Moore Inaugural Set on Monday
Gov elect Arch Moore becomes West Virginia’s 28th governor on Monday joining five Board of Public Works members in the oath. The event features a John Marshall High School band from Glendale and a two hour parade of about 70 units. Public seats are on a first come basis and tickets at the capitol cost 10 dollars.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
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John Kelly
Gus Douglass
Chauncey Browning Jr
Logan County
John D
Jay) Rockefeller IV
John Marshall High School
Glendale
Capitol
Kanawha River
Homer Holt
Louie B. Nunn
Kentucky
Beula
Duffy Street
Statehouse
Inaugural Schedule for Gov elect Arch Moore Jr
Charleston West Virginia UPI reports the day of inauguration events for Gov elect Arch A Moore Jr beginning at 10 a.m. with arrival at the Governor's Mansion and a morning coffee. A concert by John Marshall High School band follows at 11. a parade and ceremony run from noon to 1 p.m. with a parade led by WVU band, then receptions, a buffet supper, dancing, and an inaugural ball ending at midnight.
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W. Va
UPI
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Moore
Governor's Mansion
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John Marshall High School
Glen Dale
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Mansion
John Marshall
West Virginia University
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Mrs. Moore
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Supreme Court
Board of Public Works
Don Boyd
Leader In GOP Dies Saturday
Mahlon G. Guthrie a West Virginia GOP leader died of a heart attack while getting a haircut in Charleston his body found by a passing doctor He was 56 a member of the Republican State Executive Committee and a two time candidate for Congress in the Third District He served in World War II and Korea and helped lead the part with Mayor Elmer Dodson as part of the same Marine Reserve unit Survivors include his wife Joyce three daughters and one son The body lay at Simpson Chandler Funeral Home in Charleston.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Mahlon G
Mal) Guthrie
West Virginia
Guthrie
Republican State Executive Committee
John M. Slack
Wisconsin
7-Up Bottling Co
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
GOP
U.S. Marine Corps
Elmer Dodson
E. K. Stevens
Hulett C. Smith
Smith
West
West Virginia Education Association to air Design 69 TV special
A statewide 30 minute color program titled Education Design 69 will air Wednesday Jan 15 on five stations at 7 pm and 8 30 pm on WCHS TV. Dr Stewart H Smith host and commentator outlines education needs and a plan for pre school through adult education developed by West Virginia educators. George M Wood Jr WVEA president urges all residents to watch and support the Design 69 program as a coordinated path to educational progress and to combat poverty unemployment and stagnation.
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West Virginia
Stewart H. Smith
Marshall University
George M. Wood, Jr
New Martinsville
WVEA
West
DADIS HIJACKER RETURNS WITH DAUGHTER FROM CUBA
Willie Jessie a 27 year old Army deserter and his three year old daughter Patricia Sue were returned to the United States after hijacking a private plane to Havana. FBI agents met Jessie at Miami International Airport and he faces air piracy and kidnapping charges. The pair had traveled from Naples Florida to Cuba aboard Cubana de Aviacion with a pistol directed at the pilot.
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UPI
Willie Jessie
Cuba
Castro
Jessie
Army of Desertion
Patricia Sue
FBI
Miami International
Naples
Fla
James Vach
Havana
Mexico City
Cubana de Avia
West Virginia Man Seized in Cuba Returns Home
Jessie, labeled undesirable by Cuban officials, is taken into custody by immigration agents after lengthy detention in a Cuban prison camp since last August. At the Havana airport he encounters ex wife Mary Jane Jessie, her mother Ona Sheets, and Congressman Ken Hechler, with details of family visitation and a desertion history including nine years in the Army and a 1967 divorce.
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Mary Jane Jessie
Ona Sheets
United States
West Virginia
Ken Hechler
Holden
Miami
Jessie
Cuba
W.va
VFW seeks full story on Pueblo capture
The Veterans of Foreign Wars commander asks Secretary of State and Defense to release the complete account of the December 1968 USS Pueblo capture by North Korea. He cites national security and member questions about planners orders crew training defenses and emergency provisions.
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U.S.S. Pueblo
North Korea
VFW
Richard Homan
Sugar Grove
Defense
Clark Clifford
United States
Pueblo
Tampa man arrested for housebreaking in Columbia drug store
A 20 year old Tampa man Ronnie Sisler was arrested in Columbia after a burglar alarm led police to Demos Pharmacy in Sunset Shopping Center before dawn. He was charged with housebreaking larceny and possession of burglary tools and found inside wearing a loaded 9mm pistol. The safe was ransacked but nothing reported missing.
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Tampa
Sisler
One Man Dead In Collision Near Parkerburg
A collision between a dump truck and an earth moving machine on U. S. 50 near Parkerburg, West Virginia, killed Ronald G. Siers, 33, of Cairo. State Police report the accident occurred Friday night during relocation work, raising West Virginia’s 1969 fatality count to 11.
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Parkers Burg
W. Va
UPI
Here
Ritchie County
Ronald G. Siers
Cairo
U. S. 50
Women to join Greek police forces this year
The Athens police department seeks 24 policewomen this month. Applicants must be 19 to 24 and have no police record. Authorities announced Saturday that women will join Greek police staffs this year.
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Athens
UPI
Athens Police Department
West Virginia and Ohio to share 14.5 million for new bridge
Senator Jennings Randolph announced that West Virginia and Ohio receive 14.5 million in federal aid to replace the Silver Bridge with an Ohio River crossing. The funds come from a 1968 highway act amendment expanding emergency relief for catastrophic bridge failures.
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F. C. Turner
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Post Corrects Car Crash Details On College Avenue
The Post corrects last Wednesday's report stating a 1962 Chevrolet driven by Janis B Hutchinson 40 Oakland Md caused a three car collision. The crash occurred when a 1961 Falcon driven by Kathryn Lee Hinkle 23 Grant Avenue failed brakes.
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Janis B. Hutchinson
Oakland
Kathryn Lee Hinkle
Grant Avenue
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