Editorial Board Consensus and Bible Quote Featured
The Daily Telegraph Editorial Board presents its consensus opinions from its members including J. Stanley Warren and Thomas A. Colley. A Bible quote from Proverbs 27 19 accompanies the page highlighting reflective thoughts on truth and character.
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Daily Telegraph
J. Stanley Warren
Thomas A. Colley
Bob Pepalis
Jim Terry
Barbara Hawkins
David Barker
Princeton
Don Cuppett
Editorial on merged West Virginia highway projects
Editorial endorses the merger of the Shawnee Parkway Association and the Bluefield Huntington Highway Association to secure federal funds. The joint effort is praised as noncompetitive, likely to win broad civic support and ease the push in Congress, though federal funding remains uncertain.
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Shawnee Parkway Association
Bluefield-o-Huntington Highway Association
West Virginia
Big Brother
Pine Mountain
Blue Ridge Parkway
Police chief offers free rides home New Year’s Eve
Bluefield Police Chief Jim Dent announced a repeat of the New Year s Eve and Day free ride home program by police, noting few people used it last year. He urged drivers to consider safety and call the police if they overindulge.
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Bluefield
Jim Dent
A Look Back at American History Through 1991 Lenses
This retrospective traces decades from 1910 to the space era, noting Halley’s Comet, Mark Twain, Ford’s Model T, women’s suffrage, Babe Ruth, Hoover’s era, Hitler’s rise, Roosevelt and war, Pearl Harbor, coalfields, women in work, Korea, submarbs, Cold War, New York baseball legends, Kennedy’s Catholic presidency, civil rights ascent, and the space program’s early milestones.
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Halley
Mark Twain
Henry Ford
William Howard Taft
White House
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Virginia
Babe Ruth
White Sox
Herbert Hoover
America
Adolph Hitler
Franklin D. Roosevelt
England
Hitler
Pearl Harbor
United States
Great
Pocahontas
Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Korea
Russia
New York
Mantle
Mays
Duke Snider
John Kennedy
West Virginia
Hubert Humphrey
McDowell County
Martin Luther King, Jr
Parkways and plucky kids letters span region and charity
A reader discusses proposed turnpikes from Anawalt to Kentucky and possible extensions to Hurley and Panther, cites past letters on Mount Rogers and Breaks Park, recalls Big Brother theories, and envisions regional routes. Richlands Middle School reports a Student Council ornament drive raising funds for needy kids, with sixth, seventh, and eighth graders contributing 22, 97, and 125 ornaments respectively.
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People’s
Bristol Herald Courier
Mount Rogers
Abrams Falls
Pine Mountain
Breaks Interstate Park
Alexandria
Big Brother
Los Angeles
Buchanan County
EPA
USA
Ussr
Cumberland Gap
Interstate Park
Levisa River
Anawalt
Gary
Clear Fork
Panther
John’s Creek
Kentucky
Hurley
Guyandotte Valley
Beckley
Greenbrier
Public interest letters and 1991 nostalgia from a Telegraph editor
The Daily Telegraph invites short letters with signature and address for publication. The piece recalls pivotal 1960s 70s events from Kent State to Yablonski murders to Nixon Carter era milestones and Mount St Helens eruption, closing with nostalgia for 1991.
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Angel in a Shoe Organizer Spills Delta Winery Tale
In Delta Mississippi, Diane Rushing runs Winery Rushing with husband Sam. A Sears mistake delivered a plastic angel instead of a shoe organizer, and Big Tom Rushing promised to send an angel to protect Diane. The angel’s arrival became a family legend woven into the winery’s lore and daily life.
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Erigold
Diane Rushing
Winery Rushing
Mississippi
Diane
Sam Rushing
Reinbow
Sam
Big Tom Rushing
Angel
Eee
Delta
Big Tom
Sears
Land
Forgotten Man of the Year 1990 by Charles McDowell
The Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist declines Time’s pick and announces his own Forgotten Man of the Year for 1990. He notes the subject’s uneventful year, avoiding major scandals or standout actions, with mundane personal habits and nonpartisan views.
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Man of
Charles McDowell
The
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