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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1972
Page
2
Despite a nationwide slowdown and a coal field strike, West Virginia's economy expanded in 1971 led by coal and chemicals. Governor Moore touted a record highway program and optimistic prospects for 1972 with rising electricity demand, mining output, residential building, and new industry.
West Virginia unions plan a 1972 package including no fault car insurance education gains consumer protection and broader bargaining power for public workers. AFL CIO leader Miles C Stanley says public employee bargaining will be a top priority, arguing unions improve government and must overcome fears of patronage and strikes.
Sunday edition details publication names and publisher address. Subscriptions by mail list rates for West Virginia and neighboring counties, including daily and Sunday and Sunday only plans with yearly and six month terms.
Gov. A. Moore Jr. dominated West Virginia politics in 1971 as Democrats and Republicans collaborated for a productive 60-day Legislature. Highlights included a statewide public kindergarten plan, new drug laws, voting age changes culminating in 18-year-old suffrage, teacher raises, and a major surface mining debate ending with a stricter strip mine law. Highway construction climbed sharply, while the Public Safety era faced internal clashes culminating in Trooper Gooden's dismissal and subsequent appeals.
The year’s lead story is the nationwide coal strike idling over 40,000 WV miners for eight weeks. Other top items include Barron’s guilty plea and 12-year term, strip mine abolitionists in legislature, Byrd as Senate whip, reapportionment, the death of House Speaker Ivor Boiarsky, vote‑fraud convictions in Logan County, Trooper Gooden dismissal and police strains, a cruel and unusual punishment ruling for a young inmate return, and a Fort Hill double family shooting in Charleston.
A sales man from Georgia reported 1200 pairs of hot pants stolen from his trailer near a Fairmont motel. Police found the theft cost him about 7000 dollars if not recovered. Also noted was a humorous West Virginia moment and a witchcraft scare involving Dr. Sanscouci at Salem College. A Beckley man sued after his fiancée called off their engagement.
The note lists Tony's retirement with a 7A Panorama magazine, a 12 page TV pull out, a 4 page Family Weekly, and 24 pages of America’s Best Comics, plus 4 pages unspecified. The brief item reads as a publishing staff notice detailing page counts and retirement.
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