Hearings to Begin on West Virginia Prison Conditions
hearings to begin at the state capitol focus on the West Virginia Penitentiary amid a $113 000 suit over an inmate death in June 1969. Warden Ira Coiner Corrections Director Gordon Faulkner and Institutions Commissioner J Donald Clark expected to testify as Baxter Curtis Griffith seeks damages alleging state negligence and poor prison conditions ahead of hearings into morale and working conditions for troopers.
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United Press
West Virginia
West Virginia Court of Claims
Baxter Curtis Griffith
Ira Coiner
Gordon Faulkner
J. Donald Clark
Griffith
Gooden
U.S. Bases Hit Again Near DMZ In Heavy Shelling
Communist rocket and mortar strikes pounded two U.S. firebases near the DMZ on Saturday. Friday's attacks left 30 Americans dead and 50 wounded, in the heaviest shelling toll in three years. Firebase Charlie 2 took multiple rockets, while Alpha 4 faced about 25 rounds. casualties for Saturday night were not yet reported.
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Saigon
Alpha 4
U.S
UPI
Stewart Kellerman
A Shau
Highlands
Welfare plan could cut federal welfare costs by 1976
HEW Secretary Elliott Richardson said the administration's welfare reform plan now in the House may reduce the $4.1 billion annual federal welfare outlay by about 1976. He called the measure essential and noted work requirements will trim future costs, though not as a substitute for revenue reform.
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UPI
HEW
Elliot L. Richardson
House
Richardson
Second quake rocks Turkey in 10 days
A strong earthquake struck Eastern Turkey Saturday night, the second disaster in 10 days. Initial reports suggest hundreds may be dead, with Bingol among the hardest hit. Towns including Erserum Erzincan Tunceli Mus Tatvan and Elazig reported damage as Genc, a 31 000 resident town near Bingol, was destroyed. Kandilli Observatory put tremors above six on the Richter scale.
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Ankara
Turkey
UPI
Bingol
Erserum
Erzincan
Tunceli
Mus
Tatvan
Diarbakir
Siirt
Elazig
Malatya
Genc
Kandilli
Istanbul
LBJ Library Dedication Highlights Nation's Progress
In Austin Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon opened the $18.6 million LBJ Library, framing it as a record of a era with the motto man can. The eight story marble building houses a 31 million page collection covering four decades of Johnson's public service. Nixon praised Johnson as a partisan of principle and noted the library offers insights into a critical period in U.S. history.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nixon
Johnson
Coerny of Texas
Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
Ladybird
Police mount massive manhunt after Harlem patrolmen slayings
New York police launch a city wide search for two gunmen after two patrolmen, one black and one white, were shot in the back outside a Harlem housing project. Police Commissioner Murphy called the killings deliberate and part of a plot against the force, while authorities pursued black youths as suspects. In Washington, Sen. Humphrey urged a mutual freeze on deployment of nuclear missiles by the US and USSR.
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New York
UPI
Patrick V. Murphy
Harlem
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Transit Authority
Bronx
Murphy
Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
United States
Soviet Union
Diplomats Warn About Over-Optimism on SALT Pact
In Vienna diplomats cautioned that the United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to agree on a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty but warned against assuming a pact could be finished within the year.
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Vienna
UPI
United States
Soviet Union
Littleton tunnel shootout stirs questions in small WV town
In Wetzel County’s Littleton, a May 13 police shootout at a railroad tunnel wounded Mary Jane Scarvaggi and Wilma Lee Morris and left George Lash in custody. Residents question state police actions and the case draws scrutiny from a Charleston legislative probe into Department of Public Safety activities. Lash, a 27-year-old from Sewickly Township, Pa., arrived in town days earlier. others recall rumors and concerns about his long hair and quiet demeanor.
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James B. Reckard
St. Marys
Committee On Government and Finance
Department of Public Safety
Senate
Hans McCourt
Bonar
Department
Order of Police
Arch A. Moore
Ray Martin
Dominion Post
Littleton
Wetzel
Fairmont General Hospital
West Virginia
George Donald Lash
Sewickly Township
Mary Jane Scarvaggi
Wilma Lee Morris
Fairmont
State Legislative
Charleston
Department of Public Safety Activities
Scarvaggi
Morris
Homer Stottlemire
Lash
George S. Lash
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