Cleaner Air Push Seen After West Virginia Plan
West Virginia aims for cleaner air by mid-1975 despite a proposed one year delay for seven power plants to meet standards. Commission Director Carl Beard says the program remains strong with broad crackdown on polluters from quarries to major industries and predicts notable air quality improvements in the Kanawha Valley and Northern Panhandle by 1975.
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Kay Christensen
Charleston
W.va
UPI
State Air Pollution Control Commission
West
West Virginia
American Electric Power System
Arch. Moore
Monongahela Power Co
Beard
Weirton Steel
Kanawha
Montgomery
Union Carbide
Kanawha Valley
Panhandle
Morlang trial set for December 17 in Charleston
Former Parkersburg banker Theodore D. Morlang faces a December 17 trial in U.S. District Court on bribery conspiracy charges linked to the Overlook Housing Project. He is free on bond, having resigned from Union Trust National Bank after indictment. Co defendants Price T. Ballard and Fred M. Wilmoth faced pleas and sentences. Wilmoth pleaded guilty and received two three year terms, Ballard took a no contest plea and three years probation.
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Charleston
W. Va
U.S. District Court
Parkersburg
Theodore D. Morlang
Overlook
Morlang
Union Trust National Bank
Price T. Ballard
Fred M. Wilmoth
Vienna Insurance
Federal Housing Administration
Wilmoth
Ballard
Wage action to be outlined by Martinsburg police
Martinsburg police plan to outline possible action to win a higher wage. Sgt. Robert Binning, president of the local FOP lodge, declined to specify measures but said officers do not want a work slowdown or to walk out. Starting salaries are $6,400 annually as they seek a livable wage.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
UPI
Robert Binning
Berkeley-Jefferson County
Lodge 83
Fraternal Order of Police
Heiskell Announces 12 Hearings on Campaign Reform
Secretary of State Edgar F. Heiskell schedules statewide hearings on campaign financing and election law reform from November 26 in Martinsburg to December 14 in Lewisburg. He aims to gather citizen and official input to craft legislative proposals addressing election practices and government transparency.
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Charleston
W.va
Edgar F. Heiskell
Panhandle
Greenbrier
Martinsburg
Wheeling
Princeton
Clarksburg
Morgantown
Parkersburg
Beckley
Huntington
Logan
Elkins
Lewisburg
Heiskell
Prostitution raid nets 49 arrests in Wheeling
In Wheeling West Virginia a combined raid by state and city police and the Ohio County Sheriff's office led to 49 arrests early Saturday. Ten women were charged with prostitution two with operating a house of ill repute and 37 men were charged with loitering in the house. Names were not released.
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Wheeling
W. Va
UPI
Ohio County Sheriff's Office
Ritchie County Bond Levy Defeated For New High School
Voters in Harrisville West Virginia rejected a 1.9 million dollar school bond to finance a consolidated Pennsboro Harrisville high school. Only 47 percent aprovado with 1,599 in favor and 1,833 against, 57 percent of eligible voters turnout. The plan faced strongest opposition in Pennsboro. Also announced is a forthcoming Standard First Aid Class at the South Side Fire House beginning Nov 5, five sessions from 7 to 9 p.m. registration through the Red Cross.
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Harrisville
W.va
Ritchie County
Pennsboro
South Side Fire House
Red Cross
Students Injured as Church Bus Rolls Near Beckley
A Mt. Tabor Baptist Church bus carrying Appalachian Bible Institute students overturned on U S 19 near Batoff Mountain hospitalizing 18. Brakes failed per driver. 50 foot plunge, guard rails torn. Most treated at Raleigh General and Appalachian Regional hospitals. one girl head injuryTransports included two released after treatment.
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Piney View
W.va
Babcock State Park
Raleigh County
Appalachian Regional
Raleigh General Hospitals
Charleston General Hospital
Mt. Tabor
Harper Heights
Beckley
Appalachian Bible Institute
Bradley
Batoff Mountain
U.S. 19
Black lung benefits assured despite law changes
Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia reassured coal mine families that the federal black lung benefits program will not be terminated. He noted new amendments shift future payments to states and coal operators starting January 1, 1974, while all claims filed by June 30, 1973 continue to be paid by the federal government for as long as benefits are owed.
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Washington
UPI
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
Randolph
DNR Approves Four WV Surface Mining Permits
The West Virginia Department of Natural Resources awarded four surface mining permits to Peter White Coal Mining Black Lode Coal Cannelton Industries and Fairfax Sand Crushed Stone Co Each permit covers specific acreage in McDowell Nicholas Kanawha Mineral counties near Isaban Lockwood Cannelton Keyser Applications were filed by Perry Hylton Grafton Sewell Coal and Perry Hylton Inc for additional tracts in Wyoming Harrison Greenbrier and Fayette counties near Bud Bridgeport Richwood and Cannelton.
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Charleston
W.va
Study Proposed Of Cabell County Metro Government
Cabell County Court formally requests a legislative study on the legality and feasibility of merging Cabell County Huntington Barboursville and Milton into a metro style government. Commissioners plan to seek lawmakers help and push constitutional reforms during the 1974 session.
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Huntington
W.va
UPI
Cabell County
Barboursville
Milton
Cabell
West Virginia inmate sues over mail handling at prison
Inmate Terry Henline of Lewis County filed a 45000 suit in U S District Court alleging mishandling and mutilation of his mail at the West Virginia Penitentiary. He seeks 15000 from Corrections Director Faulkner, Warden Bordenkircher and a former prisoner mail clerk Mary Ryan for alleged violations of his rights and improper mail processing.
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Moundsville
W.va
West Virginia
U.S. District Court
Terry Henline
Lewis County
Paul Fourney
Henline
Dennis Knapp
Ryan
Commercial tests of sulfur dioxide removal process sought
Officials of Consolidation Coal Co say their sulfur dioxide scrubber requires commercial testing by utilities. The process, demonstrated at Philadelphia Electric, awaits utility trials and a one year installation. Cochran calls it highly promising and workable.
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Charleston
W.va
Consolidation Coal Co
Haze Cochran
Cochran
Philadelphia
Consol
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