Travel agencies tout far out trips for restless travelers
Travel consultants Ports of Call in New York offer exotic getaways from Himalayan yeti hunts with Tenzing Norgay to The Rich Man's Trip to Everywhere and island hops in Greece. Susan Stein and partners promise 24-hour alert planning, private yachts, and unique stays from Lech to Udaipur Palace, plus specialized safaris and rare journeys, with odd perks and celebrity connections.
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Lederhosen
Himalayas
Tenzing Norgay
Mt. Everest
Susan Stein
Dermot Moore
New York
Australia
Japan
Lapland
Ireland
Norway
Susan
London
Ludwig Bemelman
Post
Lech
Austria
Maharaja
Udai
July Start Seen For Forestry Science Lab
Work on the $500,000 forestry sciences laboratory at West Virginia University Morgantown should begin this summer. Senator Robert Byrd says the project is slated for bidding shortly after July 1 with construction to start in July or August.
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Washington Upi
West Virginia University
Morgantown
W. Va
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
Inmate Petition To Be Reviewed By State Supreme Court
CHARLESTON UPI A Moundsville Penitentiary inmate James E. Bulett will have his freedom petition reviewed June 29 by the State Supreme Court which Tuesday denied appeals from three other inmates. Bulett, life sentence under the Habitual Criminal Act, says he wasn’t represented by an attorney at his 1947 felonious assault conviction. he has prior convictions in 1938 and 1941. The denied petitions came from Charles Ray Hicks serving 2 to 20 years for arson, James Jones 1 to 10 years for breaking and entering, and Vargis Blankenship life for second degree murder.
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Charleston
UPI
Moundsville Penitentiary
State Supreme Court
James E. Bulett
Morgan County
High Court
Charles Ray Hicks
Mingo County
James Jones
Monongalia
Vargis Blankenship
McDowell County
Huttonsville
Hicks
Jones
Blankenship
DeMolay Names WV Leaders at Annual Session
Steven Keener of Potomac Valley chapter named State Senior Counselor and Arthur Callahan of Hinton named State Master Counselor by West Virginia Mountaineer DeMolay. Group closed its annual session with an award presentation and set next year’s meeting for Hinton.
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Shepherdstown
UPI
Steven Keener
Potomac Valley
Arthur Callahan
Hinton
West Virginia Mountaineer Order of DeMolay
Poke Sallet Day Festival Set In Harlan Kentucky
A nine day poke sallet festival starts next Saturday in Harlan with poke pickers gathering hundreds of pounds of poke shoots in April and May. Local cooks prepare the dish with streaked saw belly, eggs, onions, buttermilk and corn bread. Gov. Edward Breathitt is poke warden for the festival with former Gov. Bert Combs as chieftain.
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Harlan, Ky
UPI
Harlan
Ernest Smith
Harlan Chamber of Commerce
Smith
Edward T. Breathitt
Bert Combs
Breathitt
Clown Who Shot 22 Released From Jail
Glen Boen a rodeo clown faced assault with a prohibited weapon charges after firing a sawed off shotgun into a rodeo crowd in Gladewater Texas injuring four. The Gladewater Roundup Association posted 2500 bail calling the incident an unavoidable accident. Boen from Fort Smith Arkansas rode into the arena on a donkey and fired twice the second shell contained birdshot wounding four spectators.
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Gladewater
Tex
UPI
Glen Boen
Gladewater Roundup Association
Boen
Upshur
Gilmber
Arena
Frances Hope Everett
Longview
Jimmy
Bobby Carney
Meridian
Miss
Lois Malone
Mineola
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Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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Rum House
Chocaltaya
Altiplano
Bolivia
Ben Franklin
Ture
Homecrest
Hank
Forestry Science Lab
Universal
Oiath
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
West Virginia
P.S
Blue Cross Hospital Service, Inc
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Charleston, W. Va
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