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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1978
Page
1
Obituaries list Bessie Arnold, Phillip Vance, Cecil Wampler, Marvin Bailey, Henry Layfatte Vandyke, and others from Tazewell and Buchanan counties. Details include ages, family survivors, and funeral arrangements with various churches, cemeteries, and hometowns in Raven, Haysi, Crumpler, and Bluewell.
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph announces its establishment date and morning publication details. It lists address at 417 Bland Street and WV circulation rates, including mailed subscriptions for West Virginia at 46.80 per year and home delivery at 3.90 per month, with zone variations and audit bureau membership noted.
Roosevelt Patterson Sr was a lifelong Bluefield resident born to William and Lizzie Johnson Patterson. He attended Mercer County public schools and United Holy Church. Survived by wife Louie Mae Pinky Patterson five sons three daughters one brother four foster brothers and sisters and three grandchildren. Funeral held Thursday at 2 p.m. Lugo Funeral Service Chapel with burial in Maplewood Cemetery Tazewell Va. Calling hours today 7 to 9 p.m.
William M. Ken Tabor 70 of Falls Mills Virginia died Monday in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness. He was a WWII veteran Panama, former Falls Mills Garage owner, longtime Falls Mills United Methodist Church member, and held offices in the Pocahontas American Legion. He is survived by his wife Sue Carter Tabor, son David C. Tabor in Germany, two sisters and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held.
A New York man, Dennis A. Emerson, 23, of Mayville, was killed Tuesday afternoon in an accident on the West Virginia Turnpike. His wife Sharon, 23, was listed in critical condition at Princeton Community Hospital after their car apparently lost brakes, went through a guardrail, and plunged over an embankment. Details were not available late Tuesday.
Two cars collided on Park Avenue in Princeton Monday afternoon. Mary H. Williams faces failure to yield and Ruby G. Damewood faces failure to maintain control. Williams ran a stop sign on Straley Avenue, hitting Damewood’s 1977 Oldsmobile, which flew into Mrs. Charlotte Mitchell’s lawn at 206 Park Avenue causing about 5 000 in damage to lawn and fence. Damewood’s car was a total loss. Williams’s car sustained about 350 in damage. Sgt. A. L. Archer and patrolmen C. M. McDowell and W. L. Criss Jr. investigated.
Frederick Anthony Graham, visiting at Marvin Gore residence in Shin Brier Ridge Bramwell, was listed in critical condition at a Princeton hospital after he allegedly cocked a .12 gauge shotgun aimed at Trooper S. E. Pennington while officers served a peace warrant. Trooper Pennington returned fire. no charges filed and the troopers were uninjured.
Appalachian Power reports Glen Lyn Virginia plant has coal to run generators 58 days amid N and W strike. Only Glen Lyn and Clinch River plants affected. About 5,000 West Virginia miners idle awaiting resolution. some may qualify for federal and state aid per UMW official Ernest Moore.
The National Weather Service predicts showers for most of the southern United States extending to Vermont and New Hampshire. Washington, northern Idaho and Montana are expected to have rainfall today. Tuesdays satellite imagery shows extensive cloudiness in the northern Plains and upper Midwest with a thunderstorm band reaching Missouri. The Southeast has scattered to broken clouds while a heavy Northwest cloud band remains.
Area Arch Moore supporters are invited to a fund raising reception for the Republican senatorial candidate tomorrow evening at Bluefield Country Club. John Shott urges area residents to attend to meet Arch Moore and Mrs Moore. The event begins at 5 30 with no speeches and requires a 50 dollar contribution. reservations by telephone tonight.
The swimmer begged to keep going after being pulled aboard at 7 45 a m CDT and cried that a 50 hour swim would not help. Du Moulin warned there was no progress as adviser Spencer Evans said the swim remained in doubt with the team facing a likely failure.
West Virginia lawmakers heard a statewide coal car shortage is delaying shipments. Edwin Wiles of the West Virginia Coal Association said March to July surveys show many producers had only up to 60 percent of needed cars, with some storing as much as 120000 tons awaiting loading. He cited deteriorating track beds, inadequate crews, and irregular hopper car delivery as worsening factors, while Cleo Jones testified for Norfolk and Western, Conrail, and Chessie System that their lines handle the bulk of coal traffic.
United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller blames the coal industry for dropping productivity, citing poor management and lack of miner training. He urged comprehensive training for operators and repair work to boost efficiency, and warned management attitudes hinder progress. Miller predicts UMW influence will dominate coal production for two decades.
West Virginia’s top ten coal counties mostly declined in 1977 reducing statewide output to 95.4 million tons from 108.8 million in 1976. Monongalia stood alone with over ten million tons, while counties like McDowell Boone Logan Wyoming and Kanawha posted sizable drops. Underground mines fell to 831 though strip mining rose to 22.4 percent of total production and mining employment rose to 61,815 jobs.
Bluefield starts an intensified 40 hour week firemen training class for a new Cumberland Road satellite station. The program, under Captain Mitchem, will replace on the job shifts with classroom plus practical work and aims for full operation in coming months.
A volunteer from East River Volunteer Fire Department pulled a burning couch from a Princeton department store late Tuesday evening, likely saving the building from heavy damage. Fire officials put the blaze at about 9 30 p.m., noting damage was limited to smoke.
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