Princeton State Trooper Cracks Hard Cases Says Blizzard
Cpl. C N Blizzard of the Criminal Investigation Section near Princeton earns praise for solving so called uns solvable crimes. In recent cases including the McCloud murder and other bodies found in vehicles, Blizzard credits time and team effort. He began in 1964 with Bluefield police and plans to stay in policing as his career.
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Sharon Friese
Danly
Wfter
Princeton
Cpl. C.N. Blizzard
Blizzard
Criminal Investigation Section
State Police
Dave B. McCloud
Arlington, Va
Ingleside Road
Arlington
Kanawha County
Plainclothes
Brushfork Armory
Anther
A.C. Bartlett
Bartlett
Bluefield
Students Back In School Parents Continue Drive To Dust Board
About 200 parents formed a Parent-Student Action Committee to oust the county school board and superintendent after Bluefield High School students returned to class. They questioned principal appointment, sought answers on discipline, suspensions, and ties to protests while students planned a return to school if concerns were addressed.
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BHS
Mercer County Board Meeting On Bluefield High Principal Pick Fizzles
Mercer County Board of Education and school officials waited over two hours Thursday night for five Bluefield High students parents to attend an expected session protesting Mike Kessinger’s appointment as principal. The board met in executive session while a Daily Telegraph reporter listened and later discussed why Kessinger, ex Matoaka High principal, was chosen over Bluefield High’s John Disibbie. The protesting group formed a committee at a Bluefield High meeting to decide future steps. Harold Brewster urged a face to face, intelligent discussion with the representatives.
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Karen Kaplan
Daily Telegraph Star
Bluefield High School
County School Board
County Board of Education
Mike Kessinger
BHS
John Disibbio
Bud Litton
John Hughes
Kessinger
Princeton High School
Daily Telegraph
Princeton
Mercer County Board of Education
Jack Martin
Bluefield High
Hughes
Matoaka High
John Disibbie
Harold Brewster
Bluefield
Weekend Forecast: Windy, Snow Flurries, Clearing Cold
Windy and cold today with snow flurries possible in northern elevations. Highs mid 40s to around 50, tonight clearing and cooler with lows in the 30s. Mostly sunny Saturday with highs in the 50s to low 60s. Saturday night through Monday shows a slow warming trend with highs in the 60s to low 70s and lows from the 30s to the 50s.
Derailment blocks eastbound track near Northfork depot
Part of an 81 car coal train derailed near the old Northfork train depot in McDowell County on Thursday at about 3 10 p m. The train struck a loaded tractor trailer and debris from the 48 loaded boxcars blocked the eastbound track. An investigation is under way to determine the cause. A wreck crew from the Norfolk and Western Railway arrived to assess the scene.
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Northfork
McDowell County
Don Piedmont
Norfolk & Western Railway
Piedmont
Reagan Defends AWACS Sale to Saudi Arabia
President Reagan defended an $8.5 billion sale of AWACS planes and missiles to Saudi Arabia, saying it protects vital oil fields and American security. He implicitly rebuked Israeli opposition, argued U.S. policy must be autonomous, and pledged vetoes against spending bills that would widen deficits. He spoke at his first annual news conference and noted budget cuts and social program changes while supporting Voting Rights Act extension in principle.
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Washington
Reagan
United States
Saudi Arabia
Israel
Mideast
Alexander Haig
Capitol Hill
Senate
Howard Baker
Congress
Final Phase Of 460 Bypass Construction Delayed
BLUEFIELD VA The Virginia Highway Commission selected Line A for the U S Route 460 bypass but construction likely won t start before 1986 due to funding cuts. Line A would relocate five families and four businesses, costing about 22 22 million, while Lines B and C would affect more residents and cost less or more. Officials caution the mid 1980s date is optimistic given the revenue pinch and budget constraints across federal and state levels.
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Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
Virginia Highway Commission
Planning Commission
Graham High School
East River Mountain
R.P
Bob”’ Morris
State Department of Highway and Transportation
Richmond
Morris
Jack Corley
DOH
Bristol
Highway Commission
Corley
Tazewell
Grundy
Richlands
Convicted Felon Ordered Back To County Jail
West Virginia Supreme Court grants stay of execution for James Boyd Southern of Princeton after life sentence for Mercer County first degree murder. He is to be returned to Mercer County Jail from the state penitentiary to await final disposition of his appeal. The jury had sentenced him to life with a ten year parole possibility after mercy. Judge C Berkley Lilly presided.
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Daily Telegraph
Princeton
West Virginia
Bluefield
Mercy
Southern
C. Berkley Lilly
Raleigh County
West Virginia Supreme Court
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Myra Hedrick
State School Board
Eet — Jeervice
NOAA
Us Dept of Commere
WGA
Mercer Circuit Court
Church
Bluefield Yard
Ote
Lonnie Miller
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