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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1968
Page
12
Flora Mir Candy Corp of New York seeks a site for a new plant to consolidate operations, expected to employ over 1,500 in the local area. Several states are bidding, with West Virginia not yet mentioned. Also notes labor-union pact, local business relocations, and industry trends.
New York Times News Service reports a familiar market scene as steel accord details emerge in 1988. Traders watch steady lines while key players from earlier talks return, signaling cautious optimism amid shifting supply and demand dynamics.
Local governments expanded beyond core needs after World War II, funding speedways, parks, golf courses and marinas with tax exempt bonds. Ontario California built a $25.5 million speedway using a nonprofit issuer, risking reliance on speedway revenues rather than city funds.
Three members of Local 2122 United Mine Workers of America were chosen as delegates for the 45th Constitutional Convention in Denver starting September 4. Dallas Rowe and Herbert Plum of Morgantown and Edward Hoskinson of Mt. Morris PA will represent District 31. A Shack in Pursgrove meeting is set for 1 p.m. next week. no endorsements were made during the elections. New Service Ice landic Airlines begins direct jet-prop service to Scandinavia from New York with routes to Luxembourg Glasgow and London.
Patent news this week includes a reading device feeding Braille via tape recordings to a blind user, aiming to boost access to printed works scarce for the blind due to Braille space needs. Other patents cover a gastric ulcer extract by Dr. Frank M. Berger of Carter-Wallace, plus new belt, diamond cutting, musical score playback, and an educational noting device by Harlow B. Grow.
Lawrence R. Snyder, longtime Hope Natural Gas Co. plant manager in Morgantown, is promoted to an administrative post with Consolidated Gas Supply Corp. effective Sept. 1. Clyde F. Marshall will helm the Fairmont Hope plant and Kenneth E. Travis will become plant manager for Marshall. Snyder will work on a special assignment, splitting time between Morgantown and Clarksburg. He is active in local civic groups and has a family of wife Mildred Cullum and daughter Bonnie Jean.
A monthly family magazine was sent back by the mail service in Tilburg Holland because the addressee is deceased and the present address is unknown. The post office marked the cover with the note explaining the situation.
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