Miller Re-elected UMW President Faces Union Division
Early returns show Arnold Miller leading for a second term as United Mine Workers president with 38 percent to Patterson 34 and Patrick 26 percent in an unofficial AP tally. turnout was about 46 percent across 25 states and Canada, with Miller strongest in southern West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. The official count won’t be released until July 1, and challengers vow to appeal the results amid ongoing union rifts and potential labor department involvement.
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Washington
Arnold Miller
United Mine Workers
UMW
Harry Patrick
Lee Roy Patterson
Miller
Associated Press
Patterson
Patrick
States
Canada
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Charleston
W.va
Madisonville
Carter
W.A
Tony” Boyle
Labor Department
Miners For Democracy
Boyle
Miler
Reform
Water projects vote tests Carter veto risk
Congress backed 16 of 17 disputed water projects in a 218 to 14 House vote, narrowing veto concerns as the $10.2 billion public works bill advances. White House aides noted surprising strength for spending restraint and Carter eyed a possible veto.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Carter
White House
House
Auburn
California
Senate
Jody Powell
Taylor County Board Keeps Busy Through Vacation Session
Taylor County directors met for nearly three hours approving a vocational summer school for West Virginia Industrial School for Boys inmates, an eight week Grafton Middle School reading program, a federal funded remedial reading effort for about 300 students, and a Riverside Drive School basketball league led by coach Butch Haswell.
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Billbyrd
Grafton
Taylor County
Board of Education
West Virginia Industrial School
Grafton Middle School
Grafton High
Butch Haswell
Riverside Drive
Obituaries from Grafton and Canton areas
Multiple obituaries list Danielle Lee Brown five months, Robert T Linn 82, Maude B Brown, Andrew L Auvil born 1912 in Thornton with Canton ties. Details include birth dates and places, survivors such as parents spouses children, and funeral home notes with incomplete arrangements.
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Grafton
Danielle Lee Brown
Lee Mason Brown
Kathy Lynn Myers Brown
Rt. 3
Fetterman
Leroy Brown
Rt. 5
John
Thelma Myers
Rt. 4
Canton
Ohio
Andrew L. Auvil
Thornton
Bombs shake Spain's first free election in 41 years
Separate bombings in Seville and along Basque rail lines injure three as polling opens for Spain's landmark vote. Long lines form, with an anticipated 80 percent turnout among 23 million voters. Polls show a close race between Adolfo Suarez's Democratic Center Union and Felipe Gonzalez's Socialist Workers party amid a fragmented field.
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Miller
UMW
Patterson
Madrid
Spain
Seville
Justice Ministry
Adolfo Suarez
Middle Road
The
Democratic Center Union
Felipe Gonzalez
Socialist Workers Party
Popular Socialist Alliance
Popular Alliance
Christian Democrats
Suarez
Juan
Hospital Register Admits and Discharges in Grafton Area
Hospital register lists admissions on June 14 for Vickie Powell Sanford Kennedy Robert Walters Anita McMaster Carol Keener Troy Mauller and discharges including Ivy Dixon Elizabeth Wolfe Kathleen Brown Lillian Shank. A death is reported for Robert T Charles aged 82, with funeral arrangements by Knotts Funeral Home and Intermont Bluemont Cemetery.
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Ivy Dixon
High St
Grafton City Hospital
Grafton
Robert T. Charles Linn
Sanford and Linn
Anna Flesher Linn
John D. Linn
Charles R. Linn
Vickie Powell
Sanford Kennedy
Robert Walters
Anita
McMaster
Carol Keener
Troy Mauller
Elizabeth Wolfe
Kathleen Brown
Lillian Shank
Linn
Robert T. Charles
Knotts Funeral
Hartzel Bodkin
Intermont Bluemont
Knotts Funeral Home
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Powell
District 23
Kentucky
United Steelworkers Union
Columbia
Betty Rose Morrison
Elks
David Blair
Taylor
Hepzibah
Haymond
Pruntytown
Knottsville
James Brown
G.A. Brown and Son, Inc
Grafton High School
Diane C. Craft
Sherry L. Muncy
Juanita Everly
Denise M. Mead
John K. Takarsh
Beverly Workman
Thomas Goff
Russell Walls
Charlotte Dillion
Terry L. Decker
Anna Jarvis
Chip R.B. Ingram
Oscar Farance
William Croston
Lynne N. Immell
Joseph J. Lester
Ruth V. Breedlove
Ronald EK. Dellinger
Dellinger
George McCauley
McCauley
George Motor Sales
Parkhill
Charles Bennett, Jr
William Weaver
A. James Isner
Michael S. Murphy
Tony J. Veltri
Gandee
Thomas and Sprouse
Brown
Vocational Technical Center
Michael Murphy
McKinney Field
Karen Hern
Hern
Nelson Lantz
Mark Edwin Myers
Ozin Leroy Brown
Maude B. Brown
West Railroad Street
Bartlett Funeral Home
Andrew L. Anvil
Borden Milk Company
East Canton
Dorothy Courtney Auvil
Margery Rebleski
Janet Auvil
Waynesburg
Ellen Krohs
Andrew L. Auvil Jr
Virginia Hall
Mr. Auvil
Rev
A.C. Auvil
Martha Wilson Auvil
United Methodist
Carlos
Manuel Gutierrez Mellado
Franco
Hospital Register
Penny Sevier
Salem
Shirley Flint
Tunnelton
Virginia Turner Preston Memorial Hospital
Terra Alta
Harry Sisler
Lucinda Sisler
John Fulick
Newburg
Barona
Rhea
Philippi
Douglas Mayle
James Weaver
Sharon Hebb
Dana Califf
Brownton
Margaret Pisinn
Buckhannon
Theodore Zirkle
Alvy Shreve
Stonewood
William Biffle
Clarksburg
Troy Bennett
Mary Cringler
Volga
Mary Huffman
Belington
James Scott
Pearl Dadisman
Rosemont
Carolyn McGee
Admissions
David Walls
Jesse McCauley
James E. Scott
Goffie
Lisa Kines
Zella Poling
Dorothy Snyder
Harland Haller
Flemington
Edward
Talkington
Sharon Banks
Mill Creek
William Long
French Creek
Coleman Ware
Edwin Grey
Sutton
Virginia Demastus
Weston Pauline Brown
Catherine
Gilbert Dunn
Vera Bowers
McBee
Burnsville
Addie L
Agnes England
Sigeria Dadisman
Inez Murphy
Melcroft
Pennslvania
Rebecca Wilders
Elizabeth Stuart
Josephine Sperry
Sandra Zaworski
Bridgeport
Jacqueline Hodkins
Simpson
Iya Smith
Buckhan
monsEssie Farrah
Mary McCord
Roy Drummond
Linda Kennedy
Martha and Son
Rowlesburg
Pauline Davis
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