East End Bridge Controversy Grows Over Site Change
Huntington West Virginia protests an Ohio River bridge to Proctorville Ohio as EPA recommended considering alternate sites. Rep. Hechler cites Coast Guard impact statements and a year-old Huntington Advertiser report outlining a 19-year traffic plan for the Huntington Ironton Ashland area and East End changes.
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Huntington
W.va
Proctorville
Ohio
Ken Hechler
DW. Va
Environmental Protection Agency
Ohio River
Guyandotte
William Ruckelshaus
Hechler
Coast Guard
Huntington Advertiser
West Virginia
Kentucky
Huntington-Ironton-Ashland
Dowell Set as Guest Speaker at Mt Zion Services
Rev. Fermell Dowell will speak at Mount Zion Baptist Church Bluefield during the 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday services. Rev. Carrolton Jackson is on vacation.
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Fermell Dowell
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Bluefield
Carrolton Jackson
FischerUps Bid For World Chess Match Financing
Bobby Fischer demands 30 percent of gate receipts in addition to guaranteed sums to play Boris Spassky in Reykjavik. The 24 game match offers a $125000 purse with five eighths to the winner and 30 percent of TV film rights to each player. Icelandic officials seek compromise while wary of added costs.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Iceland Chess Federation
Fischer
Spassky
Federation
Sports Palace
Icelandic Chess Federation
Fred Cramer
American Chess Federation
Soviet Union
Hospital Women Plan Bake Sale For Elevator Fund
Princeton Community Hospital volunteers kick off a drive for 36000 to install a second visitors elevator. A bake n things sale at the Freedom Carnival booth in Princeton Shopping Center on July 3 and 4 aims to raise money and attract donations from civic clubs and area businesses.
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Princeton Community Hospital
Princeton
Bill Shepherd
Shepherd
Pansy Brown
PCH
West Virginia Blue Cross hearing ends with walkout
Public hearing on Blue Cross hospitalization insurance in West Virginia ends abruptly as officials call the probe illegal and leave after the state Insurance Commission refuses to quash a federal subpoena. The debate centers on Medicare records, premium rise plans, and hospital cost justification.
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Blue Cross
Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
State Insurance Commission
U.S
Samuel Weese
U. S. Atty
Wayne A. Rich Jr
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Rich
Commission
Insurance Commission
W. E. Mohler
Weese
C. Judson Pearson
Giles Schedules Fiddlers Event in Narrows Virginia
The Giles County Annual Fiddler’s Convention and Folk Song contest will be July 7 8 at Ragsdale Field Narrows VA. Workshops start noon July 7 with competitions from 7 p m. over $1000 in prizes across fiddle banjo calwhammer bluegrass guitar mandolin band folk song and flat foot. Registration on site or by writing Narrows Jaycees Box 336 Narrows Va.
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Giles County
Ragsdale Field
Narrows
Narrows Jaycees
Jaycees
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