Bluefield Daily Telegraph Information Answers Q and Updates
Readers submit questions on professional engineers exams Direct Distance Dialing and telephone procedures Bluefield civic matters and welfare support. Officials detail exam contacts ANI and ONI systems and the state board. Memorial Day program is by Bluefield Junior Woman's Club and Deserting Parent Unit reports success in welfare payments.
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A.D.W. Orander
General Telephone Co
WKJC
Bluefield
A. Marvin Smallwood
Department of Welfare
Bluefield Board Candidates See Nominations in Primary
Ten of the 25 candidates for election to the Bluefield Board Directors will walk away with nominations for the positions in Tuesday's primary election. Residents impressed with the new Green Valley sanitary landfill operation and East River Mountain Tunnel construction progress on schedule. An SWV Health Council official says ABC attack on councils withholding information is in error. Details on page 14 section 2. First-graders with reading problems targeted in state workshop. A report on the state summer training program is on page 2. Other features include Youth section Dixon and Whittaker in later pages.
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Bluefield Board
Green Valley
Southern West Virginia Health Council
ABC
Counc
Trelegraph
Rockets Hit Da Nang During Marine Pullout
North Vietnamese rockets struck Da Nang again as refugees flood in and Marines taper operations before leaving. Five civilians died and ten others wounded as ten missiles fell on the air base and city areas, amid a stepped up shelling campaign in the port city.
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Saigon
da Nang
U.S
Associated Press
Michael Putzel
South Vietnam
Pilots Die In Two Plane Crashes At National Air Races
Four World War II era T6 Navy trainer planes crashed in two separate mid air collisions at Cape May New Jersey during the National Air Races. All four pilots were killed as flames engulfed the aircraft while spectators watched from a distance.
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Cape May
N.J
Nixon Dedicates Billion Dollar Inland Waterway To Midwest
President Nixon dedicated the 1.3 billion Arkansas River Navigation Project amid 25 000 to 30 000 cheering supporters. The 440 mile waterway links the Port of Catoosa Oklahoma to the Mississippi River, promising industrial growth and reversing rural to urban migration through development of less populated regions. The system, largely unpolluted and scenic, opens Midwest waterways to world ports via the Mississippi Gulf.
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Nixon
Midwest
Tulsa
Okla
Oklahoma
Arkansas
America
Verdigris
Catoosa
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
MacClellan-Kerr
Sealanes
Rapid Progress Noted In Dixie School Integration
Final government figures show a sharp rise in black students in majority white schools from 8.4% in 1968-69 to 39.1% in the 1970-71 period across 11 southern states. Segregated schools dropped from 68% to 14.1% as desegregation accelerates.
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Dixie
N. Y
Nixon
White House
Supreme Court
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Birmingham
South
Editorial Candidates Assess Bluefield City Leaders
Bluefield voters face a 25 candidate primary to select five for two years of city leadership. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph surveys each candidate and offers judgment in alphabetical order, noting backgrounds and public service to help voters choose for the July 6 general election.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield voters urged to choose five in council race
The Daily Telegraph endorses five candidates Frank Allen Edwin Elliott Andrew Perenyi Leland Carter Tony Lotito Richard Shumate Allan Connolly Robert Moore Joe Walker Victor DeVault Angelo Monaco Bernard Wills. It criticizes Carter as gadfly but notes value in outspoken members. Connolly DeVault Elliott receive endorsements. Fleenor given minimal civic involvement.
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Frank Allen
Edwin Elliott
Andrew Perenyi
Leland Carter
Tony Lotito
Richard Shumate
Allan Connolly
Robert Moore
Joe Walker
Victor DeVault Angelo Monaco
Bernard Wills
Leland
Mr. Carter
Mr. Connolly
Ray Crigger
Crigger
Victor Devault
DeVault
Bluefield
Connolly
Elliott
Lambert
Charles E. Fleenor
Fleenor
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J.L.R
Princeton
Corbet L. Helmick
State Board of Registration For
William E. Moore II
Morrison Building
Charleston
L. J
W. Va
A. Carter
Carter
P. P
Princeton, W. Va
Department of Rehabilitation of Virginia
Bluefield Sanitarium
G. M
A. James Foster
Inside the
Tazewell
Dixon
Whittaker
Joe Frazier
Europe
Frank Sinatra
Don Weatherly
Roanoke, Va
Rt. 4
Hale’s Gap
Louis Eades
Kan
Kehita
ALA
Allen
Cliff Arnold SR
Homer Brown
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