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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1996
Page
1
Crash Kills All Aboard Airborne Express DC-8
A DC-8 traveling from Greensboro to Wilmington crashed into East River Mountain near Narrows Virginia around 6 14 p m in fog with no survivors reported. Rescue teams worked overnight with FAA investigators preparing to search at daylight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
FAA
L.W. Findley
Virginia State Police
Community Christmas Tree party aids 600 local children
About 600 local and area children will attend today’s Community Christmas Tree event at Bluefield City Auditorium Annex on Stadium Drive. The noon party features Santa Claus and entertainment by Cecil Surratt Don Whitt Jim Nelson and Nancy Tanoukhi and her friends. Donations bring the total to 10,351.10 with 240 raised today and thanks to Four Seasons Country, the goal was met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield City
Stadium Drive
Jolly Old Fat Man
Santa Claus
Cecil Surratt
Don Whitt
Jim Nelson
Nancy Tanoukhi
Four Seasons
Weather and lottery notes from the West Virginia region
Partly cloudy weather with a 30 percent rain chance and highs in the mid-50s. Tonight, rain likely with lows near 40. Lottery results show Red 8 19 White 4 9 Blue 9 20, Powerball 13 16 20 42 44 45, no winner. two $100,000 tickets sold in West Virginia. Wednesday’s estimated jackpot is 45 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Woman Critical After I 77 Crash Avoiding Christmas Figurines
A 24-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition after her car overturned on I-77 while trying to avoid two Christmas figurines in the road. Slick road conditions caused other crashes including a single-vehicle wreck that left a 40-year-old woman in guarded condition. The incidents occurred near the 8 mile and 16 mile markers, with authorities uncertain about the figurines’ origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Princeton Community Hospital
Robby Mason
Princeton Rescue Squad
Virgin Mary
Joseph
Mason
PCH
Buchanan Chamber Inducts McGlothlin to Hall of Fame
In Buchanan County Virginia Woodrow McGlothlin, long tied to mining and timber, is named the county Hall of Fame inductee by the Buchanan County Chamber of Commerce. At 82 he advocates a tech and education driven future, noting farms stay his hobby while grandchildren spark his belief in the new economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanan Chamber
McGlothlin
Hall of Fame
Garden Creek
Buchanan County
Woodrow McGlothlin
United Coal
Virginia
Nomic
Buchanan County Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Issue and Answers
Jewell Ridge Sailor Shipments Home For Christmas Eve
Seaman James Pruitt a 1991 Richlands High School graduate stationed in San Diego sails out on Christmas Eve aboard the USS Lewis B. Puller. He earned a Letter of Commendation after a Caribbean deployment that seized about 5,000 in illegal narcotics and arrested five traffickers. Pruitt's family in Jewell Ridge note his potential for a Navy career as the Puller supported Coast Guard drug interdiction off Haiti.
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Ewell Ridge
Jewell Ridge
Navy
Lewis B. Puller
James Pruitt
Richlands High School
San Diego
Calif
Puller
Pruitt
Roger Pruitt
Ment
Caribbean Sea
Coast Guard
U.S
Haiti
Tion
H. Sam Samuelson
Navy Public Affairs Center
Roger Keith Pruitt
Air Force
South Carolina
Sandra and
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Bill Archer
The
Seaman James Pruitt
Richlands High
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