Dream Of 14 Year Old At 6000 Feet Sets Personal Kite Mark
Ivey Ferguson, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Walter Ferguson of Bluefield, launches a kite to 6000 feet beside Bluefield High School. After a brief crash on the first try, he successfully sends the kite over East River Mountain. He paid four dollars for the kite and 6000 feet of string and notes winds were favorable at 6000 feet.
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Ivey Ferguson
Ferguson
Walter Ferguson
West Cumberland Road
Bluefield
Bluefield High School
FAA
Ivey
East River Mountain
Bland County
Water Company Criticized For PSC Hearing Preparations
Bob Graham of the Princeton Area Citizens Association charged the West Virginia Water Company with withholding information needed for the July 14 Public Service Commission hearing. He cited lack of access to maps and records, limited night hours, and delays, linking low water pressure to a fire on High Street and Henderson Avenue. Graham urged residents to attend the Mercer County Courthouse hearing at 9:30 a.m.
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Bob Graham
Princeton Area Citizens Association
West Virginia Water Company
Graham
Water Company
PACA
Public Service Commission
Athens Road
Bolton Road
Henderson Ave
Park Ave
Beckley Road
High St.Henderson Ave
Princeton
Low Gap Road
PSC
Mercer County
Resolutions Target McDowell Water and REAP Improvements
The West Virginia House passes two resolutions urging the McDowell County Water Company to upgrade water service quality after numerous PSC complaints. The measures also push REAP to renew efforts removing junk cars and appliances in McDowell County, noting REAP has not operated there since 1976.
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West Virginia
House of Delegates
Rehabilitation Environmental Action Program
McDowell County Water Company
del. Lacy Wright
D McDowell
House
Public Service Commission
Case Against Bluefield Policeman Continued
A hearing for Bluefield police officer Steve Murphy suspended earlier this month for allegedly harassing and threatening phone calls was postponed to July 7 at 1 30 p.m. at the request of Bernard Neal who filed the charges. If found not guilty Murphy may be reinstated with back pay after more than a year and a half of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
David Pedneau
Bernard Neal
Steve Murphy
Murphy
Neal
General Telephone Co
Stolen Car Recovered in Princeton Incident
The Princeton Police recovered a 1971 orange Volkswagon stolen from Oscar Clark on Circle Drive. Found in an old unused Craig Street garage near High Street with front tires missing, the case is being investigated by Chief A S Lucas, Patrolman B A Eades and Cpm G W Johnson. The vehicle was taken from William Clark’s Circle Drive garage about 3 10 a m on June 16 and found Monday.
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Princeton
A. S. Lucas
Oscar Clark
Circle Drive
Craig Street
High Street
Lucas
Cpm
Cpm. G. W. Johnson, Patrolman B. A. Eades
V.W
William Clark
Flexitime Gains Ground in Government and Industry
National Geographic reports a rising use of flexitime where workers decide their start and end times within limits. The system does not reduce total hours but allows earlier starters to leave earlier.
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Washington
National Geographic
George
Tennessee
Carter nominates Hubert Taylor as U S marshal for north West Virginia
President Carter nominated Hubert T. Taylor 62 a Martinsburg native and 19 year federal law officer to be United States Marshal for northern West Virginia If confirmed he will succeed Walter M Garrison of Fairmont Taylor served with the White House detail of the Secret Service from 1942 to 1951
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Carter
Hubert T. Taylor
United States
West Virginia
Taylor
Martinsburg
White House
U.S. Secret Service
Senate
Walter M. Garrison
Fairmont
Think Metric Kiwanis Members Advised By Club Speaker
Virgil Bailey of the Princeton Athens Kiwanis Club explained the metric system at a Wednesday luncheon at the Moose Lodge in Princeton. He noted the system is 187 years old, modernized in 1960, and used by about 95 percent of nations, with the United States moving toward adoption. A film illustrated units and prefixes, from metre and gram to litre, kilo, centi, and milli, showing how decimal scaling works in measuring length, weight, and volume. Bailey received a Kiwanis Certificate of Appreciation from the club. introduced by Carl Haga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Holroyd
Daily Telegraph
Princeton-Athens Kiwanis Club
Moose Lodge
Princeton
Virgil Bailey
Bailey
French Academy of Science
United States
Kiwanis
Carl Haga
PSC OKs Closing Of Tucker Station
Charleston AP Western Maryland Railway won authority from the Public Service Commission to close its freight station at Parsons in Tucker County and downgrade Tucker to a non agency station handling carload freight only. Parsons business will shift to Elkins 22 miles away. The PSC also allowed Kanawha Central Railway to abandon 4.7 miles of track between Brownland and Dungriff in Kanawha County.
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Charleston
W. Va
Western Maryland Railway
Parsons
Tucker County
Public Service Commission
Elkins
PSC
Kanawha Central Railway
Brounland
Dungriff
Kanawha
Nursing Home Fire Kills 1 in Sunderland Maryland
A fire at Huntington Haven Nursing Home in Sunderland Maryland killed Nellie M. Wiley 74 in a basement room. Seven elderly women were patients as crews from Calvert County fought the two story converted farmhouse blaze. Five were hospitalized with minor burns and smoke inhalation and one with second degree burns.
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Sunderland, Md
Maryland
Nellie M. Wiley
Huntington Haven
Calvert County
Calvert Memorial Hospital
Prince Frederick
Washington Hospital Center
Calvert Memorial
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George Hamilton
Jane Russell
Soupy Sales
Bemidji, Minn
Memphis, Tenn
Franklinton
N.C
Kulm
N.D
Tupelo
Miss
McDowell
State
Marshall
Charleston, W.va
RCA
Don’s TV
Tucker Station
T.V. Shop
NEW River
Mercer ST
George Dickel
Bear Ferguson
Eaa
George Dickel Nnessee
George A Dickel & Company
Tullahoma
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