West Virginia Campaign Hots Up Before May Primary
Dominion Post reports that six weeks before the May 14 West Virginia Democratic primary many voters and insiders have yet to identify key candidates. Kennedy and McCarthy run against Johnson on delegate aims while Gov. Smith backs Johnson. Campaign HQs open in Charleston as statehouse loyalties shift toward presidential camps.
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West Virginia
United States
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Johnson
Kennedy
McCarthy
Charleston
Camelot
Pedernales
Smith
Statehouse
House of Delegates
State
Senate
Don Robertson
Hulett Smith
Paul Kaufman
Thomas Hutto
Minnesota
West Virginia State College
Kaufman
McCarthy and
Jim Sprouse
Sprouse
Afl-Cio
Robert McDonough
John F. Kennedy
McDonough
Kennedys
Sistersville
William P. Thaw
Robertson
Train Hits Automobile Two Killed In Oakland Maryland
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck a stalled automobile at a downtown crossing injuring two others. Mrs Pauline Glaze 53 and her grandson Wellington Dever Jr died at Garrett Memorial Hospital and the two younger relatives were listed in satisfactory condition. The car was pushed about 300 feet by the train and the engineer could not stop before the station. Funeral services are planned at Minnich Funeral Home.
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Oakland
Baltimore and Ohio
Pauline Glaze
Wellington Dever Jr
Wellington Dever
Water Street
Glaze
Aurora
W.va
Preston County
Garrett Memorial Hospital
Sunday Dominion Post
Thengineer
Minnich
W. Ernest Fox
Oakland Cemetery
George Wotring
Ada (Teets) Wotring
Robert L. Glaze Sr
Lena Dever
Robert L. Glaze Jr
Pearl Stemple
Elma Hardesty
Grace Ayers
Claudia Parker
Pittsburgh
Margaret McDaniel
Cumberland
William Wotring
Arthurdale
George Wotring Jr
Davis
W. Va
Health Board Approves Funds for 1968 69 Budget
The Monongalia County Board of Health approved a 344000 dollar budget for 1968 69 at a Saturday meeting. It includes 94350 from County Court 8400 from Morgantown and varied amounts from municipalities state and federal grants. Attending were Dr John H Trotter Thomas A Arkle county clerk Tom Jackson and Robert B Nestor. A garbage disposal plan cooperation between Osage and Cassville was discussed.
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Monongalia
Morgantown Students Dominate WV Forensics Tournament
The 17th Annual West Virginia State High School Forensic Tournament concluded with Morgantown High School taking six first place honors and one all state drama cast member. Jeff Carruth earned all state while Parkersburg High won the sweepstakes trophy. Dr. Lloyd Welden received a special recognition for lifetime work in debate and forensics.
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Morgantown High School
WVU
Alma Bennett
MHS
James Evans
Sarah Singleton
Peter Hicks
James Fasching
Jeff Carruth
Benjamin Sprunt
Greg Ford
Morgantown
Sharon Irby
Wendy Branney
Barbara Bonsall
Charleen Welch
George Dakovic
Wheeling Central Catholic
Sue Ann Dickson
Huntington East
Parkersburg High School
Lloyd Welden
University Department of Speech
University
William L. Barnett
WVU Instructors Present at Paths of Magnesium Deficiency Conference
West Virginia University professors Dr. Stanley R. Shane and Dr. John Evan Jones will speak at the New York Academy of Sciences Conference on the Pathogenesis and Clinical Significance of Magnesium Deficiency in New York City April 9-10. The two of 25 eminent speakers will discuss Magnesium Balance Studies in Chronic Alcoholism and their ongoing mineral and hormonal research. Dr. Shane resides at 101 Oakview Drive and Dr. Jones at 1286 Woodhaven Drive.
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West Virginia University
New York Academy of Sciences
Waldorf-Astoria
New York City
Stanley R. Shane
John Evan Jones
Department of Medicine
United States
Canada
England
Shane
Jones
Oakview Drive
Woodhaven Drive
Programmed Learning Method Shows Results at WVU Engineering
Professor Helen L Plants at West Virginia University advances programmed instruction in dynamics and statics to help marginal engineering students. Eighty percent of probation students gained a C or better, with forty percent earning A or B, versus eleven percent under lectures. Regular students may choose either method next year.
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West Virginia University
College of Engineering
Helen L. Plants
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
WVU
Plants
Wallace Venable
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
American Society For Engineering Education
Sprouse Opens Campaign Office in Morgantown
James M. Sprouse, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, will inaugurate his Morgantown campaign with an office opening in Monongalia County. He will tour major local industries and host a citizens reception at his headquarters, inviting coal miners and area Democrats to hear plans on resource taxation.
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James M. Sprouse
Morgantown
Monongalia County
Sprouse
Walnut St
Morgantown Group Shifts Open Housing Plan
The Morgantown Human Relations Commission will not press an open housing petition at the April 16 City Council meeting. Instead members will lobby individual councilmen to back local open housing measures after collecting about 100 petitions. Reverend Benjamin James Jr. said reports show varied petition response from 20 to 100 percent and that about 150 signatures were gathered by four petitioners.
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Morgantown
James
Sunday Dominion Post
Fairmont Girl Shot and Killed at Egg Farm
A 14-year-old Fairmont girl, Judy Smalley, was accidentally shot and killed at the Fairmont Egg Farm on Cobun Branch Run near the Taylor-Harrison county line. A 12-year-old boy firing a .22 rifle caused the fatal discharge while another child watched the target session.
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Fairmont
W. Va
UPI
Cobun Branch Run
Taylor-Harrison County
Judy Smalley
Moot Court Highlights Law Day at West Virginia Univ
The Law Day moot court featured West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals judges en banc hearing a hypothetical habeas corpus appeal for a statutory rape case. First year student James E. Roark defended, Willard A. Sullivan represented the respondent.
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West Virginia University
Supreme Court of Appeals of
West Virginia
James E. Roark
Willard A. Sullivan
Huntington
Harlan M. Calhoun
Frank C. Haymond
Thornton G. Berry Jr
Chauncey Browning
Fred H. Caplan
Justice of the Peace
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Thomas Knight
Dominion Post Capital
Sheri Molisee
George Molisee
Prospect St
St. Vincent Pallotti Hospital
Health Board
Wade Dever
Walter Dever
Wanda
Clara George
Swanton
Ethel Clancy
Aurora Methodist Church
VIHS
Supreme Court OF Appeals
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