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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1981
Page
8
A West Virginia reader recounts receiving a personal letter from President Reagan. The note requests donations to the GOP Victory Fund with a promised memento, while the writer humorously weighs personal costs and local baseball dreams. The piece blends national politics with small-town life.
West Virginia Attorney General Chauncey Browning fronts an unprecedented docket as about 200 Supreme Court cases are slated for the September term, with roughly 130 expected to be argued by his office. He warns of mounting strain on staff and judges to prepare and decide quality opinions amid backlogs and 1983 civil rights suits.
West Virginia announces a quarantine on certain California fruits to curb a Mediterranean fruit fly invasion. Canteloupes and lettuce may face shortages while Douglass insists the move protects local orchards in the Eastern Panhandle and state fruit production.
About 50 Haitians labeled undocumented aliens will be housed at the Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center in Morgantown West Virginia in individual rooms with baths beds and bureaus. They are awaiting immigration hearings while being moved from a crowded Miami facility to avoid health and safety problems.
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