Dem chairman links ecology to slum cleanup at Wheeling talk
Lawrence F. O'Brien, Democratic National Chairman, told Wheeling College graduates that solving pollution cannot be separated from cleaning up urban slums. He warned ecology risks becoming a white middle class issue and tied air and water cleanup to urban renewal and social justice. In Huntington, Rep. Ken Hechler urged immediate U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam to hasten POW releases and condemned the war as destructive and divisive.
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Wheeling
W. Va
UPI
Lawrence F. O’brien
Wheeling College
O’brien
Lyndon B. Johnson
Huntington
Ken Hechler
D-W.va
U.S
Vietnam
Federation of Democratic Women
Hechler
West Virginia osteopathic meeting to feature national speakers
The West Virginia Society of Osteopathic Medicine will hold a three day May 16 meeting in Charleston with speakers including Senator Jennings Randolph Dr W S Horn and Dr N H Dyer over 150 osteopaths wives and guests are expected to attend at the Charleston House Holiday Inn in the capital city.
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Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
West Virginia Society of Osteopathic Medicine
Charleston
Senator Randolph
West Virginia
W.S. Horn
American Osteopathic Association
Horn
Philip Golding
Department of Pathology
Doctors Hospital
Columbus
Ohio
Paul DeAngelis
Social Security Administration
Ilona D. Scott
Metropolitan Hospital
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
N.H. Dyer
West Virginia Department of Health
Black Lung Protests to Continue Rally in Washington
Black Lung Association members from Ohio West Virginia Kentucky and Virginia plan a June rally in Washington to press Social Security and HEW for disability benefits changes. Arnold Miller says about 1000 miners may participate and meet officials to address low award rates in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Black Lung Association
Arnold Miller
Ohley
W. Va
Kentucky
Virginia
Miller
Social Security Administration
Health, Education and Welfare
Eliot Richardson
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
C and P strike decision expected today
Martinsburg West Virginia workers of Chesapeake and Ohio Telephone Co. face a possible walkout over the dismissal of three employees. Local 2005 president Harry Moran says arbitration was refused. About 133 workers could be idled in Martinsburg Keyser Berkeley Springs area. No word on wider union participation.
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W. _Va
UPI
Chesapeake and Ohio Telephone Co
Panhandle
Harry Moran
Communications Workers of America
CWA
Keyser
Berkeley Springs
Moran
International Union
Charlestonian starts group to change new cycle law
J V Pinney leads West Virginia Motorcycle Association to oppose a May 24 motorcycle law seen as too restrictive. The group educates cyclists on highway safety while urging lawmakers to revisit provisions from helmets to goggles amid public misperceptions of riders as outlaws. Pinney aims to shift opinion statewide and press for a second legislative look.
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Charlestonian
Charleston
W. Va
UPI
J. V. Pinney
J. V
West Virginia
Jerome
West Virginia Motorcycle Association
Pinney
Police intensify hunt for missing man in West Virginia
Authorities expanded the search Saturday for John Gill a 24 year old mentally retarded man who vanished Tuesday afternoon from his Bellwood Fayette County home His parents appealed to authorities as night fell without his return and responders sought any clue to his whereabouts
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Rainelle
W. Va
UPI
John Gill
Bellwood
Fayette County
Gill
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