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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1978
Page
1
Florida motorists see auto insurance costs dip while no fault reform spreads across states. A 30 year old married woman in Miami area paid 121.40 for six months last fall and 74.10 for the next six months, reflecting mixed results as no fault policies expand since 1971.
Nationwide auto insurance rates rose 50 percent from 1975 to 1977 but Florida saw drops in injury claims and losses after tightening no fault rules. The state reduced suits by restricting recoveries, created a fraud strike force, and provided $60 million in rebates as State Farm posted high Florida dividends.
Bluefield directors approve a 17.2 million multiuse complex to rise between Princeton Avenue and Commerce Street. The project, named Bluefield Towers, includes a 175 room hotel with two restaurants two night clubs 70000 square feet of offices and a health club. It seeks a 2 million Urban Development Action Grant and could start spring next year employing about 600 full time workers.
Mercer school superintendent and the state fire marshal will discuss guidelines priorities and the time element involved on Thursday. Princess Caroline plans to wed a Paris playboy today. An analysis questions if the North Yemen assassination signals more Soviet influence in the Middle East. The Virginia Supreme Court rules juvenile defendants’ names may be published. A state-wide grand jury is recommended to fight organized crime in Virginia. Wimbledon shocks Arthur Ashe and John McEnroe as upset victims. A friend must quit correspondence school due to postage costs.
Princeton woman Lynn West guided a Brakeless bus carrying about 20 Governor's Summer Youth Program workers into a private driveway on East River Mountain. Nine youths jumped free with only scrapes and bruises. they were treated and released at Bluefield Community Hospital.
Restrictions on Princeton water use were lifted at 3 30 pm Tuesday as storage tanks rose to normal levels. Officials said the only permanent fix is to move the water line from the lower to the upper side of Old Bluefield Princeton Road, with 500 800 feet of pipe to be relocated at about 50 per foot.
Two elderly Swedish tourists were killed and a third wounded outside the Intourist Hotel in central Moscow by a 24 year old Soviet night watchman using an ax. He was subdued by a policeman and cab drivers, then arrested. Officials cited the incident as a bloody eruption amid Soviet assurances of security.
Officials of the West Virginia Department of Highways announced at a Charleston meeting that a feasibility study on relocating U S Route 52 through Bluefield is approved. A new hospital access road from the Rt 52 bridge to Poplar Street near the Bluefield Community Hospital is planned with $35 000 for estimates and design. Plans will go to the Federal Highway Administration in August, bids will be advertised, and the contract let in the following months.
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