Wiles backs county birth control aid without parental knowledge
Dr. N H Dyer opposes the plan but Dr L A Wiles the Monongalia County health officer says the county health department will push for birth control counseling and services for minors without parental consent. The effort follows earlier failed legislation and is backed by health associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Wiles
John Blosser
Dominion-Post
Monongalia
House of Delegates Health and Welfare Committee
Wiles
Sylvia Kelly
Health Department
Del
Robert Dinsmore
West Virginia Public Health Association
Monongalia County Medical Socerty
Dyer
County Health
M&i
del. Dinsmore
House Committee On Health and Welfare
Press awards given three local writers
Three Morgantown newswriters received awards at the West Virginia Press Women Spring meeting. Evelyn Ryan won first in news for an apartment fire story and second in feature writing about traveling teachers. Susan Conte won first in Sunday magazine and first in personal column. Joyce Bower won first in promotional and second in special interest publications. A Cannett Co. executive spoke on Far East affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Morgantown
West Virginia Press
Bill Bellanger
Evelyn Ryan
Dominion News
Susan Conte
Panorama
Joyce Bower
Extension Press
West Virginia University
Miller
The
Cannett Co
Truck overturns in Waynesburg injuring driver
Gill Frazier a 66 year old Waynesburg man was injured when his 1957 Ford truck swerved off U S 19 struck an embankment and rolled over two miles south of Waynesburg He was hospitalized in serious condition with multiple injuries after the vehicle was demolished State Police reported the crash and transfer to University Hospital Morgantown
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesburg
Here
U.S. 19
Gill Frazier
Greene County Memorial Hospital
University Hospital
Morgantown
Pennsylvania
Frazier
Bolen to Attend West Virginia Regents Meet
Amos A. Bolen plans to attend the West Virginia Board of Regents meeting Tuesday at West Liberty State College. Bolen’s resignation in March 1972 has not been accepted by Gov. Arch Moore, and his four-year term expires June 30. Blood and gore marked a disaster drill at the Coliseum as 120 WVU students role played crash victims with artificial wounds and synthetic blood under graduate first aid classes and a disaster-handling course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W.va
UPI
Amos A. Bolen
West Virginia Board of Regents
West Liberty State College
Bolen
Arch Moore
Coliseum
West Virginia University
Thomas Tarka
Dave Hudson
Arnold Kittle
Dave McFadden
Paul Ferrater
Les Thacker
Joe Weir
Gerald Oakley
Weather Improves as Rain Eases in Mason-Dixon Area
Rain slackened yesterday and forecast calls for sunny skies and warmer temperatures. Highs will reach the upper 50s to low 60s, with a steadier rise toward near 70 degrees by Monday. Lows dip into the 30s under clear nights.
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Mason-Dixonland
Midwest
Education confab starts today at Liberty High School
A statewide Secondary Education Conference titled Alternatives for the Improvement of Secondary Education runs today through Tuesday at Liberty High School Clarksburg. Sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Education the West Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals and RESA VII. The opening general session is at 7 p.m. with Dr Dale M Baughman of Indiana State University delivering the keynote Joy in the Junior and Senior High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
Liberty High School
West Virginia Department of Education
West Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals
Resa VII
Dale M. Baughman
Indiana State University
Rodney Tillman
Robert Prouty
George Washington University
Robert E. Taylor
Ohio State University
Clarence Burdette
Mine accident claims Greene County man
In Clarksville Greene County Coroner Frank Behm ruled 50 year old Charles Robinson dead at the Gateway Mine after runaway supply cars crashed into the motor he drove. Robinson, of Clarksville, was killed Friday at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp mine.
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Clarksville
Charles Robinson
Gateway
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Greene County
Frank Behm
Robinson
WV Toll Climbs To 110 In Year Of Fatal Crashes
West Virginia road deaths rose to at least 110 this year after two weekend crashes claimed an 8 month old girl in Kanawha County near Chesapeake and a Webster County teen near Diana. The infant Lise Ella Bateman died when her family's car went into a rain swollen Winifrede Creek. Her parents Dempsey Bateman and Mary Bateman were treated and released. In Marmet detour traffic a car driven by Dempsey Bateman missed a bridge and overturned, ejecting the child. Ches apeake and Marmet firefighters aided the search. In Webster County Jerry L. Garvin 17 died when his car went off Secondary 5 and struck a tree. passenger Mark Bruffy 16 was injured.
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Kanawha County
Webster County
West Virginia
Chelvan
Lise Ella Bateman
Seth
Winifrede Creek
Chesapeake
Dempsey Bateman
Mary Bateman
Charleston
U. S. 119
Marmet
Chesapeake and Marmet
Jerry L. Garvin
Diana
Secondary 5
Typographers Plan 113th Annual Tri State Meeting in May
The 113th annual Tri State Typographers meeting will convene May 5 and 6 at Holiday Inn with registration 9 to 12 Saturday, business sessions, dances, cocktails, and a Sunday luncheon. It marks the Morgantown Typographical Union 70th anniversary chartered April 1, 1903, with listed union officers and delegates. A second item notes the U S Wildwater Team race on Cheat River May 18 to 20, with a prep trash and river access clearance trip May 5 and 6 by the West Virginia Wildwater Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tri- State Typographers
Holiday Inn
Connie Mantini
Tri-State
Morgantown Typographical Union
Morgantown Union
Charles R. Buchanan
Carolyn Morris
John J
Altoona Typographical Union
Ronald J. Straw
Cumberland
Jack E. Haines
Hagerstown
Typographical Union
Allen P. Weigand
Wheeling Typographical Union
S.S. Samson
Harold Bonner
Derek Buchanan
Charles Buchanan
U.S
Obituaries for Creamer Leaseburg and Blosser in Morgantown region
George Washington Creamer 92 of Terra Alta died at Hopemont State Hospital. Survived by wife Bessie V. Park Creamer, son Gerald, five daughters, sister Myrtle Masters, 17 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren. Melissa Elizabeth Leaseburg 88 of Philippi died at Broaddus Hospital. Survived by three sons Otto Edmond Joe, three daughters, 15 grandchildren, 382 great grandchildren, one great great grandchild. George Newton Blosser 87 of Old Kingwood Pike died at Preston County Memorial Hospital. Retired coal miner, survived by son Gale, daughter Alice Messenger, one grandchild, and siblings.
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George Washington Creamer
Rt. 1
Terra Alta
Hopemont State Hospital
Wetzel County
Rufus Lee
Mary Ellen Round Creamer
Bessie V. Park Creamer
Gerald W. Creamer
Weston
Russellva Ireland
Canton
Ohio
Alta Davis
North Carolina
Charles Sylvia Lewis
Grace Lewis
Morgantown
George W. Ruby Cox
Ridgeley
Myrtle Masters
Leaseburg
Melissa Elizabeth Leaseburg
Philippi
Broaddus Hospital
Thomas and
Mary Owens Taylor
Crim Memorial United Methodist Church
Otto Leaseburg
Edmond Leaseburg
Joe E. Leaseburg
Scherr
Mary Hufnagle
Mayme McCall
Pittsburgh
Margaret Hawkins
Rube Leaseburg
George Newton Blosser
Rt. 3
Old
Kingwood Pike
Preston County Memorial Hospital
Kingwood
Monongalia County
Thomas
Sarah Gidley Blosser
Gale
Alice Messenger
Boice
Bert
Plesia Davis
Katherine Davis
Fanny Danley
Funeral Notices for Local Residents Dated April 1973
Four Preston County obituaries note deaths from April 26 to 27 1973. George Newton Bosser 87 of Old Kingwood Pike dies at Preston County Memorial Hospital. Jessie Forest Colebank 65 of Tunnelton Fellowsville Community dies at Preston Memorial Hospital. George Washington Creamer 92 of Terra Alta dies. services Monday at Fike Watson funeral home. William H Sr Harriman 92 of Terra Alta dies. services Sunday at First United Methodist Church Terra Alta. Burial locations include Davis Cemetery Terra Alta Cemetery Mt Israel United Methodist Church and Terra Alta Cemetery.
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Blosser
George Newton
Rt. 3
Kingwood Pike
Preston County Memorial Hospital
Kingwood
Friends
Eugene Boyer
Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church
Sherman Davidson
Davis Cemetery
Hastings Funeral Home
Colebank
Jessie Forest
Rt. 1
Tunnelton
Fellowsville
Preston Memorial Hospital
Mt. Israel United Methodist Church
Samuel Ryan
Church
Harriman
William H. Sr
Crane Ave
Terra Alta
First United Methodist Church
William Trowbridge
Fike - Watson Funeral Home
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Maternal and Infant Care Project
County Health Department
Preston County
Easton
Dennis Kohn
Westover Fire Hall
Summers School
Star City Fire Hall
Gary Truman
PTA
Monongalia County Council of
Ptas
Westover Junior High
Westover Elementary
Nixon
China
Wes Gallagher
Brotherton
Welch
Welch, W.va
McDowell County
W. B. Swope
Swope
M&li
House
Amos Bolen
Regents
Northern Plains
Western Lakes Region
Greene
United Press International
Mark Bruffy
Cheat River
George Washington
Creamer
Melissa Elizabeth
George Blosser
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