Hawaiian woman wills estate to the Internal Revenue Service
Elizabeth Hirst Piper left her entire $550000 estate to the Internal Revenue Service in her will dated last April. Honolulu IRS district director Harold Browning praised the unusual bequest, noting such a move is rare and that Hawaii bank was later named executor.
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Honolulu
Elizabeth Hirst Piper
Internal Revenue Service
Ms. Piper
IRS
Harold Browning
Browning
Mostly Today's high 40s and sunny skies forecast
National Weather Service predicts mostly sunny conditions with highs in the mid fortys today. Tonight will see increasing clouds and lows near 30 degrees. An unrelated classified ad promotes telephone sales and city classifieds contact.
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National Weather Service
Deal Off as West Virginia Teachers Strike Threatens
Gov. Gaston Caperton cancelled a five percent pay raise deal after the West Virginia Education Association rejected terms and threatened walkouts in Boone, Logan, Mingo, Wyoming, Raleigh and Wood counties. WVEA and county groups debate joining a strike while Caperton warned negotiations were over.
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Charleston
West Virginia
West Virginia Education Association
Gaston Caperton
WVEA
Jackie Goodwin
Boone, Logan, Mingo
Oming
Raleigh
Wood
Mercer County Education Association
Mary Jane Farmer
Caperton
Senate
Keith Burdette
House
Chuck Chambers
Statlers headline festivities at Mountain Festival event
A press conference atop East River Mountain announced a TeleScripps Mountain Festival special to air Aug. 13 on TNN. Jimmy Jay said the Statler Brothers will headline at Mitchell Stadium with Dwight Moore predicting the seventh annual festival will be the biggest yet. Jerry Bailey noted the special fits TNN’s hometown America series.
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East River Mountain
Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Nashville Network
Jimmy Jay
TNN
Statler Brothers
Mitchell Stadium
Dwight D. Moore
Jerry Bailey
America
Soviets Legalize Private Ownership of Small Factories
The Supreme Soviet passed the Property Law by a 350 to 3 vote with 11 abstentions, allowing private citizens to own small workshops and hire workers starting July 1. Abalkin said the move targets economic quagmire, reviving NEP precedents and aligning reform with Gorbachev pragmatism.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Supreme Soviet
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Leonid I. Abalkin
Vladimir I. Lenin
Bolsheviks
Gorbachev
Abalkin
McDowell officials back Route 52 revival luncheon
McDowell officials and business leaders urged a four lane Bluefield to Huntington Highway along U.S. 52. At a Welch luncheon sponsored by the McDowell good roads group and the Bluefield to Huntington Highway Association, leaders voiced strong support and called for decisive action to revive the economy of the region.
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McDowell
Welch
Bluefield
Huntington
McDowell Good Roads
Martha Moore
Welch Chamber of Commerce
Huntington Highway Association
Raymond's
UMW Plea to Remove Civil Fines in Virginia Case
At the Russell County Courthouse a final written plea from United Mine Workers attorney Robert H. Stropp Jr seeks dismissal of more than 64 million dollars in contempt fines against the UMW. Judge Don McGlothlin will decide after a friend of the court brief and responses from Pittston and others. The fines arose from an 11 month strike against Pittston that disrupted operations and violated a court order.
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Lebanon
Russell County
United Mine Workers
UMW
Robert H. Stropp Jr
Don McGlothlin
Stropp
Pittston
Michael Avakian
Labor Policy Center
Springfield
McGlothlin
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Center On National Labor Policy Inc
Oil station moratorium bill passes House in Virginia
The Virginia House approved a one year moratorium on new service stations for large oil companies and rejected an amendment to remove the open supply provision. The bill sets July 1 1991 as the effective date and exempts small refiners while requiring half of station fuel to come from the refiner. A separate campaign finance bill failed to clear the House.
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Richmond
House of Delegates
House
Del
William Moore
Portsmouth
Elmon T. Gray
D-Sussex
General Laws Committee
Addi
Amoco
George Allen
R-Albemarle
Clifton A. Woodrum
Roanoke
Crown
Spur
Murphy Oil
Senate
Privileges and Elections Committee
del. Ford C. Quillen
Scott County
Privileges and Elections
Joseph V. Gartlan Jr
Fairfax
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West Virginia Federation of Teachers
Abraham Lincoln
Cleveland Center
Board of Education
Society
Statlers
K.A. Ammar Jr
Association
John Caffrey
W.B. Swope
Rog Gray
Connie Collins
Virginia Crews Coal Co
Estil Stacy
Bradshaw
Hel Kiser
Eddie Lee Isom
The
Daily Telegraph
Glenn R. Croshaw
Virginia Beach
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