West Virginia Trial of Boyle Begins Monday
W A Tony Boyle president of the United Mine Workers of America goes on trial in Washington for conspiracy and embezzlement of union funds. Co defendants include John Owens and James Kmetz with related civil suits over district officer elections and unlawful political contributions. Trial and post trial briefs loom as decisions on control and new elections near.
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W. A
Tony” Boyle
United Mine Workers of America
Boyle
U.S. District Court
John Owens
James Kmetz
UMWA
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Suzanne Richards
Robert Howe
Union
General Treasury
Nonpartisan League
Kmetz
Howe
Hubert Humphrey
Owens
America
LNPL
the International
U.S. Labor Department
Pinecrest Hospital study call by West Virginia Senate
The West Virginia legislature adopted a resolution requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study Pinecrest Hospital near Beckley. It notes the 500 bed facility now houses 250 tubercular patients and asks why more elderly custodial care cannot be provided, with a final report due in 1973. The measure also seeks a larger staff and a mandatory minimum wage of 4000 dollars.
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Charleston
W. Va
Pinecrest Hospital
Beckley
Alan Susman
Raleigh
Tracy Hylton
Wyoming
Upshur voters weigh twin school bonds in Buckhannon
Upshur County residents head to the polls to decide two bond measures. A 10-year bond for 685000 and a five-year plan totaling over 1.1 million would fund operating costs and school improvements. Both measures have faced defeat in 22 years of votes.
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Buckhannon
W. Va
Upshur County
Fairmont Area News and Local Notices
Readable items cover local cooperation efforts in Fairmont and area news. Includes hospital notes and social columns like Ida Be and League of Women Voters updates. Features calendar events, editorial briefs, and community notes from Morgantown to Preston County.
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Bouauete
Morgantown
Fayette -Greene
Friendsville
Grafton
Taylor County
League of Women Voters
Mt. Heights
Preston County
Ray Martin
Washington
Drivers' education bill wins final approval
A bill to cut highway deaths among under 25s by boosting high school driver education enrollments passed, heading to the governor. It requires county boards to offer training by fall and allocates 15 dollars state funds per enrolled student. Officials note 50 senior high schools lack such programs and 43 percent of 508 1971 highway fatalities were under 25.
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Charleston
W. Va
Richard Coplin
Governor's Highway Safety Administration
Clay
Two Die In Weekend State Police Traffic Toll Rises
State police report two traffic deaths this weekend on state highways bringing the year total to 95. Danny R. Walker of near Danville died in a two car crash on U S 119 south of Madison in Boone County when his car skidded into a vehicle driven by George Cooley of Mitchell Heights in Logan County. Cooley sustained cuts and bruises and was treated at Boone County General Hospital. Also killed Saturday was 17 year old John J. Hamlin of West Union Doddridge County who died in a single car crash on U S 50. Through this date last year the toll stood at 71.
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Danny R. Walker
Danville
U.S. 119
Madison
Boone County
Walker
George Cooley
Mitchell Heights
Logan County
Cooley
Boone County General Hospital
John J. Hamlin
West Union
Doddridge County
U.S. 50
George denies Perry asked him to contact Barron jury
In federal court Saturday George testified he had no contact with the sequestered 1968 jury at the Daniel Boone Hotel while deliberating charges against former Gov. W. W. Barron and four others. He admitted lending attorney Bonn Brown nine to ten thousand dollars for trial expenses.
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W. Va
Julius George
Robert G. Perry
Daniel Boone Hotel
W. W. Barron
Barron
George
Perry
Ralph Buckalew
U.S
Buckalew
Bonn Brown
Brown
Oscar J. Andre
Clarksburg
Andre
Dunbar
Or Council
Harleston
Stanley Presser
Preiser
Betty Shorr
The
National Bank of Commerce
Explosion victim identified near Parkersburg West Virginia
State police identified the body of Joseph D. Stephens 49 of Silver Creek Mississippi as the elder fatality from the January 7 explosion of two empty gasoline barges upriver from Parkersburg. The younger Charles Stephens 18 was found earlier. The blast was blamed on barges striking a pier of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge igniting gasoline fumes. Stephens body to be flown to Pren tess Mississippi after dental and mole identification.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
UPI
Ohio River
New Haven
Joseph D. Stephens
Silver Creek
Miss. Stephens
Charles
Parkersburg
S. Coast Guard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Stephens
Martin
Sauber Funeral
Prentess
Miss
Child struck by car killed near Maple Lake WV
Four year old Benjamin Arnold Bramer of Harrison County was struck and killed by a car while riding a tricycle near his Maple Lake home Friday night. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Arnold J Bramer.
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Maple Lake
W.va
Harrison County
Benjamin Arnold Bramer
Arnold J. Bramer
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