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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1989
Page
2
President Bush will answer questions for more than a half hour in a primetime televised news conference at 8 p.m. EDT. The event comes amid rising confusion and violence in China and about evacuees from that country.
Vice President Dan Quayle plans a one day family trip to southern West Virginia for whitewater rafting on the New River. Gubernatorial spokesman Steve Cohen says Gov. Gaston Caperton and DNR Director Ed Hamrick will meet Quayle in Beckley Saturday morning.
A Birmingham Mrs. Winners fast food restaurant was robbed Monday night when a man demanded money from a cashier. The biscuit timer sounded, frightening him into fleeing empty handed, according to police. Wire copy ends.
National Weather Service forecasts partly cloudy skies today with highs in the mid-70s. Tonight will bring increasing cloudiness and a 30 percent chance of showers and possible thunderstorms by morning, with lows in the mid-50s.
Gov. Gaston Caperton named longtime Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney David W. Knight to the Ninth Judicial Circuit bench replacing retiring William O. Bivens. Knight, 53, will take the oath Friday at 3 30 p.m. in Circuit Courtroom. he plans to handle civil cases initially and transfer pending criminal matters. He spoke of mixed feelings about leaving 20 years as prosecutor, noting preparations for Monday grand jury duties and study to qualify for the bench. Knight is a Bluefield native, WVU Law graduate, and father of three.
Barbara Hawkins reports the Mercer County Commission plans to name a new prosecuting attorney to fill the vacancy left by David W. Knight, now a circuit judge. Knight recommended Assistant Prosecutor Charles Smith for the post. President Claude Blankenship noted a meeting was planned to act today with possible Friday session if no decision is reached.
The Mercer County Solid Waste Authority voted to raise hauler rates at the Princeton landfill effective June 30 from 7 to 30 per ton to cover costs for new regulations. Board members including Bob Culler and Herb Tate supported the increase. Ray Bragg resigned from the authority as the meeting began. Joyce Engineering operates the landfill and said figures are conservatively high. Rates apply to haulers only. individuals and small pickups pay the existing rates.
Hundreds of troop trucks fill into Tiananmen Square amid a Chinese crackdown as the United States orders embassy dependents to depart. Rival factions loom as clashes threaten across Beijing and more than a dozen cities, with estimates placing the death toll in the thousands.
Copenhaver defeated Iris Harry for the last Oakvale council seat after a tie was broken by Mayor O Bee Boothe flipping a coin. Copenhaver won heads and will join Ramona Thomas Ellen Smith Sue Osburn and Jack Thomas. Boothe begins her tenth term as mayor.
A Washington Post poll of 602 likely Republican voters in Virginia's governor race shows Paul Trible and J. Marshall Coleman tied at 31 percent each, with Stanford E. Parris at 24 percent and others undecided. Conducted May 30 to June 4, the survey has a 4 point margin of error.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of West Virginia reports continued losses after $3.3 million first quarter deficit and a $6.4 million red last month due to accounting changes. State figures show a $33.2 million negative reserve with the insurer projecting two to three years before breaking even. Greg Smith cites needed actions to curb costs and argues provider charges drove the deficit.
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