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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1978
Page
2
The IRS mailed forms to 88 million Americans as a post holiday reminder. Forms should arrive by next week with most in five to seven days. Filing deadlines are Jan 1 restrictions for 1978 returns and April 16 for filing. Changes include home insulation credit and capital gains tweaks.
Bluefield board delayed action on establishing a no parking zone on Powell Street due to blocked water meter access at the Warner residence. The panel also tabled Bowman Street opening, and heard a proposal for a bicycle safety class by director Jason McGuire. No street action, two licenses and two building permits approved.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance may arrange another treaty talks session next month with Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil or Foreign Minister Butros Ghali and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. A Brussels meeting produced cautious optimism despite an ongoing impasse.
A 22-year-old Princeton area man was charged with malicious wounding after a Tuesday afternoon shooting at Mills' Trailer Park. Michael David Hall posted a $1,000 bond and awaits a preliminary hearing. Richard Cox of Athens was hit in the head and shoulders by a shotgun blast, drove to Princeton Community Hospital, and was listed in stable condition after surgery. Deputy Gerald Meadows said Hall was arrested at the scene.
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph announces its establishment in 1893 and its daily publication by the Daily Telegraph Printing Co at 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia. It lists subscription rates for mail in WV zones and home delivery, with West Virginia and other zones available on application. It notes Associated Press affiliation and membership in Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Police charged Richard Mitchell with murder and Linda Mitchell with accessory after the fact after the body of 24 month old Jason Mitchell was found beneath rubble in a torn town house four blocks from the couple’s home. The child had been reported snatched from a Marion department store shopping cart on Christmas Eve.
Death row inmate Smith appealing to the U S Supreme Court after Virginia Supreme Court upheld the state’s death penalty statutes. His case, the first death sentence appeal under the new laws, could push execution back for at least two years. If federal avenues fail, renewed federal challenge begins anew. Virginia last executed in 1962, electric chair. 232 men and one woman executed since 1908.
Informants report oil workers walkouts have slashed Iran's production from about 6 million to 400 thousand barrels daily, risking gasoline and kerosene shortages in Tehran within 24 hours. U.S. says no exports. Shah agrees to reduce powers under a proposed neutralist government led by veteran politician Gholan-Hossein Sadiqi.
Christmas sales varied by region with Marshall Field stores in Chicago reporting a very good week before Christmas and an overall satisfactory season. California posted notable gains as shoppers anticipated savings from Proposition 13 and bought more.
The National Weather Service forecasts snow in parts of the Northwest and flurries in northern Maine with rain for southern Texas. Tuesday’s satellite shows extensive northern snow cover and broad cloudiness across the north, with a broken band from Ohio to eastern Texas and broken frontal clouds over southern Florida.
Major General Jerry R Curry head of the Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground says warfare is a fact of life and he remains a Christian. He holds a doctor of ministry degree and is the first active duty general officer to lead a major RDT&E organization.
Dr Lewis Sayres testified Greta Rideout showed signs of forced intercourse after the alleged assault by her husband John Rideout. The defense noted Rideout admitted striking his wife and tampering with her car during police questioning.
Rusin, a largely silent elderly vagrant, paid $6,000 for cataract surgery years earlier. Police learned of him after a local couple reported open leg sores and frostbite related ulcers. He was jailed in Bridgeton after a trespassing arrest, received medical care and a bath, and refused to give his name until Polish-born Alex Urban intervened.
Investigators seek to prove bodies found in the Kankakee and Illinois rivers are Gacy victims after his alleged confession. Excavation at the Des Plaines site proceeds slowly due to methane and gases from decay. Gacy, twice divorced, lived at home six years, two alone, and served an Iowa sodomy sentence before paroling in 1971. He is held at Cook County jail's Cermak Hospital for heart condition concerns.
Kenneth Allen Dawson 51 of Rocky Mount North Carolina died in a local hospital after a short illness. Survived by his mother Eva Dawson Brown and widow Leola Dawson with siblings and half-siblings. Funeral 11 a.m. at Johnson Funeral Chapel in Rocky Mount with burial at Rocky Mount Cemetery.
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