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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1981
Page
2
Obituary notices report Miss Mary Alice Harpe of Nashville age 71 dying after a short illness. funeral Thursday in St Petersburg Florida. Other notices include Curtis Baldwin of Vansant Virginia, Claude Simpson Bluefield Virginia, William Baldwin Bluefield, Otis Hale of Erwin Tennessee. Surviving relatives and burial details listed with service times and locations.
The United Mine Workers and Consolidation Coal Co along with other firms press toward a new contract while bargaining remains largely secret. Pension structures dominate discussions as utilities anticipate limited near term disruption despite potential strikes. About 25,000 miners face furlough due to mine closings as spring approaches.
Graveside services for Mrs. Lucille Hosmer will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Woodlawn Memorial Park Bluewell with Rev. Richard Rouquie officiating. A Bluefield resident, she died Friday in Bluefield Community Hospital after a long illness. She was a librarian active in the Bluefield Public Library and civic groups. Survived by daughter Ella Superdock of Alaska and grandson Dean Hosmer Willis, who is in Massachusetts.
Fire crews and patrols continue to search for eight suspects after eight Roanoke County fires were part of more than 50 blazes statewide on Sunday. Arthur L. Jolly of the Virginia Division of Forestry said officials will persist until rain arrives, noting no arrests yet and that the perpetrator would have to be someone with a warped mind and sick intent.
Mercer County Board of Education and two citizen committees met at the Central Office Monday night to review long and short term needs in maintenance and transportation. Proposals include a central maintenance facility, area crew responsibility, weekly maintenance reporting, preventive maintenance schedules, potential use of vocational students, extended custodial year, revised work schedules, and bus driver classifications to allow day work across maintenance tasks.
A three judge federal appeals panel granted a stay of execution to James D. Briley, a 24 year old Richmond murderer, postponing his scheduled electric chair death in Virginia. The stay comes as Briley's lawyers filed an appeal with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In Damascus a so called mystery hostage sat in a Syrian jail Monday as most captives traveled to Mecca to give thanks for safety after a 13 day hijack ordeal. An American remained to face possible indictment in a drug case while another, Frederick Hubbell of Des Moines Iowa, flew to Frankfurt to reunite with his parents and wife freed by the hijackers.
Giles County Humane Society president Mike Davis said his lawyer advised filing a circuit court suit this week to force a county animal shelter. Davis says Virginia law requires satisfactory facilities and the county has offered no ideas to comply.
L L Red Pearce 81 of 913 Reynolds Ave Princeton was found dead at home Monday morning authorities report he apparently died days before discovery no foul play suspected body sent for autopsy Pearce born Princeton NC son of Dock F and Julie Ann Pearce retired machinist with Virginian Railroad member of First United Methodist Church Survivors include wife Thelma Ryan Pearce son David L Pearce brother William D Pearce sister Lonie P Hiatt pallbearers to be men of the church Funeral George W Seaver Funeral Home Princeton Oakwood Park Cemetery viewing 7 to 9 p.m.
Sources close to the investigation say Boone was found face up with a plastic bag over his head. Entry to the third floor may occur via a bank lobby front entrance near the elevator. Boone owned Kingfield's Restaurant in Bluefield and two more in Kingsport Tennessee and Pineville.
A Jan 22 holdup at the Hurley Grundy National Bank vault netted $311000 in coal company payrolls. Two masked robbers fled. a third is sought. A Hurley miner was hypnotized by police to aid the case, recalling a green 1971 Oldsmobile tied to the suspect. Indictments cite a third helper and loot split.
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