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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1986
Page
6
Accu Weather outlines a five day period with morning clouds and showers then sun and cooler at Bluefield Princeton. Highs run from 73 to 86 and lows from 46 to 64 with humid conditions possible and a thunder shower risk Friday.
The National Weather Service predicts rain along the Pacific coast from central California to Washington and in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Florida. Warm temperatures expected nationwide with extreme highs and lows listed for Monday, including 112 degrees in Bullhead City, Arizona, and 32 in Gunnison, Colorado.
In Louisville the Cardin family says the national organ donor system favored the highly publicized Baby Jesse, who received a heart before their son Robbie known as Baby Calvin despite Robbie being on the waiting list longer. Robbie remains in critical but stable condition at Kosair's Children Hospital as the public ordeal unfolds.
President Reagan told Afghan rebel leaders in Washington that while he sympathizes with their cause he will not grant formal U S diplomatic recognition. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the meeting stressed unity and a peace framework with Soviet withdrawal and Afghan self determination as core aims.
In Wharton Texas two women at a Bay City bar were sentenced to one year in Wharton County Jail after pleading guilty to causing injury to a child. Jacqueline Williams and Marsha Taylor Owens faced a high price for the February house fire deaths of seven of their children, ages 2 months to 8 years, with five of Williams’s six and two of Owens’s four children dying. The surviving children stayed with relatives.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge J Richmond Pearson revoked probation for the Rev Edward Markley and ordered him to serve a five year term for attacking a women's clinic with a sledge hammer He had been on probation after a May 1984 burglary and criminal mischief conviction and was ordered to stay 500 feet from any abortion performing clinic.
The Supreme Court rejected an emergency bid to halt Norfolk Va housing the 15 year busing plan aimed at racial balance. When the plan begins in September ten of thirty five elementary schools would become virtually all black.
Washington AP report sparked security scrutiny as ABC News claimed the Supreme Court would rule on Gramm Rudman Act, a key deficit reduction measure. The court issued two unrelated decisions and offered no confirmation on Gramm Rudman, while spokeswoman Toni House declined to comment.
Prosecutor Terry Boren urged Marin County Superior Court jurors that former fugitive lawyer Stephen Bingham conspired to aid a Black prison radical in the 1971 San Quentin violence, making him legally responsible for two murders and a conspiracy. Bingham, 44, allegedly slipped a pistol to Jackson during an Aug 21, 1971 visit, helping trigger an escape that killed six people.
In Los Angeles prosecutors and defense await verdict as former FBI agent Richard Miller faces espionage charges in a retrial. Jurors began a five hour first day of deliberations under the same 8 am to 1 pm schedule, seeking to decide if Miller attempted to infiltrate the KGB or betrayed the United States for money and sex.
In Jacksonville Florida a traffic helicopter crashed after reporting traffic on air killing reporter Julie Ann Silvers and pilot William Buddy Smith. Cameraman Brett C Snyder was seriously injured as the craft fell in a vacant lot near I 95 and I 10. The live broadcast on WAPE FM and WTLV TV captured the final moments before the crash.
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