Former Cabell aide and Huntington businessman sentenced in forgery case
In Huntington, John Raymond received one to ten years in Cabell County Circuit Court for irregularities in county purchasing in 1974. Clyde McDonald drew one to five years after pleading guilty to forgery. Both men remain out on bond pending appeal.
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Huntington
W.va
Cabell County Commission
John Raymond
Cabell County
Robert Conaty
Raymond
Clyde McDonald
Fog caused crash leads to $825,000 suit
Charleston man Kermit R. Miller Jr. sues FMC Corp and others in Kanawha County Circuit Court, alleging gases released at the South Charleston plant created a fog on Interstate 64 between Dunbar and Institute. He seeks damages for injuries from a January 1975 pileup that involved a tractor trailer and three other vehicles.
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Charleston
W.va
FMC Corp
Interstate 64
Kermit R. Miller Jr
Miller
HEW may fund area health system in West Virginia
The West Virginia Health Systems Agency could receive operational funds from the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare by July 1 after resubmitting its plan by June 14 to meet federal requirements The agency will craft a state health plan approve federally funded expansions and new construction projects and its board will assume duties of regional health planning groups
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
West Virginia Health Systems Agency
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Bob Bugey
Police hunt missing guns at Clarksburg station
City detectives in Clarksburg West Virginia search for a Thompson submachinegun and two AR 18 rifles missing from the police station. Police Chief George Duke Shields and city manager Donald Hoff say the weapons may be misplaced inside the building or taken to an officer home.
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Clarksburg
W.va
George “Duke” Shields
Donald Hoff
Hoff
Hamlin mayor locked out after vote loss
Hamlin West Virginia mayor C E Monday and his two secretaries were locked out of town hall by the volunteer fire department three days after Monday narrowly defeated a fireman in the mayoral race by nine votes. The department cited a gas tank leak as a fire hazard while Monday alleged political motive. Air tests were planned to determine safety and the hall may reopen today.
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Hamlin
W.va
C.E. Monday
Terry Prichard
Tom Wade
Monday
Wade
Contractors bid on eight highway projects in West Virginia
State bids open for four bridges and an improvement program across Marion Fayette Grant Roane Raleigh and Wood counties. Eldora Bridge in Marion County low bid Donald F Connelly Co 300 523. Foster and Creighton two Twelve Pole Creek bridges 2993 2994 at 494 477 and 528 613. Smithers Creek Bridge in Fayette County Turman Construction 294 035. Stony River Bridge deck replacement and truss strengthening Sanford Brothers Roanoke 136 343. Raleigh County routes 11 4 6 contract Raleigh Ready Mix 3 35 miles. Roane County route 13 State Construction 141 984. Bids to open June 23 for Birch River Road Nicholas County and Chesterville Bridge Wood County.
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Eldora
Marion County
Donald F. Connelly Co
Eighty-Four
Foster & Creighton Co
Nashville
Pole Creek
Turman Constructon Co
Barboursville
Fayette County
Smithers Creek
Grant County
Sanford Brothers Co
Roanoke
Stony River
Raleigh Ready Mix & Asphalt of
Sprague
Raleigh County
Roane County
State Construction
Huntington
Department of Highways
Birch River
Nicholas County
Chesterville
Wood County
Inflation slows at wholesale level and unemployment drops
The Labor Department reports May job gains of 300,000 raising employment to 87.7 million and a 6.9 million unemployed total. Wholesale prices rose 0.3 percent, slower than April, aided by lower farm product price increases. President Ford calls the news encouraging, saying it could help in the upcoming primaries and November election.
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Washington
Labor Department
Ford
Unemployment Edges Down Amid March Labor Rise
The Labor Department reports a March recession-low in employment with 3.6 million more Americans at work and the jobless rate at 7.3 percent. Improvement mainly among women reduced female unemployment to 6.8 percent, while other groups saw little change. Over the past year the labor force grew by 1.8 million with adult women making up nearly all of the increase.
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Labor Department
Funeral notices for Jacobs Riley and McDonald
William C. Jacobs 59 Jeffersonville Ind formerly of Grafton died June 3. Funeral Sunday 2 p.m. Bartlett Funeral Home with interment in Current Cemetery. John R. Riley 71 Flemington died Thursday at Grafton City Hospital. Funeral Monday 2 p.m. Flemington Baptist Church with interment in Flemington ICCF Cemetery. Harry Franklin McDonald 69 Route 3 Bridgeport died June 3. Visitation today at Bartlett Funeral Home. Service Sunday 2 p.m. Hepzibah Baptist Church with interment Hepzibah Cemetery.
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Carnegie-Graham Funeral Home
Flemington
McDonald
Harry Franklin McDonald
Route 3
Bridgeport
Fairmont General Hospital
Bartlett Funeral Home
Hepzibah Baptist Church
William C. May
Hepzibah
Purported Nixon love letters called sordid hoax by lawyer
An Alabama source claims copies of letters allegedly from President Nixon to a lover exist and show a possible affair. The letters, stored in Alabama, reportedly began in New York in the early 1960s and span meetings in California, Washington, Paris and Florida, ending with Nixon as president.
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Birmingham
Ala
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Alabama
Nixon
Andrew Kilpatrick
The
Birmingham News
New York
Scott Meredith
Meredith
Watergate
California
Washington
D.C
Paris
Florida
Obituaries from Jeffersonville and Fairmont report two deaths
William C. Jacobs 59 of Jeffersonville died June 3 after an illness at Clark County Memorial Hospital. Survived by wife Virginia Bernadine Musgrove Jacobs four sons and three grandchildren. Former supervisor at Charleston Army Ammunition Plant and World War II Marine veteran. Harry Franklin McDonald 69 of Bridgeport died June 3 at Fairmont General Hospital. Survived by wife Lela Williamson McDonald six children ten grandchildren a brother and a sister with prior burial siblings. He was a carpenter farmer and Girl Scout Camp caretaker and Hepzibah Baptist Church member.
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Jeffersonville
Mnd
William C. Jacobs
Bluebird Dr
Grafton
Clark County Memorial Hospital
George F. (Flem) Jacobs
Mary Newcome Jacobs
Virginia Bernadine Musgrove Jacobs
Daniel W
Del
Fairmont
Harry Franklin McDonald
Bridgeport
Fairmont General Hospital
Alva
Ollie Anderson McDonald
Monongaliah County
Lela Williamson McDonald
Charles D. McDonald
Ray A. McDonald
Robert
Catherine) McGill
Burl
Delores) Norman
Lee
Margaret) Green
Dexter
Mich
Donald
Mary) Shahan
Utica
John McDonald
Samuel
Helen) Plauger
Garfield McDonald
Martha Alestie
Meadow Lea
Hepzibah Baptist Church
Saints May Be Dropped From Church of England Calendar
London AP report says a special ecclesiastical commission may drop about 170 saints from the Church of England’s official calendar to free space for modern Christian heroes such as Florence Nightingale. Dean R C D Jasper notes many saints have uncertain historicity while stressing need to keep those with real significance. Saint Cecilia, patron of church music, is cited as an example of doubt about some saints’ existence.
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London
St. Valentine
St. Nicholas
Church of England
Florence Nightingale
R.C.D. Jasper
York
Commission
Paul VI
Patrick
Ireland
George
England
Santa Claus
Church of England Commission
General Synod
Dean Jasper
St. Cecilia
William B Oldaker to be Strawberry Festival artist in residence
William B. Oldaker chairman of the West Virginia Wesleyan College Art Department will serve as the Strawberry Festival Artist in Residence June 4 5 and 6 1976 at the Creative Art Center Buckhannon. He will exhibit paintings and drawings at the Art Center 11 North Locust with demonstrations and discussions at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on June 4 and 5.
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Buckhannon
William B. Oldaker
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Creative Art Center
Art Center
North Locust
W.va
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D-Mo
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Steve Dietz
Mountain Statesman
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Grafton Middle School
Bill Byrd
Oldaker
Buckhannon-Upshur High School
Wesleyan
Air Force
Air and Airways Communication Service
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
American University
Wesleyan College
Corcoran
Catholic University
Watkins Art Gallery
Franz Bader
Baltimore
Smithsonian Institute
Richard Hackett
Parkersburg
Deiner
Moscow
Russia
National Trucking Association
Bresler-Burton J. Reiner
Pangborn Corporation
Hagertown
Grafton Drive-In Theater
Sai-Sun
Sasqua
Trinity
Annie
Beech St
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Walt Disney Features
Sat. & Son
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Orrea Bcgieven
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Heracide
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