Virginia Adopts Breathalyzer Tests for DWI After New Year
Virginia changes rule effective 12:01 a.m. Jan 1 1973 allowing Breathalyzer tests in lieu of blood tests for drunk driving. Arrested drivers may choose blood, breathalyzer, or refuse. refusal triggers a three month license suspension. Prime facie blood alcohol is .1 percent. Local certification of testers exists in Bluefield and western Tazewell County.
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Dee Wilson
Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia
Commonwealth
Bluefield
Deaths and Funerals: Jay Emerson Bailey
Jay Emerson Bailey 60 of Princeton died on arrival after an apparent heart attack. A State Highway project engineer and World War II veteran, he belonged to multiple Masonic orders, the Royal Arch, Knights Templar, and Shrine groups, with survivors including his widow, daughter, brother, and grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 2 p.m. in Princeton with graveside rites at Roselawn Memorial Gardens.
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Jay E. Bailey
Jay Emerson Bailey
Sandlick Road
Princeton
State Department of Highways
East River Mountain
Smith’s Chapel
Church of the Brethren
Bailey Masonic Lodge
Montcalm
Bailey
Bluefield
Royal Arch Masons No
Charleston
Mercer County Veterans Council
Tazewell
Richlands
Ocie McGlothlin Bailey
William Bailey
Willie Riffe Bailey
Allen
Marguerite) Blankenship
George Bailey
Welch
George W. Seaver Mortuary
Roy McVey
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton Road
Pendleton Funeral for 68 Year Old Princeton Resident
Fred Pendleton 68 of Oakvale Road died Friday in a Princeton hospital after a short illness. He was born in Princeton son of the late George Wood and Matilda Blankenship Pendleton. A retired construction worker and a member of First Christian Church Princeton he was survived by one daughter Betty Pennington three brothers Gene Billy and Otie Pendleton and one granddaughter. Services 11 a.m. Monday Burns Wornal Chapel Memorial Funeral Directory Princeton Rev Ambrose Stump officiating burial Bluefield Princeton Road. Pallbearers Joe Gore Rosewall Gore Bill Walters Bob Walters Charly Blankenship Jimmy Fain. Friends may call 3 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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Lillie Jane Wallace
Bradshaw
Richlands
Tazewell
James R
Martha Christain Clybern
William Ed Wallace
Belva Fain
Raysel
Norma McBryde
Lois Puckett
Freda Jo Wallace
E. C
Shonnie) Wallace
Jacksonville
Fla
Fanning Funeral Home
Bradshaw Methodist Church
Paul Kelly
Lomax
Yukon
Samuel Milton
Sam) Slaughter
Keystone
Welch
Mount Chapel Baptist Church
David L. Smith
H. L. Wade
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bluewell
Amherst County
Floyd
Lucy Morris Slaughter
UMW
Julia Slaughter
Corrine Gibson
New York City
Norine Hickman
Maude Dobbs
Cleveland
Ohio
Church
Friends
Missionary Society of the Church
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Fred Pendleton
Oakvale Road
Princeton
George Wood
Matilda Blankenship Pendleton
First Christian Church of
Ethel Bray Pendleton
Truman
Betty) Pennington
Gene Pendleton
Billy Pendleton
Otie C. Pendleton
Burns Wornal Chapel of Memorial
Ambrose Stump
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Bluefield
Joe Gore
Rosewall Gore
Bill Walters
Bob Walters
Charly Blankenship
Jimmy Fain
Funeral services for Minnie Scaggs White in Bartley
Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Scaggs White 75 of Bartley will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at Bartley Methodist Church with burial in Roselawn Memorial Gardens. She died Friday at home. Born in Triplett Kentucky she was daughter of the late Jerry and Prudence Huff. Survivors include Arlie H. White husband Norman Chad White Beckley daughter Dorothy Combs Beckley grandchildren and a great grandchild. Calling hours at Douglas Funeral Home War today 5 to 9 p.m. and at the church one hour before services.
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Minnie Scaggs White
Bartley
Bartley Methodist Church
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Bluefield-Princeton Road
Triplett
Jerry and
Prudence Huff
Arlie H. White
Norman Chad White
Whitesville
Dorothy Combs
Beckley
Douglas Funeral Home
War
Creston Man Fred Johnson Dies in North Carolina
Fred Johnson age 42 of Creston North Carolina formerly of Council Virginia died Saturday in Creston. He was under care at Honaker Funeral Home in Honaker Virginia.
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Fred Johnson
Creston
N. C
Council, Va
Honaker Funeral Home
Honaker
Bryan J. Yost Passes Away at 75 in Durham
Bryan J. Yost, 75, longtime Bluefield resident, died December 21 in Durham North Carolina after a prolonged illness. Funeral and burial services were conducted in Durham following his death.
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Bryan J. Yost
Bluefield
Durham
N. C
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Classified and Circulation Note
Bluefield Daily Telegraph advertises subscription rates by carrier and mail, West Virginia motor routes, and service terms. It notes Associated Press credit and audit bureau membership with Mathews Shannon & Cullen as advertising representatives.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Biuetiera
W Va
Associated Press
Meloce! News
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Mathews, Shannon & Cullen
Infant Melissa Ann Blankenship dies after birth
The infant daughter of John and Connie Hampton Blankenship of Raven Virginia died shortly after birth. Funeral services are set for 1 p.m. at Linkous Blankenship’s residence with two ministers officiating. Burial will be in Ferrell Cemetery on Horn Mountain. the body is at Mullins Funeral Home in Richlands.
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Ancill Childress
Ferrell Cemetery
Horn Mountain
Mullins Funeral Home
Richlands
Funeral services listed for multiple individuals
Funeral notices show Jesse Leslie East age 66 of Abbs Valley to be buried in Maplewood Cemetery Tazewell with services at Pocahontas Baptist Church. Arnold Mann 59 of Princeton to be laid to Keaton Cemetery Greenville with pallbearers named. Ella Jordon of North Tazewell to be buried Maplewood Cemetery after First Baptist service. Pauline Nipper Wilburn 56 of Bluefield to be buried Maple Hill Cemetery with services at Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church.
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Jesse Leslie
Abbs Valley
Pocahontas Baptist Church
William Davis
Maplewood Cemetery
Tazewell
Rodriguez- Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Wilburn
Pauline Nipper
Maple Street
Bluefield
Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church
Hugh Ferguson
Maple Hill Cemetery
Graham Funeral Home
Dennis C. Taylor Rites Held In Bluefield
Dennis C. Taylor aged 70 of Rt. 2 Grassy Branch Bluefield died Saturday in a Bluefield hospital after a brief illness. Services and burial were incomplete at Hawkins Funeral Home in Bluefield.
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Marvin S Taylor
Marvin S. Taylor
Kimball
Welch Hospital
Ethel Ashworth Taylor
William Taylor
Bluefield
Alfred and
Russell Taylor
Roanoke
Ruth Deaton
Virginia Falin
Welch
Maggie Brinigar
Spencer
Bennett-Fanning Funeral Home
Northfork
Dennis C. Taylor
Dennis C
Doc) Taylor
Rt. 2
Grassy Branch
Hawkins Funeral Home
Police Probing Welch Break In
West Virginia State Police and Welch City police investigated a break in at Citizens Drug Store in Welch. Entry was gained by smashing a rear window and an undisclosed cash amount was stolen from the cash register. No narcotics were reported missing.
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West Virginia
Welch City
Citizens Drug Store
Welch
NIH Funds Awarded for Nursing School at Bluefield State College
U S Senators Jennings Randolph and Robert Byrd announced NIH funding to several Schools of Nursing including Bluefield State College. Bluefield State received 23084 dollars for its School of Nursing program as part of 509900 dollars awarded to multiple sites.
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National Institutes of Health
Bluefield State Calage
U.S
Jennings Randle Randloph
Robert C. Byrd
BSC
Plane crash survivors and rescue efforts shift to Miami hospitals
The Everglades crash left 10 stewardesses alive and identified Dade County deputies and Florida troopers at a Miccosukee Village command post. The Miccosukee Tribal Council met, banning transport of the dead to the village due to beliefs, while survivors were rushed to Miami hospitals by helicopter.
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D. L. Repos
A. J. Stockstill
Robert A. Loft
Dade County Sheriff's Deputies
Florida Highway Patrol
Miami
Nixon halts bombing as peace talks resume in Paris
President Nixon stops bombing North Vietnam above the 20th parallel as Hanoi agrees to resume serious negotiations with Kissinger. Talks to restart in Paris January 8 with technical talks January 2. Viet Cong approves, triggering a pause amid protests at home and abroad.
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Washington
Nixon
North Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
White House
Hanoi-Haiphong
Hanoi
Kissinger
Gerald L. Warren
le Duc Tho
Xuan Thuy
Paris
Warren
Bombing resumption in North Vietnam and stalled peace talks
The December decision to restart heavy airstrikes above the 20th Parallel followed a breakdown in October peace talks. U S bombers hit Haiphong Hanoi targets with broad civilian tolls cited by Hanoi while Kissinger reportedly pressed for serious negotiations. International reactions and Congress criticism grew as the National Peace Action Coalition pledged to march on Inauguration Day.
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Haiphong Hanoi
United States
North Vietnam
Pentagon
White House
Warren
Hanoi
Kissinger
U.S
Chou En-Lai
Leonid Brezhnev
Congress
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National Peace Action Coalition
Washington
FATAL HOUSE FIRE CLAIMS PRINCETON MAN
A fire inside a Princeton area home killed craftsman Bernard Craft, son of Graves and Lucinda Craft. He was found in the bed room after attempting escape, with smoke inhalation listed as the cause. Funeral services are scheduled for Monday at Burns Wornal Chapel. Burial will be at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Bluewell, with viewing today from 4 to 9 p.m.
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Craft
Lee Puckett
Jim Dent
Bluefield Police Department
Graves
Lucinda Overfelt Craft
Bernard Craft, Sr
Princeton
Ellen Woodyard
Bluefield
Burns Wornal Chapel of Memorial Funeral
Woodlawn Memorial
Bluewell
W. Va
Diamond Powers Through Cutting Drilling and Polishing
The piece extols diamonds as the hardest material known to humankind, capable of superior cutting, drilling, grinding, and polishing compared with alternatives.
Virginia Sees Equal Employment Plan Take Effect
Gov. Linwood Holton orders full implementation of Virginia Equal Employment Opportunity Plan on January 1. The plan emphasizes merit based hiring and tenure free from sex age race religion or other non merit factors. It includes a 16 member EEO committee and ongoing quarterly status reports to the governor.
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Richmond
Linwood Holton
Virginia
Executive Cabinet
Governor's Assistant For Minority Economic Development
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Virginia Commission On the Status of Women
Commonwealth
Bluefield Hosts Large Fashion Shows Next Weekend
Bluefield prepares for a major event with the Bluefield Fashion Exhibitors Show at the National Guard Armory and the Appalachian Buyers Convention at the West Virginian Hotel. Over 400 national apparel manufacturers will display spring and summer lines, with the Armory show expanding to include balcony booths for the first time in more than two decades. D. G. Nickels of Huntington leads the exhibitors group, while C. Stanley Taylor of Charlottesville serves as convention chairman.
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Bluefield
National Guard Armory
U. 8
West Virginian Hotel
Bluefield Fashion Exhibitors
D. G. Nickels
Huntington
C. Stanley Taylor
Charlottesville
Appalachian Buyers Convention
Brushfork PTA Notes Meeting and Membership
Brushfork Elementary School PTA held a regular meeting at the school with President Millard Pollard presiding. A Christmas program directed by Pauline Music was presented. Glenna Davis reported on the executive meeting. Pat Crofts announced 100 PTA members enrolled.
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Millard Pollard
Brushfork Elementary School
PTA
Pauline Music
Glenna Davis
Pat Crofts
Nixon halts heavy bombing as Vietnam talks stall
Nixon orders a scaled back bombing of North Vietnam while pressing for secret negotiations. Military leaders warn the move repeats past errors of easing pressure without terms. The piece argues bombing cannot secure settlement and contrasts US air campaigns in Indochina with World War II practices.
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South Vietnam
Dmz
Nixon
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Hanoi-Haiphong
China
Johnson
Hanoi
Princeton Holiday Garbage Pickup Shifts to Tuesday
City officials say New Year’s holiday delays trash collection. routes planned for Monday and Tuesday will be collected on Tuesday in Princeton.
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Princeton
Nixon vetoes programs while arguing power to cut spending
President Nixon vetoed funding for rehabilitation for the handicapped public works construction and elder care. Advisers and some lawmakers contend presidents have long held power to withhold spending. House Speaker Carl Albert warns revenue sharing trends may shift control from Congress to states over education crime housing and more.
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Nixon
Congress
Carl Albert
D-Okla
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