TVA to Buy Record Coal Volume For Clean Air Push
TVA will buy 65 million tons of coal over 10 years in five long-term contracts worth about 2.6 billion dollars. The deal includes 29 million tons of low-sulfur coal from West Virginia Virginia and Kentucky to meet federal clean-air standards at Shawnee Plant near Paducah Kentucky. High priced eastern coal centers on Pittston Island Creek and western Kentucky mines with total tonnage and per-ton costs detailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TVA
S. David Freeman
Lee Sheppeard
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Shawnee
Paducah
William Jenkins
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
North Carolina
Georgia
Freeman
Pittston Coal Sales Corp
Pittston
Clinchfield Coal Co
Island Creek Coal Co
Island Creek
Logan County
W.va
Martin County
Sheppeard
Rex William
Far West
Williams
Amtrak routes face cuts as WV hearing weighs public input
About 20 eastern panhandle residents and business leaders urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep Amtrak service intact to Martinsburg, arguing ridership rose over 32 percent recently. Charlottesville seniors backed DOT aims to cut routes nationwide, opposing subsidies. Bus firms joined the protests, saying elimination hurts competition. The FCC will hold hearings in Parkersburg and Bluefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Amtrak
West Virginia
Virginia
Panhandle
Interstate Commerce Commission
Martinsburg
Mountain State
Transportation
Brock Adams
ICC
Parkersburg
Bluefield
John P. Killoran
West Virginia Railroad Maintenance Authority
Killoran
Charlottesville
U. S. Department of Transportation
Mary Brown
Georgia Burgess
DOT
Colonial
Washington
Richmond
Newport News
Tidewater
Williamsburg
Robert Pounders
Virginia Bus Association
Davidson Trial Delayed in Kernersville Murder Case
Ronald Curtis Davidson, 36, of Falls Mills, Virginia, is bound over to Forsyth County Superior Court on a murder charge for the June 3 shooting death of 19 year old Richard Gordon Jones in Kernersville. He remains jailed on a 100000 bond. The trial is now set for July 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Curtis Davidson
Tazewell County
Kernersville
N. C
Forsythe County
Falls Mills
Jones
Davidson
Winston-Salem, N. C
PSC Approves Oakvale Sewer Rate Increase
The Public Service Commission approved a 65 percent sewer rate rise for Oakvale Road Public Service District in Mercer County. The change adds $25,539 to annual operating revenues and takes effect June 22. The new rates are $3.05 per month per customer plus $1.22 per 1,000 gallons used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakvale Road
Mercer County
Public Service Commission
Bluefield Daily Telegraph publication notice
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph announces its morning publication by the Daily Telegraph Printing Co with Associated Press membership for credited news. Subscription rates listed include 4 680 per year by mail and 3.90 per calendar month for home delivery in West Virginia, with additional rates for other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Blend
National Weather Service Forecast With Widespread Showers
The National Weather Service predicts showers across the Plains from the Rockies westward and the southern half of Florida for Wednesday. Tuesday satellite imagery shows scattered to broken cloud bands with some thunderstorm activity from the lower Great Lakes to the Southwest, plus broken low clouds in the Northeast and Great Lakes region and other cloud cover over California the Carolinas and along the Gulf Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains States
Rockies
National Weather Service
Florida
Great Lakes Region
Great Lakes
California
Carolinas
Gulf Coast
Staff Privileges Revoked at BCH In Bluefield
The Municipal Buildings Commission pulled staff privileges from one physician at Bluefield Community Hospital and put another on probation pending state medical proficiency results. The first doctor, unnamed, had not taken required state tests, while the second had completed testing but awaits results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Buildings Commission
Bluefield Community Hospital
Ned Shott
Shott
Bluefeld
Insurance credits lower a 30 year old woman's bill
State Farm dividends reduced her premium from 129.40 to 74.10 after an 8 rebate last fall and a 35.70 July dividend plus a 47.30 six month rate drop. The session also covered Hospital Corporation of America plans for a 250‑bed facility on Cherry Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Farm
Edward Long
Hospital Corporation of America
Cherry Street
Long
Ramsey Street
Joe Rechis
Rechis
Thomas Richardson
Physicians’ Committee
Richardson
Accident claims LCpl Graham Brewster in Tazewell county
LCpl Graham A. Brewster 20, of Horsepen Va died in Hawaii after a fishing accident while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps. His parents Mr and Mrs Cecil Graham and siblings survive. Funeral services are set in Horsepen with Marine Corps honors and burial at Brewsterdale Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horsepen
Hawaii
Lcpl
Homer Cecil Graham
U.S. Marine Corps
Cecil Graham
Janice Graham
Debbie Graham
Jay Wooldridge
Abbs Valley
Horsepen Church of Christ
Deaths and Funerals: Blevins Hagy McCoy Vicinities
Paul Calvin Blevins 60 of North Tazewell died on arrival at a Tazewell hospital after a brief illness. He is survived by his mother Mrs Estella Jenkins Blevins a sister Miss Dorothy Blevins and a brother Howard Blevins. Services Thursday 11 a.m. at Greever Funeral Chapel with Revs Clarence H DuBois Jr and Keither Blevins officiating burial at Grandview Memory Gardens. Omar Lee Hagy 47 of Vansant died at home after a short illness son of Thurman and Ethel Ramey Hagy. He leaves a sister Linda Sue Meadows and a brother Lowell T Hagy. Services Thursday 1 p.m. at Grundy Funeral Home Chapel burial at Greenhills Memory Gardens Claypool Hill with pallbearers named. Memorial services for an unnamed deceased were set for 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Daniel J. McCoy of Northfork died Tuesday afternoon in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness funeral arrangements pending at Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home in Keystone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Brewster
North Tazewell
Tazewell
Crockett
Polly Ann Brewster
Harding Bowman
Frank Brewster
Squire
Peery and St. Clair Funeral Home
Max Linkous
Charlie Dillon
Grandview Memory Gardens
Curtis Bowman
Darrell Bowman
Larry Bowman
Herbert Bowman
James Altizer
Marion Campbell
Paul Calvin Blevins
Tazewell Hospital
West Virginia
Estella Jenkins Blevins
William Calvin Blevins
Dorothy Blevins
Howard Blevins
Huntington
Greever Funeral Chapel
Clarence H. DuBois Jr
Keither Blevins
Omar Lee Hagy
Vansant
Thurman
Ethel Ramey Hagy
Buchanan County
Linda Sue Meadows
Jenkins, Ky
Lowell T. Hagy
Grundy Funeral Home
Joe Blankenship
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Joe Coffee
Junior Baldwin
Ferrell Boyd
John Hagg
Harold Dee
Dewey Yates
Landreth
J. D. (Marie
Kirby Addition
Bluewell
Bluewell United Methodist Church
Ira Hill
Clifford Compton
Grandview Memorial Gardens
Bluewell-Tazewell Road
Sonny Mabe
David Foster
Louis Valvary
M. B. Hale
Bob Honaker
Jack Call Churchill Nuckles
Larry Davis
Sipp
Jessie, Jr
Wolfe
Rodriguez Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Pocahontas
Allen Click
Clyde Turner
Luther Blankenship
Rebecca Lusk
Rebecca Margaret Lusk
Herndon
Mullens Hospital
Wyoming County
Albert and
Amanda Pittman Bashar
Missionary Baptist Church
Grover
Ida Blanche) Thomas
Peterstown
Beckley
Junta
James P
Mary Dunn Noble
Thompson's Chapel Baptist Church
Grover C. Thomas
Ernest Thomas
Titusville
Fla
Fred Thomas
Montcalm
Donald
Bernice) Martin
Booze
Paul
Betty) Wills
Medina
Ohio
Sybil Thomas
Princeton
Broyles Funeral Chapel
Howard Spencer
Charles Jack
Ballard Cemetery
Memorial
Broyles Funeral Home
James Benjamin Pilkin
Rt. 5
Bluefield
Hickory N.C
Findley and
Evelyn Guy Pilkin
Tennessee
Saltville
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Superior Sterling Co
Pilkin
Mary Emaline Pilkin
Raymond O. Pilkin
Albert Pilkin
Walter T. Pilkin
William Arthur Pilkin
Robert H. Pilkin
Chicago
John Franklin Pilkin
Clinton, Md
John Fowler
James Robinette
Lelia Pilkin
Alfred Pilkin
Reedsville
Ind
Hawkins Chapel
Jene Sizemore
Kester
Tannersville
Hawkins Funeral Home
Carl Chaffin
Carl
Myrtle Ruth) Chaffin
Roanoke
Richlands
Delaware City
Del
Virginia City
Bob
Susie Palmer Meade
Wise County
Chaffin
Herimonius
Red) Chaffin
Robert
Bobby) Chaffin
Terrill
Elaine
Baskerville
Orange, Va
Hazel Stanley
Julia Wright
St. Paul
Howard Meade
Oakley Meade
Ft. Lauderdale
Joe Buck Meade
Sandusky
Fred Meade
Jeff Meade
Riverdale Md
Vertis Bradshaw
Vertis
Oneida E.) Bradshaw
McDonald St
Weyanoke
Henry and
Anna Payne Hopkins
Mercer
Tazewell County
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Verus Bradshaw
Leisa Bradshaw
Home
Harry Bradshaw
Brooklyn
N.Y
Carlos Bradshaw
Anna Ford
Winston Salem
N.C
Thelma Dunning
Shipman
Margaret Few
Eula Harris
Aldene Bratton
George Hopkins
Cecil Hopkins
Cleveland
T.M. Stevens
S.A. Marrs
Caleb Lilly
J.A. Palmer
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Littlesburg
Jack Bratton
Harold Spencer
Orrin Trigg
Vernon Adams
McDuffa Lilly
Thomas Williamson
The
Missionary Society and Friends
Linkford and Richardson
James Moorefield
James Richard Moorefield
Itmann
Elbert
Lottie Forrester Moorefield
Welton Chapel
Allen Junction
Royal Order of the Moose
Vera Moorefield
Charlotte Trent
MacArthur
Richard A. Moorefield
Corrine
Bill Hight
Marietta
Harold Dean Hight
Jacksonville
Lacy Hight
Grance Neatherly
Johnson City
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Fogelsong-Longanacre
Mullens
Funeral Notices From Bluefield Area Obituaries
A sequence of funeral services and death notices from Bluefield and surrounding areas lists Marie Landreth 67 of Kirby Addition Bluewell and Jessie Sipp Jr 68 of Wolfe among those honored with 2 p.m. services today in multiple churches and mortuaries. Other names include Lee Eldridge White 89 Ada, Dr Lawrence Clerk Rocky Gap, Margaret Ellen Roop 58 Bluefield, Rebecca Lusk 93 Herndon, Ida Blanche Thomas 81 Peterstown, James Benjamin Pilkin 90 Bluefield, Charles Smith Jr 73 Bluefield, and Rebecca Chaffin 62 Roanoke plus Vertis Bradshaw Mrs. Bradshaw and many more with local church ceremonies, cemeteries, and affiliations noted.
Roderfield Woman Seriously Hit By Car In West Virginia
A 1-year-old Roderfield woman was seriously injured Monday night after she apparently walked into the path of a moving automobile. Pearl Lauderback of Roderfield sustained injuries when struck by a 1970 Chevrolet driven by Debbie Barnes of Welch. The crash occurred about two miles from the Royality Smokeless Tipple at Premier in front of Carl Walters' home. No charges will be filed. Trooper G L Woods investigated.
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Roderfield
Welch
Pearl Lauderback
Debbie Barnes
Royality
Premier
Carl Walters
G. L. Woods
Mrs Emma Brown Dies in Welch Hospital After Illness
Mrs Emma Brown of Northfork died Tuesday evening in a Welch hospital following a long illness. The home town and funeral details were not announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Brown
Northfork
Welch Hospital
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Big Buy
By Matt Yancey
Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
PSC
Oakvale
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
Advertising
Lendon
Nanton
BCH
George C. Wolford
George C
Ollie) Wolford
Preston St
Bluefied
Mrs. Dorothie S. Stewart
Dorothie S. Stewart
Gary
Page Funeral Home
Graham
Daniel J. McCoy
Elkridge
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Keystone
Dr. Lawrence
Rt. 1
Rocky Gap
Mercer Funeral Home
Roy Akers
Tom Farrow
Laurel Fork Community
Bluefield Masonic Lodge No
George W. Cooley
A. J. Richardson
M. D. Lucas
Robert A
Charles Smith
Charles Smith, Jr
N. Powell St
Princeton Community Hospital
Smyth County
Charles and
Lula Hayes Smith
UMWA
John Stewart United Methodist Church
Mollie Smith
Bobby Claytor
Tucson, Ariz
Earl Claytor
U.S. Air Force
Guam
Mary E. Johnson
St. Petersburg
Virginia King
Washington, D.C
R. Douglas Force
James E. Davis
Matthew Coleman
Littlesburg Road
Progressive Women's Club
Women of Church and Friends
Mrs
Grover Thomas
Margaret Ellen Roop
Lynn St
Veterans Administration
Salem
George W. and
Beulah M. Talmer Roop
McLaine's Business College
Miss Roop
England
Women's Army Corp
Wacs
Department of Planning and Community Developmment
Alexandria
R. H. Tyson Realty Co
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Jack K
Hazel) Wyatt
William L
Juanita) Gearhart
Immanuel
Lutheran Church
Paul Cooper
Monte Vista Cemetery
Jess Mullins
Rt. 2
Castlewood
War
Norton Community Nursing Home
Norton
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Warlick
Kustom Kraft
Skip's Repair Service
Virginia Ave
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