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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1985
Page
17
In Williamson West Virginia ministers from strained southern coalfields organize a Pray for Peace event. They aim to replace gunfire with two minutes of ringing church bells and a noon moment of silence to urge a nonviolent settlement, led by Pastor Mack Bennett of First United Methodist Church.
The Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in the capital murder case of Lem D. Tuggle Jr., one of six men who escaped Mecklenburg Correctional Center death row last year. The state argues Tuggle is due resentencing, not a new trial, under a U.S. Supreme Court review order. He seeks a new trial on his 1983 rape and murder conviction in Jessie Geneva Havens's slaying.
Rep. Frederick C. Boucher with Rep. Chris Perkins and Rep. Austin Murphy hear coal miners testify about delayed Labor Department processing of black lung disability claims. Miners Byrd Blankenship, Carnell Rasnake, and Clyde Sparks describe long waits, health problems, and mounting medical bills as claims linger for years.
Chessie System officials say cleanup will take another week to restore service to 14 isolated Boone County coal mines after a wheels slip on a single car toppled 35 cars and collapsed a Coal River bridge in Kanawha County. 3,500 tons of coal dumped, four cars fell in front, 20 behind derailed.
The 1985 Peterstown High School graduation list names valedictorian Sarah Martin, daughter of Leonard and Mary Martin of Lindside, and salutatorian Wayne Hughart, son of Donald and Mary Hughart of Bozoo.
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