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Recalled Years of Taylor County News Chronicle 1971
A look back at 1971 in Taylor County covers Hartsel Mayle’s entombment recovery from the Farmington mine, local industry and infrastructure plans, city government changes, a Washington trip by Grafton High School Choir, Memorial Day events, police leadership shifts, sewer project bids, hospital construction, labor layoffs at Flemington, and a county police radio bid dispute with a low bid protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael R. Delardas
Grafton
Taylor County
Hartsel Mayle
Farmington No. 9
Mayle
Flemington
West Virginia Best
Glenn Harman
Blueville Bank
U.S. 50
W.va. 119
Benedum
Harrison County
United Aircraft
West Virginia
James Fawcett
Roxie St. Clair Fowler
M. B. Tolley
Tolley
Washington
Richard Nixon
Whitehouse
Kenneth Godwin Jr
Lincoln Memorial
Ulysses G. Swisher
Cerrone and
Vaughn
Wheeling
Elizabeth Cather Towers
James George
Ulysses G. Bwisher
Charles Bolyard
Statental Hospital
Weston