West Virginia food stamp fraud rate far below national average
West Virginia's 9.2 percent rate of ineligible food stamp money is far below the national 25.6 percent. The Agriculture Department reported six months of 1976 data showing $30 of federal bonus for every $20 of stamps, with $40 million in federal payments last fiscal year.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Thomas Tinder
Tinder
Agriculture Department
Callaway to lead Crested Butte resort venture
Howard Callaway resigns as Ford campaign chief amid past Pentagon use allegations and moves to Colorado to become president and CEO of Crested Butte Development Corp which oversees the ski area bought in 1970 by Callaway and his brother in law. In Washington Carter inauguration task force commissions artists Warhol Lawrence Lichtenstein Rauschenberg Wyeth to record impressions and sell signed prints to fund events. Getty heirs receive nearly one million each as executor fees from J. Paul Getty estate valued at $720 million. Lexington Kentucky Utilities says DOJ suit over alleged racial and sexual discrimination mystifies firm after a meeting with officials last month.
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Mount Crested Butte
Colo
Army
Howard “Bo” Callaway
Colorado Rockies
Crested
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Andy Warhol
Jacob Lawrence
Roy Lichtenstein
Robert Rauschenberg
Jamie Wyeth
Los Angeles
J. Paul Getty
Gordon Peter Getty
Jean Ronald Getty
Getty
Lexington, Ky
Kentucky Utilities Co
U.S. Justice Department
Justice Department
Magistrate system replaces justice of the peace in West Virginia
West Virginia moves to replace the justice of the peace with a magistrate system starting Saturday. State spending totals 4.1 million for start up and first year operations, with magistrates earning 7 to 18 thousand dollars annually depending on population. Training completed by most magistrates and clerks underway in Charleston and Clarksburg.
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Charleston
W.va
Justice of the Peace
American Academy of Judicial Education
State Supreme Court
Clarksburg
West Point cites ouster vow over historic cheating scandal
Brig. Gen. Walter F. Ulmer Jr. alleges Army Secretary Martin R. Hoffmann vowed last summer he must be ousted amid what is described as the worst cheating scandal in West Point's 174 year history. Hoffmann's spokesman denies the charge and Hoffmann was unavailable for comment.
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West Point
N.Y
U.S. Military Academy
Army
Martin R. Hoffmann
Hoffmann
Walter F. Ulmer Jr
Associated Press
Ulmer
GI Bill changes limit education benefits for new enlistees
Washington AP reports that the last day to enlist and receive full GI education benefits is Friday. After 1977 begins, new recruits must contribute toward their GI Bill education, with a voluntary plan for peacetime GIs. Thousands have joined under the delayed entry program allowing current benefits if they enlist before New Year’s Day and don their uniforms by 1977 end. The Army says about 30,000 delayed entry enlistees are signed up.
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Charleston
W.va
Legislative Service Office
House
Earl M. Vickers
Sesson
Senate
William T. Brotherton Jr
Vicker
Vickers
Legislative Services
Washington
Uncle Sam
Pentagon
Funeral Notices From Grafton area short list of deaths
Obituary items note deaths of James Hammons James Dawson Mary Agnes Brown Leahnora Dove Sevier Emma Mae Delaney Bourne and others with service times locations and burial plans. Bartlett Funeral Home listed for several services with interment at Belington Bluemont Woodsdale Shiloh and Grafton cemeteries and calls to family homes or churches. Medical and emergency dispatch updates included for Taylor County in Grafton and surrounding areas.
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Hammons
James Albert Hammons
Washington St
Bartlett Funeral
Francis Boylen
Belington Fraternal Cemetery
Bartlett
Dawson
James Dawson
Adolphus Street
Grafton
Kermit Poling
Intermont Bluemont
Brotherhood — of Trainmen
Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge
Taylor County
Brown
Mary Agnes Brown
Greenup
Knotts Funeral
Charles Roth
Woodsdale Memorial Park
Knotts Funeral Home
Bourne
Emma Mae Delaney Bourne
North Emerald Ave
Mundelein
Illinois
Mariner and Millikan
Waynesburg
Ralph W. Broomfield
Grafton National Cemetery
Hospital register lists admissions and discharges across several towns
Admissions on December 28 1976 include Nicholas Duryea Elizabeth Shroyer Daniel Tucker George Peacock Lula Newcome Arthur Davis Bessie Frederick Frank Sandor Tl] Sarah Keener Audie Murphy Patricia Barlow Tanya Richards THORN TON Lula Bolyard. Discharges include Mack Rollins II Mabel Poling Oley Smith Effie Abel Linda Moore PRESTON MEMORIAL TERRA ALTA Goldie Casteel Vera German ARTHURDALE Lillian Pyles KINGWOOD Jessie Eisner McKendree White MASONTOWN Sadie Classetti Discharge Gary Howdershelt.
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Grafton City Hospital
Grafton
Nicholas Duryea
Elizabeth Shroyer
Daniel Tucker
George Peacock
Lula Newcome
Arthur Davis
Bessie Frederick
Frank Sandor
Sarah Keener
Audie
Terra Alta
Goldie Casteel
Vera German
Arthurdale
Lillian Pyles
Kingwood
Jessie Eisner
McKendree White
Masontown
Sadie Classetti
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U.S. District Court
United Mine Workers
U.S. Steel Corp
No. 14
Gary
UMW
Callaway
Corporation
Getty Sons
Boulder
National Bureau of Standards
Bureau
Metzenbaum
Columbus
Ohio
Howard M. Metzenbaum
U.S. Senate
James A. Rhodes
Robert Taft Jr
Rhodes
Forest J. Bowman
Supreme Court
Jps
Justices of the Peace
Kanawha County
Cabell
Harrison
Marion
McDowell
Mercer
Monongalia
Raleigh
Wood
Berkeley
Fayette
Greenbrier
Hancock
Logan, Marshall
Mingo
Wayne
Wyoming
Hepzibah
David Blair
Vow
The
Marty
2D Armored
Ft. Hood
Tex
John Bard
Col
Hal B. Rhyne
Rest Haven Nursing Home
Etha Shaffer
Cather Towers
West Virginia University Medical Clinic
MOOSE
LODGE
Garvin
W. Main ST
Hospital Register
Gary Howdershelt
Blueville Bank
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