Health care reform urged for southern West Virginia counties
A Haldi Associates report for Princeton Community Hospital links high infant mortality in nine southern counties to broader health failures. It advocates a 29-hospital West Virginia Health Care Corporation and notes cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory deaths exceed national levels, tied to coal mining and limited public health care.
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Dave Pedneau
West Virginia
Southeast Asia
Latin America
Princeton Community Hospital
United States
Haldi Associates
New York
Telegraph
Southern
Logan
McDowell
Raleigh
Fayette County
Mercer
Mingo
Monroe
Wyoming
U.S
Southern West Virginia
Southern Rail Cars Derailed Near Pennington Gap
Eleven loaded coal hoppers derailed on a Southern Railway freight train Wednesday on a trestle four miles north of Pennington Gap Virginia and plunged into a shallow creek. No injuries reported though restoration to service was expected to take three to four days. The train was travelling from St Charles Lee County to Appalachia Wise County when the accident occurred.
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Pennington Gap
Southern Railway
Here
Southern
St. Charles
Lee County
Appalachia
Wise County
Investment Club To Meet On January 3
The Twin Cities Investment Club will hold its regular meeting Monday January 3 at 7 30 p m at the Bluefield Y Center. Cam Farquharson is president of the organization.
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Twin Cities Investment Club
Bluefield“Y” Center
Cam Farquharson
Special Service to Watch at Church of God War
A Watch Service will be held at the Church of God in War Friday starting at 8 30 p m. The gathering will include special singing preaching and praying Rev W G Byers is pastor
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Church of God At War
W. G. Byers
Browning Proposes Trust Turn of Drug Abuse Funds
West Virginia Attorney General Chauncey Browning Jr. seeks to place the state's 300000 share of a antitrust settlement into a public health trust to fight narcotics abuse. The proposal aims to fund research education treatment and rehabilitation with trust income possibly aiding medical scholarships.
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Charleston
W.va
Chauncey Browning Jr
West Virginia
Browning
U.S. District Court For
New York
Attorney General of West Virginia Public Health Trust
Charles Pfizer & Co. Inc
American Cyanamid Co
Bristol-Myers Co
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Upjohn Co
Federal District Court
Department of Welfare
Harry S. Weeks Jr
Wheeling
West Virginia State Medical Association
Frances K. Gracey
Parkersburg
West Virginia Nurses Association
Mildred M. Bateman
N.H. Dyer
Prince B. Woodard
State Board of Regents
Glenville State College
Five Trustees Elected To Local College Board
Bluefield College announces five trustees elected for five year terms including C W French reelected for a sixth term and John Tate Grigsby newly elected. New appointees are Rev Lewis Edwin Bates Rev Charles Burgess Nunn Jr and John Lynwood Smith. Elections were by trustee vote from ten nominees presented by the Baptist General Association of Virginia. They take office February 1 1971.
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Chas. L. Harman
Bluefield College Board of Trustees
C. W. French
French Coal Company
Bluefield
John Tate Grigsby
Richmond
The
Baptist
Lewis Edwin Bates
Vinton Baptist Church
Vinton, Va
Charles Burgess Nunn, Jr
First Baptist Church of
John Lynwood Smith
Fidelity National Bank
Amelia, Va
Quitman
Miss
Smith
Amelia
Amelia Baptist Church
Business College of Charlotte
N. C
Frances Anderson
Scottsburg
Baptist General Association of Virginia
Louis 2. Broughman
Bowling Green
John S. Davenport, Jr
Buchanan, Va
George M. Kissinger
Newport News
Henry V. Langford
George M. Cruise
New Year Watch Night at First AME Zion Church
A Watch Night service will be held at First AME Zion Church in Bluefield Friday starting at 10 p.m. and ending with the new year. Rev. H. L. Hall will deliver the address and Mrs. Sarah Carter leads the event with special music planned.
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AME Zion
Bluefield
H. L. Hall
Sarah Carter
Pygmies of Central Africa Hunt with Poison Arrows
Pygmies averaging four feet in Central Africa hunt in equatorial rain forests using poison tipped arrows.
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Central Africa
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Investment Club
D. Banks Wilburn
West Virginia Association of Colleges and Universities
Charles B. Gates Jr
Charleston National Bank
Bates
Vinton
Nunn
Randolph Macon College
Southwestern Baptist Seminary
Helen Agnes Parker
Frank Stepp OR
Harry Belcher
Flowers, Inc
Bland St
Bluefield, W.va
Veterans and Rehabilitation
Business College
Commerce ST. Bluefield, W.va
Organ Service Factory
Technican
Eagles Club
Country Gentlemen
General Electric
Cal Wilson Electric Service, Inc
Virginia
Appalachian Power Co
Mohawk Tire Sales
AY Tazewell
Fantastic
Tazewell
Liss
Ramey Chevrolet
White Sale
Dacron
Cox's
A. W. Cox Department Store
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