Tri-county welfare caseload stabilizes in WV report
The Dominion Post notes Monongalia Preston and Taylor counties show steady welfare caseloads as statewide figures reflect a 1.6 percent increase from 1970 to 1971. Officials say seasonal work and a simplified application system helped stabilize numbers while closing more cases than opened.
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Susan Harman
Dominion Post
Mountain State
Monongalia
Preston
Taylor
West Virginia
Preston County
Taylor County
Phillip A. Guseman
Area III
Welfare Department
Monongalia and
Guseman
Bell
Fourth of July festivities loom with hot sunny weather
Warm, sunny Fourth of July forecast for Mason Dixonland with a chance of isolated thundershowers tonight and tomorrow. Terra Alta Independence Celebration marks its 44th year featuring wild west rodeo shows at 2, 4, and 8 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Monday, a 6:30 p.m. parade, and 11 p.m. fireworks sponsored by the Terra Alta Fire Department. Traffic safety efforts include state police helicopter patrols with National Guard support, Morgantown police checks with radar and breathalyzer, and four Sheriff patrol cars.
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Mason- Dixonland
Terra Alta
Monongalia
Towns charter stalled as council delays fight over voters record
ANMOORE The mayor of this small Harrison County municipality notes the towns charter is stalled after voters set a national record when they went to the polls.
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Anmoore
Harrison County
Buck Gladden
Clarksburg
Gladden
State Bar leader dies at age 88
Madison native Harry Gustavus Shaffer, first president of the West Virginia Bar Association, died at 88. An attorney with Shaffer Shaffer and Hall, former state legislator serving 1923 to 1925 and Senate president, he chaired Boone National Bank of Madison. Services set for Monday at Madison Baptist Church.
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Madison
Preston County
Harry Gustavus Shaffer
West Virginia Bar Association
Shaffer, Shaffer and Hall Law Firm
Senate
Boone National Bank of
Madison Baptist Church
Jobs for veterans effort shows gains here
The Morgantown area reports growing veteran employment efforts led by the Jobs for Veterans National Committee under James F. Oates Jr. A $1 million Office of Economic Opportunity grant funds a pilot to recruit low income Vietnam veterans for education, jobs and GI benefits. Local figures show 258 veterans placed in jobs this year, including 23 handicapped, with 759 referrals in the first half of 1971. Sterling Faucet Co. in Sabraton employs 59 veterans since March 15, with six reinstated, and 60 percent of new workers are veterans.
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George A. Crago
Veterans National Committee
James F. Oates Jr
Office of Economic Opportunity
Morgantown
State Department of Employment Security
George P. Uphold
Dominion News
Morgantown Post
Uphold
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Washington, D.C
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Robert W. Bell
Monongalia County
Confluence
Roger Yutzy
Tom Holliday
Jimmy Bower
Joseph Bartolo
Edward Pietrowski
W.va
Joseph Janco
National Guard
Arch A. Moore, Jr
Richard W. Coplin
Governor's Highway Safety Bureau
Bennie F. Palmer
W. Va
Morgantown Jaycees
Ray Martin
Sterling Faucet Co
Labraton
J. Richard Downes
Downes
Sabraton
Sterling
Ronald Lee Barnett
Joe Paige
Kingwood
Mechanic Greg Parris
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