Bluefield juniors face costly fire safety plan and risk
Bluefield's Fairview and Central junior high schools, built in 1915 and 1909, face 50 state fire marshal requirements worth millions. If bonds fail or funds run short, students may be split or moved to Bluefield High or Central, with extensive door, alarm, exit, sprinkler, and barrier upgrades needed.
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Barbara Hawkins
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
Fairview
Central
Bluefield Area
Mercer County
Bluefield High School
Central Junior High
Board of Education
Smittle
Clinton D. Lilly
Howard Harvey
Princeton High School
Glenwood
Oakvale
Wade Spees
Expo 78 Planned By Bluefield Chamber Of Commerce
Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce board discussed Expo 78 a three day industrial exhibition set for September at Brushfork Armory with about 75 exhibitors. Plans include a paving project for a 1000 vehicle parking lot and a week of chamber events and a new air transportation committee meeting at the chamber office.
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Jim Terry
Daily Telegraph
Greater Bluefield
Brushfork Armory
Bond
Chamber
K. A. Ammar Jr
Fincastle Country Club
Bluefield
Fincastle
Ammar
Country Club
Keith McKenzie
Mercer County
Road tour planned in November by Virginia senator
Virginia State Senator Daniel W. Bird Jr. of Wytheville announced a road tour for General Assembly members in early November. The tour follows a Falls Mills resident's letter about very poor conditions on state Rt. 643 in the Falls Mills Mudfork area and notes Gov. Dalton will join. Bird aims to press for more funding to modernize southwest Virginia roads.
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Virginia
Daniel W. Bird Jr
Wytheville
Falls Mills
General Assembly
Bird
George A. Lester
Rt. 3
Wayne Whitham
John Dalton
Tazewell County
Lester
Mudfork
Dalton
Pair Is Charged In Robbery Near Montcalm
Mercer County deputies say Billy Ray Carver Jr. aged 18 and a 16-year-old juvenile were charged with unarmed robbery after stealing a purse from Mrs. Silvia Tabor of Montcalm on Secondary Rt. 11. Tabor, about 70, was knocked down and sustained minor injuries as the purse and $20 were recovered.
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Mercer County
Bob Baughman
Billy Ray Carver Jr
Montcalm
Carver
Baughman
Silvia Tabor
Rt. 11
Tabor
Probation Continued For Teen In Arson Case
A Mercer County Juvenile Court judge extended probation for a 17 year old Princeton youth linked to a December 1977 arson at Princeton High School. William Stanley Gordon remains on three months probation until his eighteenth birthday in February 1979 after psychiatric evaluations.
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Princeton
Princeton High School
Mercer County
William O. Bivens Jr
William Stanley Gordon
Gordon
Bivens
Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center
Anthony Correctional Center
Princeton Junior High School
Magistrate Dismisses Charges Against Princetonians
Grand larceny charges against Earl C. Parker and Ray J. Parker of Princeton were dismissed after a preliminary hearing before Mercer County Magistrate Donald Hare. The case involved alleged theft of sheet metal from a wrecked tractor-trailer on Interstate 77 on May 30.
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Princeton
Mercer County
Donald Hare
Earl C. Parker
Ray J. Parker
Bill Akers
Bruce Ambrose
Arbutus Lee Hoge
Bluefield
State agency backs Roanoke to Pittsburgh airline service
The State Corporation Commission endorsed applications by Allegheny Airlines and Piedmont Aviation to provide Roanoke to Pittsburgh air service. The endorsement, issued via a memorandum from attorney Denton C. Roberts to the Civil Aeronautics Board, supports both carriers under rulings allowing multiple airlines in the same market.
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Richmond
Allegheny Airlines Inc
Piedmont Aviation Inc
Roanoke
Pittsburgh
SCC
Commission
Denton C. Roberts
Civil Aeronautics Board
The
Commonwealth
Piedmont’s
Allegheny
Roanoke-Pittsburgh
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