amin
Kampala
Amin
Britain
London
Uganda
Radio Uganda
Bob
Vance urges sensitivity from Latin leaders on human rights
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance spent three days with Latin American foreign ministers at the OAS conference in Grenada then visited Trinidad and Tobago for an 18 hour courtesy stop before returning to Washington. He said human rights sensitivity has risen and emphasized the hemisphere as a focus for human rights issues. He noted no change in U S Soviet relations despite Bresnev's election and questioned a SALT renewal before October.
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Cyrus Vance Safie
Carter
Vancé
Organization of ‘American States
Corference
Grenada
Trinidad - Tobago
Washington
Fie
Grénada
OAS
Vatice
Corumunist Party
Leonid Bresinev
Moscow
Soviet Union
Busing injunction denied in Oakvale case
Chief Circuit Court Judge Howard M. Jarett rejected Oakvale residents' bid to stop Mercer County Board of Education from busing Oakvale students in grades 7 through 12 to Princeton schools. The ruling found the board acted within its authority under West Virginia law to close Oakvale Junior High and Setilor High and consolidate with Princeton if not arbitrary or capricious.
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Princeton
Oakvale
Mercer “County Board of. Education
Circuit Court
Howard M. Jarett
C.D. Lilly
Mercer Schools
John’ P. Anderton
Mercer. Courtty
Marlin Schreffler
Appalachaih Feseach and Defense Fund
Oakvale- Plantiffa
Wilma
Holdter
James
Hammions
Margaret. Smith
Elpha Smith
Jarett
Anderson
West Virginia
Boards of Education
Meter County ‘Board
Oakvale Junior High
Setilor
Wyoming County Flood Projects Get Public Funds
Funds for two flood control projects in Wyoming County are to be approved by the U S Senate public works appropriations subcommittee. The $23.6 million total targets construction with $9.8 million allotted for the R D Bailey Dam and reservoir for fiscal year 1977 78. The Army Corps of Engineers will allocate the lump sum for all work next year, and the Al Johnson Construction Co of Minneapolis has the contract to complete the dam at about 13 million. Other state funded projects include 3 4 million for Beech Fork Lake 6 8 million for Eu Lake and Davis 700 000 for Fast Litt Lake and 5 2 million to Stonewall Jackson Airport. Extended outlook notes showers and cool conditions with limited lake levels and ongoing surveys for the Kanawha River Basin.
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Wyoming County
U.S. Senate Public Works Appropriations
Robert C
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W.va
R.D. Bailey
Byrd
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Corps’ Huntington District
al Johnson Constructeon Co
Minneapolis
Senate
Stonewall Jackson
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Kenya
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Scanlon
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