Word: kanawha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lakers checked in at Charleston's Kanawha Hotel. The hotel clerk refused to give a room to Baylor and his Negro teammates, Ed Fleming and Alex ("Boo") Ellis. Angrily, the whole squad stalked out, registered at a Negro motel. "They were not even polite at the hotel,'' Baylor fumed. "They told us we couldn't even get in a halfway decent restaurant...
...long ago he specialized in booze and brawling. On his way home from the Army in 1946, Ken stopped in at his favorite bar at Sin Corner-Summers Street and Kanawha Boulevard-and there he learned that both his father and brother had just died. He promptly went on a bender that could be heard for blocks. Back at his job on the force, he was suspended three times for drinking, improper conduct, breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were...
...When this state was formed 93 years ago there was a fight over the name. Many people now believe that West Virginia is merely western Virginia. Numerous residents of the state, in giving their addresses on out-of-state hotel registers, write "West (by God) Virginia." While Kanawha, Westsylvania, Augusta and others have been discussed in the legislative halls, the name which has won the widest favor is "Acadia," and means "a happy, prosperous land." The state would thus be the first in the alphabetical list of states and entitled to nominate Presidents ahead of Alabama. As it is, West...
...West Virginia, 21 white students went on strike at the Sherman High School in Seth because three Negroes had been admitted, and 300 parents held a protest meeting in Madison over 18 Negro pupils. Meanwhile, Kanawha County, seat of the capital, rescinded its earlier decision, ordered 2,905 Negroes back to segregated schools. But elsewhere in the state, there was progress of another sort. Last week 164 white students were peacefully enrolled at the once all-Negro West Virginia State College...
Last week the grand jury indicted 32 from Kanawha County for vote frauds, 18 Democrats and 14 Republicans. They ranged from ward heelers to the Republican mayor of Dunbar (pop. 8,032), who was charged with fraudulently adding to the votes cast for Charleston's Republican Mayor John T. Copenhaver in his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Despite its victory, the Gazette thinks the battle not yet over. It plans to campaign to change the state laws so the vote frauds can't be repeated...