Questions answered in Bluefield Daily Telegraph Q&A column
Local readers ask about jail food, Green Acres resort, Boy Scout origins, Princeton Community Hospital staffing, Pocahontas school transport, teen movie pricing, Mercer County road hazards, VA hospital care deadlines, housing studies, military exams for women, AVCO ad, and site selection for Buchanan County schools. Answers cite Sheriff Shrewsbury, Don Hare, Kay Wilson notes, hospital administrator James B. Dalton, principal Gaza Kovach, theater manager Clifton Hill, State Highways official Forest Rumburg, Veterans Administration policy, transit data, and Buchanan County School Board decisions.
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A. Forest Rumburg
State Department of Highways
Crowds Pack Jerusalem for Easter Resurrection Sites
Easter crowds thronged Jerusalem, with Christians visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Garden Tomb while Jews observed Passover at the Wailing Wall. The event followed a broad tourist surge tied to the Israeli Egyptian front cease-fire, and Vatican rites under Pope Paul VI marked the day with solemn Masses and ceremonies.
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Calvary
Golgotha
Hill of the Skull
Holy
Bondage
Egypt
Suez Canal
Gaza
Msgr
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Francois Cardinal Marty
Paris
Dino Cardinal Staffa
Holy See Supreme Court
Shlomo Goren
Moses’ Exodus
Vatican City
St. Peter’s Basilica
Paul VI
Three in Family Murder Case Ends With Suspect Shot
Alvin Cordle 48 of Whitewood Virginia is hospitalized in Huntington after shooting himself in the head at his sister's Williamson home. He faced three murder charges for killing his wife Orpha Cordle and two stepdaughters Edna Mae Keene and Alice Faye Keene. The killings occurred at Cordle’s Whitewood residence after a six hour manhunt by Virginia West Virginia authorities. If Cordle dies or is captured the case will proceed against him for triple murder.
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Alvin Cordle
Huntington
Williamson
Rachel Riggsey
Buchanan County
Cordle
Whitewood
Orpha Cordle
Edna Mae Keene
Alice Faye Keene
Thomas McDonald
Fire Base 6 Siege Presses North Vietnamese Attacks
South Vietnamese jets and U S B 52 bombers hit North Vietnamese forces besieging Fire Base 6 in the central highlands near Laos and Cambodia. Nine enemy deaths were reported with no Vietnamese casualties at the base, while additional shelling wounded two soldiers and sparked a fuel fire at Dak To 2 airfield.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Thailand
U.S. Strategic Air Command
Dak To
House Leadership Split Over Hoover Debates
House Majority Leader Hale Boggs criticizes J Edgar Hoover and seeks his resignation while Speaker Carl Albert refuses to back the demand. The dispute exposes a rift in the Democratic leadership in the House over FBI telephone tapping allegations against congressmen.
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John Beckler
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
House
Hale Bogg
J. Edgar Hoover
Democratic Party
Carl Albert
Boggs
Hoover
FBI
John McCormack
Albert
McCormack
Fiery Crash Claims Life Of Swords Creek Man
A single car crash near Swords Creek Virginia killed Rowland Barton a 29 year old resident of Swords Creek The vehicle left Secondary Route 688 two miles east of the post office struck a tree overturned and burned Barton employed by Hart Brothers Lumber Co at Honaker Virginia was identified by police as the driver The body was charred beyond recognition pending official identification and the crash occurred at 5 p.m.
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Swords Creek
Rowland Barton
R. M. Owens
Virginia State Police
Wytheville
Barton
Hart Brothers Lumber Co
Honaker
Brother Of Shooting Victim Dies In Wreck
Former McDowell County resident Harry Lee Hairston Jr. dies in Buffalo two car crash on return from funeral of his brother Jack Leon Hairston killed April 2. Hairston's murder charge sister-in-law pending grand jury action. Funeral services set at Johnny Barton's Council home with burial Fletcher Ridge Cemetery. Survivors include wife and several siblings.
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Canada
Buffalo
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Harry Lee Hairston Jr
McDowell
Hairston
Jack Leon Hairston
Katie Robinson
Robinson
Grand Jury
Johnny Barton
Earl Hubbard
Clyde Lambert
Walter Wampler
Fletcher Ridge
Area Man Victim Of Mine Mishap Near Oakwood Va
A mining accident near Oakwood Virginia claimed the life of 21 year old Raymond Clifford King at the Red Ash No 4 mine operated by Jewell Smokeless Coal Corporation. King born in Oakwood was the son of Clifford and Lucille King and left a widow Dakery Rowe King with two sisters and two brothers, plus grandparents. Funeral plans were pending at Buchanan Funeral Home Keen Mountain.
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Oakwood
Raymond Clifford King
Red Ash
Jewell Smokeless Coal Corporation
Clifford
Lucille Woodridge King
Rowe
Dakery Rowe King
Darlene Kay
Cathy Jean King
Til Rowe
George Elbert
Kenneth Wayne King
Thursday Woodridge
Welch
Mattie King
Bluefield
Buchanan Funeral
Keen Mountain
Welch mayor vows court fight over water service rights
W B Swope, Welch mayor, plans to press court action after Gov Arch Moore vetoed a bill allowing municipalities to condemn water companies. The report appears on page 14 section 2. Also noted: state law may curb Mercer County Sheriff's Department political activity in future elections.
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Welch
Arch Moore
Swope
Mercer County
Jim Terry
Bluefield
Edison Hollow
Telegraph
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Fiery Auto Crash
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Church of the Living God
Blackford
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John Henry Hess
Juanita Young
Louise Fuller
Hazel Testament
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Amelia
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Davenport
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