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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1981
Page
1
Obituary notices recount deaths and services across Summers County Bluefield and nearby towns including Pipestem Ellison Beckett Wills and McKinney families. Key figures include Lillie Margaret Wills 80 of Pipestem and Howard Wilbur Beckett 70 of Bluefield with multiple survivors and scheduled funeral rites at Ronald Meadows Mercer Funeral Home Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The Reagan administration will propose a comprehensive package of Freedom of Information Act reforms aimed at aiding businesses. Proposals include notifying firms when their information is requested and allowing contests, plus easier exemptions for trade secrets.
A head found in a canal south of Vero Beach was identified Tuesday as Adam Walsh the six year old missing since July 27 investigators in four counties searched canals and fields for the body. The identification came from dental records.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph established 1893 publishes morning news from Bluefield West Virginia. The notice lists mailing address, AP affiliation, delivery rates and subscription terms. It mentions the audit section and postmaster box for address changes.
Jack H. Fleshman longtime Steckler's Mens Store manager and Bluefield civic leader died Tuesday evening at 730 Parkway of a massive heart attack. He was 53 and survived by his wife Ruth Harless. He held leadership roles in Lions Club County Club Elks Masons Shrine Club Shrine Patrol and Merchants Association. A World War II and Korea veteran, Fleshman was a Christ Episcopal Church member and a Cincinnati Mortuary Science graduate. Funeral conducted Thursday at Christ Episcopal Church with Rev. William Lawson. burial Maple Hill Cemetery. Friends may call Mercer Funeral Home Wednesday 7 to 9 p.m.
Princeton appoints 24 year old Putnam County native Paul Dial as recreation director succeeding Danny Jackson. Dial, serving as Kanawha County Parks and Recreation Commission assistant director, will start Sept 1 at an annual salary of 13500 and bring a recreation management degree from Marshall University.
Bland Virginia. The third trial of Jackie Lloyd Sutherland a 42 year old Clintwood man charged with killing his wife began Tuesday in Bland County Circuit Court Jurors in Tazewell County and Bristol had previously heard conflicting accounts in the 1979 death of Joyce Evelyn Sutherland Sutherland pleads innocent to the October 26 1979 shooting Barbara Mullins the woman involved was convicted last year but later recanted her account and is serving a 20 year term she now faces firearm charges and the case has moved through multiple venues before Bland County setting continues the narrative from page one.
Tuesday's Bluefield City Board meeting featured department reports from Building Inspector Mallie Giampocaro detailing 339 permits totaling 1.53 million dollars for May through July and recreation chief Herb Sims touting a 250000 dollar budget with City Park Bowen Field and 12 playgrounds. Bea Paine took the oath of office as an absent member and other topics included weed control in Fulton and Toledo streets and a police brutality claim dismissed without action.
The Tazewell County School Board voted to raise lunch prices citing federal fund reductions and higher costs. Elementary lunches 75 cents, high/middle 85 cents, reduced 40 cents, teachers 1.10. Breakfast 50 cents, reduced 30, teachers 75. Indictment tied to county coal purchasing surfaced. board to retain counsel.
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