Jenkin Jones residents await PSD decision on water system
Jenkinsones residents hope a July 5 public hearing before the McDowell County Court will create a Public Service District to secure a $400,000 HUD and Farmers Home loan for a new water plant. Project delays stem from past floods and long-ignored water safety issues from a coal mine source.
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Jenkinsones
Public Service District
PSD
McDowell County
Nathan Finney
Finney
Gene O’brien
Region One Planning and Development Council
Jenkin Jones
Region One
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Farmers Home Administration
Health Department
Munity
Haysi Council Demands Action on Flood Aid Delays
Haysi Virginia officials say residents are frustrated by slow federal relief after April floods. Councilman Chad Barton cites surveys but little aid, with street repair costing at least 75000 dollars and river routing projects awaiting funds. The council plans to press Rep. William C. Wampler and file resolutions to Congress and state agencies while HUD and the Corps have created two mobile home parks for about 80 families.
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Haysi
Dickenson County
Chad Barton
Barton
William C. Wampler
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
The
Corps of Engineers
National crackdown urged on growing welfare fraud
New York prosecutors accuse seventy-two government workers of fraudulently drawing welfare while on the public payroll. Similar indictments target Detroit and Chicago workers, signaling a national issue. Estimated losses exceed 356000 dollars with fines up to seven years in prison per person. Merola urges computer checks to prevent recurrences and calls for federal investigations.
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New York
Detroit
Chicago
Bronx
Michigan
U.S
Samuel Skinner
Illinois
Merola
City Board of Education
Department of Probation
Transit Authority
City Colleges
State Attorney General's Office
Supreme Court
Federal
Treasury Department
City Police Department
City Transit Authority
Public Library
Police Department
Housing Authority
Park District
Cook County
Federal Internal Revenue Service
Postal Service
General Services Administration
Mercer County Jurors Add Names for June Term
Additional petit jurors have been named to serve with the jurors already selected for the June Term of Mercer County Circuit Court presided by Judge William O. Bivens Jr. The list includes residents from Bluefield Princeton and nearby towns with reporting at 9 30 a m on June 28.
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Mercer County Circuit Court
William O. Bivens Jr
Dorothy A. Musick
Bluefield
Mickey Champ
Princeton
Charlotte Caldwell
J. D. Terry
Oakvale
Fred D. Sylvester
Roger H. Owensby Jr
Gary Ratcliff
James R. Vaughn
Curtis E. Vanney
Howard Strader
Roger Turner
Dorothy Garrett
Dorothy O'Neal
Richard S. Johnson
John Surface
Frances Lucas
Douglas Morgan
Betty Gurran
Fred Caldwell
Guy Dale
Eugene Holt
Lashmeet
Allen Hager
Floyd Taylor
Pinoak
Iris Bowling
Paris H. Lambert
Marilyn Hypes
J. A. Keller
Larry Agnew
A. B. Owen
James Litz
Edwin Bary
Betty Keatley
Vivian Allen
Bernard Adams
Betty Tabor
Barbs on self-made men and the library overdue lists
The note suggests that self-made men forget years and that the best way to find a skilled bookkeeper is to check overdue lists at the library. This reflects a humorous or satirical take on thrift and diligence in record keeping.
Governors Plan July 1 Opening for I-77 Section
Virginia and North Carolina governors will open the 30.6 mile I-77 segment near Galax at 11 a.m. July 1 marking a bypass of U.S. 52 between Elkins North Carolina and Fancy Gap Virginia. Built on virgin land at about 40 million dollars the road climbs toward 1,500 feet in the Blue Ridge with 19 million cubic yards moved since June 1973.
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GALAX
Virginia
Mills E. Godwin Jr
North Carolina
James B. Hunt
Elkins
N.C
Fancy Gap
U.S. 52
Carroll County
Blue Ridge Mountains
Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation
Blue Ridge Parkway
Cleveland
Ohio
Columbia
S.C
Carolina
Ft. Chiswell
West Virginia
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Daily Telegraph
By Hank Ketcham
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Congress
Small Business Administration
U. S
Pearl Oaks
Robert R. Austin, Jr
Diane Jarvis
William E. Cundiff
Kenneth Davidson
Luther Underwood
Montcalm
Linda Johnson
John C. Vickers
Matoaka
Effie Ball
Wesley Chambers
Sybil Keesee
Charles Rutherford
Carter Vernon
Kevin O'Sullivan
Athens
Connie Pace
Samuel Knott
Blue
Ponderosa
PFE Slams
Eammers
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