Four Die in West Virginia Plane Crash
Federal investigators probed a two engine Beechcraft crash near Wood County Airport in Parkerburg killing four on a flight from Buffalo to a cancer clinic. Victims were Blaine J. Gable 21 co pilot Wouter DeVries 22 Wanda Barker 39 and Arthur Cunningham 56.
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Parkersburg
W.va
UPI
West Virginia
Buffalo
N.Y
Blaine J. Gable
Wouter DeVries
Holland
Wanda Barker
Smithville
Ritchie County
Arthur Cunningham
Harrisville
British Official Sees Northern Ireland Conflict Insoluble
Sir Stephen McAaden, deputy chairman of the House of Commons, arrived in Charleston WV for the Cherry River Navy Festival and said the Northern Ireland conflict is insoluble, noting miners as a potent political force and criticizing wage dynamics. He traveled from Cleveland and spoke to reporters from a wheelchair. Local officials welcomed him with a city key.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
Northern Ireland
Stephen McAaden
House of Commons
Stephen
Cleveland
Ohio
West Virginia
Richwood
Jennings Randolph
Senate
William Brotherton
John Hutchinson
Sir Stephen
Appalachian women face clash of tradition and change in research
In Huntington West Virginia Dr Carolyn Karr Marshall University and Donna Sammons study Appalachian women in a book noting fundamentalism contrasts with the women movement and coal boom bringing outside ideas They argue economics is the top issue with wife beating incest and rape also major concerns and predict significant changes in the next decade.
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Huntington
W.va
UPI
Appalachia
Carolyn Karr
Marshall University
Donna Sammons
Com
Dr. Karr
Ms. Sammons
Appalachian
Karr
Caves
Thelean Blonde
Marshall
Sammons
Dayton
Ohio
Liberal West Virginia Supreme Court pledges swift, people focused justice
Two new members Justice Darrell McGraw Jr and Thomas Miller describe the 1977 WV Supreme Court as more liberal and people oriented than past panels. They cite handling 350 original jurisdiction cases in six months and aim to clear backlogs, speed trials, and shift congested circuits. They criticize slow rulings and political judgeships while aiming to follow a Warren Court precedent.
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Andrew Gallagher
Charleston
W.va
UPI
State Supreme Court
Darrell McGraw Jr
Thomas Miller
Wheeling
Sam Harshbarger
Milton
Miller
U.S. Supreme Court
Earl Warren
McGraw
Regional Black Lung workshop planned in Marmet
The Regional Black Lung Association will host a two day workshop at Marmet Recreation Center August 19 and 20 to explain benefits legislation pending in Congress to miners and their dependants. Golfer Barney Thompson of Barboursville was fined 100 dollars and jailed 24 hours after pleading no contest to a drunk driving charge. His license was suspended for six months by Kanawha County Circuit Judge John Hey. A separate crash near Harper's Ferry killed a Maryland man and injured another when a pickup hit a tractor trailer that ran out of control on West Virginia Route 340. The deceased was James William Bartholow 42 of Thurmont Maryland. Robert Lee Baker 37 also of Thurmont was listed in critical condition. Andrew W. Cox 39 of Nashville Tennessee was uninjured.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
Barney Thompson
Barboursville
Kanawha County
Nolo
John Hey Friday
Thompson
Charles Town
Maryland
Harper's Ferry
James William Bartholow
Thurmont
Pike
Robert Lee Baker
Charles Town General Hospital
Andrew W. Cox
Nashville
New magistrate court system described as a baby
Charleston West Virginia eight month old magistrate court system labeled still a baby by Sammy Gee assistant administrator for the bench under the Judicial Reform Amendment. She notes many procedural rules to be promulgated and trial and error as the system grows. The reform ended fees for JPs to decide cases against defendants and ended police-friendly ties that allowed criminal fees to exist.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
Supreme Court
Sammy Gee
Bench
Miss Gee
Justice of the Peace Courts
Jps
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