Explosion Kills Boy Three Hurt in West Virginia Tank Fire
Four boys playing atop an oil tank in Smithfield dropped a match, causing an explosion that killed Thomas Myers, 10, and left three others critically or seriously injured. One boy was hurled about 75 feet. flames burned for 90 minutes as ambulances responded.
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Smithfield
UPI
Thomas Myers
West Virginia
William
Ohio, Valley General Hospital
Wheeling
Kenneth Starkey
Emory
Gary Poling
Avhill
Wetzel County Hospital
New Martinsville
Bill Estep
Poling
Planning panel for five counties eyed in Beckley move
Beckley headquarters may host the Southern West Virginia Planning and Development Commission if Raleigh County Court approves five county participation. Pett said $60 000 in federal and local funds would back a reconstituted entity with a five county board and offices in Beckley to aid local projects and secure federal funding.
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Southern
West Virginia
Pett
Mercer
Monroe
Fayette
Summers
City of Athens
Governor Moore backs records release and prison renovations
Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. vows to publish trooper records before a legislative committee probe into the West Virginia state police. He also plans renovations at the West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville using inmate labor and federal matching funds, avoiding new legislative appropriations.
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Charleston
UPI
Arch A. Moore, Jr
Moore
Department of Public Safety
Ments
West Virginia
Chauncey Browning Jr
Brown
Ing
Moundsville
Army scapegoat claim fuels call for Vietnam War crimes panel
Vietnam veteran Danny Notley urged Nixon to form a presidential commission to probe U S atrocities in Indochina. He alleged a massacre of 30 to 60 villagers in 1969 and charged the military with pre choosing scapegoats while officials shaped policies. Notley backed by a citizen inquiry group and offered to testify fully to a federal probe.
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Pontius Pilate
South Vietnam
National ‘Committee For
Citizens ‘Commission of Inquiry
U.S
Vietnam
Notley
Nixon
Indochina
St. Paul, Minn
Nixon Announces Unprecedented War On Cancer
President Nixon declares an unprecedented attack on cancer and says he will personally direct the effort. Congress is poised to approve about 100 million dollars requested in the State of the Union to fund a cancer cure program within the NIH. He promises more funding if needed and outlines a presidentially guided, independently budgeted program reporting directly to the president.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
White House
National Institutes of Health
United States
U.S
Weather Alert Beckley Area Forecast
Cloudy conditions with a chance of light rain this afternoon. High near 70. Showers and possible thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight mid 50s, high Wednesday upper 60s. Precipitation probabilities 30 percent this afternoon 80 percent tonight 90 percent Wednesday. Details on page 3.
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Beckley
Reinstatement Of Firm As State Vendor Denied
Capitol Business Equipment Co Inc has its appeal to be reinstated as a state vendor dismissed as moot by the State Supreme Court. The Charleston firm was suspended January 6 1970 after purchasing irregularities indicted by the Kanawha County Intermediate Court Grand Jury.
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Charleston
UPI
State Supreme Court
Capitol Business Equipment Co., Inc
Kanawha County
High Court
Department of Finance and Administration
Shelter Manager Found Dead at Raleigh County Facility
The Raleigh County Animal Shelter manager, 60 year old Carmen Carte, was found dead by suicide at the shelter on Worley Street. Police say she had been despondent over ill health and was discovered about 6:30 am. The body lies at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
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Raleigh County Animal Shelter
Carmen Carte
Schedule and rules for bullfrog season and local services
A Beckley DNR spokesman outlines bullfrog season from 9 p m June 12 to midnight July 31 with a daily limit of 10 and possession limit of 20. He also describes the county landfill in Lanark Hollow near Stanaford open 8 a m to 3 30 p m Monday to Saturday and suggests road maps and the West Virginia Turnpike for travel from New York to Beckley.
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Department of Natural Resources
Beckley
Stanaford
L & B Lumber Co
Lanark Hollow
New York State
Hinton
New York
Charleston
West Virginia Turnpike
West Virginia
Attorney General Opinion Confirms County Courts Redistrict Districts
Attorney General Chauncey Browning says county courts must reapportion magisterial districts when population or territory imbalances exist. The opinion, prepared for Mrs. Richard Schnacke, notes counties cannot dodge redistricting even if future state funding for such programs is uncertain.
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Charleston
UPI
Chauncey Browning
Richard Schnacke
New
Martinsville League of Women Voters
Browning
Schnacke
Wetzel
Wetzel County
State Tax Department
Supreme Court
Farmington Youth Drowns In River Near Valley Falls State Park
A Farmington youth, Albert Pakacs, 16, slipped on a rock in the Tygart River at Valley Falls State Park Monday and drowned shortly after. Three companions witnessed him go under in the swift current and could not reach him. His body was recovered downstream.
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Fairmont
UPI
Farmington
Tygart Valley
Valley Falls State Park
Here
Albert Pakacs
Nader Attacks Auto Makers Over Criminal Fraud Charges
Ralph Nader labels the auto industry guilty of criminal fraud and negligence at a Senate hearing on a Hart bill to require safer, more repairable cars. Sen. Theodore Stevens challenges Nader to present evidence to a grand jury as the exchange turns pointed and tense.
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Washington
UPI
General Motors
Ralph Nader
Nader
Theodore Stevens
Alaska
Senate Commerce Committee
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Detroit
Stevens
Commerce Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Troops Drive Reds Off Ridge in A Shau Valley Battle
Three South Vietnamese battalions drove Communist soldiers from a ridge in the A Shau Valley campaign as U S B52 bombers struck approaches. South Vietnamese said five enemy killed with no casualties for their side while two Americans were killed in separate coastal clashes.
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Saigon
UPS
Shau
South Vietnam
Americal
Mary Ann
U.S
Army of the Republic of
South) Vietnam
ARVN
London Hotel Fire Kills Eight in Kensington Ward
A fire gutted a wing of the Langham hotel in Kensington Gardens Square killing eight people and injuring 10. About 30 of 64 rooms in the burned wing were occupied. Firemen rescued at least 10. The cause was not known. Several Americans stayed at the hotel. it was unclear if any were among the dead or injured. The Langham sits near Hyde Park in a quiet area with tourist hotels.
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London
UPD
Kensington Gardens Square
Langham
Hyde Park
WVEA Names Stone New Executive Secretary
James L. Stone, Wyoming County language arts supervisor, will become executive secretary of the West Virginia Education Association on July 1, succeeding Phares E. Reeder who retires June 30 after 28 years in the post. Stone, 39, a Pineville native and former Pineville High School teacher and Glen Rogers High principal, has led the WVEA Legislative Committee and holds degrees from Concord College and Marshall University. He is past president of the West Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. his wife Betty Sue teaches at Pineville Junior High. They have two children, James and Justin.
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Charleston
James L. Stone
Wyoming County
West Virginia Education Association
WVEA
Stone
Pineville High School
Phares E. Reeder
Glen Rogers High School
Concord College
Marshall University
Betty Sue
Pineville Junior High School
James Srr
Justin Kelly
Marshall disaster dispute over three tons of equipment claims
The father of a Marshall University football player disputing Southern Airways claims insists only uniforms were transported by truck the day of the DCO crash that killed 36 players and seven others. He seeks new hearings and says the equipment weighed far less than three tons.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Marshall University
DCO
Southern Airways
Robert Harris
Southern
Huntington
W.va
Marshall
Harris
Greenville
N.C
Richard N. Harbottle
Harbottle
General Turner Sentenced to Three-Year Federal Term
Maj. Gen. Carl C. Turner, former Provost Marshal and later U.S. Marshal, was sentenced in Alexandria to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally obtaining 136 guns from the Chicago Police Department by claiming they would be a gift to the federal government. The judge postponed execution for one week. Turner faces a June 7 trial on four income tax counts.
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Turner
U.S
Oren R. Lewis
Washington
Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
Senate
Senate Filibuster Against Draft Gains Momentum
Sen. Alan Cranston joined the fledgling anti draft effort amid protests from Nixon administration allies. At least four other senators privately pledged support with Sen. Mike Gravel to sustain the filibuster long enough to trigger an automatic end to the draft on June 30.
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Washington
API
Senate
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Judge Allows 33 1 3 Percent Postal Rate Hike
Federal Judge William B. Bryant refused to enjoin the U S Postal Service from raising rates by 33 1 3 percent effective Sunday. Publishers argued the increase is illegal, but the court denied their preliminary injunction request.
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Washington
UPI
William B. Bryant
U.S
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Ibcams
Zina French
State Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs Association
Parkersburg
French
Fred Stacy
Will. Stacy
Bank Americard
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Southeast Asia
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Eve
HE Egister
Sen. T. F. Stevens
Phares Reeder
The
West Virginia Association For Supervision and Curriculum Development
Wyoming County Education Association
Airways’ Claims
Gen. Turner
Alexandria, Va
Carl C. Turner
Army
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