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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1997
Page
2
AP photo captures a chicken altered by a brain-cell transplant that now sings and bobs its head in a quail-like display, drawing attention to unconventional genetic or neurological experiments.
Scientist Evan Balaban at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego transplanted brain cells between Plymouth Rock chickens and Japanese quail. The work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, aims to illuminate brain circuits underlying behavior and could inform brain damage or mental illness research. Balaban cautions against human applications, noting technical and ethical hurdles.
Today at noon to 6 PM the Red Cross Bloodmobile visits Bluefield Youth Center Stadium Drive. At 7 PM Shawnee Parkway Authority meets at Raleigh County Armory. Friday March 7 at 4:30 PM Mercer County Board of Education holds special session in Seminar Center Mercer County Technical Education Complex Princeton for student disciplinary action. Saturday March 8 at 6 PM Bluefield State College Campus Activities Office presents Bluefield Community Choir directed by Vernon Walton in Hebert Gallery Student Union. Noon Southwest Virginia Chapter Ex-Prisoners of War meets at Bonanza Restaurant Lebanon Va.
Today mostly cloudy with a high in the mid 40s. Tonight partly cloudy with a low in the mid 20s. Weather package A-4. Visit the Daily Telegraph website for details. Tip line available via Cellular One toll-free in Mercer, Tazewell, Bland, Monroe, Summers, Fayette and Greenbrier counties.
A crowd of over 200 residents demanded the McDowell County Board of Education vote to keep Bartley Elementary School open. The hearing began a series of five on a plan to close and consolidate county schools with Bartley slated to merge with War Elementary. A special meeting on March 24 will decide the closure amid budget deficits and declining enrollment.
Friends of Martha Draper, a Princeton school teacher paralyzed from the chest down by a North Carolina vehicle crash, have raised over 15000 for her recovery and family expenses. Dewey Russell of One Valley Bank said the fund should rise further as insurance won’t cover all costs during Draper’s rehabilitation in Charlottesville. Draper was to be moved from Bowman Gray in Winston-Salem to Charlotte for continued care.
Vice President Al Gore visited the flooded Ohio River Valley in West Virginia and pledged federal aid, meeting with Gov. Cecil Underwood and lawmakers at Tri-State Airport. He said the United States will stand with West Virginia as engineers assess damage and federal response begins.
BRMC officials say the Bluefield hospital is buying the vacant BIMCO Building in downtown Bluefield. If the deal closes next week, up to 50 hospital employees could relocate there by early May, with Community Care and Bluefield Health Systems moving operations downtown. The 30,000 square foot building will include on site live records storage on the fourth floor and BRMC will lease a city lot behind the building for employee parking.
Bluefield couple welcomes eight pound three ounce girl and seven pound eight and a quarter ounce boy. OB team notes twin birth is unusually large for a hospital. Parents joke about looking big and gaining nineteen pounds, sixteen of which were the babies.
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