Miners Group Gains Ford Foundation Attention in WV
In Charleston West Virginia the Association of Disabled Miners and Widows Inc ADMW formed by discontented UMWA members seeks pension and benefit reforms. Ford Foundation support for an educational TV grant is being pursued alongside plans for a miners museum a cemetery and court cases against the UMWA Welfare Fund. The group spans 15 chapters across 10 counties with members in PA KY and VA and pushes reforms to Social Security workmen s compensation and the Welfare Fund rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Sadd
Charleston
W. Va
UPI
United Mine Workers of America Welfare Fund
Association of Disabled Miners and Widows Inc
Ford Foundation
Umwa Welfare Fund
ADMW
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Virginia
ACMW
Welfare Fund
UMWA
Association At‘torney
Jerry Cook
Madison
John A. Field Jr
Duffie Raines
Hernshaw
Armco Steel Corp
Raines
Cook
Thomas Harless Gibson
Gibson
Association
Boone County
Lawmakers face packed week in budget session start
West Virginia lawmakers begin a 30 day budget session with Gov. Hulett C Smith tax hike proposals and other controversial bills expected this week Finance committees will hear from WVU the State Board of Education and the State Road Commission on a 245.9 million budget Sawyers of the Road Commission to report on the Silver Bridge collapse and plans for a new bridge while critics warn against turning hearings into a political circus Eight House bills have advanced and only one Senate bill has been reported locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia University
State Board of Education
State Road Commission
House
Board of Public Works
Burl Sawyers
Sawyers
Senate
Howard Carson
Gov. Smith
Tumult on the Mountains recounts West Virginia logging
Dr Roy B Clarkson chronicles West Virginia lumbering from 1770 to 1920 noting virgin forests vast species like sugar maple hemlock yellow poplar and black walnut. He cites Washington journals and industry impact including 30 billion board feet cut between 1870 and 1920 and the denuded landscape left behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy B. Clarkson
West Virginia University
West Virginia
Oe Printing Company of Arsons
George Washington
Great Kanawha
Kanawha River
Frontier guard lieutenant flees to West Germany in uniform
A Czechoslovak frontier guard lieutenant fled to West Germany during the night wearing his uniform and carrying a loaded machine pistol, border police in Bavaria reported on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wunsiedel
Germany
UPI
West Germany
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THE
Dominion Post
Miners’ Group
Morgantown
A & Ps
High Street
Patteson Drive
USDA
Ann Page
NEA Qao
Ocrock Goffee
Irel Coff
Cokar Corte
Jane Parker
Contadina
Mear Are
Wisconsin
Sunnyfield
ALL Purpose Family
A&p
Charmin
Pittsburgh
Kingwood
Masontown
Clarkson
Cass
Pocahontas County
Greenbank High School
Mower Lumber Company
West
Moon
State
Kanawha
Ohio
Cranberry
Williams
Gauley
Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company
Curtin
Nicholas County
Big Coal River
Alleghenies
McClain Publishing Co
Parsons, W.va
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