Welfare Marchers Leave Statehouse
Three ADCU program recipients and their followers ended eleven days of camping on the West Virginia statehouse lawn and headed home. They pledged to return if Governor Hulett C. Smith calls a special session by June 29. They urged tax incentives to lure private industry and more private sector jobs with decent salaries.
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Garbage Workers Strike in Clarksburg West Virginia
Sixty five garbagemen and street workers walked out in Clarksburg in support of a pay raise. Pickets formed at City Hall and the dump as Anthony Cann of the Union of Municipal Employees urged continued action until wages rose. The city had just approved a 100 percent fire service fee hike amid referendum efforts and pending court rulings.
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W. Va
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Union of Municipal Employes
State Supreme Court
Laura Elkins Is Jailed For Drunkenness And Foul Language
In Williamson West Virginia Laura Elkins of Kermit received a 60 day jail term and a $25 fine for drunkenness. She was fined an additional $27 for cursing state trooper Leland Scarberry during her arrest. Scarberry testified she used 27 distinct insults, Magistrate Sid Stollings noted and charged at $1 per word.
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Stallings
Bids Opened On Lake Plan
Huntington West Virginia United Press International reports that the U S Army Corps of Engineers opened bids for two lake projects. Paul E Lehman Summersville WV bid 192384 for water treatment plant and distribution lines at Summersville Dam. Sprague and Henwood Inc Scranton PA submitted 31813 84 for foundation investigation at Burnsville Lake Braxton County Little Kanawha River.
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West Virginia
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Summersville
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Little Kanawha River
Braxton County
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Scranton
Seminar Speaker Named for West Virginia Colleges Conference
Dr. M. M. Chambers of Indiana University School of Education will keynote the West Virginia Association of Colleges and Universities summer conference in Wheeling at Oglebay Park from June 9 to 11. The meeting marks the first after reorganization uniting the state's 21 colleges and universities under one administration. Reports will cover the 1968 legislature's scholarship and guaranteed loan program, the awareness program for financial aid, and coordinated higher education research.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
M. M. Chambers
Indiana University
West Virginia Association of Colleges and Universities
Oglebay Park
Wheeling
Bus Strike Strikes Wheeling Public Service
About 3,000 Wheeling residents faced a bus service outage as mechanics and drivers at Wheeling Public Service Bus Co went on strike at midnight. The contract covering 30 employees expired Friday and workers had voted to strike if no new agreement was reached. The company is one of two in the Wheeling area.
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Wheeling
W. Va
UPI
Wheeling Public Service Bus Co
225 Strike In Follansbee
About 225 men walked out at the Koppers Co plant in Follansbee West Virginia after rejecting a wage increase proposal. Local 11225 United Mine Workers District 50 said the offer averaged 60 cents more per hour. Plant production continued with salaried staff.
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Follansbee
W. Va
UPI
Koppers Co
United Mine Workers District 50
Car Sales in State Plunge to New Laws
April 1968 car sales in West Virginia fell 38.5 percent from April 1967, totaling about 20.3 million versus 33 million a year earlier, per the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Of 22 business indicators, 16 rose while six declined, with retail sales up 13.4 percent and building permits up 69 percent.
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W. Va
UPI
West Virginia
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