West Virginia native to lead Kennedy Center arts role
Norman Fagan, WV Arts and Humanities Council director, named director of education and public affairs for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. He will assume the post in January as the center, slated to open in September 1971, moves toward its national cultural prominence. Fagan, 38, was born in Pittsburgh and trained at Maryland Carnegie Tech and the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Washington
West Virginia
Norman Fagan
Fagan
Lincoln Center
New York
Kennedy
Beckley
Pittsburgh
University of Maryland
Carnegie Tech
Pittsburgh Playhouse School of the Theater
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Playhouse
Arts and Humanities Council
Commerce Department
Council
Kennedy Center
Virgil Ground
West
Fagan Leads West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council Growth
West Virginia's Arts and Humanities Council expanded under director Fagan, reaching all counties with grants and programs. From touring art exhibits and classroom concerts to opera outreach and a music educators conference, the council spurred wide state engagement and national recognition.
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State Department of Education
Huntington Galleries
West Virginia Opera Theater
Charleston
Huntington
Parkersburg
Beckley
Fagan
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Kennedy Center
Unspent campaign funds prompt questions of use and law
Senate and House figures show Byrd, Slack, and Hechler with unspent campaign balances after elections. Byrd has 18 838 left, to be placed in a trust or savings as his aide suggests while others report smaller sums. Officials note state law lacks guidance on unspent money.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Robert C. Byrd
Secretary of State
John Slack
Ken Hechler
Ralph J. Bean Jr
United Press
International
Bean
Thomas Dodd
D-Conn
Byrd
Milton Ferguson
Wayne
Ferguson
West Virginia miners praised for dust control progress
Claude E. Phillips of the U S Bureau of Mines told the Kanawha Valley Mining Institute seminar that coal operators in West Virginia are doing an excellent job meeting new federal dust limits. He cited 25 mines showing strong on site dust sampling and noted improved water and ventilation systems. W C Helt of the National Coal Association urged a national energy policy favoring domestic fuels.
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Montgomery
Www. Va
UPI
U. S. Bureau of Mines
West Virginia
Claude E. Phillips
Mount Hope
Kanawha Valley Mining Institute
Phillips
W. C. Helt
National Coal Association
United States
Jury clears man charged with murder in West Virginia
Russell Berry, 52, was found innocent by a jury after a 1 hour 29 minute deliberation in the shooting death of 15 year old David Dunbar, son of Cabell County Circuit Court Judge Russell Dunbar. The defense argued Berry’s neighborhood had vandal problems and that the shooting was accidental during a collision with the teen.
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Huntington
W. Va
UPI
Russell Berry
Berry
David Dunbar
Russell Dunbar
Cabell County
Common Pleas
Robert C. Conaty
Obituaries for Gassaway leader James L Simmons
James L Simmons 86 of Gassaway former Braxton County Board of Education president died Friday after a career in insurance and real estate. Funeral services are planned at Skidmore Funeral Home Sunday.
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Gassaway, W. Va
UPI
Skidmore Funeral Home
James L. Simmons
Gassaway
Braxton County
Board of Education
W. Wallace Walker
Winona
W. Va
Baltimore
Fayette County
Walker
Penn Central Weld Work Strike Ends With Court Order
About 1,500 workers at Penn Central's car repair shops returned to work after Judge Louis Rosenberg issued a temporary restraining order against the one day strike over welding job advertising. A Dec 10 hearing was set on a permanent injunction. Bernard Porta said the union alleged a verbal contract grouping all welding jobs together. Penn Central spokesman William Baird cited rule interpretation in the walkout.
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Hollidaysburg, Pa
UPI
Penn Central Railroad
Louis Rosenberg
Bernard F. Porta
Transport Workers Union
William Baird
Penn-Central
Fraternity men walk 90 miles for hospital
About 60 Phi Theta Phi men from Thiel College began a 90 mile walk from Greenville PA toward Pittsburgh to raise funds for Children's Hospital. By Freeport they surpassed a $3,000 goal and set a new $5,000 target for the Pittsburgh Press Old Newsboys Fund. The group split en route and reunited in Freeport for a hot dinner before continuing to Natrona Heights and into Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Children’s Hospital
Phi Theta Phi
Thiel College
Greenville
Freeport
Pittsburgh Press Old Newsboys Fund For Children’s Hospital
Mercer
Grove City
Sharon
Hickory
Trinity Lutheran Church
Natrona Heights
Brackenridge
Arnold
New Kensington
Springdale
State creates Department of Environmental Resources
Governor Shafer signs legislation to form the Department of Environmental Resources effective Jan. 19 under Milton Shapp administration. The new cabinet department merges Forests and Waters, Mines and Mineral Industries, plus the Sanitary Water Board Air Pollution Control Commission and Soil and Water Conservation Commission to unify pollution and resource conservation efforts.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Milton Shapp
Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Resources
Raymond P. Shafer
State Sanitary Water Board
Air Pollution Control Commission
State Soil and Water Conservation Commission
Shafer
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