11 Jan 1976
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1976
Page
1
The paper answers questions on topics from housing and veterans affairs to schooling and TV scheduling. Readers ask about the Bluefield eo at Bowen Field, Medicare insulin coverage, Social Security retirement rules, and local officials.
A gas smell preceded a 9:20 a.m. blast that demolished the six story Pathfinder Hotel in Fremont Nebraska. Six people died and more than 40 were injured as fire crews battled remaining flames and authorities feared additional victims yet in the rubble. Hotel owners were away at their daughter's funeral.
West Virginia opens a 60 day legislative session with highway and school financing and the state budget as top priorities. Lawmakers face interrelated funding challenges that will dominate debate, though other issues may spark floor excitement in both chambers.
Virginia lawmakers prepare to convene with key issues including money shortages crime and rising utility rates dominating the agenda with expectations of extended sessions and new policy battles as GEoRGE W. WILBUR reports from Richmond.
President Ford met with Vice President Rockefeller and top officials to study options for reforming the intelligence community. Rankled by recent commissions and ongoing debates, the meeting covered guidelines and a possible unified agency, with two proposals not seriously considered.
An emergency OAU summit in Addis Ababa divided into pro Soviet and neutral camps over Angola. Samora Machel urged unity against South Africa with MPLA leadership, while Jonas Savimbi and Holden Roberto faced sharp accusations from Mozambican President Machel. Sixteen heads of state attended as MPLA loyalists sought OAU endorsement.
Seventy five year old Dr Margaret Ballard of Union enjoys history and tracing family trees. She works with several surnames at once from her Union study among history books. A Confederate memorial stands in a field near Union with access only by crossing barbed wire. Weather notes and small items appear in the same section. The humor ends with a quip about unemployment in Communist countries.
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