Buildings Commission Seeks N and W Passenger Service Restore
The Bluefield Board of Directors discussed reviving Norfolk and Western passenger trains, urging city officials and Amtrak to support expanded service. They noted demolition work, code enforcement efforts, and a 90 day one way plan for Burton Street to ease traffic, plus a potential 12.2 million sewage project rate change.
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Jim Terry
Bluefield Board of Directors
Local Buildings Commission
Norfolk and Western Railway
Edwin Elliott
N&w
Allan Connolly
Elliott
Amtrak
Whis Broadcast
Fred Burton
Bluefield Buildings Commission
Building Commission
Commission
Gerald Pickus
Jim Meadows
Burton Street
Joe Walker
State Public Service Commission
West Virginia
Walker
PSC
Sanitary Board
Virginia
Five Arrested in Welch Break-In at Goodson's Thrufway Market
Police in Welch arrested five suspects after a 3 a.m. break-in at Goodson's Thrufway Market on McDowell Street. The group smashed a front window to enter, stole about $500 in merchandise, with most recovered after warrants were issued for two additional suspects.
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Goodson
McDowell Street
Welch
R. K. Miller
Andy Kelly
Bill Wolfe
Alvin Cook
Pineville
Donna Kowalski
Larry Stevenson Pope
Grover Shaw
Shirley Bailey
Welch Justice of the Peace
R. J. Allen
Miller
SVCC Players Present Four One-Act Plays Friday Night
Southwest Virginia Community College theater group will stage four one-act plays Friday at 8 p.m. in the SVCC auditorium. Works include Sham, Coming Through the Rye, The Boor, and Kephas and Elphemy. Admission is free. At 9 a.m. the SVCC players under Nancy Cyphers will perform Sham and The Boor for Richlands High School seventh grade English classes.
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Southwest Virginia Community College Players
SVCC
Frank G. Tompkins
William Saroyan
the Boor
Anton Tchekoff
Kephas
Elphemy
J. B. Handelsman
SVOC
Nancy Cyphers
Sham
Richlands High School
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Reader Notice
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists its masthead with address 412 Bland Street Bluefeld West Virginia and notes Associated Press affiliation and circulation details including annual and monthly rates, with advertising and circulation information for readers.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefeld
W. Va
Associated Press
All News Dispatches
Ews
West Virginia
Mator Rovie Rats
Mathews, Shannon,& Cullen
County Records 29 Divorces Granted in Mercer County
Mercer County Circuit Clerk reports twenty nine divorces filed in November. Cases include Lester versus Lester Yost versus Yost Butt versus Butt Sells versus Sells Kidd versus Kidd Holbrook versus Holbrook Dowell versus Dowell Miller versus Miller Bailey versus Bailey Sells versus Sells Broyles versus Broyles Conner versus Conner Rotenberry versus Rotenberry Harvey versus Harvey Ellison versus Ellison Overbaugh versus Overbaugh Walker versus Walker Clinebell vs Clinebell Jenkins versus Jenkins Dinger versus Dinger Proffitt versus Proffitt OverbaughWalker and Clinebell list paired spouses with the month’s filings.
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Mercer
Circuit Clerk
Ronald £. Lester
Darlene D. Lester
Marilynn A. Yost
Robert W. Yost II
Elizabeth E. Butt
Marion C.butt
Nina L. Syres
Charles E. Syres
Barbara G. Sells
Jackie R. Sells
Alma H. Kidd
Jesse S. Kidd
Elinor Holbrook
Arthur Lawson Sr 78 Bluefield railway veteran dies
Arthur W. Lawson Sr. 78 of 200 Virginia Ave Bluefield died Tuesday after a long illness in a Bluefield hospital. He was a World War I veteran, retired N and W Railway switchman, and member of East End Baptist Church and Bluefield Old Guard. Survived by daughter Florence Rager of Chillicothe MO son Arthur W Lawson Jr of Bluefield two brothers and two grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Thursday Mercer Funeral Home Chapel Bluefield. Burial Monte Vista Park Cemetery. Friends may call 5 to 9 p.m. today at Mercer Funeral Home.
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Arthur W. Lawson
Virginia Avenue
Bluefield
Ivanhoe
Thomas G
Susan Phillips Lawson
N & W Railway Co
East End Baptist Church
Earl
Florence) Rager
Chillicothe
Matthew J. Lawson
Ray Lawson
Mercer Funeral Home Chapel
Alton W. Jessee
Charlie G.daley Jr
Minna Greenspon
Highland Ave
Bluefield Hospital
Isaac and
Sabena Frank Greenspon
Walter Greenspon
Charlottesville
Jerry Greenspon
Cinnaminson, N
Connie Nadrowski
Kansas City
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Allen Klien
Yigitove
Monte Vista
Norris Kantor
David Katz
Jay Rodgin
Max Kammer
Jerry Pickus
Alvin Platnick
Sallie S. Peters
Ballard
Salem
Mercer County
Robert M. and
Mary Damewood Peters
Brown's Chapel
Martha Eads
Martha Ellene Coburn Eads
Narrows
Pearisburg
Allen Green
Kate Hale Coburn
Earnest Charles Eads
Edgar D. Earls
Rocky Mount
James L. Turner
Boyd Browning
E. M. Day
Special Guidance From SVCC On Winter Quarter Enrollment
Dr. Charles King of Southwest Virginia Community College announced week of December 17 to 21 as special counseling and registration for Winter Quarter. Services target nonstudents. new facilities allow openings in several programs for part time or full time study with day or evening options and financial aid. Winter classes start January 3 near Richlands. campus visits or calls at 964-4027 ext 220. The college closes December 21 evening until January 2.
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Charles King
Southwest Virginia Community College
King
SWCC
Additional Petit Jurors Announced in Mercer County
Judge Howard Jarrett announces additional petit jurors for the November term of the Mercer County Circuit Court. Jurors report January 2 at 9 30 a m from Beaver Pond District East River Rock Plymouth Jumping Branch with list of names including Mrs James A Tabor Freddie Howard Leathie Beavers D Andrew Johnston Bernard Lewis A E Quesenberry Lois Rector Anna M Bailey George Sims Floyd W Hensley Debra L Murrell Mary Oakes Mary Joe Wood and others.
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Mercer County
Howard Jarrett
Beaver Pond District
James A. Tabor
Tony Veneri
Thomas Lucas
Elmo Agee
W. T. Uleh
Bruce M. Worth
Douglas C. Lusk
Carl Mariotti
M. B. Hale
David R. Rohnke
Lucille Thornhill
Lois Rector
Anna M. Bailey
George Sims
Floyd W. Hensley
Thomas Walthall
June Jacobs
James R. Fleming
Macel Lee Nowlin
Debra L. Murrell
Floyd Ferguson
Mabel White
Rock
Claude Karnes
Calvin McMillion
Gale Young
Lawrence Meadows
Cecil Shrewsbury
Emmet Neely
Earl Kelley
H. H. Thomas
J. E. Tatum
Thomas A. Warden
Court Upholds Phibbs Ruling In WV Case
The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a Mercer County Circuit Court ruling that set aside a $7,500 jury verdict for Dexter E. Phibbs and replaced it with a judgment for Town-O-Tel Courts Inc. The suit arose from Phibbs’s fall outside a Princeton motel registration office.
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West Virginia Supreme Court
Mercer County Circuit Court
Dexter E. Phibbs
Town-O-Tel Courts Inc
Phibbs
Princeton
Virginia Better Prepared For Energy Shortage Than Most States
The Virginia Employment Commission said Virginia is better positioned than most states to handle an energy crisis, with about 25 percent of electricity from nuclear plants and a diversified economy. It notes tourist areas near East Coast centers aid fuel vulnerability and Warns 1974 could bring higher unemployment if fuel shortages worsen, potentially rising from 2.7 to over 3.5 percent and jobs from about 53,000 to over 65,000.
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Virginia
VEC
Richmond
Virginia Employment Commission
Commission
Florida
AEP outlines coal plans and Western coal debate
AEP executives discuss expanding coal supply and in house production targets through 1974 amid fuel shortages and labor strife. They warn West Virginia capacity limits curb export of power while low sulfur Western coal tests at John Amos plant inform future plant fuel use and policy.
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Cook
AEP
ABP
United Mine Worker
West Virginia
Appalachian Power Co
Appalachian
Hammer
Marshall County
Ohio Power Co
John Amos
Putnam County
Indiana
Ohio
Registration At Concord Delayed For Spring 1974
Concord College delays begining of Spring Semester 1974 registration and classes due to energy crisis. Advising is extended to noon on Jan 8 with registration 1 30 to 4 30 pm then Jan 9 8 30 am to 4 30 pm. Night classes 6 40 pm Jan 8 9. Classes start Jan 10. Reading Day May 1 canceled. Residence halls open Jan 7 at 1 pm. Bear cubs are usually blind at birth.
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Concord College
Montcalm Family Loses Home In Blaze
A Montcalmo Mercer County home owned by the Jimmy Hodges family burned Tuesday night from an overheated flue. The blaze destroyed the house and all contents, a dog tied inside was killed, and responders faced freezing temperatures and water shortages. No damage total was available.
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Montcalm
Jimmy Hodges
Mercer County
Montcalmo
Hodge
Bluefield
Bluewell
Hodges
Weather Across Regions Braces for Snow and Cold
Snow storms hit eastern and western coast states. Richmond Virginia received nearly 5 inches while the mid Atlantic and Great Lakes areas saw clouds and snow. Mount Shasta and Sierra Nevada reported seven inches. Temperatures ranged from 13 degrees in Duluth to 60s in southern Florida.
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Associated Press
Richmond
mid-Atlantic Coast
Great Lakes
Appalachians
National Weather Service
Sierra
Nevada Mountains
California
Nevada
Mount Shasta
Washington
Florida
Boggess Agrees To Settlement In Roanoke Project Case
Princeton architect Ted Boggess has agreed to a settlement in a Roanoke Virginia federal case tied to Shenandoah Towers a 143 unit project. Shenandoah Homes Inc accuses Pittsburgh Testing Lab of submitting falsified core drill reports and sought relief from Boggess firm and others as third party defendants. Settlement amount undisclosed but sources say 25 thousand may cover Boggess liability to Pittsburgh Testing Lab. The project costs about 2 million and involved caissons versus pilings after foundation issues were found.
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Princeton
Ted Boggess
U. S. District Court
Roanoke
Boggess
Shenandoah Homes Inc
Pittsburgh Posting Tab Inc
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Testing Lab
E. T. Boggess & Associates
A. R. Carney
Serop Nersesain
Washington, D. C
McKinney Drilling Co
Richmond, Va
J. H. Fralin & Son
Shenandoah Towers
Hawthorne Road
First Church of God
Shenandoah Homes
Carney
Pala
Blavefield
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Buildings Commission
Nikko J. Jenkins
Alan L. Jenkins
Sharon H. Dinger
William K. Dinger
Theresa Proffitt
Jerry R. Proffitt
Cornelia
Overbaugh
Ted E. Overbaugh
Connie Walker
Ernest Walker
Carolyn K. Clinebell
George L. Clinebell
Bailey
LeRoy
Barbara Lilly Bailey
Arlington, Va
Campatecas
Bailey Cemetery
Camp Creek
Bailey Funeral Home
Robert Allen
Robert
Bob) Allen
Reece St
Lugo
T. W. Ferris JR
Pittsburgh Hospital
Jim Garcia
Theron Young
Chicago
Houston Woodburn
Robert Y. Woodburn
The
Community College
Richlands
Concord
Bluefield Rescue Squad
Dee Wilson
NOAA
U.S
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Gulf of Mexico
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Bastorr
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Helena
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Milwaukee
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Omaha
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Ein Philad
Phoenix
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Beckley
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