Frankie and the Knockouts Live in West Virginia
Mercer County rock fans get a treat as Frankie and the Knockouts perform at Chaser's Saturday for their only WV show this summer. The band previews new single You Don't Want Me from the forthcoming Making The Point LP, slated for late summer, with six new cuts heard live. A 3-D TV movie featuring Frankie as actor is in NBC previews. promoter Stan Taylor will push the concert with giveaways on J-104.
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Mercer County
Frankie and the Knockouts
West Virginia
Frankie Previte
L.A
Frankie
RCA Records
NBC
Atlanta
Rascals
The
Temptations
Foreigner
Toto
Chaser
P.S. Bluefield
J-104
Superjock
Stan Taylor
Princeton Banc Holding names change to First Community Bancshares
Princeton based Banc Holding Company plans a name change to First Community Bancshares Inc with stockholder approval at a June 28 meeting. The president notes community emphasis and keeping local identity by operating banks as separate entities with their own boards while modernizing banking across West Virginia.
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Princeton
Princeton Banc Holding Company
Curry W. Blank
First Community Bancshares, Inc
Blank
Community
Community Bank
First Community
West Virginia
Bank Adds Financial Trust Account Service
Princeton Bank and Trust introduces the financial trust account, an interest-bearing checking option managed by PB&T's trust department. The plan offers unlimited checks and deposits with daily investment of collected balances, earning interest set by the daily market and paid down to zero, compounded daily.
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Princeton
Princeton Bank and Trust Company
Financial Trust
Pb&t
Owen R. Griffith Jr
Griffith
Princeton Bank and Trust
Pb&T’s
Wesleyan Methodist Camp Meeting At Glenwood Park
The annual Wesleyan Methodist Camp Meeting runs through Thursday June 30 at Glenwood Park with daily services at 10 a.m. 2 p.m. and 7 30 p.m. Fellowship Revival at Gardner Community Church begins Wednesday with services at 7 p.m. through Sunday hosted by Rev. Charlotte Shirley with new speakers and special singing nightly.
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Glenwood Park
Gardner Community Church
Charlotte Shirley
Bluefield Sanitary Board approves six percent sewer rate hike
Sanitary Board supervisor Terry Honaker told Bluefield Kiwanis members the six percent annual sewer rate increase will take effect July 1 after budget cuts and attrition left a deficit. He noted sewer rates are cheaper than water and announced planned sewer line work on Oakhurst starting about July 1. Robert Crawford will discuss retirement accounts next week.
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Sanitary Board of
Bluefield
Terry Honaker
Sanitary Board
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Bonanza
Honaker
Oakhurst
Robert Crawford
Mosquito control via ditches links marshes to tidal creeks
Officials employ ditching instead of insecticides in salt marshes to curb mosquitoes. Canals connect breeding areas with tidal creeks, allowing fish to swim in and feed on larvae for natural suppression.
Bluefield Virginia Plans Centennial Celebration in 1983
Bluefield Virginia marks 100 years since incorporation with a July 1 start and a July 16 parade led by United Mine Workers President Rich Trumka. Kiwanis Club chairs the centennial, with a committee including local residents and Pocahontas volunteers. Events include sales, a concert, a pageant, church service, coal miner breakfast, and an arts show.
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Bluefield
United Mine Workers
Rich Trumka
Kiwanis Club
Walter Pierce
Danny Coulthard
Patricia C. Jones
Ruth H. Tiffany
Art Mead
Mildred Kerrigan
Gary Perdue
Viola Asbur
Charles Pascal
Clyde Bowling
Bruce Garrison
Edna Drosick
Pocahontas, Va
Downtown Merchants Association
Charles Jack
Williams
Graham Community Chorus
Charles Weeks
Pearisburg Officials Confront Alcohol Drunks Row
Pearisburg Virginia officials and merchants face rising public intoxication with no detox or interdiction law. Jail releases after sobering periods fail as arrests surge from 124 in 1978 to 339, projected over 450 in 1983. Merchants blame drunks for deterring customers and plan a merchants association to tackle the problem.
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Elaine Thompson
Daily Telegraph
Pearisburg
Giles County
Virginia
Pearsburg
Lee Galloway
Galloway
James Carter
Maxway
Pearlsburg
Carter
Calvin Thomas
Ingram Furniture Store
Main Street
Thomas
Merchants’ Association
Hospital Rate Board To Hold First Meeting
Charleston AP The Health Care Cost Review Authority meets Wednesday amid a preliminary injunction blocking a hospital rate freeze. Chairman Sally K Richardson says the panel may seek party status in the suit, aiming for dismissal of the injunction. The 1983 act created the authority with power to set hospital rates starting July 1 1984.
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Charleston
W.va
Sally K. Richardson
Robert E. Maxwell
United Hospital Center of
Clarksburg
Richardson
Jay Rockefeller
Bulletin Board: AARP Meeting and Juror Excusal Notice
The Princeton Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons meets today at noon at the First United Methodist Church with a program and business session following a carry-in luncheon. Jurors on the Mercer County Circuit Court June Term are excused until June 29 at 9 30 a.m. when a trial is set in Judge John R. Frazier's courtroom.
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Princeton
American Association of Retired Persons
First United Methodist Church
Mercer County
John R. Frazier
Three Runners Die In Marathon
Three runners died and 80 more were treated for exhaustion in Britain’s hot mid-70s degree weather during mass charity runs. John Juliff collapsed after 12 miles of a 13 mile Colchester race. Barry Norris died after 23 miles at Sheffield then Newcastle Man. Thoma Collins perished two miles into a Newcastle run.
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London
Britain
John Juliff
Colchester
Barry Norris
Sheffield
Thoma Collins
Newcastle On Tyne
Kenneth Kingsbury
Sports Council
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