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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1990
Page
2
Telegraph reporter James Barbery spent Tuesday in a wheelchair to understand the challenges faced by wheelchair users. The project was proposed by President Shorty.
Reporter spends a day in a wheelchair learning hard realities barriers demand two hands constant calculation and a positive attitude. Aaron Poff of Handicaps Unlimited embodies that outlook as the writer battles home doors steps and street slopes while covering Mercer Street and Premier Bureau activities.
Loyalist troops killed a rebel commander near Monrovia as U S officials arranged special flights to evacuate Americans. President Doe reportedly sought U S help but was urged to seek agreement with insurgents. warships and Marines waited offshore for possible evacuations. Doe held a tense meeting with Christian and Moslem mediators amid calls for his resignation.
A man in Washington threw a small sheaf of papers at Vice President Dan Quayle as he prepared to enter a limousine outside the Hart Senate Office Building after a luncheon. Quayle was unhurt and driven away. the assailant Mwenea Sikuzote, 42, of St Thomas Virgin Islands, was arrested and charged with attempted vice presidency impairment.
Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain today and highs in the upper 70s. Tonight remains mostly cloudy with a 30 percent rain chance. Contingent text about Lamia and stray letters appears unclear and ignored.
West Virginia scales back its food voucher program by more than 2,100 participants due to rising prices for milk juice and infant formula. The cut affects medically needy children and low income families while infants and new mothers remain prioritized as officials say costs rose sharply beyond projections.
Princeton Senior High School student Mikael Irwin Campbell will attend Camp Artek on the Black Sea in the USSR for five weeks with Moscow tours and a Sovit family visit. The trip is part of a camp exchange program with 90 students and 20 staff. Last year she attended a Maine camp through the Samantha Smith Center.
Mikael Irwin Campbell will spend five weeks in the Soviet Union this summer, mainly at Camp Artek on the Black Sea, with tours of Moscow and a Soviet host family. She will study Russian culture, take part in roundtable discussions, and relax while raising funds with help from family and friends. This fifth annual exchange involves Orlenok Artek and Bolshoi camps, plus Worldpeace Camp in Maine, under Samantha Smith Center auspices, tracing Samantha Smith’s 1986 Moscow trip.
An empty tanker slammed head-on into a tractor-trailer loaded with frozen chicken on Interstate 81 near Christiansburg. Three men died. the tanker driver Joseph Smith aged 67 from Pasadena Maryland may have fallen asleep. The crash closed the road for over two hours as rescue crews responded.
West Virginia superintendents including Bill Baker and H Lawrence Jones applaud the U S Supreme Court decision allowing public schools to host religious clubs where other outside groups meet. They stress clubs remain extracurricular, monitored like others, with participation voluntary and no school endorsement. Justice Stevens dissented cautioning possible school prayer.
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