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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1985
Page
1
Outlook promises a sunny to partly sunny day with highs near 80 to 85 degrees. Northeast winds at 10 to 15 mph for golfers. Tonight cools to 60 to 65 with light winds. Tomorrow turns mostly cloudy with a 20 percent shower chance and highs again 80 to 85, winds southeast at 10 to 15 mph.
Voters in Bluefield Princeton Matoaka and Oakvale prepare for municipal elections with warm weather and light participation predicted. Paper ballots replace CES tabulators. unofficial results expected hours after polls close. Contests include Bluefield five seat council race and several ward races in Princeton with Ward I uncontested.
In Knoxville Tennessee financier Jake Butcher received what the Justice Department called the stiffest sentence yet for a white-collar plea. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison on Monday.
Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics again won the NBA Most Valuable Player award, becoming the fifth to repeat and the first noncenter to do so. Magic Johnson of the Lakers trailed in votes. West Virginia State College basketball, coached by Craig Carse, was placed on two years probation for NAIA rule violations and Carse was suspended three games.
A fourth man, Jerry Whitworth of Davis, has been arrested in the alleged family spy ring selling U S military secrets to the Soviet Union. Whitworth, once known only by the code name D, is held without bail after arraignment on conspiracy to commit espionage charges.
A Children's Defense Fund study reports rising poverty among Black children from 1979 to 1983, with 68.5 percent in female headed families in poverty and 23.6 percent in two parent or male headed families. Unemployment, teen work prospects, and college enrollment have worsened, while medical care during pregnancy has declined. Marian Wright Edelman unveiled the findings at a Monday news conference.
In Charleston, a 16 year old, Raymond M. Smith III of Rand, was stabbed to death during a dispute over rights to recyclable cans behind The Roaring 20s nightclub. Michael D. Williams, 39, was charged with murder. he and Smiths knew each other from trash runs. Williams arraigned. bond withheld.
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