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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1985
Page
11
A columnist recalls reader letters on redneck life and shares junior high students’ essays defining kid rednecks. The pieces depict fights at water fountains, truancy, vandalism, violence, drug use, welfare reliance, and provocative attire.
Selina Goins, 18, Bramwell High FHA president, will travel from Charleston airport to Salt Lake City for the National FHA Convention. She earned a state job interview win, must raise 500 for the trip, has 430 so far, and Bramwell FHA is a large, active chapter with many male members. She plans Concord College.
The Mountain State Bar Association will hold its annual meeting June 14 and 15 at the Sheraton Inn Bluefield with a members meeting, social hour, four continuing legal education seminars, a cocktail party, banquet, and grand ball. Most events are free to the local bar and public except the banquet. Seminar speakers include Wade T. Watson, Judge John R. Frazier, and Stanley E. Preiser, plus a panel on a West Virginia Human Rights Commission decision led by Gail Ferguson. For more information contact J. Franklin Long or Sarah N. Hall.
Panic over expiring jobless checks hits Williamson and surrounding counties as Earl Barker, a 40-year-old miner, and his wife rely on family and welfare food stamps. WV unemployment runs high at 13.4 percent state wide, 16.8 in Williamson, with thousands more seeking work as coal layoffs persist and relief programs struggle to cover needs. Community groups like UMW Food Relief Fund and Operation Blessing step in to aid about 200 miner families monthly.
Herschel Woody Williams, one of three living West Virginia Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, retires as commandant of the state Veterans Home in Barboursville after a second wound. He recalled Iwo Jima heroics, when he crawled through no man's land with a flamethrower to create a gap for Marines. Williams, 61, spent 35 years with the VA and now plans to stay home with his wife and show horses, advocating a nursing facility for aging veterans.
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