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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1972
Page
7
Concord College will offer more evening courses across education, business, social sciences, science and English starting Spring semester 1973. Registration for evening classes runs January 15 16 22 and 23 at 6 30 p.m in the Registrar Office with first meetings set for January 11.
Cumberland Heights Baptist Church on East Cumberland Road Bluefield plans a watch night with worship at 6 30 p m a carry in supper at 7 30 p m special singing by the Gospelettes at 9 p m directed recreation and fellowship at 10 p m and closing worship at 11 p m
The Bluefield Kiwanis Club and South Bluefield Kiwanis Club will meet Thursday January 4 at 6 p.m. at the Saraha Supper Club on North Street. The regular Monday meeting was cancelled for New Year’s Day. The USSR is a federation of 15 Union Republics.
Del Carlington Williams of Fairfax Falls Church said he has been approached about running for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1973. He told the Alexandria Gazette he has not decided but is weighing the offer seriously.
Amtrak announced it will lease two French turbine powered five car trains and buy two four car United Aircraft Corp sets for Chicago Milwaukee and St. Louis Chicago routes. Trains reach up to 125 mph on prototype routes with operations starting by next summer.
Authorities say three armed robberies within four hours in Huntington West Virginia are not connected. Robberies occurred at a McDonald s, a Convenient Food Mart, and a private home, yielding about 2600 dollars.
Austin Matthews a former Union Carbide Institute plant employee was fined 500 dollars after pleading guilty to allowing about 8300 gallons of chemicals to spill into the Kanawha River. U S District Court Judge Dennis R Knapp handed down the minimum sentence Wednesday in Charleston West Virginia.
CBS technicians vote 561 to 509 to accept a three year contract offering 5.5 percent yearly raises ending a seven week strike that began November 3 with about 1200 CBS TV cameramen technicians and engineers walking off. Art Korff said negotiations will be formalized in a few days and workers are to return to duty within 48 hours.
The Justice Department reports a near zero growth in serious crimes for the first nine months of 1972, with 83 cities posting decreases and 52 showing declines compared to 1971. Attorney General Kleindienst praises cooperative federal state and local efforts as the crime rise slows from a 19 percent peak in earlier years.
A storm over Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico brings rain snow and dust. Central Arizona sees flash flood watch as heavy rains persist. Tonopah Nevada records four inches of snow in six hours with 60 mph gusts at Daggett. Coastal Oregon and southern California dry out amid lingering showers. Temperatures range from 75 in McAllen Texas to 11 in Caribou Maine.
A Spring Glen miner, Louis Kosec, 61, sworn in as new international executive board member for United Mine Workers District 22 covering Utah, Arizona and Wyoming. He replaces Frank Stevenson after Arnold Miller’s reform victory. 27 board members total, 20 of Boyle’s appointees fired, four elected in district votes.
Secretary of the Navy John Warner refuses to meet Gordon Rule the $36,000 a year civilian cost monitor and orders Rule to appeal through command channels. Admiral Isaac Kidd Jr. will decide Rule’s fate after Rule criticized Roy Ash’s appointment and Senate testimony. Rule plans next moves within days. Proxmire seeks DOJ action over possible witness intimidation.
Pearl Buck, 80, Nobel and Pulitzer prize winner, is in stable condition after admission for a routine checkup. She previously underwent gall bladder surgery at Vermont Medical Center in Burlington on Sept. 29 and was released on Dec. 15.
The Newport United Methodist Women held their December meeting at the Community Center with a dinner after devotionals. Mrs. R. P. Williams read a poem and Mrs. Wendell Porterfield played Christmas carols on the piano as members exchanged gifts.
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