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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1973
Page
4
Mourners fill Spring Creek Baptist Church for a high profile Donalsonville tragedy. About 3,000 attend the funeral service for the Alday family with 250 floral arrangements, five ministers, and a town in shock as police report on the killers' fate stirs public debate.
West Virginia State Police Supt. R L Bonar confirms a trooper sleeps nightly at Governor Arch Moore's Glendale home. The practice began under former Gov Hulett Smith after an early administration break in. The trooper covers a regular shift and sleeps there but the assignment is not full time, and Bonar questions private protection as an alternative.
The Associated Press reports two separate 1973 West Virginia road deaths on consecutive days. Richard Allen Hess, 17, of Montgomery, died after a car he drove on W V 129 near Summersville dam in Nicholas County overturned. Richard Thomas Shrout, 21, of Romney, died in a one car crash on W Va 28 near Romney. The state toll reached 141, compared with 167 a year earlier.
A 36 year old Bobby Edward Charapich of Welch was killed when struck by a Norfolk and Western train near Maitland after pulling his truck off the highway and standing beside it. Police identified the victim.
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