Question and answer column on local inquiries
Bluefield Daily Telegraph runs a general information column answering readers on topics from flag etiquette to local services. Queries cover Social Security, stores serving size 42 pants, city management history, railway noise, and obesity specialists with concise local responses and references to officials or outlets.
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Bluefield
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A. Steckler
J. C. Penney’s
Penney’s
Stag Clothing Co
Buccaneer Men's Wear
Princeton
Sears Roebuck
New Pyott Boone Plant To Employ Up To 1500 In Saltville
Saltville Virginia welcomed Pyott Boone Inc a Tazewell based mine equipment firm planning a Saltville branch that will eventually employ up to 1500 people. U S Senator Harry Byrd Jr and Representative William C Wampler called the project a major regional economic boost. The plant will manufacture underground mining equipment on part of the former Olin site and follows Saltville efforts to revitalize after Olin and Air Force closures in 1970 72.
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Jim Gilreath
Saltville
Virginia
Pyott-Boone, Inc
Tazewell
U.S
Harry Byrd, Jr
Ind.Va
Virginia Ninth District
William C. Wampler
Pyott-Boone
Olin Corporation
Office of Comic Adjustment
U. S. Department of Defense
Roger A. Sattler
Mid-Atlantic
OFA
L. H. Tuggle
Sattler
Changes Proposed In Foreign Policy
A special commission urged sweeping reforms to the U S foreign policy bureaucracy. It proposed that future secretaries of state not double as national security adviser and said the NSC staff should be led by someone with no other official duties.
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Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Commission
National Security Council
Nauighy
Reas
Robert D. Murphy
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Ford
White House
Ron Nessen
Nessen
Get
Kissinger
State Department
Murphy
Court Adjourns Without Death Penalty Ruling
The Supreme Court adjourned for the summer without ruling on death penalty issues for public school students and mental health cases. Justice William O. Douglas has been absent since a stroke on December 31, participating in 112 of 129 full opinions before his absence.
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Washington
William O. Douglas
Douglas
Sass
Argentine Businessman Held As Suspected Gestapo Officer
A 61 year old Argentine resident living as Pedro Ricardo Olmo and employed as sales manager for Osram Argentina has been arrested on suspected Gestapo ties linked to the 38 group. Wiesenthal in Vienna praised Argentine police action and urged West Germany to request extradition, noting the man cannot be tried in Argentina for crimes as a Nazi SS member.
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Argentina
Pedro Ricardo Olmo
Osram
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Documental
Wiesenthal
Vienna
West Germany
Kutschmann
West Berlin
Jesenthal
Munich
Olmo
One Core Ae
Buenos Aires
Beirut Street Battle Escalates Amid Citywide Firefight
Beirut residents battled with mortars and machine guns in eastern suburbs over five days, leaving 47 dead and 112 wounded. Officials cited insecure access to Beirut except two roads as a right wing group named the Front for the Protection of the Cedars claims control fears rise as civilians flee.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Goverment Radio
Front For the Protection of the
FBI Captures Dakota Suspect
Authorities report Herman Thunder Hawk, one of four people with warrants linked to the shooting of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler on Pine Ridge, was arrested as a massive search with armored units and helicopters continued. Other suspects include Teddy Pourier and James Eagle, with authorities still pursuing leads off the reservation.
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South Dakota Highway Patrol
FBI
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Tom Coll
Herman Thunder Hawk
Ronald A. Williams
Jack R. Coler
Coll
Thunde Hawk
Abe Eanhiee
Weer
Williams
Coler
Thunder Hawk
Teddy Paul Pourier
Robert Horse
James Eagle
Pourier
American Indian Movement
Dennis Banks
Toby Eagle Bull
Eagle Bull
Call
Joe Roberts
Wounded Knee Legal Defense Fund
Ad Indian Movement
Russell
Howard B. Lee to Attend July 4 Ceremonies in Mercer
Howard B. Lee a historian and former attorney general awaits return to Mercer County for Independence Day events amid local ties. UMWA organizes battles in the West seen as vital to union's future. Public hearing on House Bill 1396 for magistrate court structure held in Princeton with local justices of the peace. Virginia loses 26 million in federal funds for social services. NBC Movin On crew filmed Beckley area for upcoming season.
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Howard B. Lee
Mercer County
UMWA
Union
Princeton
NBC
Beckley
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