Statehouse Notebook on disclosure proposal in West Virginia
Joe Cook proposes amending Senate and House rules to require sworn statements listing sales to strip mining firms and campaign contributions from the industry. Exemptions under $2. Critics argue broader disclosure would affect many sectors, not just mining, and note past limits of 1968 law. News notes include political rumors, retirements, and a wig-wearing legislator after a TV jibe.
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Fairmont
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Jack’’ McKown
D-Wayne
McKown
Louise Leonard
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D-Webster
Lee Kenna
Jay Rockefeller
Taft Jr to Speak at Shepherd College Convocation
Senator Robert Taft Jr of Ohio will address a public convocation at Shepherd College on February 27 as part of the campus year long 100th anniversary celebration marking the school as a state institution of higher learning.
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Shepherdstown
W. Va
UPI
Robert Taft Jr
Ohio
Shepherd College
Taft
Service Honors Dr King with Film at Charleston Church
A special service honoring the late Dr Martin Luther King will be held in Charleston on Sunday. A film titled King from Montgomery to Memphis will be shown at 5 p.m. at the First Baptist Church as part of the observance.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Martin Luther King
First Baptist Church
King
Montgomery
Memphis
Buff lambasts physicians tour over mine visit
Dr. I E Buff, longtime advocate for better black lung benefits for coal miners, denounces a Hanna Coal Co sponsored physician tour as a soft sell to benefit mine operators. He cites an inter office memo describing a Thursday trip to a Hanna mine in Ohio with 22 doctors from Ohio and West Virginia, outfitted in mine gear for a tour. Buff warns doctors should avoid ties with vested coal interests and focus on miners' welfare.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
I. E. Buff
Hanna Coal Co
Hanna
Ohio
Buff
Interoffice
D. F. Shields
R. W. Hatch
Hanna Coal
Appalachia
Hanna Inter-Office
Aceey
Dee
West Virginia
Shields
Georgetown
Guard faces cold realities in Camp Dawson exercise
West Virginia Army National Guard Special Forces unit at Camp Dawson conducts a cold weather environmental exposure exercise. Capt. Jack Treatle notes focus on skiing, snow shoes, and winter survival while temperatures drop below zero. Over a 72 hour period ending Sunday, guardsmen receive night firing training with night vision devices and foreign made weapons.
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Kingwood
W. Va
West Virginia Army National Guard
Camp Dawson
Jack Treatle
19Th Special Forces Group
Airborne
Students Begin Environment Trip at Spruce Knob
Twenty-eight students and two faculty members from Davis and Elkins College were slated to depart for a three week environmental field study in the Spruce Knob area of the Monongahela National Forest. The trip aims to teach winter wilderness survival and study geological formations, regional recreation value, and local pollution.
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Elkins
W. Va
UPI
Davis and Elkins College
Spruce Knob
Monongahela National Forest
Robbery trial date set for April in Fayetteville
Four Detroit men charged in the $73,000 Montgomery National Bank armed robbery last Dec. 31 had their criminal court trial postponed to April 1 at Fayette County Court. Defense attorney James McIntire cited need for more prep time. Willie Causey and Aundray Bradley remain jailed on $50,000 bonds. Charles Causey released after $50,000 bond. Larry D. Lowe released after $25,000 bond.
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Fayetteville, W. Va
UPI
Detroit, Mich
Montgomery National Bank
James McIntire
Charleston
Fayette County
Willie Causey
Aundray Bradley
Charles Causey
Larry D. Lowe
Cold wave warning issued for West Virginia Sunday
The National Weather Service warned West Virginia of a cold wave with season low temperatures. Overnight temps were expected to range from zero to 10 below with scattered snow flurries forecast for Sunday. A cold snap had dropped Minnesota and North Dakota to about 15 below and was moving eastward toward the region.
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National Weather Service
West Virginia
Minnesota
Dakota
West Virginia police make first bottomless arrest in Huntington
In Huntington, West Virginia, at midnight Friday, police reported their first arrest of a person charged with being bare below the waist in public. The incident marked a minor historical moment for the department.
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Huntington
W. Va
Mather brothers die in separate W Va highway crashes
Kenneth W. Mather, 17, was killed when his car left Old U.S. 21 River Road and crashed into four trees near Williamstown. Michael Beck, 18, injured as a passenger. A previous crash a year earlier near the Milner Hotel area claimed Stephen Mather, 16, near Williamstown, as authorities investigated the second fatality within a mile of the first.
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Floyd Mather
U.S. 21
River Road
Kenneth W. Mather
Michael Beck
Mather
Stephen Mather
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