Skier Traded Identities Entangles Storer Brothers in Vietnam
The Storer brothers, Wesley and Glenn, both from Yarmouth Maine, were detained by military police in Saigon as the skiing instructor and a soldier swapped places during leave. Wesley faced civilian visa issues delaying his departure while Glenn, in Bien Hoa, was taken into custody and barred from leaving until a battalion review. Spokesmen offered limited details and a possible reunion between the brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth J. Braddick
Saigon
UPD
Storer
U.S
Wesley E. Storer
Glenn Storer
Yarmouth
Maine
West
United States
Glenn
Camp Reasoner
South Vietnam
da Nang
Vietnam
Wes
Chu Lai
U.S. Army
Army
Tan Son Nhut
Bien Hoa Air Base
Gooden Hearing Expected Open To Public
The State Police Board of Commissioners hearing for dismissed trooper Preston B. Gooden of Morgantown next Tuesday is expected to be open to the public and news media. Harold Frankel said he saw no reason to close the reinstatement hearing and that Gooden would likely have counsel during testimony.
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Charleston
UPI
State Police Board of Commissioners
Preston B. Gooden
Morgantown
Harold Frankel
Huntington
United Press International Today
Gooden
Department of Public Safety
Frankel
Judge Denies Bond for Roger Ping Ley in Cruel Punishment Case
Randolph County Circuit Court Judge George Triplett voided Roger Ray Ping ley's 10 year arm robbery sentence and ordered continued confinement in jail as his appeal to the state supreme court proceeds. The court found sub standard conditions at the West Virginia Penitentiary and delayed his release.
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Elkins
UPI
Randolph County
George Triplett
Roger Ray Pingley
West Virginia
Moundsville
Triplett
Pingley
State Supreme Court
Laporte Murder Nets Life Term
Francis Simard, 23, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oct 17 murder of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. A two hour jury verdict followed by a judge’s life term and four contempt fines. Rose already serves life. Jacques Rose and Bernard Lortie await trial. Laporte was abducted Oct 10, body found at St. Hubert Airport a week later.
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Montreal
UPI
Francis Simard
Quebec
Pierre Laporte
Alphonse Bar Beau
Cest Beau
Nice
Alphonse
Simard
Quebec Liberation Front
FLQ
Barbeau
Laporte
Paul Rose
Rose
Jacques
Bernard Lortie
St. Hubert
Maine repeals blue law ban on Sunday dancing
Governor Kenneth Curtis signed a measure repealing the 19th century prohibition of public dancing on Sundays. The ban had been part of Maine's blue laws limiting Sunday activities.
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Augusta
Maine
UPI
Kenneth Curtis
Hanks Sets Sights on Sheriff Post in 1972 Race
C Harold Hanks, Raleigh County circuit court clerk, announces he is eyeing the sheriff’s seat in the 1972 election. He notes the sheriff earns about 22000 plus tax income, with a 10000 salary, and hints former sheriff Okey Mills as a likely Democratic opponent in the primary.
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Hanks
Sheriff's Post
Raleigh
C. Harold Hanks
Okey A. Mills
Mills
Raleigh County Memorial
Wildcat mine strike probes widen in Ohio and West Virginia
United Mine Workers investigators opened a probe into a wildcat strike that idled 18 mines across eastern Ohio and West Virginia's Northern Panhandle. W. A. Boyle urged strikers to return to work while district leaders claimed the move aims to embarrass the union and force its will on members.
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United Press International
Ohio
West Virginia
Panhandle
W. A
Tony” Boyle
United Mine Workers of America
Boyle
Bellaire
UMW
District 6
Thomas Williams
Kanawha Firms Hit For Pollution
Three Kanawha Valley industrial firms face criminal informations in U S District Court for polluting the Kanawha River. Semet Solvay allegedly released black effluent on Sept. 25 1970. Fike Chemical Co St Albans discharged pyridinium chloride hydrochloride on Sept. 24 1970. Chris and Shaver are charged with two counts of discharging concrete slurry into navigable streams under the 1899 Federal Refuse Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
Kanawha Valley
U.S
Kanawha
Semet-Solvay
Fike Chemical Co
St. Albans
Chris and
Shaver
Tar dumped on Kelly Mountain Road sparks road anger
Elkins residents on Kelly Mountain Road protest after the state Highways Department laid 85 tons of evaporated oil tar on the mountainside. Officials say the tar is unusable and could be remixed or replaced. Neighbors warn of fire risk and demand action to fix the dirt road.
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Elkins
UPI
Hallie Tos
Kelly Mountain Road
State
Highways Department
Robert Collett
District 8
Kelly Mountain
Debate over Cheat River dam and regional environmental costs
The discussion centers on a proposed Cheat River dam with estimates of 831 700 acre feet storage. Critics warn of draining West Virginia resources and loss of land in Tucker and Preston counties while supporters cite flood control and regional needs for recreation and industry.
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West Virginia
Monongahela Valley
Cheat
Burrell
Rowlesburg
Hedrick
Ward
Baltimore
Cheat River Valley
Tucker
Preston
Marshall
Support Slowly Growing GM Stockholder Group Asks Policy Changes
A small dissident GM stockholder group, Campaign GM, seeks three resolutions at the annual meeting. Proposals include employee and customer directors, expanded board candidate listing, and fuller disclosure on pollution, safety, hiring, recalls, and manpower. Institutional support came from First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust and the College Retirement Equities Fund for the disclosure proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
API
General Motors
Philip W. Moore
Project On Corporate Responsibility
Institutional
First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co
Philadelphia
Moore
College Retirement Equities Fund
GE Plant Workers Wear Plastic Ears for Noise
Em ployes at the General Electric lamp division plant in Cleveland wear plastic ear handles over their ears to cut noise. Environmental chief Isaac Matesky developed a softenable plastic formed to fit each ear and set permanently. He added handles to help workers slip the ears on and off.
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Cleveland
UPI
General Electric Lamp Division
Isaac Matesky
Environmental Control
Police Hunt Girl's Killer In Wheeling
Police spread a dragnet in Wheeling West Virginia as they hunt a suspected male killer in the shooting death of Pamela Wolfston 12 and the injury of her sister Louise 22. The suspect is described as 6 foot 4 to 6 foot 6 inches tall driving a blue 1965 sedan with a pale blue or light hair. Rewards were increased including WWVA's 2000 and Elm Terrace Improvement Association's 100.
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Wheeling
UPI
Pamela Wolfston
James H. Wolfston
Wheeling Bronze Co
Louise
West Virginia
Pamela
WWVA
Elm Terrace
Everest Climb Abandoned Near Summit By International Team
An international Everest expedition faltered as illness weather and internal discord reduced climbers from 32 to two. The two remaining Britons stopped 2 000 feet from the summit on the southwestern face. The trek claimed the life of Indian Maj. Harsh Bahuguna and forced leader Norman Dyrenfurth and others to quit.
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Katmandu
Nepal
UPI
Mount
Everest
Edmund Hilary
Tenzing Norquay
Harsh V. Bahuguna
Norman Dyrenfurth
Reapportionment Plan Defended in West Virginia Suit
Attorneys for the state ask U S District Court to uphold theWest Virginia reapportionment plan as constitutional valid and effective in response to a Civil Liberties Union suit. The state argues the four district map reflects good faith effort toward population equality after a 6.2 percent decline in the last decade.
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Charleston
UPI
U.S
West Virginia
West Virginia Civil Liberties Union
Victor Barone
John D. Rockefeller
The
Civil Liberties Union
Longest living tissue segment from chicken heart preserved
Nobel laureate Alexis Carrel kept a chicken heart tissue graft alive for over 30 years, outlasting the chicken’s lifespan and showcasing early organ culture experiments in biology.
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Alexis Carrel
Deaths and Funerals in West Virginia region
Funeral services for Conrad I L Coffey 62 of Detroit Mich formerly Lillybrook will be at 2 pm Saturday at Lobban Funeral Home Chapel Alderson with Rev Jasper Smith Coal City in charge Burial in Riverview Cemetery near Alderson He died at 7 pm Wednesday in a Detroit hospital after a long illness Born January 1 1909 in North Carolina son of the late John A and Nora Coffey A Raleigh County resident he worked in Lillybrook and Affinity mines He was a Regular Baptist Church member Survivors include two sisters Mrs A H Boley Coal City and Mrs W P Caniterbury Alderson and a daughter Mrs Geneva Patton Lookout Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 pm today Final rites for Ella Daniel Beck 83 of Charleston formerly Fayetteville will be held Saturday at 2 pm at Dodd Payne Funeral Home Fayetteville Rev Billy Reed Wickline in charge Burial in Huse Memorial Park Fayetteville She died Wednesday in a Charleston hospital after a short illness Born Aug 4 1888 at Berry daughter of the late James H and Susan Davis Daniel She was a retired practical nurse Her husband preceded her in death She is survived by a sister Mrs Massey Daniel Smith Charleston
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Conrad Il. Coffey
Detroit
Mich
Lillybrook
Lobban Funeral Home
Alderson
Jasper Smith
Coal
Riverview
North Carolina
John A
Nora Coffey
Raleigh County
Affinity
Regular Baptist Church
A. H. Boley
Coal City
W. P. Caniterbury
Geneva Patton
Lookout
Ella Daniel Beck
Charleston
Fayetteville
Dodd-Payne
Billy Reed Wickline
Huse Memorial Park
Berry
James H
Susan Davis Daniel
Massey Daniel Smith
Edward C Crook Funeral Services In Shady Spring
Edward Clayton Crook 47 of Shady Spring dies after a long illness in Lexington Kentucky. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 2 p m at Shady Spring Community Church with Revs Russell O Neal and Gene Hall. Burial follows at Deeds Cemetery Jumping Branch. Body to be moved from Ronald Meadows Funeral Home Hinton one hour before services. Friends may call after 3 p m Saturday.
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Edward Clayton
Crook
Shady Spring
Shady Spring Community
Russell O’neal
Gene Hall
Deeds
Jumping Branch
Lexington
Ronald Meadows
Hinton
Harold L. Kershner Dies At 54 In Cranberry
Harold L. Kershner 54 of Cranberry died in a local hospital at 3 30 a m today. The body is at Melton Mortuary pending funeral arrangements.
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Harold Lee Kershner
Cranberry
Melton Mortuary
Kent State Student President Arrested During Demonstration
Kent State University student body president Craig Morgan and 25 others were arrested as police moved into a crowd of about 400 demonstrators in downtown Kent and on campus. An associate professor and a Kent police officer were also taken or injured in the clashes following a riot act delivery and prior ROTC events.
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Kent, Ohio
UPI
Kent State University
Craig Morgan
Upper Arlington
Ohio
Marvin Meade
Kent State
Ronald Craig
Kent
Morgan
Water
Maine
University Commons
Engineers fix Mariner rocket flaw delaying Mars mission
Cape Kennedy reports engineers solved a pinhead sized autopilot circuit issue in Atlas Centaur electronics that caused the first Mariner failure. A fuel gauging short in the Centaur stage was found as a secondary problem. Launch now targeted for June 6 to June 16 with extra fuel considerations for trajectory corrections.
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Cape Kennedy
API
U.S
Mariner
Mars
Centaur
Agency
Iless
Egypt declines to send envoy to Washington over Middle East talks
Cairo diplomatic sources say Egypt has paused plans to dispatch a high ranking envoy to Washington to discuss a possible Israel accord and the reopening of the Suez Canal. The move follows William P. Rogers and Joseph J. Sisco visits after Rogers met Israeli leaders.
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United Press International
Middle East
Cairo
Egypt
Washington
Israel
Suez Canal
William P. Rogers
Joseph J. Sisco
Rogers
Air Washington to Hire Petite Stewardesses in Hot Pants
Seattle officials say the Air Washington commuter service will recruit stewardesses under 4-foot-10 to fit the small cabin of its DeHavilland twin Otter planes. Chairman Bob Florence notes the attendants will wear hot pants despite the limited space.
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Seattle
UPI
Air Washington
Bob Florence
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UMW Journal
Allison Y&o
Beallsville
Hancock
Brooke
Harrison
Belmont
Ussr
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Universam
Soviet Union
Highway Dept
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Mt. Everest
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KSU
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