House passes trimmed foreign aid bill with Cuba ban
The House approved a $6.7 billion foreign aid measure, cutting $373 million, and adopted an amendment to bar any U.S. aid or trade with Cuba. The chamber also added Angola and Mozambique to Cuba’s exclusion list and rejected major Korea aid cuts. The bill now goes to the Senate.
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Washington
House
U.S
Cuba
Korea
Senate
John Ashbrook
Ohio
Ashbrook
Angola
Mozambique
Carter
Jim Wright
Asia
Tom Harkin
Iowa
Park Chung Hee
Harkins
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Public Notice Information
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph announces subscription and delivery rates and notes its AP affiliation and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. It lists mailing and home delivery pricing and mentions availability of rates to other areas on application.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Crculation Advertising
London Associates
Deaths and Funerals Officiating in West Virginia
Peter W. Damon 74 of Kimball died in Charleston hospital after a short illness. Survived by widow Mary Schaffron Damon three daughters grandchildren and siblings. Services at St Marys Orthodox Church Elkhorn with burial at Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Funeral home arrangements by Bennett-Fanning Kimball.
Mrs. Elsie Yancey 82 Dies in St Petersburg After Illness
Mrs. Elsie Louise Yancey age 82 formerly of Princeton died Wednesday in a St. Petersburg hospital after a long illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Memorial Funeral Directory in Princeton which is in charge of arrangements.
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Elsie Louise Yancey
St. Petersburg
Fla
Princeton
Memorial
Mrs Dorothy Hedges of Double Gates dies after short illness
Mrs. Dorothy Virginia Hedges of 624 Fairway Drive Double Gates Va died Thursday morning in a Bluefield hospital after a brief illness. Born in Alderson she was the daughter of Annie Watts Michelinie and the late James W Michelinie. She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church Bluefield. Survivors include her husband Joseph E Hedges two sons Steve and David both at home four sisters and three brothers. Funeral Saturday 11 a.m. at Mercer Funeral Chapel with Dr C H Patterson and Rev Alfred L Bixler officiating. Burial Monte Vista Park. Friends may call 5 9 p in today Mercer Funeral Home in charge.
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Sidney N. Friedman
Welch
U. S
Leonard
Herma) Barber
Esna Cohen
Bowie Cogert
Ann Fienstein
van Nuys
Calif
Arron Friedman
Las Vegas
Nev
Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery
Beckley
Isadore Wein
Gratton
Walter Smith
Dix Creek
Rt. 1
Bandy
Cedar Bluff
Tazewell County
John Floyd
Nancy Elizabeth Asbury Smith
Pocahontas Fuel Corp
Amonate
UMWA
Norman Henry Byrd
Irene McReynolds
Jean Clark
Westerville
Ohio
June Emmett
Norwich
Norwich, Conn., Mrs. Susie Crouse of North Tazewell, Va., Mrs. Nell Justice
Defiance
Katherine Brewster
High Point
N. C
Cecil
Bun) Smith
Cecil Smith
Johnny Meadows
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Hurst-Scott
Richlands
Dorothy Virginia Hedges
Fairway Drive
Double Gates
Bluefield
Alderson
Annie Watts Michelinie
James W. Michelinie
Westminster Presbyterian Church of
Joseph E. Hedges
Steve Hedges
David Hedges
Bill Michelinie
Wilmington
Del
Kenneth Michelinie
Lewisburg
Jimmy Michelinie
Louisville
Lucille Mullins
Charleston
Helen Dixon
Jean Ferrarini
Sarasota
Fla
Katheleen McQueen
Carey, N. C
Mercer Funeral Chapel
C. H. Patterson
Alfred L. Bixler
Monte Vista Park
Mercer Funeral Home
William Dusty Miller 56 Bluefield Veteran Dies
William Dusty Miller 56 of Bluefield Virginia died Thursday in Beckley Veterans Hospital after a long illness. Born in Bluefield he was a World War II Navy veteran and former Bailey Lumber employee. Survived by one son William Karl Miller Omaha Neb one brother J E Miller Bluefield and one granddaughter. Funeral Saturday 2 pm at Dudley Memorial Chapel Bluefield Va with burial Maple Hill Cemetery. Dudley Memorial Mortuary in charge.
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William
Dusty) Miller
Brierwood Lane
Bluefield
Veterans Hospital
Beckley
Joseph D
Ida Ellen Steele Miller
U. S. Navy
Bailey Lumber Company
William Karl Miller
Omaha
Neb
J. E. Miller
Dudley Memorial Chapel
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Two Local Residents Die After Illness in Hospitals
Vernal Carington 67 of 711 Holbrook Street died Thursday morning in a Princeton hospital after a long illness. Mrs Fanny Pauley Hagy 63 of Bastian Virginia died Thursday in a Bluefield hospital after a brief illness. Bodies were taken to local funeral homes for arrangements.
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Vernal Carington
Holbrook St
Princeton
Lugo
Fanny Pauley Hagy
Bastian
Bluefield
Newberry Funeral Home
Bland
Amin on Honeymoon Amid Uganda Mystery
Nairobi AP reports Radio Uganda announced President Idi Amin is alive and on a belated honeymoon with his wife Sarah. The broadcast, quoting a military spokesman, says the earlier death or disappearance rumors were totally wrong and Amin has been resting after a period of work.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Uganda
Idi Amin
Sarah
Amin
Uganda Radio
London
Daily Nation
Car Destroyed In Area Crash In Princeton
A one car accident Wednesday night totaled a 1966 Volkswagen. Charles Kyle Marquis aged 25 of 504 Straley lost control while turning from Mercer Street to South Ninth and struck a utility pole guideline. Marquis was charged with failure to maintain control. Patrolmen J J Weis and D W Saunders investigated.
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Princeton
Charles Kyle Marquis
Straley
Mercer Street
South Ninth
Marquis
J. J. Weis
D. W. Saunders
War Post Office Opens Clerk Applications
Postmaster Hazel R. Hicks announced that the War post office will accept applications for clerk vacancies. A written examination will determine eligibles, with forms available at the War post office through July 1.
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Hazel R. Hicks
War Post Office
Mrs Mabel Dillon Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Mabel Dillon age 65 of War died Thursday morning at a Bluefield hospital after a long illness. Her remains were to be taken to the Douglas Mortuary in War for arrangements.
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Mabel Dillon
Bluefield
Douglas Mortuary
War
Walker Reappointed to West Virginia Health Systems Board
Joe Walker was reappointed to the West Virginia Health Systems Agency Board of Directors. The agency approves new health care systems and expansions, with James T. Suter announcing the appointment. Walker also chairs Region One Planning and Development Council and serves on the Health Systems Agency board. The agency’s annual meeting is set for Saturday in Charleston. Inigo Jones founded the English classical architecture school.
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Bluefield
Joe Walker
West Virginia Health Systems Agency, Inc
Walker
James T. Suter
Region One Planning and Development Council
Council
Health Gcveme
Charleston
Inigo Jones
Infant Michael Turner Dies in Pearisburg Crib Death
Michael Lee Turner aged 32 months son of Carl and Donna Daugherty Turner of Glen Lyn Va died on arrival at a Pearisburg hospital from an apparent crib death. He was born March 7 1977 in Princeton. Survived by maternal kin Julius Daugherty of Glen Lyn and George Rowe with graveside rites set for 1 p.m. Saturday at the family cemetery on Powell's Mountain under Broyles Funeral Chapel Peterstown supervision.
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Michael Lee Turner
Carl
Donna Daugherty Turner
Glen Lyn
Pearisburg Hospital
Princeton
Julius Daugherty
Powell’s Mountain
George Rowe
Powell’s Mountain Methodist Church
Broyles Funeral Chapel
Peterstown
Obituaries for Shelton Claflin and Jones families
Obituaries notice lists services for Robert L. Shelton Sr 77 of Princeton today 1 p m at St Matthew's United Holiness Church burial at Restlawn with grandsons as pallbearers. Dolores Ercoline Claflin 48 of Miami Beach formerly Northfork service 11 a m Sacred Heart Powhatan burial Woodlawn pallbearers named. Stuart A Jones 71 of Bluefield Rt 5 service 2 p m Bluewell United Methodist Church burial Roselawn memorial Gardens pallbearers include nephews and Bluewell Crumpler Bible class members. Cravens Shires Funeral Home Bluewell in charge.
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Shelton
Robert L. Sr
Beckley Road
Princeton
St. Matthew’s United Holiness Church
Walter Staples
Restlawn
George W. Seaver
Claflin
Dolores Ercoline
Miami Beach
Fla
Northfork
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Powhatan
Eugene Weber
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Benny Caparelli
Roy Dean
Albert Monarchy
Mike Caprani
Paul Liuzzo
Pete Capaldini
Ladies of Bluewell Ladies Bible Cass
Luther H. Clark Lodge
Cravens-Shires Funeral Home
Bluewell
Patterson comments on election, health cuts, and ballot
Patterson asserts the international board will follow the law in its ruling and vows to back the winning side if defeated. He accuses the ballot of rigging and cites new 40 percent doctor bill and $250 annual hospital cap for miners as trigger for wildcat strikes across coal states.
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Patterson
International Executive Board
Miller
Guidance system production in Minuteman II may phase out
Rockwell's Princeton plant employs about 200 workers and faces impact if the President delays a decision on ICBM production. A decision is needed to fund upgrades for the Minuteman II system, as current Minuteman III work could be adapted for II. Plant officials warn of possible closure if the contract ends, depending on other business.
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Byrd
Rockwell
Princeton
Belgrade
James E. Morrison
Newbro
Slayer of Girl Scouts hunted as Hart remains missing
Police searching woods and caves near Locust Grove Oklahoma for Gene LeRoy Hart 33 a convicted rapist who escaped Mayes County Jail in 1973 and is charged with the brutal killings of three Girl Scouts ages 8 9 and 10 at Camp Scott. An unidentified man was flushed from a cave nearby during the manhunt but escaped. Authorities tied Hart to the slayings via torn photographs found near the victims. a warrant was issued after learning he may have developed them.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Gene LeRoy Hart
Mayes County
Pryor
Hart
Mercer County to pursue four high schools plan with elementary modernizations
The Mercer County school board backed a four high school proposal as a starting point and directed Superintendent Lilly to accelerate planning. He agreed to review elementary needs with principals and teachers, ensuring all schools are considered within financial limits before finalizing a bond package and submitting it to the state board for approval.
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Glenwood
Thorn
Lilly
Mercer County
State Board of Education
Thomas Honaker
Robert Walthall
L. C. Caldwell
Harold Tomchin
Harold Wood
Honaker
Walthall
Tomchin
Bypass Plan Anchored by WV Route 460 Connection Near Bluefield
A civil suit settles over a 5.24 mile bypass linking U.S. 460 near Westgate Shopping Center to the west of Bluefield Virginia with a $15 million estimated cost. The compromise requires an environmental impact statement before most construction and preserves independent utility for the eastern segment while ensuring a future full interchange for traffic growth.
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West Virginia
Westgate
Bluefield
Fincastle Presbyterian Church
Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation
Leatherwood Farms
GenTel Ordered to Install Extended Area Service in Mercer County
The West Virginia Public Service Commission requires GenTel to install Extended Area Service between Princeton and Bluefield within ten days and to upgrade overall service to a generally acceptable standard. The order includes six month progress reports through July 1, 1979, amid complaints of dead lines, overcharges, frequent cut-offs, and interrupted one party lines.
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Princeton-Bluefield
GenTel
Robert E. Graham
James M. Fox
Princeton Area Citizens Association
Graham
Fox
Mercer County
West Virginia
PSC
John McKinney
W. Va
PACA
Bogus Twenty Dollar Bills Confiscated In Tidewater
Federal authorities confiscated 3600 in counterfeit twenty dollar bills since March 1 amid merchant and tourist exposure near I 64 and other routes. Lawrence M. Farmer says most of 180 phony notes were caught by the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond. The fakes are described as fair or better reproductions and those with suspicions should contact the Secret Service and local police.
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Norfolk
Tidewater
Lawrence M. Farmer
U.S
Secret Service
Farmer
Federal Reserve Bank
Richmond
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