West Virginia Legislature Faces Tax Hurdles in 1968
The 58th Legislature opens in Charleston with tax reform as top issue. The proposed gross margins tax was dropped, corporate tax raised, and personal income tax likely to rise 30 to 35 percent despite election-year cautions. Governor Smith seeks exemptions for food and drugs and higher trucking fuel taxes to fund a $500 million bond for education, highways, and public institutions. Open housing and reapportionment loom as further tensions.
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Indiana
James A. Papke
Papke
Hulett Smith
Smith
West
West Virginia
Unsolved Crime Dominates Morgantown Year 1967
A Morgantown area crime year was marked by the dynamite blast that destroyed a $60 000 bulldozer at the Hills store construction site on Monongahela Boulevard Star City and by the ongoing unresolved murder of Kenneth Carter 22 of South Charleston. Police investigated more than 20 break ins in Monongalia County and warned of civil disorder with the area seeing violent incidents that did not erupt into wider unrest. The Carter case remains open as do several other major investigations, prompting continued appeals for leads.
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Morgantown
Kenneth Carter
South Charleston
Monongalia
Snow Forecast and Warnings Across Mason-Dixon Area
Forecaster predicts snow for the New Year weekend with hazardous driving likely in West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. Snow may start early and mix with rain late. Pennsylvania may see two inches by Monday. Temperatures range 25 to 30, while Arctic air chills the Deep South and Northeast snow depth rises in New England.
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Mason- Dixonland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Deep South
Great Lakes
Jackson
Miss
Atlanta
Columbia
S.C
Alabama
Louisiana
Florida
New England
Shelhamer to be Installed WV Realtors President at Dinner
H L Shelhamer Morgantown realtor will be formally installed as president of the West Virginia Association of Realtors at a 7 p.m. dinner Saturday at Holiday Inn. Over 400 realtors from across the state are expected. E D Hardman will install officers and Dr Paul L Selby will deliver the address.
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H. L. Shelhamer
Morgantown
West Virginia Association of Realtors
Holiday Inn
Clarksburg
Fairmont
West Virginia
E. D. Hardman
National Association of Real Estate Brokers
Paul L. Selby
University College of Law
R. S. Pizatella
Robert H. Stone
Huntington
Marjorie C. Pace
Charleston
Carl E. Welch
C. C. Parish
Parkersburg
Morgantown Realtors
Flu serum abundant despite late season warning
Morgantown drug stores report ample flu serum with physicians ready to vaccinate on request. health director Dr. I A Wiles cautions it takes about four weeks for protection and advises delaying no longer. flu cases in West Virginia mild with 1 289 cases statewide mid December, local doctors report few serious illnesses and expect possible uptick as students return from the East Coast.
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Morgantown
I. A. Wiles
New York State
West Virginia
U.S. Public Health Department
Wiles
State Needs Physicians in West Virginia Shortage Highlighted
State Health Director N H Dyer warns of a physician shortage as 1967 closes. West Virginia averages one doctor per 1137 residents versus the AMA standard of one per 700. Dentists also lag with one per 2788 people and Calhoun plus Clay counties lack any dentist. Monroe and Ritchie counties each have one physician for over 10 000 residents.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
N. H. Dyer
American Medical Association
West
Monroe County
Ritchie County
New Photon 713-20 Sets Fast Headlines for Morgantown News
In Morgantown on December 30 1967 the West Virginia Newspaper Publishing Co. installed Photon 713-20 and 229 machines to compose and proofs headlines and news on a single film strip. Operators Charles Buchanan and Don Kinney demonstrated speed and reduced maintenance while planning future local printing expansion. The Daily Athenaeum and other customers anticipate printing on the new equipment.
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H. C. Greer
West Virginia Newspaper Publishing Co
Morgantown
West Virginia
Greer
Baltimore
Washington
Charles Buchanan
Ben
Photon
Wilmington
Mass
United Press International
Mason- Dixonland
University
Daily Athenaeum
Don Kinney
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Thomas Knight
Dominion News Capital
Tworing Circus
Senate
House of Delegates
State Road Commission
House
Montgomery
Secretary of State
Robert Bailey
Bailey
Wyoming County
Kanawha County
Del
John D. Rockefeller IV
John Kelly
Statehouse Organization
Rockefeller
New Hills
Monongahela Boulevard
Star City
Oth
C. Donald Robinson
Crimin
Shelhamer
Joe Suarez
John C. Solomon
H. R. Fetty
Maryland
East Coast
Becky Toothman
Bridgeport
Chestnut Ridge
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