Bluefield Seeks Speed-Up on U S 460 Corridor Project
Bluefield board to meet Gov. Arch Moore Jr. and Highway Commissioner William Ritchie to push faster work on the U S 460 Corridor Q segment from WHIS Center to Rock Crusher Hollow. Elliott warns of a looming blood road if delays persist and notes October completion for the tunnel area. The group also presses water service expansion to East Cumberland Road amid firm opposition from J B Murphy of the West Virginia Water Company.
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Jim Terry
Bluefield Board of Directors
Arch Moore Jr
State Department of Highways
William Ritchie
Whis Broadcast Center
Rock Crusher Hollow
Edwin Elliott
East River Mountain Tunnel
Elliott
Bluefield
Ritchie
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Charleston
West Virginia Water Company
Water Company
East Cumberland Road
J. B. Murphy
Murphy
Cumberland
Angelo Monaco
Mercer County Clerk's Office
Sam Slifkin
Russell Burton
Man Critical After Shooting In Willowton
Junior A. Lafferty 28 was shot along secondary 30-1 around 1 05 p.m. Tuesday and left in very critical condition at a Bluefield hospital. James William Jackson 55 of Willowton was charged with felonious assault and a preliminary hearing was scheduled. State police say a family argument may have sparked the shooting and continued to investigate late Tuesday night.
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Bluefield
Willowton
Junior A. Lafferty
Gardner
Lafferty
D. B. Meadows
James William Jackson
Justice of the Peace
J. E. Belcher
Meadows
Princeton Man Hurt In Two Car Route 20 Crash
A 22 year old Princeton man Thomas M Bailey injured in a head on collision with Ronald E Barton 26 of Bent Mountain on U S Route 20 north of Athens. Bailey suffered a broken jaw pelvis and facial lacerations. Barton treated and released. Bailey faces improper passing charge.
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Princeton
Athens
Thomas M. Bailey
Bailey
Ronald E. Barton
Bent Mountain
Barton
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Advertisement Rates Notice
Subscriptions and motor route rates are listed for West Virginia. The notice provides pricing: $3.20 per year by mail in specified zones and $3.10 per month for motor route service.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Mathews, Shannon & Cullen Telephone
Forest panel gears to hear German forestry expert in July
The forest subcommittee will hear a German forestry expert at its July meeting and may cancel the Move To End trip if the result negates the need. Lohr warned a Myles motion could signal a no confidence vote in the Forest Management Commission. The committee approved $75,000 from the Legislative Building Commission to study a new legislative office building next to the Capitol, funding initial plans and trips to Florida Tennessee and the East Coast for comparisons.
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Florida
Tennessee
Est Coast State
Asa Price of Elk Horn Dies After Long Illness
Asa Thomas Price 63 of Elk Horn died Saturday in a Winston-Salem NC hospital after a long illness. Born in Elkhorn, he was a son of the late Anderson and Sarah Price. He was a member of Upland Baptist Church and UMWA Local 6196 District 29. Survived by Martha Hairston Price of Kimball two daughters Cheryl Price of Elkhorn Sheila Barrer of Washington DC one son Maurice Price of Connecticut three brothers John Edward and Bill Price all of Northfork and three sisters Louise Thomas Corzetta Cunningham and Cora Avery all of Northfork and Jamaica NY. Funeral Thursday at 1 pm at Upland Baptist Church with Rev John Hooper Rev Raymond Harris and Rev George X Harris officiating. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery Bluewell. Pallbearers and flowerbearers will be church members and friends. Funeral home after 4 pm today and at Arlene Hairston’s residence in Kimball.
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Doc) Wright
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Patricia) Dudgeon
Campbellsville
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Corrine) Flournoy
Richmond
Ada Turner
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Cedar Bluff
Vesta
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Adeline Gilbert Harris
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Dunfordtown
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Gladys Murray
North Tazewell
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Mount Vernon
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Bucyrus
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Myrtle Lambert
Ray Turner
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Triangle
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Maplewood
Tazewell
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Richlands
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Elkhorn
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Kimball
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Sheila Barrer
Washington, D. C
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Connecticut
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Northfork
Louise Thomas
Corzetta Cunningham
Cora Avery
Jamaica
N. Y
John Hooper
Raymond Harris
George X. Harris
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bluewell
Arlene Hairston
Brizendine, Johnson deaths noted with services in Virginia
Woodrow Walter Brizendine age 59 of Bastian died in a Bluefield hospital after a Tuesday illness. He leaves a wife Edith and eight grandchildren. two daughters Judy Puckett and Brenda Porter. three sons Harold Dean Donald Lewis and Barry Wayne. siblings and other relatives. Burial at Rose Hill Cemetery with viewing at home after 2 p.m. today. Sarge Johnson one year old son of Otis Melvin and Irene Davis Johnson died in a Richlands hospital after a short illness. Survivors include parents two brothers grandparents and great grandparents. Funeral held at Fork Ridge Pentecostal Church with burial at Ball Family Cemetery. Mullins Funeral Home in Richlands in charge.
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Bastian
Bluefield
Edith Dunn Brizendine
Charles
Judy) Puckett
Ronnie
Brenda) Porter
Roanoke
Harold Dean Brizendine
San Antonio
Tex
Donald Lewis Brizendine
Rocky Gap
Barry Wayne Brizendine
Melvin J
Margaret) Harden
New Castle
Hugh N
William E. Brizendine
Bastian Church of God
Rose Hill
Sarge Johnson
Otis Melvin
Irene Davis Johnson
Richlands
Michael
Joseph David Johnson
Pearl Davis
Red Ash
Clarence Johnson
Sara Byrd
Lou Elswick
Fork Ridge
Obituary notices for Julia Ann Lawrence and Hiram Oscar Kearns III
Julia Ann Lawrence 88 of 719 Union Street Bluefield died Tuesday in Bluefield Funeral services at Hawkins Funeral Chapel Bluefield burial Roselawn Memorial Gardens Bluefield Princeton Road Friends may call today 5 to 9 p m Also named Hiram Oscar Kearns III 48 of 3211 Scherer Drive Richmond Va former War resident died Monday in a Richmond hospital Superintendent of Freight Damage Prevention Services C and D Railroad survivors include widow two sons one daughter and other relatives Funeral conducted today in Richmond with burial in Sutherlin Woody Funeral Home Sutherland Brown Chapel in charge
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Union Street
Bluefield
George and
Margaret Anderson
Nazarine Church
Noah Lawrence
Roy
Charles Lawrence
Portsmouth
Walter Lawrence
Maybeury
LL. Lawrence
Mabel Waters
Elizabeth Meade
Hattie Pauley
Hawkins Funeral Chapel
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton Road
Hiram Oscar Kearns III
Scherer Drive
Richmond
C and D
Frances Osborne Kearns
Sutherlin
Hiram Oscar Kearns Jr
Margaret Peery Kearns
Barry Peery Kearns
Mildred Elner Pauline Mitchell Dies in Beckley at 55
Mrs Elner Pauline Mitchell 55 of Pearisburg Va died Monday in a Beckley hospital after a short illness. Survived by husband Warren Mitchell and foster-son David Peoples. Services at First United Methodist Church Pearisburg with Rev T M Stevens officiating. Burial Rocky Hollow Cemetery near Pearisburg. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the church. Claytors Funeral Home Radford Va is in charge
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Pearisburg
Beckley
Warren Mitchell
David Peoples
First United Methodist Church
T. M. Stevens
Rocky Hollow
Claytors Funeral Home
Radford
Thompson Rites Held For Abbs Valley Woman
Bernice T. Slim Thompson aged 59 of Abbs Valley Va died Tuesday afternoon in an incomplete condition at Rodriguez Pocahontas Union Funeral Home in Pocahontas Va.
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Slim) Thompson
Abbs Valley
Bluefield
Rodriguez- Pocahontas
Christine Dixon Perry Obituary Told of Sudden Heart Attack
Christine Dixon Perry 46 of Boissevain Virginia died at home Tuesday after an apparent heart attack. Services and memorial arrangements are pending local at-home notices.
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Christine Dixon Perry
Boissevain
Rodriguez- Pocahontas
Conservatives Urge Community Service For School Leavers
The Young Conservatives in Greater London call for a year of community service for all school leavers and the creation of a new Government Department of Community.
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London
Government
Department of Community
Greater London
State Senators Vote Funds Cut for Laos Cambodia War
Washington AP reports West Virginia's two Democratic senators joined the majority as the Senate approved 81 to 11 to halt funding for U S military activity in or over Laos and Cambodia.
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West Virginia
Senate
U.S
Laos
Cambodia
Funerals Arranged for Several Residents in Area
Funeral services are scheduled for John Arthur Gott 85 of Princeton at 11 a.m. at George W Seaver Chapel with burial in Oakwood Park Cemetery and Masonic Lodge rites. Paul Sidney Peters 61 of Elkhorn has service at 2 p.m. in Bluewell Cravens Shires Funeral Chapel with burial in Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery and a list of pallbearers. Ura Christian 60 formerly of War will be laid to rest at Day Cemetery Bear Wallow Mountain after 1 p.m. Douglas Funeral Home War. Amanda Boothe 83 Cedar Bluff will be mourned at 11 a.m. Mullins Funeral Home Chapel with grandsons as pallbearers and burial in Boothe Family Cemetery Dryfork.
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Ura
Falls Church
Douglas Funeral Home
War
Alex Hagerman
Bear Wallow Mountain
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Amanda
Cedar Bluff
Mullins Funeral Home
Fielden Mitchell
Wallace Cooper
Dryfork
Dean Testifies On Watergate Amid White House Silence
Former White House aide Dean outlined efforts to reveal the Watergate scandal in mid April after pressuring Nixon to acknowledge involvement. He said investigators examined every aspect of his life while detailing a memorandum on targeting political enemies.
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Nixon
Maureen
Montoya
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
R-Conn
Lloyd Will Heads Bluefield Area Development Corp
Lloyd Will head development corp was elected president of the Bluefield Area Development Corp. at a meeting Tuesday. Five new directors including Mirto A. Corte were named to three year terms with J. L. Morgan re elected treasurer and Corte named vice president. Seven associate directors were also named for one year terms.
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Jack Lloyd
Appalachian Power Co
Bluefield
W. W. Tinder Jr
L. W. Bates
William Hall
W. T. Hancock Jr
Alex Ledgerwood
Robert Nelson
B G. Blalock
Guy Lawhead
Why I Support The Red Cross Bloodmobile
A personal appeal endorses blood donation as essential for saving lives. The author cites no substitute for human blood, notes eligibility ages 18 to 65, and mentions a mini physical by traveling staff. Donations help others and cover their own family's needs for a year. six pints donated with plan to donate again before year end. The next Bloodmobile is at First Baptist Church on Thursday June 28 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Robert G. Weiss
Concord College
Bond's of
Bluefield
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