Advancing Reds Send More Refugees Fleeing in Vietnam
Communist led tanks and troops pushed toward Saigon advancing across Qui Nhon and Nha Trang. Provincial capitals Phan Rang and Phan Thiet fell with government forces abandoning cities. Refugees swarmed airports as U S consulate evacuated and records burned.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Qui Nhon
Nha Trang
Nguyen van Thieu
Air Vietnam
U.S
Phan Rang
Phan Thiet
Miners in District 28 eye return to work amid protests
UMW District 28 President Tom Owens says miners in Wise and Lee counties may resume work today after a holiday shutdown tied to John L. Lewis Day. About 1,500 miners statewide stayed away, while pickets and a Washington protest loom against strip mining legislation supported by Congress.
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Jim Gilberth
UMW
District 28
Tom Owens
Virginia
Wise County
Owens
Daily Telegraph
Wise
Lee
John L. Lewis
Southwest Virginia
Westmoreland Coal Company
Washington
District
Congress
Ford
Bluefield Considers New Hospital Across County
A Bluefield committee outlines a plan to build a new regional hospital costing 19 to 23 million dollars by acquiring Bluefield Sanitarium and St. Luke's Hospital, then merging services. The project would be funded by a revenue bond and could involve cooperation with Princeton Community Hospital to avoid duplicated services.
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Jim Terry
Bluefield
Bluefield Hospital
Poe
Bluefield Sanitarium
St. Luke’s Hospital
Charleston
Ernst & Ernst
Princeton Community Hospital
Sanitarium
St. Luke’s
Princeton
Bluefield Hospitals May Join To Expand City Health Care
Local health leaders discuss a potential bluefield hospital plan linking Bluefield Sanitarium and Princeton Community Hospital. Officials say shared services could reduce duplication and add new units such as a coastal cobalt cancer center and an expanded obstetric department through joint operations.
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John J. Bryan
Bluefield Sanitarium
Bryan
Bluefield
William Shepperd
Princeton Community Hospital
Princeton
Shepperd
Virginia Names Grundy Woman Mother of the Year
Corria Ann Ratliff of Grundy receives official proof as Virginia's 1975 Mother of the Year from Gov. Mills Godwin in a ceremony moved to the Old Senate Chamber due to crowd size. The 75-year-old widow, mother of seven and grandmother of 20, traveled with more than 30 relatives. she remains active teaching homemaking, crafts, and Head Start substitute work in Grundy.
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Corria Ann Ratliff
Richmond
Gov
Mills Godwin
Virginia
Grundy
State Capitol
Senate
Ratliff
Leon
Seneca Trail Highway Aims to Link New York to Bluefield
Mercer County officials heard from Kermit Zinn and J Kenton Lambert of the Seneca Trail Highway Association about a proposed 522 mile four lane route from Buffalo New York to the Bluefield Princeton area. Feasibility studies and corridor mapping are underway with funding proposed in state budgets.
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Jim Gilberth
Seneca Trail Highway Association
Mercer County
Alo
N. Y
Bluefield
Princeton
West Virginia
Kermit Zinn
J. Kenton Lambert
Farmers Home Administration
Mercer County Commission
Zinn
Lambert
U. S
House of Sentatives
John P
Murtha
D-Pa
Buffalo
Elkins
New York
Pennsylvania
Association
Zinn and Lambert
Corrido West Virginia Counties
Preston, Tucker, Randolph
Pocahontas
Greenbrier
Monroe
Summers
Mercer
U. S. Rt. 219
Bruceton Mills
Preston County
Randolph County
Richwood
Greenbrier County
George Kellenberger
Mike Jacobs
Jack Lloyd
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Augusta
Mamie Eisenhower
Ft. Gordon Hospital
George Foster
U. S. Army Medical Center
Moundsville
W. Va
David Fromhart
Inside Todays Telegraph
Billy Graham Bridge
Dear
Abby
Dixon Editorials
Monroe County
M4 Society
Weather
New Hospital
Burin A
Trle
James Foster
Godwin
Mrs. Ratliff
County Extension Service
Seneca
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