Snowbound Taylor County schools stay open as others shut
Severe snowfall hit Taylor County with Oak Grove hardest, prompting Superintendent Ronald Dellinger to keep schools open while Preston and Marion counties closed. Barbour and Harrison counties remained open, while two separate crashes on Route 50 East and Route 92 caused damage but few injuries.
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Renick
Burl Alonzo Pyles
Independence
Rapp
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Moore says trial won’t interfere with re election bid
Gov Arch A Moore Jr tells WSAZ TV that his extortion trial will not affect his reelection campaign. He says a courtroom, not a political campaign, is the proper forum to decide the charges filed against him.
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Arch A. Moore Jr
Moore
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Americans work less time to buy food than foreigners
A Agriculture Department report shows American factory workers needed two hours and 16 minutes to earn a nine-item grocery list in 1975, up from 1974. Foreign workers averaged four hours and 34 minutes, down from four hours and 50 minutes. Japanese workers took six hours and 25 minutes for a pound of sirloin, while Argentine workers needed 11 minutes.
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Agriculture Department
U.S
Argentina
United States
Guatemalan quake toll climbs past fifteen thousand dead
Relief teams moved supplies to isolated towns as the Guatemalan earthquake's death toll rose to more than 15,000 with about 40,000 injured and 200,000 homeless. Generals warned of food withholding over burial delays as authorities battled landslides, road blockages, and looming epidemics while aid reached pained survivors in the capital and outlying districts.
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Guatemala
National Emergency Relief Committee
San Martin Jilotepeque
Lucas
Kiel Eugenio Laugerud
el Gallito
Crowded West Virginia GOP seeks governor renomination
Eight Republicans enter the race for West Virginia governor with incumb ent Arch Moore, former governor Cecil Underwood, and pilot John Lusher amid a crowded field. Ralph Albertazzie Nixon’s former Air Force One pilot and other GOP figures file as late entries spark a tense May primary contest. Moore argues eligibility under a 1970 amendment while Underwood pursues a fourth campaign since 1960. Additional filings include local officials and Charleston residents as the party eyes a narrowing path to the nomination.
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Cecil H. Underwood
Nixon
Moore
Ralph Albertazzie Nixon
Air Force One
Underwood
Huntington
John W. Lusher
Albertazzie
Senate
Jennings Randolph
Hulett Smith
Arch Moore
West Virginia
Lusher
Careless smoking blamed for fatal Warren fire
A Warren Pa fire killed a couple and five of their seven children. The oldest son Matthew 21 may have been smoking in the living room before the pre dawn blaze. Neighbors and rescuers faced intense heat and smoke as they tried to reach the family.
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Warren
Ruth
Harold Brown
Pennsylvania
Virgil Boren
Browns
Matthew
Hearst tape sought as evidence in bank robbery trial
Prosecutors ask Judge Carter to admit a tape in which Patricia Hearst boasts of joining the Symbionese Liberation Army in the 1974 San Francisco holdup. A special hearing will decide admissibility, with both sides allowed testimony. The defense questions the script and notes possible suppression of related SLA activity.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Miss Hearst
James L. Browning
SLA
Los Angeles
Thomas Dean Matthews
Browning
FMC strike ends at Fairmont and Morgantown plants
United Steelworkers Local 1640 members at FMC plants in Fairmont and Morgantown ratified a three year contract after five days of bargaining. The deal includes a substantial wage increase, a guaranteed 20 cent cost of living raise rising to 30 cents, enhanced insurance with double indemnity, and sick and accident benefits up from 75 to 80 dollars weekly for 26 weeks.
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Fairmont
FMC
Morgantown
United Steelworkers Local 1640
Pleasant Valley
W. Glenn Bush
Warm, Sunny Weekend Forecast for Three Counties
Weather outlook for Taylor Barbour and Preston counties expects sunshine this afternoon with highs in the 40s. Tonight will be mostly clear with lows around the mid-20s. Tomorrow’s high should reach the mid-50s to 60.
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