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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1978
Page
3
Several obituaries note births and deaths across Bluefield Princeton area. Joe Anne Murphy and John D Reed descendants linked to Laeger Peterstown and Bradshaw families with service details at Calvary Baptist Church Fanning Funeral Home and Broyles Funeral Home. Burial plans, pallbearers, and visiting hours are listed for Memorial Cemetery Roderfield Roselawn and Woodlawn with ministers officiating.
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists its address at 412 Blend Street Bluvellet and notes subscription rates for West Virginia and home delivery, with AP membership and advertising representation details. The snippet appears as a fragmented masthead and rate sheet from an Associated Press affiliated newspaper.
Walter Lafayette Price 53 of Abingdon Virginia died Tuesday at Beckley Veterans Hospital after a long illness. He was WWII veteran and son of Henry and Selda Price. Survived by sisters Ruby Perkins Welch Beulah Brown Greenville Bernice Line Ft. Wayne and brothers Paul Price Roderfield Ralph Price Greenville. Funeral at 2 p.m. Friday at Church of God Big Sandy with Rev Gene Ball Rev Deward Frazier. Jaeger Memorial Cemetery Roderfield. Douglas Funeral Home War in charge.
Preston Anthony Hampton of Anawalt died Monday evening in Bluff City Tennessee. He was a retired miner and Holiness believer, son of the late Anthony and Mahalia Hampton. He lived in McDowell County sixty years and leaves a daughter Dorothy Adams and four sisters. Funeral services are set at the Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Petra Whitten and Elder Virginia Johnson officiating. Burial follows at Restlawn Gardens. The funeral home will receive callers after 5 p.m. today.
Mrs. William T. Sonia Christian of Fairway Hills Bluefield Virginia died in a Winston Salem North Carolina hospital after a long illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Mercer Funeral Home Bluefield.
Guy Robert Phillips 75 of Maybeury dies and funeral services are set for 2 p m today at Cravens Shires Funeral Home Chapel Bluewell with Rev Olen Robinson officiating Burial follows at Woodlawn Memorial Park Bluewell Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of services Stokes Hairston 83 of 107 Peck St Bluefield funeral at Mt Zion Baptist Church Peck Street Bluefield at 1 p m today with multiple pastors and church trustees serving as pallbearers deacons trustees and church groups also participating Lugo's Funeral Service Bluefield in charge of arrangements
William Martin Mills 81 of Roderfield will be funeralized today at 1 30 p m at the Douglas Mortuary Chapel Welch with Rev. Virgil Akers officiating Burial will follow in Carter Cemetery Roderfield Pallbearers are Bobby Mills Junior Mills Johnny Mills Billy Mills Teddy Mills and Jimmy Carter Lyda Cora Stansky 73 formerly of Elkhorn Ohio today graveside rites at 2 p m Woodlawn Memorial Park Bluewell Rev Harold Simpson officiating Pallbearers Frank French John Dillon Clayton Tabor Everette Tabor Ron Harris Bennett Fanning Funeral Home Northfork in charge of arrangements
Jason Andrew Farmer infant son of Henry Wayne and Tammie Lynn Farmer of Bluefield died after a short illness Wednesday in a Bluefield hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Dudley Memorial Mortuary in Bluefield Virginia.
McDowell County woman Carol Cameron underwent emergency surgery after reportedly shooting herself in the stomach at the Berwind Post Office shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday. Trooper Tom Mullins continues the investigation. she was transported to a Welch hospital and her condition is not known.
Four suspects linked to the Adwolfe Drug Store robbery in Marion Virginia have been returned from Tennessee. Walter Kelly Poe Joseph Michael Poe Robert C Debord and Shirley Marie Debord were arrested in Clarksburg Tennessee on July 28 after fleeing this town with about 300 dollars in drugs and 28 dollars in cash.
Motions to set aside the first degree murder conviction and grant a new trial for Lucille S. Nuckolls will be heard today in Mercer County Circuit Court before Judge William O. Bivens Jr. The July trial ended with a guilty verdict for the murder of husband Robert Eugene Gene Nuckolls on October 1, 1977. If upheld, the no mercy recommendation would bar parole. Defense attorneys Robert Holroyd and Michael Gibson seek dismissal on legal grounds and new evidence. state prosecutors David Knight and Bruce Ambrose are expected to present. Time is not set due to other matters before the judge.
Officers and delegates of Princeton Elks Lodge No. 1459 will attend the West Virginia State Elks Convention at Fairmont this weekend where lodge home to state association president Thomas Buck Thornton will be installed Saturday morning. The state convention will be held in Princeton next year. Mercer Farm Bureau Plans Policy Meetings will hold three policy committee meetings Aug 14 15 and 16 at churches in Athens MIBC Bluefield Princeton and Spanishburg to develop policies for the State Farm Bureau.
A Bluefield Virginia woman, Donalda Jean Engleman, 29, drove off Rt. 20 near Bluewell after another car crossed the center line. Her 1974 Dodge skidded and straddled a ditch with no injuries reported. state trooper T. L. Vance led the investigation.
Congressman Nick Rahall announced federal revenue sharing funds for the Fourth District. Eight counties and 40 towns will receive totals by community including Mercer County 543262 and Athens 5016, with four quarterly payments planned and Rahall praising the return of federal tax dollars to local communities.
The American Legion and its auxiliary plan gatherings this month. Legion To Meet at Heart Catholic Church at 8 p.m. Auxiliary meeting on August 10 at 6 p.m. at 424 Fairmont Street hosted by Mrs. Thomas Catsonis for a carry-in picnic before the session.
A %0 month old baby named Cathy Jo Vanhoozier was listed in very critical condition at Bluefield Community Hospital after a car struck her on Airport Road. Willie R Linkous Jr 41 was driving west when he saw the child and veered left to avoid her. The infant was rushed to Bluefield hospital by Rescue Squad. no charges were filed.
The Public Service Commission allowed Welch to raise water rates by 50 percent to cover a $30,696 net operating loss in 1977. The retroactive increase to July 15 may be refunded if portions are later disallowed after an investigation and hearing on the rate situation.
Smyth County sheriff reports Carroll Joe Kirk, 35, of Sugar Grove, died instantly at a sawmill about 10 miles southwest of Marion when a slab torn from a log by a passing saw struck him on the head. Investigator J C Brickey led the inquiry.
The Gospel Tabernacle on Roanoke Street in Bluefield will hold a prayer meeting tonight at 7 p.m. Local church schedule notes a faith gathering with worship and prayer time for residents.
Bluefield Sanitary Board approved moving to the third floor of the new municipal building pending final city and commission approvals. The West Virginia Water Co plans to relocate its district HQ to Princeton and establish a collection office at the board’s current site. James Buck Macomber named interim superintendent as Alvin Lester resigns. Final designs for repairs to a slide area at the Westside treatment plant should be ready by month’s end.
Warner, 51, husband of Elizabeth Taylor, placed a close second to Obenshain on the sixth ballot at the Virginia Republican convention on June 3. The central committee could ignore delegates, but Warner appears set to win the nomination with support from party leaders and lawmakers who did not replace Obenshain. He plans to fund a Virginians-led campaign, after previously financing with a personal loan of over 450000 dollars and selling 40 acres of his Middleburg farm to cover debt. He commits to four debates with Democrat Andrew Miller, and his wife Elizabeth Taylor Warner would actively campaign if nominated, despite her own loss of husband Mike Todd in a plane crash.
Carl R. Johnson of Atherton California sought deductions for personal living costs as research and development for a new economic theory. Judge Quealy ruled such expenses must be business related and Johnson, a tax shelter annuity seller, was not an economist, denying personal living expenses as deductible R and E. The opinion also notes that employer reimbursements affect taxable income and deductions.
Former Gov Arch A Moore Jr will speak at the Bramwell Street Fair at 6 p m. A candidate for the U S Senate he opposes Senator Jennings Randolph in the race.
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