Traffic Jam Session Draws Large Beckley Attendance
Open Transportation Forum in Beckley draws strong turnout with City Recorder Eve Breck noting expectations far above normal for public meetings. Mayor John H. McCulloch says attendees will hear SDH and Vogt Sage Pflum reps discuss I 64 upgrades, Beltway plans, Corridor L, and freeway projects while citizens voice questions and comments.
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Open Transportation Forum
Beckley
Raleigh
McCulloch
Highway Department
West Virginia Turnpike
Raleigh County
Jay Rockefeller
Breck
Rockefeller
Carter
Vogt, Sage and
Pflum
Eve Breck
City Recorder
Jack Gehrum
Jack Pflum
Doug Yarrow
Governor’s Son Excluded From Club At Castle Mansion
West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller describes his Kanawha Boulevard mansion as a castle. He notes his children, amid forts and forts, race through halls and ride tricycles to the Capitol. He keeps his kids in public school as they adapt to life at the mansion.
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West Virginia
Kanawha Boulevard
Gov
Jay Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Capitol
Mansion
Weather outlook with mild temps and low rain chances
Cloudy today with little chance of rain tonight. Tomorrow's rain risk stays low at ten percent. Daytime highs in the 50s today, then falling to the 40s tonight and rising to the low 70s tomorrow.
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National Weather Service
Broad Election Package Sought by Carter Administration
The Carter White House plans a broad election reform package with universal voter registration and federal funding for congressional races, plus a loosening of Hatch Act rules. The package also envisions private fundraising alongside existing limits and aims to boost political participation by federal employees. A second agenda includes a consumer agency, food stamps reform, hospital cost caps, welfare reforms, and zero-base reviews of White House offices, with full rollout not expected until next year.
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Congress
Stuart Eizenstat
White House
Eizenstat
Atlanta
Departments of Agriculture, and Health, Education and Welfare
Gerald Ford
National Health Insurance
Office of Management and Budget
Ray Marshall
Hearing Scheduled On Murder Charge In Oak Grove
Silas Paul Richmond 20 of Oak Grove faces a murder charge after a 1 a.m. shooting at his home that killed Artie Jack Gravely 66 of Old Eccles Road. Gravely died from a thigh wound after bleeding while awaiting an ambulance. Richmond was to appear before Raleigh County Magistrate Joe Rodriguez. Gravely, a retired coal miner and United Mine Workers member, is survived by a wife two daughters six brothers three sisters and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Silas Paul Richmond
Oak Grove
Richmond
Artie Jack Gravely
Old Eccles Road
Raleigh
Joe Rodriguez
Gravely
The
United Mine Workers of America
Glen White
Tom and Pearl Terry Gravely
Mildred Murray Gravely
Betty Hubbard
Sandra K. Gravely
Bill
Eddie
Earl
House
Donald Kopp
D - Harrison
Judiciary Committee
United Mine Workers Union
Rockefeller
Interstate Planned Upgradings Begin for Be kley to Blue Jay
W E Lunstrum, District 10 engineer for the state Department of Highways, says a four lane interstate upgrade from Beckley to Blue Jay via Ghent Crab Orchard and Flat Top will take about two years. The $32 million project, 90 percent federal funded, adds two interchanges and eleven new bridges, replacing old Turnpike lanes from 1955 and may affect Beckley with future I 64 and Crab Orchard work.
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Beckley
Ghent
Crab Orchard
Blue Jay
W.E. Lunstrum
District 10
State Department of Highways
Lunstrum
Flat Top
Mercer County
Blue Jay - Sullivan Road
State Department, of Highways
Flat Top Mountain
West Virginia Legislature Faces Busy Week Amid National Events
Senate leader predicts a slow week as President Carter and Gov. Rockefeller visit. Top actions include confirming six department heads including State Police Supt. Mooney, debating juvenile code reform and limits on new community colleges, and House votes on school bond levies and a statewide lottery constitutional amendment.
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Carter
Jay Rockefeller
West Virginia
Senate
William T. Brotherton
O - Kanawha
Rockefeller
Brotherton
State Senate
Harley F. Mooney
House of Tes
West Virginia Human Rights Commission Faces Funding Hurdles
Howard D. Kenney notes the commission is highly regarded by those it helps and disliked by some employers. The agency tackles employment and public accommodation discrimination on several bases and housing discrimination excluding sex and age. Two bills before the 63rd Legislature would add sex to housing protections and authorize branch offices, costing about 835 thousand dollars, but Gov. Rockefeller’s austerity plan may delay passage until funds are found.
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Howard D. Kenney
Kenney
HRC
Rockefeller
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