Tazewell County hearings clash over new taxes
About 200 residents packed a loquacious hearing in Tazewell VA as supervisors weighed a 1 percent utility license tax and a $20 motor vehicle sticker tax. Officials argued the utility levy existed since 1950, while opponents doubted collection and warned of impact on budgets for rescue squads libraries and social services.
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Tazewell
Virginia
Chard Barton
State Corporation Commission
Barton
Paul Crawford
Six week bakery strike near end at Flowers Baking Co
Flowers Baking Co workers in Bluefield, after a Wednesday meeting of Teamsters Local 175, voted to accept an April 21 contract proposal to end the six week strike that began March 27. Company president Richard E. Nolan said the offer is no longer on the table and workers will not return until a Charleston meeting with Ken Hall and union lawyers. Hall confirmed a 1 PM session in Charleston to discuss strike resolution. Union member Anthony Stephens recounted the sequence after the vote and the bakery’s response.
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Flowers Baking Co
Bluefield
Bluefield Holliday Inn
Teamsters Local 175
Richard E. Nolan
Charleston
Ken Hall
Hall
The
Daily Telegraph
Anthony Stephens
Democrats Sweep Mercer County Primary Contests
Mercer County voters turned out 55 percent with 12 140 Democrats and 3 650 Republicans. Major race saw 12 year County Commissioner Clarence Six unseated by Tate Lohr 5 411 to 5 062. Loisr pledged to govern honestly and nominate Claude Blankenship for president in 1989. Commissioners Bragg and Blankenship pledged support for the Democratic ticket.
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Princeton
Mercer County
Rudolph Jennings
Lohr
Clarence Six
Charles E. “Tate
Claude Blankenship
Ray Bragg
Blankenship
Clarence
Tate
Caperton seeks party unity for tough West Virginia race
Caperton aims to unite West Virginia Democrats after a bitter primary with Clyde See and prepare for a difficult general election against Republican Arch Moore Jr. Caperton pledges to focus on jobs, schools and a balanced budget while reaching out to heal divisions.
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Gaston Caperton
Arch Moore
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West Virginia
Caperton
Steve Cohen
House of Delegates
Clyde See
See
Krishna devotees chant and sacrifice bananas to avert quake in Los Angeles
In New Vrindaban the largest Hare Krishna community reports chanting deities and burning a bananas butter and barley mix to appease angels, amid uncertainty over Nostrada mus prophecy of an earthquake this week. About 100 devotees participated in the ritual for safety.
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Los Angeles
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Warm today with 74 degree high and mostly sunny skies
Accu-Weather forecasts mostly sunny and warm conditions with a daytime high near 74 degrees. Tonight will be partly cloudy and cool with a low around 48 degrees. Details A-12
Mercer County Commission Races Highlight Candidate Totals
In Mercer County Commission race tallies, Charles E Tate Lohr leads with 5411 votes, Clarence Six trails at 5062, Randall Earnest has 1769, W Jack Martin 924, Benny Hall 920, Ray Brown 747, and Kerry Fleming 504. On the Republican side, John Rapp registers 2677 votes.
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Randall Earnest
Jack Martin
Benny Hall
Ray Brown
Kerry Fleming
John Rapp
Rapp
Meadows
William Gearhart
Wayne Sizemore
Sizemore
Gearhart
Earnest
Governor Race Leads With Full Precincts Report
Moore leads with 77,690 votes or 53 percent and Raese 68,133 with 47 percent. Caperton fairs best statewide with 128,641 votes (37 percent) and Palumbo 50,976 (15 percent). Douglass has 48,394 (14 percent) and Tonkovich 14,958 (4 percent). Mercer figures show lower support for each candidate, with several minor totals. Nuchims shows 1,460 votes and Moore leads in Mercer county with 1,137 margin over Raese in that county.
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Mercer
Palumbo
Douglass
Tonkovich
Mharless
Nuchims
Moore
Raese
Meadows Wins Mercer County Sheriff Nomination War Talk Emerges
Don Meadows secures the Democratic nomination for Mercer County sheriff and vows to unify the party for the November election. He eyes a post campaign healing period as he prepares to face Republican John Rapp, who notes potential crossover votes. Meadows led the primary with 2,701 votes. Gearhart 2,165. Sizemore 1,912. Earnest 1,763.
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Don Meadows
Bill Gearhart
Wayne Sizemore
Princeton
Don" Meadows
Mercer County
Budget crunch halts new water projects in 1989 plan
Washington AP reports the House Appropriations Committee refused all new starts for dams harbors and irrigation systems in the fiscal 1989 spending bill. The first budget measure totaling 17.8 billion funds the Department of Energy Army Corps of Engineers Bureau of Reclamation and related agencies, marking a historic halt to new water-project authorizations.
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Congressional Park
House Appropriations Committee
Department of Energy
Army Corps of Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation
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