Vocational focus grows at WVU as majors shift demand
A Dominion Post study shows WVU students increasingly choose career tied majors driven by money and social awareness. From 1966-67 to 1970-71 enrollment rose 35 percent while business and economics courses surged 91 percent as graduates seek immediate job opportunities in management and related fields.
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West Virginia University
Dominion-Post
WVU
Jack T. Turner
College of Business and Economics
Pyles seeks re election amid mine dispute and tax push
Monongalia County Assessor John W. Pyles filed for re election with Circuit Clerk Jean Friend. He touted a $66 million rise in assessed values driven by stricter enforcement, new construction and equipment, benefiting county schools and government agencies. He described efforts to improve maps and record access, clarified tax rate powers, and noted no other candidate has filed for the assessor post.
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Jean Friend
Pyles
Monongalia
Board of Public Works
Charleston
Apeneneane County
Board of Education
Plane crash near Dellston kills two injures one
A small plane bound from Missouri to a New York City meeting crashed near Breakiron Hill five miles east of Morgantown Airport in fog. Pilot James Taylor and passenger Lois Portrey were killed. Beverly Portrey survived with a fractured leg. FAA inspected wreckage and planned a preliminary report. Civil Air Patrol guarded the site.
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Catherine Powell
Dominion Post
Dellston
Morgantown
Missouri
New York City
James Taylor
Willow Springs
Lois Portrey
Houston
Beverly Portrey
University Hospital
Breakiron Hill
W.va
Ederal Aviation Agency
FAA
John Jennings
Public survey seeks eyesore reports for county cleanup
The Dominion Post teams with Kiwanis Project Environment to collect public input on major Monongalia County environmental problems and public eyesores. Citizens may mail a completed form naming sites and responsibility for action to Shelby Young in Morgantown, West Virginia, with location details but without signatures.
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Kiwanis Club
Dominion Post
Monongalia County
Environmental Eye on Monongalia County Eyesores
Dominion-Post Project Environment survey from Morgantown shows solid waste disposal as the top local problem with 11 of 18 responses naming junked cars and trash. Other concerns include dilapidated buildings strip mines air and water pollution and bad roads. ARG collects reusable materials today 10 a m to 3 p m at Farmers and Merchants Bank lot on Spruce Street with material changes planned February 1.
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Dominion-Post
Monongalia County
Project Environment
Project Environment Committee
Kiwanis Club of
Morgantown
Monongalia
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Spruce Street
Jet-age drug pushers fuel growing menace
A three part series reports on a multimillion dollar illegal drug network linked to small jet shipments from New York City to Pittsburgh and on to Uniontown Morgantown and other cities. Heroin LSD hashish marijuana and amphetamines flow through urban routes with local production and supply. Youth drug use figures show high exposure among ages fifteen to twenty with parents often unaware of the scale.
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Ron Boat Dominion
Post
New York City
Pittsburgh
Uniontown
Morgantown
Washington
Baltimore
New York
M Town
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Shelby Young
Gary Truman
Bryan Murray
Ann Swinkola
John W. Pyles
Consol
Williamson Shaft Co
United Mine Workers of America Union
Blacksville
Consolidation Coal Co
Fairmont
Robert J. Hearn
John R. Hebb
United Mine Workers Union
Williamcon Shaft Co
Blackaville No. 1
Eastern Associated Coal Co
Miracle
Jennings
Morgantown Civil Air Patrol
By Shelby Young
Recycling Group
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