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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1977
Page
1
The Charleston Daily Mail notes that WV nine state mental health facilities employ 2,818 staff for 2,893 patients, nearly a one to one ratio. Juvenile prisons average one staffer per two patients while adult prisons have one per three as of May end.
The Nation singer Bob Dylan and wife Sarah Lowndes finalized an 11 year marriage in Superior Court. The divorce retains jurisdiction over community property including Malibu oceanfront home Greenwich Village house and Woodstock assets plus song royalties.
Amy Carter aged nine starts a month long gifted course at George Washington University. She is accompanied by her mother Rosalynn Carter who attends the first day orientation.
Gov. Rockefeller announced 81.2 million in combined bond monies and legislative funds for West Virginia secondary roads. L. Dean Blake II named deputy commissioner for secondary roads, with a 26 000 salary. bids on a large amount of work set for July 19.
The Senate approved an appropriations bill for Labor and HEW that includes 3.5 million dollars to speed black lung claims. The Byrd amendment adds 150 workers and a 250000 dollar electronic data processing system to cut the backlog, now about 60 000 claims, growing by 1 000 monthly, with miners waiting about two years.
George Kiser and his wife faced repeated Corvette mechanical failures after a June purchase from Joe Holland Chevrolet. GM executives intervened, granting a tour of the St Louis assembly plant and delivering a buyback deal worth 10 500 dollars. The Corvette was repaired and returned to service.
In Pikeville Kentucky residents fight a city project to move the Dill Cemetery graves for a civic center. Plaintiffs say the move would destroy the cemetery and erase history while officials call it a relocation and monument project.
Lack’s continued discussion notes the county’s support for a bill to let counties set minimum building standards including hydrants. The measure, sponsored by William Wooton of Raleigh, was defeated by rural legislators who oppose zoning. Wooton says hydrants were not required by the bill and the defeat surprised him. No state regulatory agency exists to oversee this.
Dr. Charles E. Andrews WVU provost for health services was named acting director of West Virginia Health Department, effective Friday. Gov. Jay Rockefeller said the 52 year old will fill interim duties until a permanent director is named and will take a leave from WVU. The post had been led by 82 year old Dr. N H Dyer since 1949 before forced retirement. Andrews oversees a 445 bed teaching hospital in Morgantown and has connections to Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health.
Beckley police arrested Arthur Green a 25 year old resident of 125 Church Street on disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer after a scuffle on Neville Street. Det Frank Pack said Green resisted as officers tried to arrest him and Green was held at Raleigh County jail.
The Raleigh Register published by Beckley Newspapers outlines mail and home delivery rates as of May 1 1977. Rates include daily and Sunday subscriptions of one year 57.00 plus 1.71 WV tax totaling 94.71. six months 20.00 plus 0.67 tax totaling 20.67. three months 15.00 plus 0.45 tax totaling 15.45. Home delivery costs 1 per week. Mail service limited to areas without carrier service. Tax applies to WV addresses only.
Michigan State Rep. Rosetta Ferguson clashed with Rep. Perry Bullard in the House over a marijuana possession decriminalization bill. After Bullard’s defeat, Ferguson allegedly struck him with an ashtray or fist, causing a sore head and prompting adjournment as witnesses described a tense confrontation. Bullard, from Ann Arbor, brushed off the incident as bruised politically and physically.
President Carter said he would welcome a chance to meet Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev but did not confirm an August Alaska setting. He noted the time and place would be worked out and warned against speculation while stressing ongoing dialogue and progress on treaty talks.
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