Mao dies triggers leadership crisis in China
Mao Tse-tung's death leaves China facing an uncertain political future as the Central Committee calls for unity. Hua Kuo-feng emerges as a compromise candidate amid power jockeying between radicals led by Chiang Ching and moderates allied with Teng Hsiao-ping and Chou En-lai followers.
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Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
China
Mao
Central Committee
Communist Party
People’s Republic of China
Hua Kuo-feng
Chiang Ching
Chou En-lai
Teng Hsiao-ping
Peking People’s Daily
Hsinhua
Opening Day Of City Coal Show Crowds Exhibit Filled Armory
The 1976 Bluefield Coal Show opened at Brush Fork Armory with a ribbon cutting by local officials including Charles A. Peters and Nick Amell. Officials praised volunteers who organized the event, calling Bluefield’s return to the show a major community effort. The crowd filled the armory and overflow parking was used with shuttle service to the venue.
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Bluefield
Jimmy Jones
Charles Peters
Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Nick Amell
Chamber
Robert Hamilton
Edwin Elliot
Brushfork Armory
Coal Show
Charles A. Peters
Greater
Ameli
Peters
Elliott
Armory
Skegway Drive-In
Falvo Declines Rehire After McDowell County Scuffle
Albert Falvo the McDowell County assessor said he will not rehire an office employee after a scuffle with County Commissioner Ronnie McKenzie at a special McDowell County Commission meeting. The dispute followed the resignation of Karen Allen from the assessor's office and involved exchanged blows until officials intervened. witnesses described punches traded and the confrontation over Allen’s employment status, with Sheriff Archie Day and Circuit Judge Jack Marinari attempting to calm the scene.
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Pat Cecil
Albert Falvo
McDowell County
Daily Telegraph
Ronnie McKenzie
McDowell County Commission
Karen Allen
McDowell County Assessor
McKenzie
Falvo
Commission
Allen
Welch City
County Commission
Stewart Street
Karen
Cecil Moore
Archie Day
Jack Marinari
Conferees Approve Broad Tax Relief Measure
Washington AP conferees approved a wide tax relief bill extending individual and business cuts through 1977 while raising taxes on wealthy investors. The plan would save a typical four person family about 180 dollars yearly and overhaul gift and estate taxes, with extra benefits for working parents and the elderly.
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Washington
Senate House
House
Senate
Treasury
Temporary hookup proposed to ease Claypool Hill water woes
Tazewell County officials will ask Richlands Town Council for permission to tap into Richlands water and sewer lines as a temporary fix for Claypool Hill shortages. The plan includes extending Richlands lines and a package sewer plant at an estimated 400000 dollars, with full Little River project costing 3.4 to 4 million and federal aid of 2.34 million.
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Jim Gilbeath
Tazewell County
Richlands
Claypool Hill
W. J. Hawkins
Doug Taylor
Hankins
Raven- Doran
Little River
Economic Development Administration
Farmers Home Administration
Hawkins
Lambert takes Tazewell water engineer post
W N Pick Lambert, former Bluefield town engineer, has been hired as an engineer with the Tazewell County Water and Sewer Authority. County administrator W J Hawkins confirms the move, noting Lambert will work on water and sewage projects. salary not disclosed.
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Bluefield
W. N. (Pick) Lambert
Tazewell County
Lambert
Max E. Bowen
Bowen
Hospital support leaders named in campaign photo
From left, hospital supporters and medical leaders are Dr Karl Weier, Ned Shott campaign general chairman, Dr Lyle Gage Jr chairman medical section, John Wilkinson chairman another division. Standing, left to right, Dr John Bryan and Dr Wallace Duncan, other leaders.
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Karl Weier
Ned Shott
Hospital
Lyle Gage, Jr
John Wilkinson
John Bryan
Wallace Duncan
Hospital Fund Campaign Gains Support From Leading Doctors
Dr. Lyle Gage presided at a dawn breakfast at the Holiday Inn as Bluefield medical leaders including doctors dentists and nurses joined the building fund drive. Ned Shott, general chairman, urged a $1 500 000 goal to secure an 18 million non profit hospital for the area and challenged clinicians to set the pace for the community.
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Hospital Fund
H. Edward Steele
Bluefield Community Hospital
Holiday Inn
Lyle Gage
Bluefield Sanitarium
Bluefield
Ned Shott
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Soviet Union
Kremlin
Peking
Tien An Men
Lenin
Stalin
People’s Daily
Hua
Jim Gilreath
Council
Tazewell Water
Bluefield, Va
Michael Krupey
Victor Baker
Jack C. Thomas
Briscoe Carlan
J. L. Rodgin
Optometrists
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