Miners Walk 14 Miles Toward Charleston Rally Support
About 60 UMW members marching 14 miles toward Charleston amid rain as part of a six day trek to drum up support for two strikes against Pittston Coal Group. Leaders vow to persist despite weather and plan a Sunday rally featuring Jesse Jackson.
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Pittston
Eastern Airlines
State Capitol
Charleston
Jesse Jackson
Logan
Blair Mountain
West Virginia
UMWA
Regents Reach Compromise as West Virginia Board Reforms
The West Virginia Board of Regents approved a 40 to 60 funding split between small colleges and universities, signaling its final act before replacement by two new boards under Gov. Caperton's restructuring plan. The move ends a 20 year era marked by balancing college and university interests amid ongoing fiscal debate.
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Charleston
State Board of Regents
University of West Virginia
Board of Regents
Charles Connor
Gaston Caperton
Caperton
Steve Haid
Project Graduation shines at Welch Armory event victory noted
Mount View joins the annual Project Graduation celebration with a well organized indoor event at Welch National Guard Armory. Mark Jones of Welch says students behaved exemplary after carnival games, a dance, Jello wrestling, and a movie. He recalls returning home around 1 30 or 2 p.m. the following day.
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Mount View
Mark Jones
Welch
Jones
Jones Cornett Electric
Welch National Guard
Correction on Mercer County posts and mistaken shooter identity
An editing error in the June 4 Daily Telegraph misidentified Mercer County Commissioner Ray Bragg as commission president. The piece also mixes two Greg Whites from Lily Grove Princeton, clarifying that Greg D White, 24, was not the same individual reported shot with a shotgun in Monday's edition.
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The
Daily Telegraph
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Union Dr
Lily Grove
Princeton
Greg White
Virginia GOP governor bid reaches ten million in fundraising
In a grim three way Republican primary in Virginia former Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman Stanford E. Parris and former U S Senator Paul S Trible Jr race to challenge Lt Governor L Douglas Wilder Wilder seeks to become the nations first elected black governor Campaigns report over three million dollars raised by two candidates and about two point five million by Wilder with funds spread across loans and cash on hand and ads dominating the race
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Richmond
Virginia
J. Marshall Coleman
Stanford E. Parris
U.S
Paul S. Trible Jr
L. Douglas Wilder
Wilder
Coleman
Parris
Trible
John T
Til” Hazel Jr
Fairfax County
Dennis Peterson
United States Senate
Hollybrook man arraigned on murder charges
PEARISBURG Virginia Hollybrook resident Richard Lee Myers Jr. 26 was arraigned in Giles County General District Court on two counts of murder two counts of using a firearm and one count of arson. Prosecutors warn additional charges may follow.
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Pearisburg
Hollybrook
Giles County General District Court
Giles County Commonwealth
James Hartley
Richard Lee Myers Jr
Myers
Hartley
Baliles vows to keep state troopers in coalfields
Virginia Governor Gerald Baliles said he will maintain a state police presence in southwest Virginia coalfields at a cost of about one million dollars a month despite UMW pickets calling for reductions. Trooper costs cited by Baliles exclude base salaries and manpower losses.
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Lebanon
Gerald L. Baliles
Virginia
UMW
Moss No. 3
Joe Tomlinson
Baliles
Tomlinson
Smoke Free Class of 2000 Promotes Tobacco Free Pledge
Oakvale Elementary first graders received T shirts declaring The Smoke Free Class of 2000. Thirty five students taught by Debbie Bailey and Gail Sammons vow never to smoke, urging peers to join the pledge for longer, healthier lives. T shirts donated by the American Cancer Society American Heart Association and American Lung Association with local sponsors.
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Oakvale
Debbie Bailey
Gail Sammons
Becky Whitlow
Noel Morgan
Amber Crowe
Whitlow
Sammons
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Lung Association
Rick Bay of Bay Designs
First Communi Bank of
Princeton
Bankers Life and Casualty Insurance Co
Mercer County
Public hearings set on Tazewell County budgets
TAZEWELL Va The Board of Supervisors and School Board budgets are ready and face public input next week. The supervisors schedule a June 12 hearing on the county 51.9 million budget for 1989 90, up 4.9 million from last year. Bechtel said the budget must be approved by June 30 with rises in revenues and expenditures. He cited increased taxes to balance the budget and noted two large growth areas Economic Development and Landfill Operation. An extra 121 423 is earmarked for landfill operation. Cosby cited state mandates driving school budget increases including a 7.3 percent teacher raise costing 1.3 million.
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Bechtel
Frank Cosby
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