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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1986
Page
1
California bred Snow Chief, a battle hardened colt, will oppose 15 fellow three year olds at Churchill Downs. Oliver comes to Oakvale as students, parents and businesses sing for community pride in a weekend feature.
Severe radiation poisoning can cause skin blisters nausea vomiting and hemorrhaging with death in weeks. Lower doses may not show immediate effects but raise long term cancer and birth defect risks. Bone marrow and intestines are most sensitive to radiation. Radiation enters the body.
A near millionaire wins the Jackpot Wheel on Thursday and opts to receive the prize in annual installments over 20 years.
Bluefield resident Melva Showalter, 33, wins 950000 on the West Virginia Lottery Jackpot Wheel, taking home 38,000 yearly for 20 years after taxes. She plans to buy a house and a car for her husband and pay bills. She is the state's third jackpot winner, part of Mercer County’s seven winners.
Moscow reported radiation levels dropping as Scandinavia saw declines and a wind shift carried the radioactive cloud toward Austria. A diplomat warned the accident is not over while the Kremlin rejected foreign aid and May Day parades continued in Kiev near the Chernobyl site.
London reports a nuclear accident in Ukraine spurring a rally in wheat and livestock prices as traders speculate on potential Soviet imports. Analysts warn it is early to gauge radioactive impact on soil and crops, while Sweden and Denmark move to ban contaminated foods.
In a letter dated April 28, the U S Justice Department approved Bluefield Virginia’s January annexation of 423 residents, mostly white, while reserving right to future action under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Town Manager Art Mead says elections for annexed areas are now set for November rather than May.
Northfork parents in McDowell County press to reopen Northfork High School sixteen months after the county School Board voted to close it. The state supreme court docketed a May 6 hearing on the appeal of Judge Booker Stephens' July ruling that the closing was illegal. Committee members urge community attendance in Charleston as a stay of injunction execution allowed the closing to proceed. Gary Dove calls the issue serious after the board took the school away without notice on January 8.
The forecast calls for variable clouds and wind with a passing shower or two and a high near 60. Tonight will be patchy clouds and cold with a low around 37.
The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography narrowly voted against recommending regulation of sexually themed cable movies and against prosecuting explicit but non-graphic obscenity in books. The panel urged no new federal crackdown, while endorsing lockout devices to block adult programming. The decision drew praise from cable groups and the ACLU. Reports note authors like John Irving opposed censorship. Thrifty Corp. meanwhile stopped selling Playboy and similar magazines in its 582 stores nationwide.
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