Pilot Tunnel Completed At East River Mountain Project
Workers finished a $23 million East River Mountain Tunnel pilot bore through the main tube inside the mountain. The tunnel connects the West Virginia south portal with the Virginia end, completed at midnight Thursday per project manager A. Leavitt Crowell. The main tunnel advancement stands about 175 feet further.
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East River Mountain
A. Leavitt Crowell
West Virginia
Virginia
Crowell
Leonard Graham
Charles Bateman
Dan O'Conner
Jim Hamilton
Michael Baker Associates
Jay Bailey
West Virginia Department of Highways and Crowell
Area Boy Hurt In Shooting Accident
A 14 year old Montcalm area boy, Jerry Bowman, was treated at Bluefield Sanitarium for gunshot wounds to the left leg. Police say the injuries occurred while Bowman picked up walnuts at Dale Kendricks home when a .12 range shotgun discharged accidentally. Deputies did not file charges after investigating.
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Montcalm Area
Bluefield Sanitarium
Jerry Bowman
Mercer County
Bob Boughman
Michael Forbes
Pay Board to review coal wage impact on prices
Pay Board Chairman C Jackson Grayson Jr said the board will meet Monday to decide if coal industry wage increases may be fully included in cost increases. The panel may allow price rises under government rules to reflect higher costs. The board also relaxed retroactive pay rules before adjourning, drawing labor opposition and questions that remain unresolved including teachers back pay from Aug to Nov. 1970 U S exports to Latin America reached 6 5 billion.
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Price Commission
C. Jackson Grayson Jr
Grayson
Labor
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Career Ads and Subscriptions
Notices list subscription rates and service details for Bluefield Daily Telegraph readers. Includes carrier and mail pricing, motor route options, and West Virginia zone charges. Mentions Associated Press affiliation and advertising representative information.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. Va
Associated Press
Focal News
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circuition
Mathews, Shannon & Cullen Telephone
Nixon signals plan to curb cost of living
President Nixon defended a broad program for all Americans and organized labor, insisting he will act to stop rising living costs. He praised Meany while pledging fairness to labor and the public, saying a majority of people and union members seek relief from inflation. Meany had accused the Pay Board of siding with big business to defeat wage proposals.
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Meany
Pay Board
Rapid moves in U S Soviet trade front unfold
Observers note a flurry of activity from November. A $136 million grain sale to the Soviet Union was disclosed on November 5, followed by Deputy Soviets Vladimir Alkhimov visiting the U S to discuss financing development projects. On November 11 Georgy Arbatov urged expanded commercial cooperation. A bowling pin is 15 inches high.
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Vladimir Alkhimov
United States
Soviet Union
Kremlin
U.S
Georgy Arbatov
U.S.R
U.S.S.R
U.S.A
Miners Debate Resuming Work Amid Wage Disparities
West Virginia miners press for a work stoppage arguing disabled miners and widows lose extra compensation under the new contract. They cite wage and welfare fund increases of about 11 percent and 4 percent versus Pay Board guidance. Two Saturday meetings planned in southern West Virginia aim to curb the dispute as UMW local leaders seek to restart production.
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West Virginia
UMW District 29
James Leeber
Sophia
Birmingham Air Pollution Hearing Downgraded Emission Count
The hearing on the injunction saw Pointer deny dismissal petitions from 23 firms. The count of particles over North Birmingham dropped to 217 per cubic meter, while the area’s mat ter count ranged 771 Tuesday 758 Wednesday and 461 Thursday. The EPA sets 75 acceptable long term 325 alert 675 warning and 1000 critical. Birmingham logged 67 days above 260 in the past year with an average of 167. Firms argued the order improper and challenged emergency powers of the Clean Air Act.
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Pointer
Asst
U.S. Atty
Bill Mallard
Birmingham
Environmental Protection Agency
Next Discussion Set For Nov 29 In Foreign Aid Talks
Washington AP House Senate foreign aid conferees met Friday announcing optimism to craft a bill but noting difficulty. They plan the next session for Nov 29 after a 10 day Thanksgiving recess. Morgan said talks will be the toughest ever with key issues over end the war deadline and splitting aid into economic and military bills.
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Washington
House-Senate
House
Thomas E
Doc) Morgan
House Foreign Affairs Committee
J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Morgan
Congress
Notable Bluefield leader Huffard dies aged council veteran
J Hudson Huffard Jr longtime Bluefield Virginia leader and Kiwanis official dies. He served as Bluefield mayor and town council member and held posts with the Chamber of Commerce and National Retail Furniture Association. Survivors include his wife, children and siblings. funeral arrangements were incomplete at Graham Funeral Home in Bluefield.
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Sity
Virginia
John Hopkins University
Kiwanis Organization
Kiwanis International
West Virginia
Bluefield
Business Men's Club
Credit Bureau
W. Va
Resolutions Committee
Virginia Society For Crippled Children
Children’s Home Society of Virginia
Hilda Sarver Epperly Huffard
J. Hudson Huffard Jr
Charles Steven Epperly
John David Epperly
Roy
Alice
Arabs Registered as Jerusalem Workers in Occupied Territories
About 8,200 Arabs from Israeli occupied territories are recorded as workers in Jerusalem. The figure reflects labor mobility and residency rules impacting employment access and regional demographics.
Area Deaths And Funerals Narrate Losses Across Virginia and West Virginia
A cluster of obituaries from Pocahontas to Princeton and Chilhowie notes Virginia and West Virginia residents death and funeral plans. Mrs. Virginia Cochran Bogle, 59, of Charlotte, N C, formerly of Pocahontas, is mourned along with Millard F Hull, 85, of Princeton. Charles E Parsons, 78, of Northfork. and Charles Raymond Sparks, 60, of Tazewell. Funeral dates set through Sunday with services in Pocahontas, Princeton, Northfork, Richlands, and Matoaka. Surviving family members include spouses, children, siblings, and numerous grandchildren. The notices list multiple call times and burial sites in Musick Cemetery, Clark Cemetery, Grandview Memory Gardens, and family plots. Other entries mention Thomas E Taylor of Chilhowie and Carolyn June Smith of Matoaka with funeral arrangements and church services scheduled.
Johnson and Hill memorials mark Covington and Falls Mills deaths
Basil Winslow Johnson 71 of Covington died Thursday in a Bluefield hospital while visiting his son Dewey Johnson. Buried at Emory Church Cemetery after services at R. M. Loving Funeral Home. Thomas Harding Hill 87 of Falls Mills died Thursday in Marion hospital after a long illness. Services at Graham Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Tabor Cemetery Falls Mills. Pallbearers listed. Funeral home sign referenced.
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Basil W. Johnson
Basil Winslow Johnson
Covington
Bluefield
Dewey Joseph Johnson
Alleghany County
William and
Mary Agnes Helmindellar Johnson
Grace McCoy Johnson
Dewey Johnson
Clarence Ivan Johnson
W. T. Blake
Falling Springs
R. M. Loving
Floyd Wingfield
G. S. Buchanan
Emory Church
Natural Well
Mrs Ilene Kress Dies At Bluefield Home
Mrs Ilene Kress of 3002 Old Graham Road Bluefield Va died suddenly at her home Thursday. Born in Tazewell County she belonged to Midway Church of Christ and the Women’s Missionary Society of Grace Methodist. Survived by daughter Dorothy Williams Roanoke Va son Howard Kress Princeton Pa brother Frank Spurgeon Meadville Pa and three foster brothers Silas Hylton Harrisonburg Va Buster Hylton Christiansburg Va Perry Faulkner Springville Va 12 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at 1 p.m. at Mercer Funeral Chapel Bluefield with Rev Tom Brown officiating Burial Mountain View Cemetery Chilhowie Va Friends may call after 1 p.m. today.
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Virginia Cochran Bogle
Charlotte
N. C
Pocahontas
Nathan and
Mary Musick Cochran
Thomas J. Bogle
N.C
James Bogle
Belleville
Mich
Raymond Bogle
Charlotte, N. C
Junior Mitchelson
Celia Snider
Pembroke
Bessie Boone
Yards
Charles Wilson
Roanoke
Hubert Dillon
Jack Shew
Columbus
Ohio
Ray Cochran
Richmond
Shumate Newman Funeral Home
Ernest Westmoreland
Musick
Sam Boone
John
Darrell
Terry Sluss
Franklin Greene
Teddy Greene
Millard F. Hull
Washington Ave
Princeton
Princeton Community Hospital
Carroll County
Sidney and
Ida Montgomery Hull
The
Christian Church
Effie Bailey Hull
Dave Hull
Arlie Hull
Rocky Gap
Gladys Thornhill
Pauline McGuire
Wilma Hull
Lula Alberts
Pearisburg
Vinne Nelson
Bland, Va
Lloyd Hull
Roby Hull
Bastian
Dice Hull
Venton
Memorial Funeral Directory Chapel
Clark Cemetery
Charles E. Parsons
Northfork
Bluefield
Maybeury
Culby Parsons
Rhoda Alenzia Walsh Parsons
Baptist Church
Obids
Luther H. Clark
Rajah Lodge
Moose Lodge
Elsie Mae Parsons
Bill
Alzenia) Blankenship
Newark
Del
Max (Zola) Hodge
Ocala
Fla
Fred L. Parsons
Baltimore
Ralph Parsons
Eton College
Paul Parsons
West Jefferson
Charles Parsons, Jr
Winston-Salem
Mae Bard
Dough
Gertha) Wolfe
Statesville
Virginia Whiteley
Otha
Eva) Canon
Fred A. Parsons
Northfork United Methodist Church
Harry G. Sawdey
Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum
Bluewell
Masonic Lodge
Bennett-Fanning Funeral Home
Charles Raymond (Sparky) Sparks
Rt. 3
Tazewell
Richlands
Berwind
Hugh Laura Vance Sparks
Virginia
Tazewell County
Burkes Garden
Arelia Artrip Sparks
W. B. Sparks
Nannie Sparks
Alameeda
Calif
Cecil Compton
Falls Mills
Carl Wilson
Wayne Wilson
J. C. Phipps
Gary
Ind
Mabel Cassell
Ruth Pruitt
Hurst - Scott Funeral Home
Barnard Shrader
Jack Carnley
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield - Tazewell Road
Thomas E. Taylor
Chilhowie
Betty Doane Taylor
Roy Taylor
Mary Alley
Gladys D. Doane
Deborah Doane
Wanda Doane
Larry N. Doane
Dallas W. Doane
Little Valley Christian Church
Saltville
Harold Puckett
D. R. Henderson
Mamie Virginia Atkins
Springville
Rebecca Jane Starling
Frank H. Farmer
Mount Zion
Ike Carter
Saunders ‘ Carter
Martin Carter
Roy Money
Ernest Harless
Willy Hellmandollar
George Faulkner
Titus Stevens
Dudles Mortuary
Ilene Kress
Graham Road
Midway Church of Christ
Women's Missionary Society of Grace Methodist Church
Toby Kress
Dorothy K. Williams
Howard W. Kress
Frank Spurgeon
Meadville
Silas Hylton
Harrisonburg
Buster Hylton
Christianburg
Perry Faulkner
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Tom Brown
Mountain View Cemetery
Tolbert EDGAR WILEY Tolbert Dies in Bluefield Hospital
Edgar Wiley Tolbert of Clearfork Virginia died Thursday in a Bluefield hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Mercer Funeral Home in Bluefield.
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Edgar Wiley Tolbert
Clearfork
Bluefield
Mercer Funeral Hore
Obituaries listed for several local residents in Bluefield area
Nora A Comp ton 86 of Swords Creek Va dies with service by Rev Bernard Shrader and Rev Truel Brown at her home burial in Elkins Family Cemetery Pallbearers named The body will be taken from Hurst Scott Funeral Home Richlands to the home for calling hours Douglas Chapman 57 of Tazewell Va dies today service at Greever Funeral Home Chapel with several ministers burial at Grandview Memory Gardens Pallbearers named Ethel C Lucado 84 of Ada dies today at Hawkins Funeral Home Bluefield burial Monte Vista Park Cemetery Pallbearers are nephews Nora Dell Thompson 69 of Excelsior dies today service at Excelsior School auditorium burial in Excelsior Cemetery body to be moved from Page Funeral Home Welch to school one hour prior Elsie Mae Martin 83 former Bluefield Princeton resident dies today service at George W Seaver Chapel Princeton burial Roselawn Memorial Gardens pallbearers listed)
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Richlands
Tay
Chapman
Douglas
Tazewell
Greever Funeral Home
T. A. Cox
Bill Sadler
Harvey Asbury
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
George Surber
Richard Surber
Calvin Patterson
Henry Goodman
Rudolf Hale
Frank Beavers
Silvesta Ferguson
Rudolf Richardson
Lucado
Ethel C
Ada
Hawkins Funeral Home
Bluefield
Bill Price
Fred Cook
Monte Vista Park
Thompson
Nora Dell
Excelsior
Excelsior School
Emily Bethea
William Crozier
Yukon
Page Funeral Home
Welch
Tragic Car Wreck Claims Sutherland Family Member
County Vocational School at Grundy Va reports a fatal crash where a tree trunk tore through a vehicle injuring one driver and killing another. Survivors include the deceased’s mother Gladys Sutherland Howington and siblings. The Hurs-Scott Funeral Home in Richlands Va. will handle arrangements.
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Grundy
Edward E. Thomas
Tazewell
Sutherland
Virginia
R. H. Canmipbell
Gladys Sutherland Howington
Rt 1
Cedar Bluff
Patricia Sutherland
Tome Ne
Charlie Sutherland
Rt. 1
Vonda Aller
Richmond
Tammy Howington
Jerry Howington
Kenneth Howington
Curtis Howington
Hurs'-Scott
Richlands
Trapped Miner Rescued in Tough Mine Cavern
Cornett, trapped in a coal mine cab cutter, was rescued after hours of effort. His wife Ann prayed, learning he was alive only after neighbors guided her through the tense wait. Elizabeth Abbie supported the anxious family during the ordeal.
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Cornett
Cratch
Ann Cornett
Daugher Elizabeth Abbie
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