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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1990
Page
1
An 11-year-old environmental newsletter publisher in Crownsville, Md., received a gold MasterCard with a $5,000 limit after applying before summer camp. Tommy Mullaney, born Nov 10 1978, listed himself as student and publisher with weekly 5 dollar income. He marveled at the hologram and questioned who ran the bank.
More than 600 descendants of William O. Coe and John Henry Russell gather August 10 to 12 in Orleans Nebraska for a joint reunion. Events include a watermelon seed spitting contest a men's hammer throw and a women's skillet toss. The two pioneer families settled farms in Nebraska and Kansas near the town of 1,109 residents ten miles from the state line.
In Glenwood Springs Colorado AP report Vicki Kesler gave birth to Breanne Marie as the family welcomed their 12th child. Valley View Hospital provided its services free for this delivery and administrator John Johnson noted the gesture while spokeswoman Betty Mahan said the value of the free services was unclear.
Phyllis Gil, wife of Bluefield Orioles manager Gus Gil and an Aluet, recalls the Exxon Valdez disaster hitting Port Graham on the Kenai Peninsula. She spent three months helping cleanup near Windy Bay and Prince William Sound, witnessing devastation and confusion in her coastal community.
FBI counts 506 serious crimes in Bluefield in 1989, an 11 percent rise from 454 in 1988, with increases in robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft and arson. auto theft fell 12 percent. Two murders and four rapes were reported, while the overall rate reached 3,616 per 100,000 residents.
President Bush met with senior advisers to plan strategy to remove Iraqi occupation forces from Kuwait. Iraqi envoy Mashat said Kuwait authorities now control oil nation and that 11 of 14 missing Americans have been found and are free to leave. Washington questions Iraq pledge while keeping military options open.
Charles Owens chronicles Jenkinjones in McDowell County once a thriving coal town with two company stores a theater and schools that faltered as mining collapsed. He notes abandoned buildings and a population decline with nearby Jeanette now Anawalt once sharing in the boom.
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