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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 2002
Page
1
A funeral service was held for Army Sgt Gene A Vance Jr in Virginia to honor his war service. Details on date and location are sparse in the fragment but the ceremony commemorated his sacrifice and commended his military record.
A compact recap notes highlights across MLB and NBA with the Celtics and Nets returning to play on the hardcourt. It emphasizes recent results and upcoming matchups without sensational detail.
The Bluefield High School Band and Bluefield Middle School bands plus sixth grade and fifth grade beginner bands from area elementary and intermediate schools will perform Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Bluefield Middle School Gym. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Memorial Day Ceremony by American Legion Riley West Post 9 starts at 10 30 a m in Chicory Square Bluefield, marking the festival’s holiday weekend close. Weather and crowds boosted attendance across concerts vendors and midway activities with high turnout and favorable forecasts noted by locals including Sherry Price of Comcast.
A barge struck an interstate bridge over the Arkansas River at Webbers Falls Oklahoma during a storm, collapsing 500 feet of roadway and sending about a dozen vehicles into the water. One body was recovered from a submerged car around 6:15 p.m. with five to twelve more feared drowned as cranes stabilized the two bridge sections and divers worked the current. Authorities said it could take until Monday or Tuesday to remove all victims.
Lt Mark Houck visits Welch National Guard Armory after a dire Feb 2 1998 accident in Northfork Hollow. He served as a Specialist in the 1st of the 150th Armor Battalion and underwent a remarkable medical recovery praised by prayers from many communities.
The Bluefield native Dr John Forbes Nash Jr notes in a 1994 Royal Swedish Academy autobiograph y that his legal identity began June 13 1928 in Bluefield at the Bluefield Sanitarium. He won a one third share of the 1994 Nobel in Economics for game theory with Princeton PhD work on Nash Equilibrium. He recalls attending standard and pre schools in Bluefield as a child and mentions local providers Mrs Jennie George Blanche Miller and Mrs McDowell.
A reader sent in a sequence of coded hints composed of letters and dashes, patterns B-1 1-4 C-5 C-5 C-6 A-3 C-1-4 A-4, inviting decipherment. The note appears as a short, puzzle style item from a late 19th or early 20th century page, suggesting a game or classroom exercise.
Memorial Day 2002 events honor veterans with services at Oakwood Cemetery near Princeton led by the Princeton Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and at Chicory Square in Bluefield by American Legion Riley West Post 9. A dedication for the McDowell County Veterans Garden at Woodlawn Memorial Park will include speakers, music, and refreshments with no charge for veterans’ spaces.
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