Black Lung Debt Rising Aimed at Reagan Plan
Labor Secretary Donovan told Congress the black lung program debt could reach nearly seven billion within six to seven years without changes. He said Treasury debt stood at 956 million in 1980 and could hit 1.5 billion this fiscal year, amid debates over eligibility, abuses, and coal tax funding proposals.
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Washington
Raymond J. Donovan
Congress
Donovan
House Labor Standards Subcommittee
Treasury
Sam Church
White House
Reagan
George Miller
D-Calif
Appropriations Committee
Craig Berrington
Lawrence Weatherford
Groundbreaking for Bluefield junior high school opens crowd
Groundbreaking was held for Bluefield’s new 6.1 million consolidated junior high school at Bluefield City Park with 1,000 plus attendees. Mercer County Board of Education and City of Bluefield officials led the ceremony amid cold weather and light snow flurries.
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Bluefield
Mercer County Board of Education
City of
Fairview
Central
Don Keesling
Keesling
Stadium Drive
Board of Education
Mercer County
John M. Hughes
Hughes
Princeton High School
B of E
Allen Lackey
Charles Godwin
Bland Street
Lackey
Ben Faulkner
Harold Brewster
Ben Paine
Joe Walker
Fred Burton
William Looney
Mercer County Commission
Ray Bragg
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Bob Hamilton
Ken Muncie
Mack Barber
James Strong
Bluefield High School
George Erps
Margaret Demopoulos
Fire at 323 Fourth St.. two King children rescued
Bluefield police officer S E Murphy carries the pre school daughter of Rachel King from a burning apartment at 323 Fourth St at 1222 am Wednesday. Fire on second floor unoccupied but smoke and water damage on first and third floors. Fire inspector Stan Massie investigates cause.
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Bluefield
S.E. Murphy
Rachel King
Fourth St
King
David Harris
David Gaither
Stan Massie
Weather forecast and radio studio assault in Portsmouth
Mostly sunny today with 40s highs and a chance of flurries Friday. The National Weather Service calls for partly cloudy skies with showers Saturday and Monday, highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s, and overnight lows in the 20s and 30s. Sunday turns warm with 50s to near 60. In Portsmouth, WPCE radio anchor Byron Sneed, 24, was attacked in the studio Tuesday evening. he defused the situation by turning down the tape and continuing to speak, police arriving within a minute.
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National Weather Service
Portsmouth
WPCE
Byron Sneed
Columbus Avenue
McDowell Parents Protests Stop School Buses
Two McDowell County mothers Charmaine Brooks and Josephine Green were arrested for interrupting bus loading during a protest against county school consolidation plans. More than 50 parents from Davy Big Jenny area halted buses, three of which were empty, while one loaded bus continued. They were released after arraignment and vow to continue their campaign to keep community schools open amid potential closures.
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Big Jenny
McDowell County
Charmaine Brooks
Josephine Green
Brooks
Green
Mike Nasser
County School Board
John Drosick
Davy-Big Jenny
Daily Telegraph
Davy-area
Gary
Superior
Caretta
Coalwood
School Board
Board of Education
Welch Emergency Hospital
Second Heist Suspect Held
ROANOKE AP A Kentucky man Roy Lee Smith 32 Majestic Ky is held by the FBI as a suspect in the 311000 dollar January bank robbery in Hurley a coal town U S Attorney John Edwards said smith picked up as a suspect in Vulcan West Virginia a sealed indictment had been returned by a grand jury If charged he would be the second arrestee in the case authorities last week had already arrested Carl Lockhart 23 of West Virginia in Pikeville Ky on robbery charges
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Roanoke
Kentucky
FBI
Hurley
U.S
John Edwards
Roy Lee Smith
Majestic
Vulcan
W.va
Edwards
U.S. District Court
Smith
Carl Lockhart
West Virginia
Pikeville
Miracle in Berwind stranger saves boy from eye injury
In Berwind, a mystery man in a tan 1977 Monte Carlo with Alabama plates reportedly prevented 2 year old Stacy Belcher from losing sight after nail polish splashed into his eye. Stacy, curious and mimicking makeup, screamed as his mother and a bystander pried his eye open and flushed it, prompting urgent care recommendations. The stranger, seen with one eye, vanished as quickly as he appeared after the incident.
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Elaine Thompson
Daily Telegraph
Berwind
Monte Carlo
Alabama
Stacy Belcher
Carol Belcher
Stacy
McDowell County
Carol
Tony
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United Miners Workers Union
General Accounting Office
GAO
Reagan Administration
New Bluefield Junior High School
John D. Rockefeller IV
Nick Joe Rahall II
Rockefeller
State Senate
Faulkner
Brewster, Lackey
Walker
Mike Fisher
Sneed
Seeee
McDowell Parents Block
By Pat Cecil
Sue Bradford
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