West Virginia Population Decline Hits Nonmetropolitan Areas Hard
A U S Census report shows West Virginia lost over 86 000 people in nonmetropolitan areas between 1960 and 1970, equal to 75 percent of the state's decline. Metropolitan areas fell 29 894, while suburban rings stayed steady at 324 000.
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Washington
West Virginia
Bureau of Census
U.S. Department of Commerce
Charleston
Ohio
Brooke and
Hancock
Steubenville-Weirton
W.va
Marshall
Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia Housing Trends 1960 70 Growth and Living Standards
Census data show West Virginia added 21 600 housing units, with nonmetropolitan areas up 15 500 and metropolitan areas up 6 100. Single family homes dominated, mobile homes rose fourfold, and median rooms per unit grew from 5.0 to 5.1 with smaller household sizes.
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West Virginia
SMSA
Grafton names James George as new police chief
GRAFTON James George 42 a Grafton native was named permanent chief of police replacing acting Chief Charles Bolyard and White U.S. Tolley appointed him. George trained at Marshall University police school and became sergeant in February 1966.
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Grafton
Ulysses Grant Swisher
James George
M. B. Tolley
Charles Bolyard
George
Marshall University Police Training School
Bluestone Aqua Follies to Open Friday in West Virginia
The Bluestone Aqua Follies debut Friday at the base of 165 with a 17 day water festival touted as one of West Virginia’s largest. Backers promise a broad program of aquatic entertainment and community activities.
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Hinton
W.va
UPI
West Virginia
Specialists to handle violations nationwide wage price rent program
Federal specialists will be available in 360 cities starting Monday to answer questions and handle complaints about President Nixon's wage price and rent freeze. IRS offices will host the volunteers to receive analyze and investigate issues and inform the public about the new program. In West Virginia specialists will staff IRS offices in Charleston Huntington Wheeling Parkersburg.
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Princeton
W.va
UPI
Albert Gore
Tennessee
Nixon
West Virginia
Gore
Charleston
Donald L. Page
Smithers
Mountain State Art and Craft Fair
K. Carl Little
Washington
Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
The
Cost of Living Council
Office of Emergency Preparedness
IRS
Huntington
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Quarantine on West Virginia horses lifted
Agriculture Commissioner Gus Douglass announced the more than month long quarantine on horses mules and donkeys in West Virginia is lifted. Permits still required for horses from Texas and other disease states entering the state. AMTRAK to restore Grafton passenger service by Sept 7 with weekend trains possible. Fellowsville Fire Department to sponsor a trail ride and barrel racing today with entry details.
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Bluestone
West Virginia
Charles Sergent
Summers County
Bluestone Lake
Charleston
W.va
UPI
Gus Douglass
Douglass
Texas
Grafton
William Beall
B&o C&o
Amtrak
National Rail
Beall
Fellowsville
Richard Stone
Newburg
Two accidents raise West Virginia highway toll this weekend
State Police said two wrecks this weekend increased West Virginia's highway deaths to 293 for the year, still 36 fewer than the same date last year. In Webster County, 18 year old Stoney Ray Cogar of Webster Springs died when his pickup overturned on West Virginia Route 15 near Cherry Falls. two passengers were ejected. In the Eastern Panhandle, a Friday night crash on West Virginia Route 428 near Smoke Hole Caverns killed Norman W. Sites, 42, of Orange California, a Pendleton County native, injuring four others. James Gragg 21 of Frank charged with negligent homicide.
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West Virginia
Stoney Ray Cogar
Webster Springs
W.va
Cherry Falls
Webster County
Cogar
Panhandle
Norman W. Sites
Orange
Calif
Pendleton County
Smoke Hole Caverns
James Gragg
Frank
Counterfeit charges filed against three Fairmont men
Three Fairmont men were charged with counterfeiting by Fairmont City County and State Police. Gary Bittinger 19 John Whitehair 21 and James Kinsel 25 were arrested with counterfeit $20 bills seized. A US Secret Service agent joined the case. David Fields 15 of Sissonville Kanawha County drowned while swimming in the Little Kanawha River near Elizabeth West Virginia.
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Fairmont
Marion County
Gary Bittinger
John Whitehair
James Kinsel
Kinsel
Arion County
Betty Bush Iy
U. S. Secret Service
Morgantown
Elizabeth
W.va
UPI
David Fields
Sissonville
Kanawha County
Kanawha River
Wirt County
Hand Lost Saving Dog on Tracks in West Virginia
Charles Taylor a 33 year old Chesapeake and Ohio Railway brakeman saved a stray dog on tracks at South Charleston West Virginia but his right hand was crushed by a car wheel while pulling the animal to safety. The hand was amputated at a local hospital, while the dog escaped unharmed.
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South Charleston
W.va
UPI
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Charles Taylor
Taylor
Moore to speak to Raleigh County teachers at start of year
Gov Arch A Moore Jr will address Raleigh County teachers and aides at Woodrow Wilson High School as the new school year begins. Phares A Reeder and James Gladwell will also speak during the orientation program.
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Beckley
W. Va
UPI
Raleigh County
Arch A. Moore Jr
Woodrow Wilson High School
Phares A. Reeder
The
West Virginia Education Association
James Gladwell
Western coal boom reshapes mining with western strip fields surge
The piece details a western shift in U S coal, starting 1970 with Navajo mine near Farmington New Mexico becoming the nation’s largest single producer. It highlights vast western reserves low sulfur coal, planned strip mines in Washington Texas and Wyoming Montana, and the looming gasification future to replace natural gas. It notes government and industry bets on huge strip mine activity, permits, leases, and the shift to coal powered by new safety and efficiency standards.
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Panama Canal
America
Navajo
Utah Construction and Mining Company
Farmington
N.M
Four Corners
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
California
Centralia
Wash
Olympia
Mount Rainier
Pacific Power and Light Company
Washington Waterpower Company
Pacific Power and Light
Wyoming
Montana
Texas
Texas Power and Light
Dallas Power and Light
Texas Electrical Service, Inc
Freestone County
Fairfield
Big Brown
Waco
Rusk
Titus
Chicago
Mississippi River
United States
Western Sagebrush
Western Strip
Interior Department
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Glenn T. Seaborg
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
United States Bureau of Mines
Bureau of Mines
West Virginia
Kentucky
Colorado
Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
Illinois
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Moore
Weston State Hospital
Singer Sheet Metal Co
State Court of Claims
Mental Health Department
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Riverside Park
Inc
Sun
John R. Phillips
Spruce St. Ph
Helen Olson
Willowdale Road
John T. Friend
Holland Ave
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