Probation for Bluefield theft suspects in 1975 7 11 robberies
Two Bluefield men Richard Jessee and Ronald Peck were placed on two year probation for conspiracy to commit grand larceny in connection with 1975 7 11 robberies. Gary Romano requires further psychiatric evaluation at Huttonsville. all three defendants faced probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy.
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Barbara Hawkins
Bluefield
Huttonsville
Wagner
Huttonsville Diagnostic Center
Romano
Ernest Six
VISTA
Rogaley
Walter Roczot
Jessee
Bland Street
Peck
Lance Austin
Norris Kantor
Guy Perkins
Joseph Sanders Jr
Charles Smith
Katz
Intruders Wreck South African Airways Office on Fifth Avenue
Two black men entered the Fifth Avenue office of South African Airways and began destroying equipment. No injuries were reported. A ticket terminal was vandalized a liquor store damaged and a four inch window shattered. The men fled on foot. Detective Lt. O Connor described one man near the front while the other wrecked the interior with a thrown ticket validator and box.
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NEW York
Fifth Avenue
South African Airways
South Africa
Edward J. O'Connor
Jack Sarfati
West Leads Gain In Worker Income
A Labor Department report shows Western workers earned about 5.5 percent more pay over the six months ending in March, outpacing the nation's 3.8 percent rise. Gains varied by sector and region, with service workers up 5.3 percent and manufacturing up 4.0 percent, while the Northeast lagged with 2.4 percent.
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Washington
United States
Labor Department
West
Northeast
South
North Central
Rotary Horse Show Set In Peterstown
The 24th annual Peterstown Rotary Horse Show will be held July 9 and 10 at Peterstown High School athletic field with 7:30 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday sessions. The event is affiliated with the West Virginia Horsemens Association and the Tennessee Walking Horse Association. Claude B. Dalton is the show manager and John Kistler will judge.
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Peterstown
Peterstown High School
West Virginia Horsemens Association
Tennessee Walking Horse Association
Claude B. Dalton
John Kistler
Flash Flood Alerts Sweep Arkansas Texas Missouri
Thunderstorms with heavy rain triggered flash floods in the lower Mississippi Valley. National Weather Service issued warnings for Arkansas Texas and Missouri with several hundred evacuees reported. Temperatures ranged 106 in Phoenix to 44 in Cheyenne and Laramie with a broad forecast of thundershowers from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians and mild conditions elsewhere.
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Associated Press
Mississippi Valley
Arkansas
Camden
Texarkana
National Weather Service
Texas
Missouri
Phoenix
Ariz
Cheyenne
Laramie
Wyo
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Lower
Appalachians
New England
Washington State
Rockies
Pacific States
Gulf Coast
Atlantic Coast
Kepone Damage Still Visible in Virginia Workers
Virginia health officials report 15 to 20 former Kepone workers remain with significant disability and about 12 unlikely to ever work again. Life Science Products closed last July after Kepone poisoning caused neurological issues in 28 employees treated at the Medical College of Virginia.
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Richmond, Va
Virginia Health
Kepone
Robert S. Jackson
Life Science Products, Co
Hopewell
Life Science
State Health Department
The
Medical College of Virginia
Jackson
Secretary of Human Affairs
Otis Brown
Mills Godwin
Four arrested in $4800 theft of tapes from wholesale dealer
A adult and three 15 year old juveniles were arrested by Mercer County deputies for stealing 1600 tapes from a New Hope Road wholesale dealer near Princeton. Howard Davis Kress, 22, of Bluefield faces bond set at 3000, with hearings next Tuesday.juveniles await juvenile court July 1 with 500 bond each.
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Barbara Hawkins
Mercer County
John E Jack. Scott
Bob Baughman
Randall Earnest
Howard Davis Kress
Rt. 1
Bluefield
Green Valley
New Hope Road
Princeton
Kress
Justice of the Peace
C. J. Harvey
JP Harvey
Jerome Katz
Juvenile Division
Baughman
Earnest
Sheriff’s Department
Clover Dew Hollow
Suit Filed To Halt Virginia Vermiculite Strip Mining Plan
Historic Green Springs Inc files another lawsuit in Louisa County Circuit Court challenging the Jan 23 rezoning that would allow W R Grace Co to strip mine over 1 000 acres near a rural National Historic Landmark. A second suit targets the Feb 20 rezoning of 459 acres owned by Francis and Erica Purcell, with mining set to begin in September.
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Louisa
Historic Green Springs, Inc
Louisa County Board of Supervisors
Louisa County
W. R. Grace & Co
Historic Green Springs
Francis
Frederica Purcell
Purcell
Virginia Vermiculite, Inc
Jenzo Music Signs for Nickelodeon Film Debut
Jenzo Music known as Carlton the Doorman on TV not seen on Rhoda is signed to make his film acting debut in Nickelodeon. The film marks his first on screen acting role.
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Los Angeles
Jenzo Music
Carlton the Doorman
Rhoda
Nickelodeon
Broadcasters condemn FCC order on mining controversy coverage
The National Association of Broadcasters denounces the FCC for ordering WHAR Clarksburg West Virginia to air more on the strip mining dispute. NAB calls the June 9 ruling an unwarranted intrusion on press independence and questions whether news coverage must meet government standards. The NAB also seeks reversal of a May 18 finding that 13 California stations violated fairness rules by not airing conservationist views on a nuclear plant.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
National Association of Broadcasters
FCC
WHAR
Clarksburg
W.va
NAB
California
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Ocely
NOAA
US Dept of Commece
Gulf of Mexico
Rotary Horse Show
Life Science Products
City of Hopewell
Allied Chemical Corp
Life Science Pr
Scott
Daily Telegraph
Logan
Welch
U.S. RT
Oakvale RD
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