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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1981
Page
3
Obituaries list Mrs. Robert C. Chrisman of Chattanooga and Mrs. Robert Powell of Bluefield among others. Also noted are Marvin Goodson of Orlando, Brady Hale of Oakwood, F C Dawson of Bluefield, Mrs Charlie Bibey of Montcalm, Joseph N Craig of Havaco, and related service details, dates, and burial plans across Mercer and McDowell counties.
Public notice from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph outlines publication details established in 1893, postage, and advertising information. It lists home delivery and mail rates, circulation bureau notice, and contact addresses for subscriptions and changes in Bluefield West Virginia.
President Leonid Brezhnev proposed a Nordic nuclear free zone and pledged not to use Soviet weapons against participating nations. Tass quoted him responding to questions from Suomen Sosiali Demokratti. He did not say Moscow would remove missiles from the Kola Peninsula.
State police in McDowell County report a good description of a suspect who abducted the Northfork 7-Eleven manager early Friday. The manager, uninjured, was forced at gunpoint to drive to Elkhorn Mountain and told not to return. Police say an arrest is pending as they pursue leads.
Gov. Rockefeller announces an $83,000 highway funds award to Ampsco Corporation of Columbus Ohio to install raised pavement markers on U S Route 460 from the Virginia line to Interstate 77 The markers will define the highway center line to enhance traveler safety on this Mercer County project.
Obituaries note multiple funeral services across Mercer, Bluefield, Princeton and Welch. David Ray Mills 24 of Willowtown to be buried in Mills Family Cemetery Litwar. Nancy Jane Byrd 83 at Cravens-Shires. George Washington Hopkins 75 of Bluefield at Mercer Funeral Chapel. Lincle M. Spicer 85 of Bluefield at Mt Olive Church. Cora Beatrice Hedrick 92 of Princeton at George W Seaver. Phoebe Belcher Worsham 61 Welch at Elkhorn Church Cemetery. Burial/entombment details and officiants listed.
A motor home carrying seven families caught fire in the Cajon Pass north of San Bernardino and rolled into a semitrailer, killing ten and injuring at least twenty. Firefighters battled a brush fire of over five acres as authorities treated many burn injuries and processed the crash scene.
Shoney's Construction official says City of Bluefield demanded embankment repairs and bad weather delayed work on a wall and sidewalk behind the Charleston restaurant. A torn cyclone fence caused a 30 foot drop injuring two city girls, Roseretta Green 14 and Loretta Knott 8, who remain hospitalized in good condition with no release date set.
A large crowd is set for the Lincoln Day Dinner at Coal City Auditorium Bluefield with Second District Rep Cleve Benedict as featured speaker. Benedict, first elected to the House in 1980, is a former WV Republican Committee chair and serves on several key committees. Tickets are 12.50 at the door.
Investigators review Wayne B. Williams talent scout activities linked to a singing group he planned to promote as part of the probe into 28 slayings of black victims and a missing 10-year-old boy since July 1979. Williams, 23, faces murder charges in Nathaniel Cater’s death, with grand jury action pending.
President Democrats debated a last minute delay to the spending bill as Jim Wright mocked the plan and Latta noted OMB would define the poverty level. The floor fight followed concerns about Reagan cuts and shifting welfare eligibility. Separately, Guthrie Cloud case proceedings continued with judge Bivens ruling Guthrie capable of statements. trials for Guthrie and related defendants proceed in Mercer and Fayette counties.
In Botetourt County Va a pig named Archie who tried to attend a Rainbow Forest Baptist Church service was picked up by animal control. After 30 days in a dog run and extensive feeding the pig was auctioned to Harold Robertson an antique dealer in Fincastle who planned to roast him for a meal at Roanoke Hollins Stockyards for about 60 cents a pound.
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