Watergate Files Closed With Unsolved Mysteries Linger
Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff says public release of Watergate files would not reveal the real truth about Nixon's involvement. After over four years, his office will end, with tapes and documents going to the federal archives. Ruff notes many secrets may stay buried or lack stunning impact.
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Washington
UPI
Charles Ruff
Archibald Cox
Leon Jaworski
James Neal
Richard Ben-Veniste
Jill Volner
Federal Archives
Ruff
Gerald Ford
Ford
Saccharin and cancer link sparks FDA review
Canadian researchers report in Lancet a link between saccharin and bladder cancer in men, prompting the FDA to call the finding a major new development. The study did not show increased cancer in women, and the cause of male specific risk remains unclear.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Washington Post
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Wayne Pines
Lancet
National Cancer Institute of Canada
Pines
Congress
Salisbury, Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Photoplay Gold Medal Awards Honor Redford and Streisand
Photoplay Magazine crowned Robert Redford as Favorite Male Motion Picture Star and Barbra Streisand as Favorite Female Motion Picture Star during a 90 minute NBC telecast. Awards went to Starsky and Hutch and Farrah Fawcett Majors as Favorite Female TV Star, with Lucille Ball and Clark Gable runners up for Favorite All-Time Star. Alfred Hitchcock received a Special Editors Award and a tribute honored the late Joan Crawford.
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Hollywood
UPI
John Wayne
Photoplay Magazine
Robert Redford
Photoplay
NBC
Barbra Streisand
Star Is Born,’ the TV Series “Starsky and Hutch,” and One of ‘Charlie's Angels
Farrah Fawcett- Majors
Paul Michael Glaser
David Soul
Redford
Clint Eastwood
Wayne
Lucille Ball
Clark Gable
Miss Streisand
Linda Blair
Natalie Wood
Miss Fawcett-Majors
Jaclyn Smith
Gregg Henry
Bill Hayes
Susan Seaforth Hayes
Kristy McNichol
Charlie Pride
Barry Manilow
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Crawford
Minor Wrecks Reported in Morgantown Intersection
At 3 44 a m Saturday a 1968 Chevrolet driven by Robert Williams and a 1973 van driven by Gary M Field suffered minor damage in Morgantown at Brockway and Pennsylvania avenues. No injuries or citations reported. City Police Court charged Hunt 22 with grand larceny theft of a bike Friday.
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Morgantown
Brockway
Pennsylvania Avenues
Chevrolet
Robert Williams
Gary M. Field
Middletown
Hunt
Weather Outlook Warm and Partly Sunny Across Day
Partly sunny and very warm today with lower humidity. Tonight will be fair and mild. Tomorrow continues partly sunny and warm with highs in the 80s and lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Morgantown Lock and Dam data show high 82 and low 62 yesterday, rainfall total .92 inch at 7 a.m. with a trace later. Sunset 8:50 p.m. Sunrise 5:52 a.m.
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Morgantown Lock and Dam
Carter heads Father's Day weekend at Camp David
President Carter and his family are at Camp David for a quiet Father’s Day weekend and will skip formal church services. A spokesman said Carter invited an unidentified pastor for private services Sunday. This marks just the second Sunday he has missed church since taking office, the first being Memorial Day for fishing off the Georgia coast.
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Thurmont, Md
Carter
Rosalynn Carter
Amy
Camp David
Georgia
Bergland
Food Manila
Philippines
UPI
Bob Bergland
United States
World Food Council
U.S
Council
International Rice Research Institute
Manila
Downtown Hospitals Report Discharges and Births
Hospitals in Monongalia and surrounding areas list patient discharges and admissions. Births are recorded at Greene Memorial with multiple new babies noted alongside staff and volunteer activities.
Budget Forecast Signals Revenue Strength and Possible End to Special Sessions
The Senate backed the House plan to include anticipated federal revenue sharing funds for July while rejecting new pay periods until funds arrive. The highway budget nears 100 million with previous appropriations, and revenue overestimates imply year end gains of about 11 million. If revenue sharing and estimates trend as seen, a September special session may be unnecessary. calls for tax increases face House opposition this year.
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Senate
House
Kopp
Highways Department
Brotherton
Obituaries and notices from Morgantown area deaths
Nettie Rebecca Boyce Mathews 91 of Morgantown died June 18 1977 at Monongalia General Hospital. Survivors include six daughters two sons and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Hastings Funeral Home arranging services. Mary E Chapman 85 of Kearneysville died June 17 1977 after long illness. Survived by daughter and several siblings. Everson Baptist Church member. Nellie Rae Rutherford 85 of Tunnelton died June 18 1977 at Grafton City Hospital. Survived by six daughters two sons and extended family. Fellowsville United Methodist member. Rosa Irene Gregory 76 of Redding Beach Florida died June 17 1977. Survived by two daughters four sons and multiple grandchildren. moved from Morgantown to Florida in 1966. Gregory House of Gifts owner.
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Nettie Rebecca Mathews
Nettie Rebecca Boyce Mathews
Morgantown
Monongalia General Hospital
Gum Springs
David and
Harriet Trickett Boyce
South Point United Methodist Church
Eula Ford
Fairmont
Bernice Lazzell
Dorothy Bolyard
Bonnie Carlyle
Roanoke
June J. Wakefield
Scottsdale, Ariz
Mable Williams
Sardis
Ohio
Albert Mathews
Independence
Archie Mathews
Rt. 3
Pearl Ammons
Dora Johnson
Jetta Mason
Elizabeth Lowe
Grafton
Goldie Freeze
Steubenville
John Wiley Mathews
William
Charles
John Emil
Hastings Funeral Home
Mary E. Chapman
Mary E
Molly) Chapman
Kearneysville
Barbour County
Amos D
Sarah E. Nestor Anvil
Charles F. Chapman
Waneta New
Freda Wright
Nellie Rae Rutherford
Rt. 1
Tunnelton
Grafton City Hospital
Fellowsville
William H
Barbara Ellen Knotts Wolfe
Thelma Williams
Austin
Ellen) Miller
Rt. 2
Howard
Wilma) Boyard
Mahlon
Fellowsville United Methodist
Rosa Irene Gregory
Redding Beach
Fla
St. Petersburg
Kentwood
Ransom A
Lola Amacker Smith
Baptist Church
Eastern Star
Salem
White Shrine of Jerusalem
John A. Gregory
Gregory House of Gifts
Florida
Glenn
Rosamond) Street
Masontown
Thomas
Catherine) Priester
Annapolis
Swampscott
Mass
Charles W. Gregory
Springfield
Clinton B. Gregory
Deland
Finley Gregory
R. A. Smith
Thayer, Mo
Louie Beam
High Point
N.C
Patrick Landry
Port Alum
Chesley Rivers
Washington
Kaunda Visits Austria to Discuss Trade and Ties
President Kenneth Kaunda arrived in Vienna for a two state visit to discuss mutual economic relations with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. They plan to renew Kreisky's invitation to Zambia and strengthen ties with the Socialist International while addressing Zambia's trade deficit with Austria.
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Kaunda
Vienna
Austria
UPI
Kenneth Kaunda
Zambia
Bruno Kreisky
Kreisky
Socialist International
Social Democratic
Funeral notices list ten prominent locals among 1977 obituaries
Mary E. Chapman 85 of Kearneysville dies after long illness. Burlin R. Loughry 91 of Rowlesburg dies in Elkins and will be buried at Red Rock Cemetery. Mabel G. Martin 71 of Washington Pa dies after long illness. Nellie Rae Rutherford 85 of Tunneleton dies. services at Bartlett Funeral Home Grafton. Burial Fellowsville Cemetery. Other services listed with times and burial spots.
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E. Beau St
Washington
Washington Hospital
Richard Herod
Point Marion
Robert F. Siple
Bald Hill
Rutherford
Nellie Rae
Rt. 1
Tunnelton
Bartlett Funeral Home
Grafton
Samuel Ryan
Fellowsville
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Special Prosecutor
Richard Nixon
Daily Report
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OLD Mill Club
West Virginia University
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Middle Plains
South Atlantic Coast States
Carters
Monongalia
Hazel Poling
Andrew Umdle Jr
James Shank
Mary Orosz
Dorothy Galanko
Robin McDowell
Carl Husk
Rose Lorking
Lida Morgart
Grafton City
Amber Lee Laren
Thornton
Laura Wiseman
David Hall
W. Wilfred St
Deborah Rutherford
Grand St
Elma Robinson
Jodie Mayle
Sharp Whitmeyer
Martha L. Saucer
Anna Mayle
Preston Memorial
Odbert Losh
Terra Alta
Vester Sanders
Rowlesburg
Carolyn Woodson
James Liston
Hilbert Sparks
Rex Bowen
Joe Schmidle III
Fiona Barnhart
Mary Riley
Kay Golden
Roy Shrout
Mervin Jenkins
Harlin Freeland
Teresa Karcher
Lula Swartzwelder
Eleanore Gilmore
Aileen Bonafield
Elsie Christopher
Greene Memorial
Carol Christopher
Mary Emma Sebulsky
John Jay Barto
Bernice M. Wood
Archie N. Crawford
Harry N. Nichols
Wallace N. Jackson
Marie A. Beatty
Dwight H. Mayble
Kenneth Burns
Terence Denten
Eugene Hunt
Pennsylvania Avenue
Westover
Phillip Weser
Lost Creek
Russell Faulkiner
Lyndhurst Street
Anna Harding
Lorentz
Rt. 9
Clyde Gallagher
Granville
Samuel George
New Jersey Avenue
Joseph Kuriicak
Edward Kent
Richard Giuliani
Jennifer Bonnette
James Skoda
William Coda
Delores Lappe
Victoria Honaker
Confab
Fredona Stenger
West Virginia League For Nursing
League of Nursing
Atlanta
Puerto Rico
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
United Arab Emirates
Bhutto
Edwards Afb
Calif
Fred Haise Jr
Desert
Gordon Fullerton
Chapman
Molly
Dorsey Funeral Home
Shinnston
Austin Burrough
Shinnston Masonic Cemetery
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