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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1967
Page
17
Miles C. Stanley president of the West Virginia Labor Federation told West Virginia State College graduates that the nation faces three simultaneous revolutions: cyber nation weaponry and human rights. He praised integration and warned against a new idolatry of pleasure and self gratification.
Regional and national leaders will gather in Charleston June 6 to discuss Appalachian housing. Governor Hulett C. Smith will speak as co chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Noted contributors include Robert E. Simon Jr. and Paul B. Sears among others.
The U S Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that relaying motion pictures over CATV without paying royalties infringed the producer United Artists Television Inc The case concerns CATV systems in Clarksburg and Fairmont West Virginia relaying programs from Pittsburgh Steubenville and Wheeling and could influence CATV growth and future Supreme Court appeal
Two prisoners from Moundsville Penitentiary, Richard Estepp aged 32 and Ronald Watson 25, escaped from a prison truck during a routine work detail near Birch Ridge at 9 30 a m. Estepp, serving 20 years for kidnapping from Wayne County, had been at the facility since 1963. Watson, serving 1 to 10 years for grand larceny from Tucker County, was sentenced in 1959.
In January 1968 WVU will drop mandatory ROTC for freshmen and sophomores. ROTC courses will become optional electives, aligning with other land grant schools. The change follows a board decision after study and legislative authority, with future commissioning expected at similar levels.
Pickets blocked ten car loads of supervisory personnel at the Goodyear Tire plant in Apple Grove West Virginia. State police were called as authorities said there was no violence and the plant has been idle since May 7 due to a strike by Local 644 of the United Rubber Workers over seniority and wages. Attorneys for the company prepared to seek an injunction in Mason County Circuit Court, though one attorney declined to comment.
The U S government and private industry inaugurate Project Gasoline at Cresap West Virginia to extract gasoline from coal. Interior Secretary Udall and Senator Byrd praised the pilot plant aiming for a commercial coal refinery yielding 30 000 to 100 000 barrels daily by the early 1970s.
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