Statler Brothers On Hee Haw Stage Prompts Chamber Leaders
The Statler Brothers headline a notable appearance, with Chamber director Nelson Walker, Jimmy Jay of Jayson Productions, and Jerry Bailey of Group W sharing the podium. The event highlights tie between country music figures and local business and civic leadership.
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Statler Brothers
Hee Haw
Nelson Walker
Jimmy Jay
Jayson Productions
Jerry Bailey
Group W
Death penalty bill OK'd by Senate
The Virginia Senate approved a Wilder administration backed measure to impose the death penalty for murders during drug deals by a 35 to 5 vote. Gov. Wilder, once an opponent, made it a top priority in this year’s General Assembly.
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Richmond
Senate
Wilder
L. Douglas Wilder
General Assembly
Virgil H. Goode Jr
Franklin County
Anti- Drug Trust Fund Authority
Porea
Joseph V. Gartlan Jr
D-Fairfax
Virginia Beach
Norfolk
Virginia Senate Acts On Kindergarten Age And Drug Authority
Highlights from Richmond show the Senate passing a rule requiring children to be five by September 30 to enter public kindergarten. It also amended a bill to have six legislators appointed by the General Assembly to a private funds anti drug authority rather than by the governor. A measure to empower city or county managers to suspend liquor sales during riots was sent back to committee, effectively killing it for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yvonne B. Miller
Norfolk
Virginia
Richmond
General Assembly
Senate
House Finance backs bill to close super tax credit loopholes
Charleston AP A House Finance Committee endorsement aims to shut the super tax credit loopholes used by businesses while the Senate stalls on its budget. Senate later backed a measure to let local governments charge developers for some expansion costs as teacher pay dispute looms.
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Charleston
House Finance Committee
Senate
Gaston Caperton
House
Del
Robert Kiss
Raleigh
Earl Ray Tomblin
Finance Committee
Tomblin
D-Logan
Community Concerts Association Launches 1990-91 Membership Drive
Beginning March 12 and running through March 15 the Community Concerts Association invites memberships for the 1990 91 season. For a minimal fee members may attend concerts in Bluefield and Beck er with rates 18 for adults 15 for seniors 9 for students and 45 for family memberships. Headquarters are at the Bluefield Area Arts and Crafts Center 500 Bland Road Bluefield with hours 10 a.m. 4 p.m. Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday March 17.
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Community Concerts Association
Bluefield
Becker
Bluefield Area
Coal Miners Win Victory in Appeals Ruling
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Labor Department benefits review board decision to curb the appeals process for black lung victims. The ruling restores hearing rights before an administrative law judge, affecting thousands of coal miners whose cases had been on hold. Representative Bob Wise announced the decision.
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Washington
Review Board
10Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Labor Department
Benefits Review Board
Bob Wise
D-W.va
West Virginia Democrat
Mingo firings head to court in Huntington
Five former Mingo County courthouse employees who were dismissed January 2 1987 after a change in administration will face a July 10 trial date in U S District Court Huntington. The federal suit has stretched through the docket as two county commissioners face unrelated state corruption probes.
Drug suspect's wife charged in Charleston case
Betty McCumber of Duck, ex-wife of Ronald Yost, was charged with obstruction of justice after allegedly kicking an informant in the groin at a truck stop following a hearing in the drug trafficking case. She was ordered to stay away from witnesses in her ex-husband's case at a federal court hearing Monday afternoon.
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Charleston
Betty McCumber
Duck
Ronald “Papa Smurf
Yost
Contact numbers for Daily Telegraph editors
News tip line lists Bob Pepalis as News Editor and David Barker as City Editor at the Daily Telegraph. It provides a phone contact 327 6171 for tips or stories.
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Call
Bob Pepalis
David Barker
The
Daily Telegraph
Historic group honors Blaydes for $6200 survey fund drive
Dr. J. Elliott Blaydes was honored by the Bluefield Historic Society for raising 6200 for architectural surveys. Lecia Smith said Blaydes donated his foundation’s help for a Centennial Cookbook whose sales helped match a state grant to 15000 for surveys of South Bluefield area houses to possibly list them on the national historic register.
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J. Elliott Blaydes
Bluefield Historic Society
Lecia Smith
The
Historical Society
Blaydes
Smith
Eye Clinic
South Bluefield
Hancock House
Sussex St
Alpha Fraternity
Tazewell residents enter county's municipal races
In Tazewell County, 40 candidates filed by Tuesday for mayor or council seats across five towns ahead of the May 1 elections. In Bluefield and Pocahontas, current leaders face challenges as three Bluefield seats and all Pocahontas council and mayor posts open. Connie Saunders and Bill Evans, among 21 others and seven businesses, seek one of three Bluefield slots while civil suit plaintiffs contend with ongoing local politics.
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Tazewell
Bluefield
Leatherwood Farms
Pocahontas
Charles H. Asbury
Tazewell County
Cedar Bluff
Richlands
Connie Saunders
Bill Evans
Cecil Barrett
Betty Janutolo
Robert Cofer
Bluefield Town Council
Ulysses Cundiff
Tazewell County Public Service Authority
James Kerrigan
Kenneth E. Workman
Edward Albert Graham
James Douglas “Duffy” Angove Walter Lee Stowers
Donal Ray Harrris
Teachers blame Caperton for pay hike fallout
In Charleston and Mercer County anger and shock rose after Gov. Gaston Caperton scrapped a 5 percent teacher pay raise plan. Mercer County Education President Mary Jane Farmer said she is disappointed and planned a Princeton Junior High School meeting. WVEA leaders had shown firm support, while Charleston teachers blamed the governor for the collapse.
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Charleston
Gaston Caperton
Mercer County
Caperton
Mercer County Education
Mary Jane Farmer
Farmer
Princeton
WVEA
West Virginia Education Association
Jacklin
Bluefield weighs reallocating grant funds for street repairs
Bluefield plans to ask the state to reallocate 29000 from a 1986 Small City Block Grant to repair roads on Virginia Court Summers Street and Wyoming Street including Raleigh Terrace. Total repairs cost about 38000, leaving a 9000 shortfall. Residents may be assessed by frontage feet if funds reallocate proceeds.
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Bluefield Board of Directors
Virginia Court
Summers Street
Wyoming Street
Raleigh Terrace
Bill Looney
Esti
Paul Cole
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Phil Farme
Greater Bluefield
George Farley
D-Wood
House Democrats
Mingo
Historic Group
Kathy Johnson
Clayton Wagner
Bluefield College
Wagner
Phil Farmer
W. David Bowers
Barbara Hawkins
Romeo
Harrison County
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