Bond Issue Date Set for New Princeton High School
Mercer County Board of Education set December 7, 1978 as the bond issue election date to fund a new Princeton high school near the Mercer County Vocational Technical Center on Stafford Drive with the rest to be used for renovations and additions within the county system. Superintendent Clinton Lilly said the district would present a detailed project list to voters, and noted the Princeton site is five and a half feet below flood level requiring core drilling. Bluefield delegates urged countywide support by offering comparable facilities there, arguing bond approval depends on broad county backing and addressing needs across all areas.
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Ony Tegapa Dre
Mercer County Board ‘of Education
Princeton
Clinton Lilly
Princeton Area
Mercer County Vocational Technical Center
Stafford Drive
Lilly
Princeton High School
SEM Partners
Princeton Junior High School
Seaway Container Co
Vocational Center
Vocational School
Princeton High
Bluefield
L.C
Corky"’ Caldwell
Thomas Honaker Jr
Caldwell
Honaker
Hidden Treasures Fade as Bluefield Store Closes
The Carrolls face a change in daily life as a Bluefield grocery store shutters, while blood tonics and herbal remedies remain in use at home. Neighboring shops and local families adapt routines around the closure.
Burkhart and Carroll Grocery Closes After 63 Years in Bluefield
Dan and Lettie Carroll run the Bland Street store solo as the neighborhood shop winds down. Old stock moves slowly amid memories of blood tonic and remedies once made on site. The Carrolls will rent the storefront and keep doors open while consigning decades of merchandise to family and buyers.
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Maryanne Stevens
Stett
Burkhart and Carroll
Bluefield
Dan
Lettie Carroll
Bland Street
Burkhart
Dan Carroll
Carrolls
Carroll
Burdock
Toledo
Colgate
Prosecutor Won't Prosecute Clothing Distribution Case
Buchanan County Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Steven F. Gibson said no criminal charges will be filed over the distribution of donated clothing from Avon Fashions of Newport News to Tazewell and Buchanan counties. A state police probe found no wrongdoing by Tazewell DSS officials and the report will not be released.
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Tazewell County
Newport News
Commonwealth
Roger Mullins
Department of Social Services
Avon Fashions
Tazewell
Buchanan
Timothy Welch
Buchanan Departments of Social Services
Buchanan County Department of Social Services
Harold French
Tazewell Department of Social Services
Guerrillas Free Hostages From Nicaraguan Capitol
Leftist guerrillas freed more than 1,000 hostages from Nicaragua's capitol building and flew to Panama with church mediation. About 100 people, including three Roman Catholic prelates, disembarked in Panama City as guards surrounded Tocumen airport. Ambulatory and stretchered evacuees moved to a terminal building while others loaded onto buses for undisclosed destinations.
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Panama City
Panama
Nicaragua
Honduras
Costa Rica
Las Mercedes
Managua
Venezuela
Blaze Claims 3 In Beartown Blaze
Tragedy struck Beartown Mountain in McDowell County when a house fire killed three people. Bonnie Mullins, 30, Dwayne Bishop, nine, and Ervin Mullins Jr., age three, died as fire crews from Jaeger, Raysal and Panther battled the blaze. Ervin Mullins and son Ricky were hospitalized with burns. Mullins risked his life saving others.
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Frank
Jarrell Davy Telegraph Stell
Beartown Mountain
McDowell County
Bonnie Mullins
Ervin Mullins Jr
Dwayne Bishop
Browning
Mullins
Ervin Mullins
Ricky
Welch
Ellis
Mae Dotson
N and W Seeks Court Order To Halt Interference
Norfolk and Western asks U S District Court in Roanoke to stop what it calls interference by the striking clerks union as the railroad presses to operate. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment on rights of the railroad and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks amid a 46 day strike. The railroad contends it must continue operations under the Interstate Commerce Act and seeks to bar the union from enforcing pre strike rules.
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Roanoke
Norfolk & Western Railway
N&w
U. S
Brotherhood of Railway and
Virginia
West Virginia
Clerks’ Union
Football Grid Rama opens at Mitchell Field tonight
The article notes x Class AAA teams begin a Grid Rama event at Mitchell Field this evening as season play starts. Also mentions the Greater Princeton Athens United Way setting a 50000 dollar goal for fall collections and Papal Conclave preparations by Cardinal rooms. Benn Bowles to crown successor at Daily Telegraph Golf Tournament.
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Princeton-Athens
Mitchell Field
Daily Telegraph
Benn Bowles
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B of E
Wade Spees
Nicaraguan
Tocumen International
Somoza
Anastasio Somoza
Senate
Andrew Miller
John Warner
Warner
Miller
Blaze
Beartown
Jaeger, Raysal and
Panther
Howard Sliger
Raysal
Sliger
Cpl. L. A. Browning
Welch State Police
Erwin Mullins
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