Alaska pipeline welds hailed as best in history
Anchorage Alaska AP reports Alyeska Pipeline Service Co chairman Edward L Patton says welded sections of the trans Alaska oil line are the best in history as a congressional panel prepares to probe construction. The audit noted about 4000 problem welds amid project delays and cost concerns.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Edward
L. Patton
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Washington
Alyeska
Oilrich Prudhoe Bay
Valdez
Patton
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Subcommittee On Energy and Environment
John Dingell
Dmich
Congressional Review
Sewage Rate Hike For Second Phase Named At Least $6
Bluefield Sanitary Board heard that the second phase of a two part sewage project will require a minimum $6 monthly charge per customer, with average bills around $13.25 based on 5000 gallons. The cost estimate for the phase was cut to $18 million from $22 million, and a total project cost now stands at about $24 million for Bluefield West Virginia and Bluefield Virginia.
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Bluefield Sanitary Board
Holley, Kenney, Schott, Inc
HKS
Pete Procopio
Public Service Commission
Bluefield
Procopio
Board
PSC
City Board
W. Va
Blurfield Daily Telegraph front matter and masthead
The item presents a newspaper masthead with establishment details, publication policy, Associated Press affiliation, subscription rates, and distribution office contact. It lists pricing for West Virginia and home delivery options, along with advertising agency notes.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Givetieia
Associated Press
Mall
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation Advertising Representative
Methews, Snannon & Cyilen
Deaths and funerals in Bluefield and area
Obituaries list multiple local deaths including Mrs. Florence M. Sammons 79 of Bluefield and Mrs. Martha B. Buckley 100 of Bluefield with service details. Other notices include Nellie R. Hicks 81 of Lebanon Virginia and Harmon Owens 84 of Vansant with burial and calling plans.
Deaths in Bluefield area Boo Liles Jr. 61
James T Boo Liles Jr. 61 of 200 Floyd St Bluefield formerly Bottom Creek died Monday in a Bluefield hospital He was a retired miner born in Wadesboro North Carolina son of the late Thomas and Catheryn Liles He was a member of Lovely Zion Baptist Church Bottom Creek UMWA Local 6260 Surviving wife Vina Mae Liles two daughters Barbara Tucker Brooklyn New York and Willistone Walker Inglewood California six grandchildren Funeral services at Lovely Zion Baptist Church Bottom Creek Saturday at 1 PM Rev James Wormley Rev Andrew Jackson officiating Burial Restlawn Memorial Gardens Littlesburg Road Friends may call Kimball Funeral Home Friday 5 to 9 PM
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Florence M. Sammons
Bluefield
Fort Gay
Wayne County
Andrew
Nancy Jane Grimm Jackson
Marshall University
National
Gayle S. Carroll
Princeton
Billie R. (Menta) Carper
Sam Campbell
Luther Meade
Mercer Funeral Hare
Odum Lockhart
Monte Vista Park
Mercer Funeral Home
Ellis Fred Anders
Leckie
Welch
Independence
Frank
Martha Anders
Katie Anders
Bill Anders
Dayton
Ohio
Rosie Parks
Roanoke
Pearl Duvall
Hazel Ellis
Anawalt
Mary Sizemore
Lucille Sizemore
Hattie Day
Skygusty
Long Point Baptist Church
Frank Vitosky
Wiley Davis
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
James T
Boo) Liles Jr
Floyd St
Bottom Creek
Wadesboro
N. C
Thomas and
Catheryn Liles
Lovely Zion Baptist Church
UMWA
Vina Mae Liles
Barbara Tucker
Brooklyn
N. Y
Willistone Walker
Inglewood
Calif
James Wormley
Andrew Jackson
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Littlesburg Road
Kimball Funeral Home
Wayne Wellman 62 Dies After Long Illness in Beckley
Wayne Leon Wellman of Big Sandy died Wednesday in a Beckley veterans hospital after a long illness. A World War II veteran born in Fort Gay, he leaves widow Pear Ina Dillon Wellman, a son Jasper Wayne Wellman of Glendale, two stepsons, a daughter, a sister, two brothers, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held Friday at 11 a.m. at the Church of God in B with Rev. Gerald Church L. Riffe officiating, burial in Saeger Memorial Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Fanning Funeral Home, Welch, in charge.
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Big Sandy
Beckley
Fort Gay
Walter
Lake Damion Wellman
Pear Ina Dillon Wellman
Jasper Wayne Wellman
Glendale
Ariz
William J. Osborne
Tommy Osborne
Oklahoma
Peggy Sue Osborne
Earlee Vues Welindy
Victor Wellman
Hensley
Walter Dan Wellman
Hazel Park
Mich
Church of God At
Gerald Churc L. Riffe
Saeger Memorial
Darrell Smith
James Turpin
Eugene Mounts
Arnold St. John
Raymond Franklin
Henry Ooten
Vincent Walker
Richard Vance
Fanning Funeral Home
Welch
Funeral notices for Cook, Veccelio, Culver and Myers
Ted Boyd Cook 75 of Princeton funeral today at 4 p.m. Burns Wornal Chapel with Rev Norman Cain officiating. Burial in Roselawn Memorial Gardens on Bluefield Princeton Road. pallbearers listed. Tony Bacco Veccellio 71 of Route 3 Bluefield funeral today 11 a.m. Cravens Shires Chapel Bluewell. burial in Roselawn Princeton Road. active and honorary pallbearers named. Percy Vernon Culver 81 Route 1 Princeton funeral Saturday 11 a.m. Chestertown New York. Hazel M Myers 65 Lashmeet funeral today 11 a.m. George W Seaver Chapel Princeton. burial Resthaven Park Cemetery. pallbearers named.
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Antonio
Tony) Bacco
Bluefield
Cravens-Shires
Bluewell
Seamus Maguire
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
Donald Helmandollar
Frank Ferrante
William Bowman
Robert Gillespie
Thomas Watkins
Weldon Graham
Hal Gillespie
Farley Mann
Jeff Miller
Damel Bowers
Culver
Percy Vernon
Chestertown
N. Y
Mrs Oma Acord Rites Held In Big Sandy
Mrs Oma Acord 54 of Welch Pineville Road died Wednesday in a Welch hospital. Born in Mingo County she was a daughter of the late Henson and Rebecca Mahala. Survived by husband James Acord son James Lee Acord Opal Louise Acord brother Albert Mahala sister Ethel Mahala. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at the House of Prayer Big Sandy with Rev Floyd Lester officiating burial in Jaeger Memorial Cemetery Roderfield.
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Oma Acord
Welch-Pineville Road
Welch
Mingo County
Henson
Rebecca McNeely Mahala
James Acord
James Lee Acord
Opal Louise Acord
Albert Mahala
Hensley
Ethel Mahala
Roderfield
House of Prayer
Big Sandy
Floyd Lester Offici
Jaeger Memorial
Fanning Funeral Home
Hallie Pauline Wright Dies in Cleveland Hospital
Mrs Hallie Pauline Wright widow of John Maynard Wright of 1675 Ensel Road Cleveland Ohio died Monday in a Cleveland hospital after a brief illness. She was a former resident of Bluefield and was last cared for at Mercer Funeral Home in Bluefield.
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Hallie Pauline Wright
John Maynard Wright
Ensel Road
Cleveland
Ohio
Bluefield
Mercer Funeral Home
Correction on Owens shooting death report at Bradshaw
The Telegraph report of Wednesday claimed Earl Owens aged 34 of Raysall died from gunshot wounds from early Monday at a drive in near Bradshaw. McDowell County Sheriff's Department says Owens was wounded in foot and leg and did not die.
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Earl Owens
Raysall
Bradshaw
Owens
McDowell County Sheriff's Department
Poison Victim’s Funeral Friday for Sharon Kay Roland Spencer
Funeral services for Sharon Kay Roland Spencer 24 of Bluefield will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Mercer Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Wallace Smith officiating. Burial follows at Monte Vista Park Cemetery. She died from apparent strychnine poisoning at Bluefield Sanitarium. She leaves husband Michael S. Spencer and parents Fred Eugene and Frieda Roland, plus siblings and extended family.
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Sharon Kay Roland Spencer
Bluefield
Mercer Funeral Home
Wallace Smith
Monte Vista Park
Fred Eugene
Frieda Hambrick Roland
Thompson Chapel Methodist Church
Funeral Planned for Gun Vicm James E Thacker
Funeral services for James Edward Thacker 54 of Raven Va will be held Friday at 1 p m at Tazewell County Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Grat Horton officiating Burial will follow at Smith Loney Cemetery Route 1 Raven He died about 4 40 p m Tuesday in a hunting accident on Red Root Ridge near Richlands Va The Telegraph corrected an earlier report that he died of gunshot wounds He is survived by his mother Dora Thacker of Raven and four sisters two brothers and other relatives
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Route 1
Raven
Red Root Ridge
Richlands
Tazewell County Funeral Home
Rev. Grat Horton
Smith Loney
Thacker
Acker
Wise County
Dora Thacker
Andrew Thacker
Elizabeth Preter
Gracie Utter
Los Angeles
Calif
Pearl Proffitt
Columbus
Ohio
Ruby Ball
Paul Thacker
Raymond Thacker
Maryland
Sheriffs Push to Issue Vehicle Licenses Locally
State sheriffs advocate local license issuance for renewals only risking costs vs the centralized DMV system. A $1 fee would cover sheriff offices, while some counties seek more staff and funds. Ralph Steele notes most sheriffs see the bill as mandatory with mixed views at the association. Attorney General hasn’t issued an opinion.
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Davies
Commissioners Association
Ralph L. Steele
Marion
Jefferson
Leonard L. Napple
Steele
Napple
West Virginia Sheriffs Association
Nicholas County
Ralph Johnson
Multiple US incidents span killings indictments and industry data
A West Virginia crash kills Orris Young, 67, near Beckley with Rosa Chapman injured. William Elwell, 31, of Clarksburg, shot and critical after a highway discovery near five miles south, taken to Morgantown. Detroit nurses Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez indicted for murder and poison in Ann Arbor hospital deaths. U.S. industrial output rises in May by 0.710 percent, signaling recovery alongside building gains. Virginia Senator James Edmunds praises the Democratic platform as unifying ahead of Carter. Cordero Mining plans January coal shipments pending USGS strip mining approval near Gillette, Wyoming.
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W.va
William Elwell
Here
Elwell
University Medical Center
Morgantown
Detroit
Veterans Administration Hospital
Ann Arbor
FBI
Filipina B. Narciso
Ypsilanti, Mich
Leonora M. Perez
Evanston
Ill
USGS
Gillette, Wyo
Cordero Mining Co
U.S. Geological Survey
Jim Nichols
Sun Oil Co
Miller links Watergate to national ethics at Boys State
Attorney General Andrew P. Miller told about 600 youths at the 34th Boys State conference in Lynchburg that the Washington sex scandal investigations could be America’s second Watergate. He said the scandal underscored a troubling erosion of integrity among top leaders.
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Andrew P. Miller
Washington
America
Miller
Byrd Receives Apology From Virginia Party Chairman
Virginia Democratic Chairman Joseph Fitzpatrick apologized to U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. for a staffer distributing a column alleging sexual misconduct. Fitzpatrick called the move unfortunate and a wrong tactic and Byrd accepted the apology graciously.
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Party
Richmond
Joseph Fitzpatrick
U.S
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
India
Fitzpatrick
Jack Anderson
Anderson
Fairfax County
Bob Trent
Zumwalt
Trent
Virginia
Timothy Finchen
New York
Texas Tops U.S. Petroleum Output Ahead of Louisiana
The report identifies Texas as the leading petroleum producing state with Louisiana in second place. It notes Texas outpaces Louisiana in crude oil production, reflecting regional energy industry leadership and historical output patterns.
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Texas
Louisiana
Howe Returns to Utah Silent on Sex Arrest
Rep. Allan T. Howe and his wife arrived back in Utah amid questions about his arrest for allegedly attempting to buy sex from decoy police prostitutes. He declined to answer questions and said a statement on his political future would come soon as Democrats weigh calls to resign or not seek re election.
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Allan T. Howe
Utah
Howes
Howe
Democratic Party
Washington
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