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...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 Meanwhile, Kanawha County, seat of the capital, rescinded its earlier decision, ordered 2,905 Negroes back to segregated schools.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...
Even in West Virginia's Kanawha County, where corrupt elections are no surprise, the primary last May was a standout. The minute the Charleston Gazette (circ. 86,500) saw the returns, it smelled fraud. Many precincts in the capital's county showed a far heavier vote than could be expected from the size of the registrations. City Editor Harry G. Hoffman set two reporters, Charles R. Armentrout and James A. Hill, to work looking for the buried bodies...
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...
Western Michigan (Grand Rapids): Lee M. Hutchins '46, 38 Oakes Street S.W., Grand Rapids: West Virginia: Frank R. Lyon Jr. '36, 1601 Kanawha Valley Building, Charleston, West Virginina; Worcester: December 28, Charles A. Hill '39, 93 Grant Street...