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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1983
Page
2
Obituary notices for Mrs. Paul Shawver, Effie Compton, Albert Barton, Thomas Osborne Sr., Charles Gearing Jr., Claude Thornton, Mae Carper, Andy Larimer, Louis Owens, Elmer Sadler, Billy Curry, and Howard White outline long illnesses, family survivors, church ties, and scheduled services. Details include burial sites, pallbearers, and memorials, with multiple towns in Virginia and West Virginia.
Local newspaper masthead from Bluefield West Virginia details publication, pricing, and mailing information including office address, Associated Press affiliation, circulation practices, and subscription rates for West Virginia and other zones. No article content or events described.
William J. Shelton of Princeton, 70, died Monday night in a Princeton hospital from natural causes. A retired truck driver and Kee St United Methodist Church member, he is survived by four sisters Katherine Morris Cleo Bird Georgia Shelton Mattie McCreedy and one brother Elmer Shelton. Services were held at Burns-Wornal Chapel with interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Clarence Coffey, 70, of Iaeger died Tuesday in Welch hospital after a long illness. funeral arrangements were pending at Fanning Funeral Home.
William Jack S. Fisher age 75 of Route 1 Box 352 A Princeton dies. Funeral at 3 p.m. at Cravens Shires Funeral Chapel Bluewell with Rev. Larry Lykene and Rev. Willie Hampton officiating. Burial Roselawn Memorial Gardens Bluefield Princeton Road. Pallbearers Claude Fletcher Hubert Fletcher Larry Price Billy Ray Morris Benny Morris Ricky Morris.
A Monroe County man, David W. Witt of Greenville, stands charged with cultivating marijuana with intent to distribute. A 12 member jury was impaneled Tuesday afternoon as U.S. Attorneys begin calling witnesses in the Charleston federal case presided by Judge John Copenhaver. Court resumes at 9 30 a.m.
A Chessie System employee 31 year old Michael Ray Pullen of Hinton died after reportedly jumping from a train and being dragged along railroad tracks near Greenbrier County. Deputy Perry McGuire said the incident occurred shortly after midnight and the medical examiner ruled death at the scene.
Louisiana governor rejected a stay for Robert Wayne Williams slated for the Angola electric chair while Georgia faces appeals in two other death sentences. Williams murdered an A&P guard during a Baton Rouge robbery, with the state noting the chair's 22-year absence and the broader context of ongoing capital punishment appeals.
Robert H. Burns, the Democratic incumbent, was declared the winner of the Tazewell County Commissioner of Revenue race after a recount. Totals showed Burns 6,285 to E. C. Wilson Jr. 6,277, with one stray paper ballot added at a machine precinct. No votes were challenged and the result stands.
Two dynamite bombs hidden in attache cases rocked a Nassau County building housing a Navy recruiting station in East Meadow after a telephone threat sent 170 people fleeing. No injuries were reported as the United Freedom Front claimed responsibility and issued a statement against U.S. actions in the Americas. In a separate note, federal aid to state and local governments fell in 1981 82 for the first time in decades, though welfare aid rose, with total government revenues at 1.1 trillion and spending at 1.2 trillion.
Liz Taylor, 51, is in a $130-a-day rehabilitation program at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage after acknowledging drug dependency linked to long term medical treatments. Dr. Michael Roth said former first lady Betty Ford is counseling Taylor, who began treatment on December 5.
An opinion suggesting that taking the driver out of decisions on drink driving would improve highway safety. It argues that fewer people would be behind the wheel if others were driving them or if alcohol impaired the operator, implying benefits to roadways.
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