Inadequate Moore mobile black lung unit condemned
Rep Ken Hechler and Dr Donald Rasmussen criticized Gov Arch Moore Jr for a proposed mobile black lung testing clinic describing it as inadequate and unfair to coal miners. Hechler urged equipment and trained personnel like Beckley ARH lab, praising Rasmussen as an expert and Nobel contender.
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Arch Moore Jr
Ken Hechler
Donald Rasmussen
Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital
Hechler
Ann McGovern Mead
George McGovern
Appalachian Regional Commission
Beckley
WVU ends distribution of West Virginia '63 tomato
WVU will stop distributing the West Virginia '63 tomato variety developed at the university. Burgess Seed and Plant Co. of Galesburg Mich. will offer seed for sale in 1973. The variety showed resistance to late blight Verticillium and Fusarium wilts and ripens about 70 days after transplanting.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
WVU
Burgess Seed and Plant Co. F
Galesburg
Mich
Mannoni Gallesly
Plant Sciences
Burgess
Michigan
West Virginia
Two SHS Teachers Depart After First-Year Posts
Sophia High School will bid farewell to two first year teachers Richard Warden I of Beckley and Stanley Lawson of MacArthur. Warden heads to George Washington University for a master's degree after graduation from Marshall University in 197x with a political science AB. Lawson leaves November 2 for Fort Benning to begin officer basic training after earning a Marshall BA in speech and drama.
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Sophia High School
Richard Warden I
Beckley
Stanley Lawson
MacArthur
Warden
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
Marshall University
Huntington
Lawson
Ft. Benning
Marshall
MGM plans Shaft in Africa sequel in Hollywood
Hollywood reports MGM will film a second Shaft sequel titled Shaft in Africa. The project follows the earlier Shaft film starring Richard Roundtree in the lead role as the iconic detective.
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Hollywood
UPD
MGM
Shaft
Richard Rountree
Africa
Central PTA Endorses Better School Buildings Amendment
Central Elementary School PTA votes to endorse the Better School Buildings Amendment for the November 7 general election after a talk by Raleigh County schools superintendent William H. Baker. New officers announced: president Mrs. Carl Boggs, vice-president Mrs. Reba Blevins, secretary Mrs. Lowell A. Perkins, treasurer Mrs. Charlene Moran.
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Carl Boggs
Reba Blevins
Charlene Moran
Lowell A. Perkins
Central Elementary School Parents Teacher Association
PTA
William H. Baker
Raleigh
Baker
Eight Applicants Apply For Local Jobs In Beckley Office
Beckley WV employment office has eight applications for jobs including bricklayer power shovel operator cement mason pipe layer bookkeeper clerk typist welder and roofer.
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Beckley
West Virginia
Department of Employment Security
Paramount to Produce Ash Wednesday Film
Paramount will produce Ash Wednesday a movie about an older woman who undergoes plastic surgery to look young again directed by Larry Peerce. The piece notes that certain birds such as parrots mynas crows ravens parakeets jackdaws and some jays can talk.
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Paramount Movie Hollywood
UPI
Paramount
Larry Peerce
Governor Arch Moore Jr to campaign across Raleigh County
Gov Arch Moore Jr will campaign on a Friday tour beginning in Colcord speaking at Clear Fork High School at 9 39 a m. He will attend a groundbreaking ceremony near Pinecrest Hospital and hold rallies in Whitesville Beckley and Sophia with stops at local stores and service stations along the route.
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Arch ‘Moore Jr
Raleigh County
Moore
Comprehensive Community Mental iHealth Center
Colcord
Clear Fork High School
Whitesville
Boone County
GOP
Raleigh
Naoma
Carl Jarrell
Amett
Warren Jar
Sophia
Guy Hunt
Pinecrest Hospital
U. S
Beckley
John H. McCulloch
City Hall
Beckley Recreation Building
South Fayette Street
Democrats For
Fifty Mine Electricians Training Course Under Way
Fifty coal miners participate in a mine electrician course at Sophia High School. Classes run 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. three days weekly, taught by Ivan McClelland and Jo Vallina of the Bureau of Mines from Oak Hill. The 10 week program ends in early December.
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Sophia High School
Ivan McClelland
Jo Vallina
Bureau of Mines
Oaks Hill
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