Poisonous rain delays West Virginia Carbide unit reopening
A Union Carbide chemical unit near South Charleston will not reopen until extensive modifications are completed after a March 7 release that sent a 5 700 pound acetone water and mesityl oxide mixture into a rain shower over a shopping center. Four hospitalizations resulted and the unit's condenser will be upgraded before any restart. In Marlinton a man once sentenced to life for arson is given parole-like relief as church members fund a trip for Vernon Jones and his wife to an Orlando seminary, after the state Supreme Court ordered a new April hearing.
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South Charleston
Ing
Carbide
Mike Lipscomb
Marlinton
W.va
Jarces
Pocahontas County
Vernon Jones
International Seminary
Orlando
Fla
Eugene Simmons
Simmons
Jones
Trinity Baptist Church
Buckeye
Cmh
State Supreme Court
Raymond Rowland
Rowland Sai
Virginia Court Upholds Death Sentences in Two Virginia Murders
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Johnny Watkins Jr. and Richard T. Boggs were properly sentenced to die for the killings of two Danville clerks and an 87 year old Portsmouth woman. Separate opinions rejected defenses that police statements were improper evidence. Boggs had been linked to the Shaw case after a 1964 murder and robbery when articles stolen from Mrs. Shaw were found in his car during a routine inventory. Watkins was convicted for the deaths of Betty Jean Barker and Carl Buchanan after robberies yielding 124.62 dollars.
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Richmond
Johnny Watkins Jr
Danville
Richard T. Boggs
Portsmouth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Loments
Treeby Shaw
Boggs
Shaw
Falwell Leads Labor Day 7-Eleven Protest Plan
Evangelists organize a Labor Day march in Dallas led by Jerry Falwell to protest Playboy and Penthouse sales at 7-Eleven stores. Falwell and Donald Wildman urge busloads of supporters from across the nation with potential boycotts if sales persist.
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Lynchburg, Va
Moral Majority
Jerry Falwell
Dallas
Playboy
Penthouse
Southland Corp
7-Eleven
Falwell
Lynchburg
Sen
Donald E. Wildman
National Federation For Decency
Jimmy Swaggert
Jim Bakker
Pat Robertson
Kenneth Copeland
Boucher Leads Bipartisan ARC Funding Push
A 24 member Appalachian group led by Rep Rick Boucher urged House budget conferees to preserve ARC funding for 1986. The House budget maintains ARC support while the Senate plan provides none, as conferees work to reconcile the two versions and note ARC aided projects boosting regional tax revenues.
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Pat Cecil
Daily Telegraph
Appalachian
House
Appalachian Regional Commission
ARC
Virginia
Rick Boucher
D-9th
Commission
ABC
Senate
Court to review Manning extradition order
Norfolk AP report states the state Court of Appeals will review a Circuit Court judge's order directing extradition of accused terrorist Thomas W. to New Jersey for trial in the 1981 slaying. The ruling preserves the potential transfer while appellate proceedings continue.
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Norfolk
State Court of Appeals
Thomas W
New Jersey
State
Abundant Life Fellowship Moves to New Location
The Abundant Life Fellowship formed in 1983 now meets at Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department HQ with services Sundays at 10 am and 7 pm and Wednesdays at 7 pm led by Rev. Lee Jenkins. Westminster Presbyterian invites the public to hear Wake Wind Quintet perform sacred works by Mozart Bach and Handel at Corner Washington and Albemarle Bluefield. The Mt Zion Baptist Church hosts the 89th annual Flat Top Missionary Baptist Women’s District Convention June 18-20 at 9:30 am daily. Various church flea market, Sunday School, anniversaries, and Vacation Bible School events are announced across multiple Bluefield area churches with multiple pastors and speakers named.
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Abundant Life Fellowship
Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department
Lee Jenkins
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Washington and
Albemarle Streets
Bluefield
Wake Wind Quintet
Wake County
N.C
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Flat Top Missionary Baptist Women’s District Convention and Auxiliaries
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West Virginia
Virginia Supreme Court
Boucher
Independent Bible Church of God
Montcalm
Upland Missionary Baptist Church
Adrian Dowell
Memorial Baptist Church of
Switchback
First Baptist Church of
Giotto
Galilee
First Baptist Chorus
Northfork
Robert Buchanan
Cottage Prayer Band
Glenna Weeks
Putnam Street
Lillie Johnson
C.E. Moore, Jr
Lorton Lick Baptist Church
Bible Schoo Vacation Bible School
Tos J Beckett
Mount Vernon
Lilly Grove Baptist Church
Emmanuel Baptist
War
Leon Yost
Elgood Community Church
Garland Jones
Smith’s Chapel
Phillip Slaughter
Freddy Brown
J. H. Easley Tabernacle
Henderson Street
Princeton
Anthony Tucker
Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church Vacation Bible School
Freda Anderson
David Chapman
Esuarter
Rena Quarte
United States
USA
Peat Me
Daiwa
Jorcia
REELS
Qaigue Mastral
Meer
Loreal
Wison
Vansiotsse
Palaopuy
Magforce
Prios Pris
Wwish Control
Waitnite
Ahwr
Fenwick
Sporting Goods
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