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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1967
Page
6
Santa Claus runs a year round workshop at the West Virginia State Penitentiary where nine volunteers assemble toys after work. Earlier this year the workshop produced dolls that walked and talked doll houses sewing machines and toy vehicles and animals awaiting repairs.
Inmates in West Virginia repair and repaint miniature cars and other toys, replacing parts or crafting new pieces when needed. They assemble kits, match toys to each child under 12, and wrap and mail them, with shipping paid by residents or the inmate benefit fund if needed.
At Jacksons Mill during the Spring Institute on May 13 1967 counselor Paul Legg reported staff at Pruntytown Industrial School for Boys using group counseling. Early results show reduced disciplinary incidents and pride among boys as a social learning technique spreads to a third cottage with plans to involve all cottages by spring 1968.
The Bethany College library gains a collection valued over 20000 dollars donated by the widow of John Marshall a Bethany alumnus and trustee. The 70 letters include correspondences from four presidents Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower and writers such as Richard Nixon Dean Acheson and J Edgar Hoover.
Robert S. Grubbs, executive secretary of West Virginia's Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, attended a Washington conference called by the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped with officials from 35 states. He discussed WV services and goals to boost vocational status for disabled workers. A separate note records the death and felling of the Mingo Oak, the nation’s oldest white oak, on September 10, 1938.
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