Largest PRT contract to be opened Monday
Bids for Packages 5 6 and 7 of the Personal Rapid Transit system will be opened at Boeing Co in Seattle at 11 am. Construction starts January 4 1972 and ends November 1 1972. Package 5 covers a temporary maintenance building elevated guideway and related equipment. Package 6 covers three stations with guideways and equipment including Engineering Beechurst and Walnut Street Stations. Package 7 involves the remaining work.
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Boeing Co
Seattle
Wash
Joseph C. Borichewski
PRT
Borichewski
Frank Ivey Jr., Inc
Monongahela
Coliseum
Towers
Medical Center
Cabell County weighs amicus brief in Monongalia salary suit
Cabell County Court President Bob Myers said a friend of the court brief in the suit against Monongalia County Court over pay raises may be filed soon. The case contests a state law and constitution that prohibit public officials from altering salaries while in office. The state tax commissioner also seeks an amicus brief.
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Huntington
Cabell County
Bob Myers
Monongalia
William Delardas
Ridgely Road
Myers
Carey Lane
Monongalia County
State Supreme Court
Amicus Curiae
Charles Hayden
Attorney General
Fire damages Irwin Sawmill. $25 000 loss reported
Rowlesburg firemen responded to a blaze at the Sister Sawmill in Irwin at 10 a.m. with two pumper trucks and 15 firefighters. By noon the fire was under control, saving most lumber and mill portions. owner Glen Sisler says uninsured. A Monday public hearing in Monongalia County on Westover Park annexation to Westover City will address transfer to city control.
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Rowlesburg
Irwin
Glen Sisler
Westover Park
Westover
Monongalia
Westover Community Association
Boyce Benefit Raises 163 At Morgantown Show
A Morgantown High School auditorium audience of 100 to 150 attended a Richard L. Boyce Benefit raising 163 toward a $25,000 kidney transplant. The event featured Wanda Roth and the Green Valley Pioneers, The Koon Family, Brad Crow, the Hilltoppers, Cindy Clarks, and Boyce’s mother Beatrice Boyce. Communities in Grafton also held a magic show with sponsor Veterans of Foreign Wars. Boyce, 25, now lives in Cleveland and undergoes kidney treatments.
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Richard Boyce
Grafton
Morgantown High School
Boyce
Morgantown
Richard L. Boyce
First National Bank
MHS
Wanda Roth
Green Valley Pioneers
Koon
Brad Crow
The
Hilltoppers
Cindy Clarks
Parkersburg
Beatrice Boyce
Roth
Pioneers
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Gus
Arthur Digman
Cleveland
Ohio
Cassville Evening Bus Service May Continue Pending Contact
Mountaineer Bus Lines owner Al Fiorini warned the Cassville 7:15 p.m. run could end after 53 routes were canceled unless local residents communicate by Monday. The service was kept provisionally after three Cassville women pressed for transport to Morgantown, with a passenger log kept to track usage.
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Cassville
Mountaineer Bus Lines
al Fiorini
Fiorini
Mountaineer Lines
Morgantown
Drug hearing set Tuesday for four raid arrestees
Four people arrested December 4 during a series of drug raids will have hearings Tuesday at 10 a.m., announced Assistant Prosecutor David L. Nixon. Hearings were delayed due to Nixon’s involvement in a Circuit Court criminal case. Names listed: Linda Bonfili 22 Wade Street, Danny Gidley 18 Willey Street, Edward DeBerry 20 Vance Lane, Kirchmar 29 Tyrone Road.
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David L. Nixon
Nixon
Linda Bonfili
Wade St
Danny Gidley
Willey St
Edward DeBerry
Vance Lane
of Kirchmar
Tyrone Oad
Nixon announces new world monetary accord at Smithsonian
Group of Ten ministers reach a sweeping currency agreement after two days of bargaining at the Smithsonian. President Nixon hails the deal as a historic victory, while Treasury Secretary Connally leads the U S negotiating team amid fears over currency values and U S balance of payments. A separate report from Uniontown details a 4:15 p m collision at Rt 510 Georges Township injuring 20 year old William H Sausman as a train struck a Chevrolet. Conductor Robert Ford was not injured.
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Group of Ten
Smithsonian
Tokyo
Washington
Smithsonian Institute
Nixon
United States
U.S
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
Bretton Woods
Treasury
John B. Connally Jr
Uniontown
William H. Sausman
Fayette County
Big Six
Georges Township
Sausman
Baltimore and Ohio
Robert Ford
Connellsville
Uniontown Hospital
University Hospital
Morgantown
Winter weather update notes clear roads and cindered spots
Roads mostly clear last night as highway crews cindered secondary routes and icy spots across Monongalia Taylor and Marion counties. No snow forecast soon with cloudy, milder day and night temperatures mid 20s to mid 30s, tomorrow warmer with a chance of showers.
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Rockies
Upper Plains
Lakes Region
Texas
Highway Department
Department of Highways
Monongalia
Taylor
Marion
Preston County
Obituaries for Dr John Davis and George Clark
Dr John Boatman Davis 59 of 621 Valley View St died yesterday after illness. He was WVU Prosthodontics chairman and is survived by a daughter and two granddaughters. Funeral plans tentative for Tuesday at Davis Funeral Home Clarksburg. GEorge Ross Clark 61 of Rt 9 died Friday at University Hospital. He worked 24 years for WVU and is survived by his wife, children, sister and 14 grandchildren. Service at Fred L. Jenkins Funeral Home with burial Mt Calvary Cemetery.
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John Boatman Davis
Valley View St
Clarksburg
Davis
West Virginia University School of Dentistry
George Ross Clark
Rt. 9
University Hospital
Monongalia County
James
Nora Turner Clark
West Virginia University
Linnie Burns Clark
James R
U.S. Air Force
Korea
Thelma Pike
Gordon
Ohio
Barbara Morris
Maxine Hoskins
Morgantown
Dana Kelley
Elwood
Ind
Fred L. Jenkins
Kermit Poling
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Clark
George Ross
One killed in head-on crash near Grafton
A head on collision on U S 50 just outside Grafton at 7 p m left one man dead. The victim died at University Hospital after being transported there. the second driver could not be identified. Police withheld the victim’s name pending next of kin notification.
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Grafton
U.S. 50
University Hospital
Kennedy pledge to defend Pakistan in 1962 not a security treaty
UPI reports official sources say President Kennedy gave Pakistan assurance of U.S. help against Indian aggression in 1962. The form was not a treaty, described as something less than a security treaty, possibly in an agreement with Ambassador Walter McConaughy. Mohammad Ayub Khan led Pakistan then, resigning in 1969 and succeeded by Yahya Khan.
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Washington
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Pakistan
United States
India
Los Angeles Times
Kennedy
U.S
Walter McConaughy
Mohammad Ayub Khan
Yahya Khan
Funeral notices from Wellsburg and surrounding areas
Obituaries list multiple local residents including Joseph F Bainbridge 61 of Wellsburg Walter Lee Johnson 74 of Sabraton Virgie E Moyers 82 of Bruceton Mills Rae Mayer Oppenheimer 99 in Miami Beach Fla and George Ross Clark 61 of Rt 9. Call times and funeral details with churches cemeteries and officiants provided for each as recorded.
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Oppenheimer
Rae Mayer
Miami Beach
Fla
Dering
William Cohen
East Oak Grove Cemetery
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Beechurst
Walnut Street
Cabell
Boyce Benefit
Cassville Bus
Pends
Boston
Denver
Kansas City
Atlanta
New York
Nancy
Winter’s
Pennsylvania
Fayette
Greene
University Sunday Dominion Post
John Davis
Joan Davis Thompson
Dental Student Loan Fund
School of Dentistry
Bainbridge
Joseph F
Wellsburg
Browning
Kingwood
Forrest Campbell
Maplewood
Davidson-Mancinelli Funeral Home
University Ave
National Funeral Directors Association
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