Abortion Debate Shapes Senate Labor HEW Bill
The Senate prepares to debate a $61.7 billion Labor and HEW funding measure with a battle over abortion funding under Medicaid. Byrd forecasts amendments as House opposition centers on prohibiting funds for abortions though exceptions exist. The issue ties to a Supreme Court Medicaid ruling and broader budget fights ahead of a July 4 recess.
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Senate
House
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Robert C. Byrd
Supreme Court
Carter
Registration Today For Mercer County RIF Program
Registration today at the Y-Center from 10 30 a m to 12 noon invites all parents and children from K through 6th grade to join Mercer County Reading Is Fundamental. The program seeks volunteers to teach arts and crafts and reading skills and to work with children.
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Mercer County
Y-Center
RIF
Smithsonian Institution
The
Daily Telegraph 1899 Bluefield News Listing
Established 1899 Daily Telegraph prints morning news from Bluefield West Virginia with Associated Press rights and local dispatches. Subscription rates listed for West Virginia including yearly and monthly plans and advertising representation noted.
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Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
All News
Malin First and Second Leones
West Virginia
Olmer
Audit Bureau
Greulahen
Landor Associates
Deaths and Funerals In Haysi and Nearby Cities
William H Arrington 86 of Haysi Va dies after long illness in Abingdon hospital. Survivors include widow Alta S Arrington daughter Katty Joe Powers and extended family. Services Tuesday 11 a.m. at Haysi Funeral Home Chapel burial Russell Memorial Cemetery Lebanon Va. Active and honorary pallbearers listed. Call after 4 p.m. today. Vernon Buford Blevins Sr 70 of Princeton Va dies after long illness. Son Vernon Jr and daughter Vella Joyner among survivors. Funeral Tuesday 2 p.m. Bruns Wornal Chapel burial Rest Haven Memorial Park Princeton. The family will receive friends 5-9 p.m. at Memorial Funeral Directory. Mrs Bertha Senitha McGrady 83 Bluefield Va dead on arrival. Survivors include two sons and four daughters and many grandchildren. Services Tuesday 2 p.m. Mercer Funeral Chapel with Rev Mike Flippo. Friends may call 5-9 p.m. Vernal Carrington 67 Bluefield Va dies. Burial 1 p.m. Tuesday Lugo Funeral Home Chapel. Friends may call 7-9 p.m. at Lugo. Mrs Bessie Shazer 77 Havace Va dies. Funeral arrangements incomplete at Page Funeral Home Welch.
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Haysi
Abingdon
Arrington
Missionary Baptist Church
Cumberland Bank & Trust Co
Haysi Kiwanis Club
May Fell
Detroit
Mich
Martha Robinson
Au Graf, Mich
Haysi Funeral Home
Roger Hart
Sam Martin
John Whitner
Russell Memorial Cemetery
Lebanon
Mike Ratliff
Jack Farmer
Jim Albertson
Tivis Sutherland, Jr
Bobby Arrington
Jackie Arrington
Banner Sykes
Arvil Sykes
Carl Arrington
J. C. Powers
Harold Rush
Paul Sheen
Glen Phillips
Henry Davis George Wright
C. G. Edwards
Vernon Buford Blevins
Murdock St
Princeton
Ashe County
N. C
James P
Mary Howell Blevins
Vernon Buford Blevins, Jr
Camarillo
Calif
Phillip S. Dalton
Charleston
Vella Joyner
Bruns Wornal
Memorial
L. P. Duncan
Rest Haven Memorial Park
Bertha Senitha McGrady
Market St
Bluefield
Rufus
Julia Ann Gills Nicewander
George W. McGrady
George W. McGrady Jr
Alfred Eugene McGrady
K. E. Lyle
Columbus
Ohio
Gladys McGrady
Francis Collman
Bluff City
Tenn
Elizabeth Burton
Gallatin
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Mike Flippo
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Vernal Carrington
Holbrook Street
Tom and
Mary Ellen Carrington
Mercer County
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Lugo Funeral Home
James H. Franklin
Internment
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Bessie Shazer
Havace
Huntington
Page Funeral Home
Welch
Reverend John McPeak 77 Vivian pastor and miner dies
The Rev. John Robert McPeak 77 of Vivian died Saturday in a Welch hospital after a short illness. He served as pastor of the God Church of Vivian for 34 years, was a retired miner, and a United Mine Workers member in Gary. Survived by wife Nellie Norman McPeak, five sons, two daughters, a brother and two sisters, 17 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Services Tuesday at Bennett-Fanning Funeral Home Kimball conducted by Rev. Irvin G. Steiting. Interment at Roselawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Pallbearers listed. Funeral home hours 6 to 9 p.m. Contributions to charity requested.
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Vivian
Welch Hospital
Jonathan
Judith Dalton McPeak
the of God Church of
United Mine Workers
Gary
Nellie Norman McPeak
Donald
Jerry McPeak
Richmond, Va
Roger
Randall McPeak
Waynesville
N.C
Bobby McPeak
Arlington
Mrs Mame D Marrs 94 Bluefield Va obituary death arrival
Mrs Mame D Marrs 94 of High Street Bluefield Virginia died on arrival Sunday at a local hospital after a long illness She was born in Tazewell County Virginia daughter of the late Ballard and Balle Norton French She was married to William Dudley Marrs Surviving relatives include a nephew Frank Rye and two nieces Mrs Alton Mooser and Mrs Ernest Poe Services were to be held at Dudley Memorial Chapel Bluefield with Rev R W Skidmore officiating Burial in Tabor Cemetery Falls Mills pallbearers named Raymond Tabor Clark Hill Jackie Harold Johnny Lawson Frank Lambert and Delbert Putnam
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High Street
Bluefield
Tazewell County
Ballard and
Balle Norton French
William Dudley Marrs
Frank Rye
Alton Mooser
Pembrook
Ernest Poe
Dudley Memorial Chapel
R. W. Skidmore
Tabor Cemetery
Falls Mills
Raymond Tabor
Clark Hill
Jackie Harold
Johnny Lawson
Frank Lambert
Delbert Putnam
Infant Paul D Burkes Dies at Birth in Welch
Infant Paul D Burkes son of Paul Burkes and Barbara Burkes of Kimball died at birth in Welch hospital. Survived by paternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Paul Burkes of Kimball and maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Beatley Clemins of Kimball. Graveside rites at Belcher Cemetery near Maitland at 10 a.m. today with Fanning Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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Paul D. Burkes
Barbara Clemins Burkes
Kimball
Welch Hospital
Paul Burkes
Beatley Clemins
Belcher
Maitland
Fanning Funeral Home
Death of Ernest Clarence Wallington Bluefield Resident
Ernest Clarence Slim Wallington 63 of 500 Clark Street Bluefield died Sunday morning in a Bluefield hospital after a short illness. Funeral arrangements with Lugo Funeral Service are incomplete.
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Ernest Clarence
Slim) Wallington
Clark St
Bluefield
Funerals for SEEENS Irving J and several others held today
Obituaries list multiple funeral services across Princeton Bluefield and Orange areas. SEEENS Irving J of Princeton had services at Bailey Funeral Home with burial at Roselawn. Meade Homer Mary Elizabeth 68 Bluefield at Hawkins Funeral Chapel then Woodlawn Memorial Park. Gilley Joseph Franklin 45 Princeton at Cravens Shires with Roselawn burial. Infants Johnson and Joseph Sparks children of Sparks of English at Grandview Memory Gardens. Beulah L Collins 61 Orlando formerly of Bluefield at Cravens Shires with Woodlawn burial. pallbearers named for several services.
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Gilley
Joseph Franklin
Rt. 1
Princeton
Cravens-Shires
Bluewell
George Johnson
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Bluefield
Dick Dove
Walter Price
Johnny Johnson
Warren G. Baers
Charles Burks
Billy Crofts
Johnson
Joseph Sparks
Leonard Basil
Ollie Hill Sparks
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Rev
Thomas Peak
George Knight Dies at 58 in Falls Mills
George Roosevelt Knight 58 of Falls Mills Virginia died Sunday in a Bluefield hospital. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Graham Funeral Home in Bluefield Virginia.
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George Roosevelt Knight
Falls Mills
Bluefield
Graham
Fortune predicts brighter economy with near full use by 1978
Fortune magazine foresees a U S recovery continuing for 18 months, with real GNP rising about 8 percent and by end of 1978 near full employment and capacity used. Growth may ease from 7.5 percent this quarter to about 4.5 percent late 1978 as capital spending potential rises.
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New York
U.S
Fortune Magazine
Fortune
Onetime Buchanan Board Member Dies At 81
Joseph Raines longtime Buchanan County School Board member died after a brief illness at 81 in a Breaks Virginia hospital. He served 14 years on the board and worked for Harmon Mining Corp. He was a member of Little Jock Regular Baptist Church UMW Local 7025 and left a large family including wife Eunice and many children stepchildren and grandchildren. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 PM at the Little Jock Regular Baptist Church with burial in the Little Jock Cemetery.
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Joseph Raines
Breaks
Raines
Harmon Mining Corp
Little Jock Regular Baptist Church
UMW
Buchanan County
Z. T
Rosina Owens Raines
James
Ernest Raines
Everett Raines
Grundy
Donald Deel
West Palm Beach
Fla
Gordon
Henry Deel
Vansant
Mary Raines
Sophia Fuller
Haysi
Lydia Church
John Raines
Little Jocke Regular Baptist
Casby Conaway
Paul McClanahan
Theodore Looney
Isaac Sanders
Little Jock
McDowell Woman Shot Fatal Near Home in War
Wanda Sue Williams, 23, of War, died Saturday evening from an apparent self inflicted gunshot near her Beach Hill driveway. Police say no witnesses, unknown motive. Survived by husband Mike Williams and three children. investigators include Patrolman Ray Davis and Trooper J. D. Humphries. Funeral arrangements incomplete at Fanning Funeral.
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Wanda Sue Williams
War
Ray Davis
Time of Your Life film shown in Mount Rogers district
The 30 minute color film Time of Your Life starring James Whitmore is available for viewing by civic groups businesses industries governmental agencies and other organizations in the Mount Rogers Planning District. Based on Alan Lakein s How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life the film offers time management tips for better job performance and life balance. To arrange a screening contact the Mount Rogers Planning District Commission at 1021 Terrace Drive Marion Virginia 24354 or call 703 783 5103.
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James Whitmore
Mount Rogers’ Planning District
Alan Lakein
Mount Rogers
Bramwell Police Chief Benfield Balances Duty and Community Service
Bramwell’s non smoking, non drinking police chief Benfield oversees 15 youth workers, patrols town streets, and works to improve public spaces with residents. He stresses citizen police cooperation to cut crime, aims for full time juvenile work, and earns praise from Mayor Butt for his conscientious, steady service.
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Benfield
Bramwell
Butt
Students Attend 18th Annual Cheer Camp at Concord College
Little Batoon Clinic students from Bluewell travel to Concord College for the 18th Annual Cheerleading and Majorette Camp. In Bristol they attended the Mid-East All-Star Enrollment. Camp runs today 9 to 12 a.m. in Men's Hall with instructors Julie Miller and Diane Ringley.
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Little Batoon Clinic
Bluewell
Concord College
Bristol
Adams Announces Fuel Economy Standards for 1981–1984
Transportation Secretary Brock Adams announced new U S fuel economy standards for passenger cars. The plan sets 22 mpg for 1981 models, rising to 27 mpg by 1984, with annual increases and possible higher future targets. Congress must approve any rise beyond 27.5 mpg. The goal includes saving about 10 billion gallons per day and improving safety and emissions.
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Washington
United States
Brock Adams
Congress
Adams
CBS
Rotary Club Meeting Focuses on Cattle Ranching
The Rotary Club will meet at the Brier Motel Tuesday at noon. Guest speaker Azel Lewis of Piedmont Cattle Ranch in Monroe County, an authority on artificial cattle breeding, will discuss modern developments in large scale ranching. Program chairman is Bob Kelley.
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Rotary Club
Brier
Azel Lewis
Piedmont Cattle Ranch
Monroe County
Lewis
Bob Kelley
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