Violence Flares As Stearns Mine Picket War Deepens
In Stearns Kentucky a company guard shot a miner on a picket line at the Justus mine the fourth wounding in months as union and company forces clash. Police report an explosion near the mine and exchanges of gunfire with several guards under scrutiny. Five hundred miles of tense, fortified lines ring the mine area with deputies guarding entrances and miners pressing for a recognized union safety committee.
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Stearns
Kentucky
John Cox
United Mine Workers
Harlan
Cox
Stearns Coal Co
Justus
Harold Watson
Ray Hamlin
Pine Knott
Watson
Lee Griffith
Coffee
Lee Potter
UMW
Potter
Blue Diamond Coal Co
Knoxville, Tenn
London
McCreary County
Joe Perry
Union
Perry
Brookside
Eastover
Duke Power Co
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Advertising Rates Note
Bluefield Daily Telegraph operates from 412 Bland Street Blueheia West Virginia listing subscription and home delivery rates per year and calendar month. The notice also lists Associated Press affiliation and advertising representatives.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Blueheia
Associated Press
West Verge
Audit Bureau of Graulation
Landen Assocates
Temperature Chart From The Associated Prerg
Temperature chart shows hi and lo values for the previous day with high and low ranges. Data include daily extremes, reflecting weather patterns and temperature shifts.
Miners Seek Help as Coal Funds Face Cuts in 1970s
A six hour Washington meeting with a 12 man West Virginia and Pennsylvania miners delegation failed to sway the Bituminous Coal Operators Association to redirect royalties from a healthy 1974 pension trust to weaker 1964 and 1950 funds. The BCOA stood firm denying reallocations after two prior approvals and a rise in wildcat strikes.
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BCOA
Court rules on schooling aid to parochial pupils
Supreme Court narrows Ohio law allowing non religious text books and supports limited testing and services in parochial schools. Tests may be public employee run and neutral, while medical and therapeutic aid must remain on neutral sites. Classroom equipment must not be lent to pupils or parents to avoid supporting religion.
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Ohio
Obituaries for Mrs Mary E Smith and Mrs Mable Dillon
Two obituary notices announce the deaths of Mrs Mary E Smith 89 of Zephyr Hills Florida and Mrs Mable H Dillon 65 of War WV. Smith had sons, daughters, many grandchildren and great grandchildren with services Monday in Zephyr Hills and burial at Chapel Hill Cemetery Dade City. Dillon leaves six sisters four sons and many grandchildren with services Sunday at her War home and burial at Hartwell Cemetery.
Mrs. Sarah Greever dies after long illness in Narrows
Mrs. Sarah Thelma Dollinger Greever, 60, of Narrows Virginia, died in a Blacksburg hospital after a long illness. Survivors include husband F Baker Greever, two sons John Sterling Greever and Glen David Greever Sr, five sisters, three brothers, and three grandchildren. Funeral services set for Monday at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church Narrows with Rev Alfred E Philley officiating. Burial in St James Lutheran Cemetery Chilhowie. Friends may call Riffe's Funeral Home Narrows Sunday.
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Mary E. Smith
Zephyr Hills
Fla
Mansfield
Ohio
Raven, Va
John McGee
Geneva Whitehead McGee
John Elkins
Marion
Ind
Roy Wyatt
Dade City
Thurman Wyatt
Richlands
Clarence Wyatt
Bishop, Va
Richardson Funeral Home
Edrickson
Chapel Hill Cemetery
Mable H. Dillon
Bluefield
McComas
Clint
Maggie Harless
Clyde
Jean) Lowery
Fayetteville
N. C
Roy
Cora) Shrader
Yukon
Jack
Louise) Lee
Welch
Andy
Vada) Stailer
Kathy Deerman
Russell
Judy) Cassady
Jackie Dillon
Wade Dillon
Raymond Dillon
Richard Dillon
Baltimore
Buster Harless
War
Lacy Griffith
Hartwell Cemetery
Hartwell
Douglas Mortuary
Sarah Greever
Sarah Thelma Dollinger Greever
Narrows
Blacksburg
F. Baker Greever
John Sterling Greever
Glen David Greever Sr
Hopewell
Roscoe Dollinger
Tallahassee
Raymond E. Dollinger Sr
Bristol
Alfred E Philley
St. James Lutheran Cemetery
Chilhowie
Riffe
Dorothy
Teresa McCall
Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ
Baptist Valley
Joe E. Addison
Yost
Peery and St
Obituary for Irvin Skeens of Princeton
Irvin Skeens 50 of Mahood Avenue Princeton died Friday at home from an apparent heart attack. Born November 30 1926 in Mercer County he was the son of Fred Skeen and the late Lola Brown Skeens. He worked at Mills Market and was a Korean War veteran. Survivors include his widow Alice Layne Skeens a stepdaughter Dreama Ann Parson and four stepsons Hansel Layne Harley Layne Jessie Lane and Walter Layne. Also three brothers Garnet Victor Vernie Skeens two half-brothers Floyd Arlan Layne two sisters Lucille Alley Violet Fisher and half-sister Vada Walker. Services Monday at Bailey Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jimmy Jones and Rev. Paul Hall. burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Funeral home hours Sunday 5 to 9 p.m. Bailey Funeral Home in charge.
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Skeens
Mills Market
Alice Layne Skeens
Princeton
Dreama Ann Parson
Russell, Ky
Hansel Layne
Harley Layne
Mann
Jessie Lane
Atlanta
Walter Layne
Garnet Skeens
Victor Skeens
Augusta
Vernie Skeens
Sarasota
Fla
Floyd
Arlan Layne
Tamcliff
Lucille Alley
Pittsburg
Penn
Violet Fisher
Anaheim
Calif
Vada Walker
Bailey Funeral Home Chapel
Jimmy Jones
Paul Hall
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Bailey Funeral Home
Mrs Fannie P Hagy 63 Dies After Short Illness
Mrs. Fannie Pauley Hagy of Clearfork Bastian Va dies after a brief illness in a Bluefield hospital. Survived by husband Walter C. Hagy seven daughters and four sons and four stepsons. two sisters two brothers. 14 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Services 2 p m Sunday at Newberry Funeral Home Chapel Bland with Rev R T Newton officiating. Burial Rose Hill Cemetery Bastian. Funeral home hours today 7 to 9 p m.
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Fannie P. Hagy
Fannie Pauley Hagy
Clearfork
Bastian
Bluefield
Walter C. Hagy
Josie Angle
Baileysville
Betty Moorehead
Shirley Clemons
Rocky Gap
Rita Hagy
Mary Neel
Ceres
Frances Adkins
Richmond
Geraldine Stout
Springville
Luther Hagy
Walter Hagy Jr
James Daniel Short
Harrisonburg
Clifford Short
Lebanon
Roy Hagy
Troy Hagy
Itmann
Raymond Hagy
Robert Hagy
Doran
Bodie Overstreet
Bridgeton
N. J
Victoria Lambert
Wytheville
Hubert Pauley
Bland
R. J. Pauley
Maryland
Newberry Funeral Home
R. T. Newton
Rose Hill
Melwood Hairston Dies After Illness in Welch Hospital
Melwood Hairston 52 of Switchback died Friday in a Welch hospital after a long illness. He was a son of Mrs. Elizabeth Hairston of Switchback. His body was moved to Lugo's Funeral Service in Bluefield for arrangements.
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Melwood Hairston
Switchback
Welch
Elizabeth Hairston
Lugo
Bluefield
Paul Shrader Dies After Long Illness in Sacramento
Paul Shrader, 46, of Sacramento California and formerly of Richlands Virginia, died Thursday in a Sacramento hospital after a long illness. Arrangements were complete at Hurst Scott Funeral Home in Richlands.
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Paul Shrader
Sacramento
Calif
Richlands
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Mrs. Annie Simmons Dies at 64 in Red Ash Area
Mrs. Annie Simmons 64 of Red Ash Virginia died Friday in a Richlands Virginia hospital. She was the wife of Fred Simmons.
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Annie Simmons
Red Ash
Richlands
Fred Simmons
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Mrs. Eulah L. Collins Dies in Orlando at 61
Mrs. Eulah L. Collins, 61, of Orlando Florida and formerly of Bluefield, died Friday in Orlando after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were to be handled by Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell.
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Eulah L. Collins
Orlando
Fla
Bluefield
Cravens-Shires
Bluewell
Infant Twins of Sparks Died at Birth in Bluefield Hospital
The infant twin sons of Mr and Mrs Leonard Basil Sparks of English died at birth Friday in a Bluefield hospital. Funeral services will be held at Cravens Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell.
Will Zigler of Rolfe Dies After Long Illness
Will Zigler of Rolfe died Thursday night in a Princeton hospital after a long illness. He was completed at Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home in Keystone.
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Will Zigler
Rolfe
Princeton
Linkford and Richardson
Keystone
Funerals Listed For Local Residents
Petitioner Peter W. Damon 74 of Kimball has a 10 am Requiem at St. Marys Orthodox Elkhorn with Rev. John Housty. entombment in Woodlawn Mausoleum. William Dusty Miller 56 Bluefield with nephew Larry Miller, 2 pm Dudley Memorial Bluefield Va. pallbearers listed. Dorothy V Hedges Bluefield Va 11 am Mercer Funeral Chapel Bluefield burial Monte Vista Park Cemetery. pallbearers named.
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Damon
Peter W
Kimball
St. Mary's Orthodox Church
Elkhorn
John Housty
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Energy subcommittee advances coal phase for utilities and industry
The House energy subcommittee finished a week of debate on another phase of the President's program to push utility and industrial use of coal. It left broad government power to require industry and power to abandon natural gas and oil fuels, with exemptions for urban air quality concerns when coal use might worsen pollution.
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House Energy Subcommittee
Services Sunday For Tazewell Crash Victim
A 17-year-old Cedar Bluff youth, George McCall, was killed when the car he rode in hit a rock wall in Baptist Valley near North Tazewell. Wayne Hale, 20, and two other passengers sustained minor injuries. Hale and McCall were from nearby Cedar Bluff and North Tazewell. Funeral services are scheduled for Sunday at the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ in Baptist Valley, with burial at Yost Cemetery.
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Cedar Bluff
Baptist Valley
North Tazewell
Virginia
C. H. Campbell
George McCall
Rt. 1
McCall
Wayne Hale
Campbell
Hale
Tazewell
John Perry
Randy Flanner
Flanner
Perry
Mattie
Carter taxes show large income and delayed filings
President Carter and wife paid $17,484 in 1975 taxes on $136,138 income after a $41,702 credit for a peanut sheller. Tax extensions delayed returns in 1976 due to missing partnership and corporate forms and Mrs. Carter's Latin America trip. Royalties of about $70,000 from Why Not the Best earned in 1976 were paid Jan 1 1977 and planned for Carter Foundation gifts. about $48,000 will go to the foundation from those royalties.
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Powell
Congress
Carters
Carter
Carter Farms, Inc
Latin America
IRS
Carter Foundation For Governmental Affairs
White House
Robert Lipshutz
The Bad News Bears Sn Oper Training to Film
Paramount Pictures announced a sequel to The Bad News Bears from 1976 titled The Bad News Bears Sn Oper Training. Filming will take place in New York with a planned July release.
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NEW Movies
NEW York
Paramount Pictures
Grundy Doctor Dr. Ottway Sanders Dies After Long Illness
Dr. Ottway Sanders of Grundy Virginia a prominent retired physician in Buchanan County died Friday in a Richlands hospital after a long illness He was 86 Born in Oceana he moved to Hurley in 1935 to serve Leckie Coal Company then practiced privately He was a member of Grundy Baptist Church a 32nd Degree Mason and served as entombed with graveside rites by Masons Funeral services set for Monday at Grundy Baptist Church with interment at Mountain Valley Memorial Park.
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Ottway Sanders
Grundy
Buchanan County
Richlands
Oceana
John Ott
Ida Cook Sanders
Medical College of Virginia
Hurley
Leckie Coal Company
Grundy Baptist Church
Sandy Valley Lodge No. 17
AF & AM
Kazim Temple
Roanoke
Bertha Gregory Sanders
James Sanders
Harry Sanders
Williamson
James Damron
Huntington
James G. Pickens
H. G. Mutter
Mountain Valley Memorial Park
Ed Talbert
Carl Bevins
Alonzo Rife
Alfred Sparks Jr
Clyde Rolen
Russell Belcher
Kelly Smith
Leonard Sutherland
Joe Weller
Alonzo Hardy
Joseph Robinson
G. D. Vermilya
E. M. Bane
Russell Chaney
Grundy Funeral Home
Vance Urges U.S.-Soviet Ties While SALT Talks Stagnate
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance told reporters in Paris that substantial gaps remain with the Soviet Union over strategic arms limitation and human rights. He said progress occurs in other areas and stressed the importance of improving relations despite tensions heightened by SALT disputes. Izvestia in Moscow accused the U.S. of blocking progress and pushing a new arms race.
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Paris
Cyrus R. Vance
United States
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Washington
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
OECD
Vance
Moscow
Izvestia
U.S
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