Silent Pianos and Vaudeville Echoes in Greenbrier
William Fearnley, 82, recalls guiding silent films with piano and organ in the 1920s, improvising when cue sheets failed, then moving to New York cruise lines and later The Greenbrier. He still plays occasional functions, treasuring scrapbooks of Wurlitzer organs and theater instruments while reflecting on a changing era.
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William Fearnley
Spring Street
Fearnley
Rudolph Valentino
Meriden
Conn
Meriden Theatre
New York City
Cuba
Germany
South America
Florida
New York
California
Arkansas
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Carnegie Hall
Lewisburg
Charlie Chaplin
West Virginia
Old Dominion
Meyer-Davis
Greenbrier County
Ritzy
Sanitary board battles overrun forces rate hike
Bluefield Sanitary faces a 10 percent budget overrun as expenses from new equipment and lawsuits push expenditures to 102 percent of the 12 month plan. Plant manager Honaker cites EPA and Virginia controls, dechlorination and ultraviolet systems at Ada, plus a $17 million Autotrol suit and $150,000 in legal fees. Public notice required before any rate increase. A Tazewell Public Sewage Authority line to Westside plant begins under the same approved rates.
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Bluefield Sanitary
Terry Honaker
Bluefield Sanitary Board
Environmental Protection Agency
Virginia Water Control Board
Honaker
Ada
Autotrol Corporation
Bluestone
Westside
Sanitary Board
U.S. District Court
Norris Kantor
The
Beverage & Diamond
Washington D.C
Kantor
Fred Burton
Bluefield
Tazewell Public Sewage Authority
Lowe's
West Bluefield
Tazewell Psa
Five men charged in eleven kilo cocaine conspiracy case
Five men were detained pending trial in Abingdon Virginia on charges of conspiring to distribute cocaine after a Bristol police raid. Federal officials say evidence shows at least one suspect is a threat to the community. The undercover bust involved the FBI DEA Virginia State Police and Bristol City Police. The seized cocaine weighed over 17 pounds with a street value around four million dollars and was reported as 100 percent pure. The defendants include Michael Bragg a former attorney originally from East Tennessee now in Abingdon.
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Abingdon
Tom Bonderant
U.S
Bristol
FBI
Drug Enforcement Administration
Virginia State Police
Bristol City
Bonderant
Michael Bragg
East Tennessee
Faerber calls DOE layoff limits invalid in WV
West Virginia Energy Commissioner Ken Faerber denies the Legislature's directive that layoffs start in upper administration after a 3 million budget cut. Lawmakers fear mine inspectors could be targeted. Faerber says cuts will be across all categories for 1987-88, with 50 to 100 jobs at risk beginning July 1. The United Mine Workers threaten court action if inspectors are laid off.
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Charleston
Ken Faerber
Energy Department
DOE
House Finance Committee
George Farley
Farley
D-Wood
Faerber
Tom Reishman
United Mine Workers Union
Mike Burdiss
UMW
West Virginia
Black lung ruling suspended for McKee appeal
Two Wyoming County coal operators Kenneth and Roger McKee won a stay on reimbursing 133000 to the U S Labor Department while they appeal Judge Dennis Knapp 4th Circuit in Richmond Va. A consent injunction keeps monthly benefits flowing to a retired miner and bars collection of funds or assets pending appeal amid bankruptcy and prior statutory liability.
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Charleston
Wyoming
U.S. Labor Department
U.S. District
Dennis Knapp
Kenneth
Roger McKee
Oceana
Labor Department
McKees
Knapp
4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Richmond
Coal Company
Brothers
J&j Coal Co
Haynes Allegations Shock Freeman Residents
Freeman residents voiced shock over allegations against Dr. Ralph E. Haynes a pediatrician tied to multiple misconduct claims. Neighbors like Dorothy Dunford recalled Haynes as a trusted doctor while noting concerns about oversight by institutions that hired him through the years from Green Valley to Wright State and Ohio State University.
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Bramwell
Ralph E. Haynes
Freeman
Dorothy Dunford
Dunford
Haynes
Mercer Health Center
Green Valley
William Bruch
Bluefield
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Wright State University
Children's Medical Center
Dayton
Emanuel Kauder
Children’s
John Beljan
Wright State Medical School
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Garret Mathews
Greg Jordan
Daily Telegraph
Fred Brown
David Quick
Black Lung
Jamesha Gravely
Roanoke
Marquis
Princeton Community Hospital
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