Bluefield approves license fee changes and July meeting shift
Bluefield board unanimously okays three amendments to city license fees including a 15 dollar business tax and category tweaks. It also schedules July and August meetings at 5 PM and approves reappointments to city commissions plus bids for Mitchell Stadium concessions and radar unit funds. Police seek cost estimates for new breathalyzer and Chief Dent highlights highway safety ahead of the 4th of July week.
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Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
Bluefield Board of Directors
Joe Walker
Ben Paine
City of
John Feuchtenberger
Feuchtenberger
Walker
Paine
Dot Frazier
Max Kammer
George McCulloch
Jack Richardson
The
Library Commission
R.W. Wilkinson
Planning Commission
Richard McLaughlin
Frank Gearhart
Ed Slagle
Mitchell Stadium
Slagle
Fred Burton
Governor’s Office of Economic and Community Development
Jim Dent
Shultz backs hunt for MIAs in Indochina
Secretary of State George P. Shultz urged private efforts to locate missing in action Americans, saying Vietnam may hold many remains. He favored official channels as most effective, while signaling openness to case by case reviews of private missions and noting potential aid from ASEAN partners.
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Bangkok
Thailand
George P. Shultz
Vietnam
U.S
Shultz
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Reagan
Indochina
United States
Green Beret
James G
Bo” Gritz
ASEAN
Malaysia
Philippines
Indonesia
Singapore
Investigators End Balloon Crash Probe
West German experts completed an on site inquiry into the crash that killed American balloonists Maxie L. Anderson and Don Ida. A spokesman said results may take weeks and will not speculate on eyewitness accounts of the basket ropes snapping. Anderson, 48, and Ida, 49, died during an emergency landing in the Bavarian forest near the frontier with East Germany. Anderson helped fly the Double Eagle II across the Atlantic in 1978 and the first U.S. balloon crossing in 1980.
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Brunswick
West Germany
Maxie L. Anderson
Don Ida
Federal Aviation Board
Bavarian Forest
Peter Reider
America
Anderson
Ida
Reider
Schweinfurt
East Germany
Paris
Giles County staff brace for health insurance hike
Giles County Schools Board renewed Blue Cross coverage to July 1 and added a $20 monthly surcharge for employees with dependents to cover a $100000 deficit. A $7500 shock loss cap limits annual hospitalization costs to subscribers, with excess costs reinsured by Blue Cross. Single coverage rises to 60 dollars. dependent, one child, and family plans rise accordingly.
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Elaine Thompson
Daily Telegraph
Perrisburg
Giles County Schoool System
Blue Cross
Southwest Virginia
Bob Lilly
Princeton panelist to join Smithsonian conference on Black culture
Edward J. Cabbell founder of the John Henry Memorial Foundation is invited as a panelist at the Smithsonian Institution Conference on Black American Culture and Scholarship. The July 7-8 event at the American History Museum in Washington, D.C. will explore contemporary issues and synthesis of Black Appalachian culture and history.
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Princeton
Edward J. Cabbell
John Henry Memorial Foundation
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
American History Museum
Washington, D.C
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