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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1962
Page
6
The project plans two bids for remodeling the federal building. One for full remodeling and a second proposing a structural system for an upper floor to allow future expansion. Second floor offices would flank outside walls, keeping the courtroom open with a high ceiling.
West Virginia tourism policy gains support as Mountain State Visitors Bureau endorses liquor by the drink. Paul Skeeter, named director, says constitutional amendment passage this fall will boost tourism and business. Gilmore notes U S Travel Service aims to attract foreign visitors with offices in 37 countries. A panel discussion closed the final session of the West Virginia Travel Clinic.
Ray mond E. Craig 47 an employee of Elk Building and Construction Co died in a Charleston hospital from injuries from a fall suffered at work last week He fell from scaffolding at the work site and never recovered.
The U S Air Force announced deployment of F105D Thunderchief jets to the Far East under the command of Col. Francis S Gabreski. A wing of 1400 mile an hour jets will join the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing at Kadena Okinawa, less than 500 miles from Shanghai. Gabreski is described as the country’s top living air ace with 37% kills in World War II and Korea.
Morgantown United States Senator WVU engineers Dr Edward Byars and Dr Robert Son receive a three year NIH grant totaling 54783 to study how aging affects the fundamental engineering properties of human bones. Medical Center VP Penrod notes pooling engineering and medical expertise to advance aging science.
Plans prepared for bidding convert the main floor space of the former United States Post Office at Woodlawn Avenue and Neville Street into a federal courtroom. The judge’s bench will be walnut on the left, with a walnut jury box and spectator benches, cork tile flooring, and acoustical ceiling treatment to ensure quiet.
The principal exterior change is removing two doors and adding south side windows. The letters United States Post building will remain but be blocked in with limestone panels.
Harrison County police report Roy Stout of Haywood shot and killed Buck Sampson after the man and an accomplice allegedly tried to steal chickens and set fire to Stout’s home following a dispute over wine. Gene Sampson was wounded when he attacked Stout during the incident.
Bern Wright of Charleston West Virginia elected commission chairman effective July 1 He is chief of the West Virginia division of water resources in the State Natural Resources Department Wright will succeed Dr Charles L Wilbur Jr Pennsylvania state health commissioner in the leadership role of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
Charleston based article reports that a House Public Works subcommittee authorized Army Engineers to study flood control needs in the Elk and Kanawha watersheds. Rep. John Slack said the $50,000 study follows a 22 fatal flood and $5 million in damages, aiming to secure funds for Charleston area flood prevention.
Wage rates set by the Secretary of Labor under Davis Bacon for the Woodlawn Avenue Federal Building project include bricklayers at four dollars and various trades from carpenters at two fifty to terrazzo workers at four dollars. Power equipment operators listings span three eighty five for shovel operators to three ten for firemen, with many trades detailed. The note adds health and welfare contributions are excluded and cites a Family Weekly May feature on phony accident claims totaling about 420 million annually.
The nuclear submarine USS Permit with 90 crew and the freighter Hawaiian Citizen carrying 47 crew collided about 40 miles southwest of the Golden Gate late Wednesday night. Navy reports no injuries and both vessels were bound for San Francisco. The Hawaiian Citizen is owned by Matson Navigation Company.
An 80 car coal freight train carrying 5000 tons is due Monday after an express trip from Clarksburg West Virginia. Boston and Maine Railroad president Patrick B. McGinnis says the train is experimental and could lead to mass movements of coal or other heavy materials by freight cars. The coal will be delivered to Public Service Co of New Hampshire’s electric generating station with only locomotive and crew changes en route.
Washington UPI reports Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia joined 53 senators in voting against ending debate on the literacy test bill. Sen. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia was among 43 senators voting for cloture. The cloture petition failed to reach the two thirds majority required.
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