Weather Outlook Friday Cold With Flurries
Friday brings variable clouds and cold conditions with a high near 25 degrees. Some flurries are possible tonight as skies stay partly cloudy and the low drops to about 10 degrees.
28 Feb 1986
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1986
Page
1
Friday brings variable clouds and cold conditions with a high near 25 degrees. Some flurries are possible tonight as skies stay partly cloudy and the low drops to about 10 degrees.
The stock market advanced on heavy trading to end the day with the Dow Jones industrial average above 1,700 for the first time, finishing at 1,713.99 after a 17.09 point gain, three weeks after surpassing 1,600. West Virginia Hospital Association runs ads criticizing over regulation warning some hospitals may close.
William P. Rogers led testimony at the closing NASA safety hearings saying the space agency abandoned good judgment in handling warnings about the Challenger launch on January 28. Rockwell and Morton Thiokol engineers warned of ice and cold affecting seals, but officials disputed explicit risk, contributing to the disaster that killed seven astronauts.
Photo taken by the ice inspection team shows ice on launch pad 39 B before the ill fated space shuttle Challenger launch. The image captures a communications terminal on the pad reported as non operational. Hearings on the launch decision continued Thursday.
Six state witnesses testified Thursday in the Berkely County Circuit Court in the trial of Bluefielder Christopher Lee Umberger charged with malicious wounding and kidnapping over the shooting of Mercer County Deputy Ernie Taylor last November. Prosecutors plan six more witnesses before resting. defense may call Amberger and one other.
Justice Miller says courts serve a pool of unhappy people including property damage plaintiffs, defendants, and criminals. He notes judges and lawyers must seek solutions amid frequent unhappiness, and that happiness is rare in law. Miller spoke to about 75 Democrats in Princeton after earlier stops.
The Reagan administration urged Congress to keep a proposed tax on imported oil on the table to fund an income tax overhaul, warning it would cost the typical family up to 365 dollars yearly and burden the poor. Treasury official J Roger Mentz called the plan regressive while Sen Malcolm Wallop said the stance was cautious. Oil-state lawmakers push the tax to aid domestic producers facing low prices amid OPEC influence.
Exiled Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, exhausted and guarded, weighs whether to stay at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii or travel to New York with his 90 entourage as U S officials coordinate protection. Imelda Marcos favors New York while Secret Service guidance is limited to a short protection period.
Princeton Mercer County Circuit Judge John R. Frazier asks the State Supreme Court to order Judge William O. Bivens Jr. to end hearings in a case involving Fayette County man Rodney K. Pennington over a delayed murder trial transcript. Bivens says he does not seek the action but accepts the Supreme Court’s assignment.
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