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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1987
Page
9
A columneer mocks ads showing two male models in blue and yellow underwear beside a white picket fence. He riffs on unemployment, fame, and the absurdity of modeling for ad photography, imagining the photographer, agency staff, and the chill of a lone post-shoot drink.
Heat waves linger across the Virginias with 90 degree highs for a third day. Hospitals report few heat patients but sunburns rise. doctors urge light clothing, water and shade. Bluefield, once again setting heat records, sees cooling relief forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Princeton voters will select one ward seat and three at large seats amid a crowded field of twelve candidates. Key issues include downtown revitalization, more law enforcement, state funding, unemployment, and annexation. Candidates like Joe Vicars push for more police and a retirement community. Dan Mathena seeks to move City Hall downtown and expand policing. Alma Belcher emphasizes funding and gender balance on council.
The Emma Yates Memorial Library in Pocahontas Va opens after a year of effort by the Historic Pocahontas Library Committee. Donors including Alice Laufton Raymond Chisolm and Fr Dan Grady provided thousands of volumes to create a local knowledge center in the former millinery shop. The project cost about 3000 dollars for renovations and aims to reduce reliance on bookmobiles and trips to Bluefield for reads.
In Princeton nine candidates vie for three at large seats with downtown revitalization as a key goal. Incumbents Jerry Flanigan and Don Kessinger seek re election while Joe Vicars runs in Ward IV. Flanigan cites Mercer Street improvement and the Business Hatchery program as aids to revitalization and notes crime concerns. Kessinger backs annexation and street repairs and favors tax restraint while promoting youth and senior activities and Princeton’s appeal for retirees. He praises current administration and vows progress if elected.
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