OSHA Probing Cracked Tower Link After Willows Island Tragedy
OSHA has found a crack in Pleasants Power Station cooling tower concrete after 51 workers fell 170 feet to their deaths in Willow Island West Virginia. Investigators near completion, probe links crack to scaffold collapse uncertain. An engineer and federal labs join the inquiry as questions linger.
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Willow Island
Wva
Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Pleasants
OSHA
Charleston Daily Mail
Deaths and funerals in Grundy and nearby towns
Ival Justice 64 of Grundy Va died after a short illness. Survived by wife Netta Williamson Justice seven sons two sisters and four brothers. Services Friday Harman Freewill Baptist Church burial Mountain Valley Memorial Park. Plus notices for Mrs Jay Richardson Mrs Leonard Wright Mrs Stephen Peck and others with service details and burial plans across Welch Princeton and Swords Creek areas.
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Ival Justice
Grundy
Pike County
Stewart and
Polly Adkins
United Mine Workers of America
Harman Freewill Baptist Church
Netta Williamson Justice
Brenda Joyce
Ival Justice Jr
Winfred
Larry Justice
Harman
James C. Justice
Defiance
Ohio
Charles L
Gene A. Justice
Big Rock
Sonny R. Justice
Irene Wolford
Loraine
Ellene Bush
Covington
Jerry Justice
A.H. Justice
Dade City
Fla
Blane Justice
Elkhorn City
Ervin Justice
Pikeville
Rvev
Willie Compton
Mountain Valley Memorial Park
Don
Loren Cantrell
Jesse Davis
Junior Lockhart
Tommy Brown
James Sliger
Steve Mullens
Robert Hutchenson
Schuler Stiltner
Dennis Wiliamson
Grundy Funeral Home
Otho Widener
Goldie E. Widener
Norfolk
Welch
Spanishburg
George W. and
Cora Ross Burgess
First Baptist Church of
Francis
Jean) Smith
Virginia Beach
Blanche Cox
Ruth Steele
Princeton
Ola Norris
Northfork
Cecil Burgess
Roy Burgess
Roanoke
Alva Burgess
Bluefield
Burns Wornal Chapel
Memorial Funeral Directory
Bill Young
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Harold Wyatt
Berlin
N.J
Matoaka
Fayette Heron
Eli Wyatt
Zane Wyatt
Lewisburg
Marylin Musser
Palmarya
Karen Mears
Laurel
Dela
William Wyatt
Mary Lyn Clay
Camp Creek
Morris Benjamin
Bailey Funeral Chapel
Wyatt Family
Blusfield Daily Telegraph Ad Rates and Address
Bluefield West Virginia newspaper lists subscription and home delivery rates for different zones. Provides postal address at 412 Bland Street and notes AP news service access and circulation audit membership.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation Advertising Repres Associates
Landon
Morr is Steve Morris funeral notice in Boissevain VA
Funeral services for Janet Rust Morris 33 of Boissevain Va held today at 2 PM at Boissevain Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev Daniel Martin and others. Burial at Grandview Memory Gardens with Abbs Valley Boissevain Fire Department pallbearers. Rodriquez Pocahontas Union Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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Morris
Steve
Janet Rust
Boissevain
Holcombe
Lilly B
Rock
Pilgrim Baptist Church
Willie Hampton
McKinley Raymore
Donald Dykes
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Cravens-Shires
Bluewell
Johnson Funeral Is Today
Funeral services for George Robert Johnson 55 of Wilderness Road Bland County Va will be today at 2 p.m. at Shiloh United Church. Johnson a prominent Bland County farmer and civic leader was killed in an Monday morning farm accident. Revs Ted Anders and E C St John will conduct with burial at the church cemetery. Donations are requested to the Bland County Rescue Squad.
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Alvin K. Marshall
Rt. 2
North Tazewell
Witten’s Mill
Tazewell Hospital
Harley and
Pheba Vaughn Marshall
UMWA
Opal Marshall
Reginald Alvin Marshall
Metropolis
Gerald Wayne Marshall
Little Rock
Ark
Pisgah United Methodist Church
Ralph Kidd
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Nick Fazio
Larry Taylor
Joe Sparks
P. S. Ellis
Morris Ferrell
Ralph Crouch
Tazewell
George Robert Johnson
Wilderness Road
Bland County
Shiloh United Methodist Church
Johnson
Ted Anders
E. C. St. John
Mystery nominee in Treasury list puzzles Library of Congress
Susan continues the discussion noting Ms O Leary as a formidable name among nominees. The Treasury says she was nominated without supporting information and the Library of Congress cannot locate a trace of her without major research. Most nominees are well known women from public life social movements and the arts.
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O'Leary
The
Treasury
Library of Congress
Commission To Check Speeding Suggested In Bluefield
Bluefield directors discussed a proposal to form a speeding safety commission for College Avenue and other streets, plus calls for more street lighting and increased police patrols around Multi-Care Center after a nurse was attacked. The board also heard a first reading of an auction of used goods ordinance and considered merchant group opposition and nurse safety concerns.
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Bluefield
Settle
Daily Telegraph
College Avenue
Frederick
Parkway
Memorial
Stadium Drive
Cumberland Road
Dodson
Don Keesling
Keesling
Stoney Ridge
Cutlip
Chestnut- Third Streets
Fred Burton
Appalachian Power Co
Eddie Lambert
Greater
Feuchtenberger
Lambert
Paul Oliver Sr
Contract Ends Stearns Strike at Justus Mine
Blue Diamond Coal Co signs a three year contract with the newly formed Justus Employees Association at the Justus mine in Kentucky after 23 months of UMW strike. About 150 miners walked out in July 1976. the union ratified 79 to 0 and wage scales exceed the UMW standard. Violence and gunfire during picket clashes were reported during the strike.
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Justus Employees Association
UMW
Justus Mine
Castee Basham
Employees Association
Blue Diamond
Justus
Basham
TV Mix-Up Triggers $1,000 Prize Confusion
In Charleston West Virginia a technical error on Oak Hill's WOAY-TV caused hundreds to believe they held $1,000 winning tickets in Foodland Lets Go to the Races. Officials are investigating. The promo spans five weekly races on WOAY and WCHS with a top prize of $1,000.
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Charleston
W.va
Jim Boatwright
Foodland
WOAY
Wchs-Tv
Boatwright
WCHS
Oak Hill
Cheylan
Kanawha County
U.S.-Soviet Talks Stall Over SALT Accord Prospects
Five hours of talks between Cyrus Vance and Andrei Gromyko failed to resolve key obstacles to a new strategic weapons control treaty. Relations remain tense amid Africa fighting and disputes, with talks to resume on a date to be announced and prospects for completing ceilings on long range bombers and ICBMs before 1985 dim.
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New York
SAP
Andrei A. Gromyko
Cyrus R. Vance
Africa
U.S
Vance
Gromyko
United Nations
Former Narrows Resident Among Victims In Texas
Aaron A. Browning 46 of Houston was killed in a Texas City Refinery explosion. A security guard and Narrows, Virginia native, he was the son of Winnie Coburn Browning and the late Herbert Browning. Survived by his wife Rosemarie Matters Browning and five Houston children, plus two sisters and two brothers. Services and burial in Houston.
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Narrows, Va
Texas City Refinery Inc
Aaron A. Browning
Houston
Texas
Winnie Coburn Browning
Narrows
Herbert Boyd Browning
Rosemarie Matters Browning
Police seek angles in case of double homicide near creek
Authorities pursue four or five angles as they search for information from the public. They inspect a missing gas cap from a late-model Datsun owned by Scott, whose body was burned after being shot. Noble, a WVU forestry major, drowned after gunshot wounds. Investigators dispute alternate vehicle involvement and note possible remote park locations.
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Scott
Wolf Creek
Miss Noble
West Virginia University
Marshall University
TVA to Expand Computer Capacity Across Four TVA Plants
TVA plans to extend computer capacity for Colbert Watts Bar John sonville near Waverly and Allen in Memphis with two agreements totaling about 15 million dollars. One contract would pay Control Data Corp up to 2 million annually for design work and piping analyses for nuclear plants. The other shifts 7.3 to 7.5 million to the Government Services Administration for rental of a business computer system until TVA decides its long term needs. Don Kramer noted IBM and Amdahl are the sole current suppliers of this type of business computer.
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Colbert
Watts Bar
Johnsonville
Waverly
Tenn
Allen
Memphis
Freeman
Control Data Corp
TVA
Government Services Administration
Don Kramer
International Business Machines Corp
Amdahl Corp
Moonies Allowed to Solicit at Virginia Beach
Followers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church will be allowed to solicit funds in Virginia Beach after officials reviewed the church's New York City financial records and deemed it an exempt institution. The church had sued to strike down the city's anti solicitation ordinance, but the suit was dropped following the discovery process.
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Virginia Beach
Sun Myung Moon
Unification Church
U.S. District Court
Norfolk
New York City
Discovery
Food prices climb as groceries rise in April CPI
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index noting a 2.4 percent rise in grocery prices during April. It highlights higher costs per serving for many roasts chops and other meats.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
City Police Probe B and E at Yamaha Motorcycle Shop
Bluefield police continued their investigation into a Tuesday night breaking and entering at the Yamaha Motorcycle Shop on Bland Street. More than $2,000 in items were taken, with several items left on a second floor ledge outside a window. A cash register was forced open, inventory pending. Recovered items included jerseys belts gloves one rifle helmets and riding suits.
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Bluefield
Yamaha
Bland Street
E. L. Harvey
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Sy Looney
Richmond
David Rhone
Rhone
Looney
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Bureau of Standards Laboratories
Jay Richardson
Jay
Edgar Ellen Johnson) Richardson
Swords Creek
Richlands
William and
Sarah Shelton Johnson
Holiness Church
Arland
Brenda
Helen Clines
Lockport
N.Y
Sarah Richardson
Garland Richardson
Bertha Stoots
Lebanon
Honaker Funeral Home
Truel Brown
Ancil Childress
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Leonard Wright
Leonard
Rhoda) Wright
Morgan
Mary Steel Davis
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church
Leonard A. Wright
Kyle Wright
Gretel Steel
Chesapeake
Keith
Margaret) Keys
Mentor
Elmer
Mary Etta) Cook
Nashville
Dolly Underwood
Eva Johnston
Arnold Akers
Wesley Chapel
Stephen L. Peck
Stephen L
Hallie) Peck
Miami, Fla
Harlan, Ky
George W. Seaver
Eli Griffith
Eli (Maude Mutter) Griffith
Tazewell Ave
Paint Lick
Elza
Sarah Lockhart Mutter
Clinch Valley Community Hospital
Midway United Methodist Church
Harvey Mutter
Sam
Eva) Coe
Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel
Porter Cordle
Albert Hardin
Hawkins Cemetery
Mark Cordle
David Cordle
Ricky Brown
Bob Nassif
Ronny Cordle
Kenneth Cordle
Jerry A. Farris
Durring
Durhing
Nona Belcher Farris Bird
James C. Farris
Jerry
Elizabeth Burton
Bobby Lee Farris
Goldsboro
N.C
Juanita Myers
Jacksonville
Margaret Burgess
Bradenton
Geraldine Citta
Omaha
Neb
Maxine Brugnoli
Charles Bird Jr
Winston- Salem
Jimmy
Homer Odgen Wilson
Homer Ogden Wilson
Oxon Hill
Maryland
Bennett- Fanning Funeral Home
Harry L. White
Annapolis
Blusfield Daily Telegraph
Susan
By Jim Terry Palanceal Oneen
Andrew
AAA Club
Nile Cutlip
Bbe
Stearns
Alice Starcher
Pratt
Starcher
Soviet Union
United States
Shirley Browning
Emma Martin
Narrrows
Roger Browning
James H. Browning
Salem
Rt. 61
Huntington College
City Police
B&e
RED Cross
Bland Street United Methodist Church
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