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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1981
Page
2
West Virginia counties grapple with rising inmate lawsuits that push jails to meet constitutional standards. Courts require adequate facilities, due process, daily exercise, balanced diets, access to religious programs, and careful inmate segregation, even for pretrial detainees.
Gov. Jay Rockefeller condemned Reagan budget cuts as unfair and warned they would force West Virginia to absorb about 200 million dollars in reductions, about 15 percent of the general revenue, unless federal funds are restored. He rejected large state tax hikes to cover the losses.
Solidarity locals in Poland counter Moscow accusations of anti-Sovietism by charging Soviet interference. Leaders meet in Gdansk to draft an official response as Tass claims Solidarity aims to seize power. Indictments are issued against two Solidarity members for anti-Soviet posters.
Randall Lee Smith, 28, of Pearisburg, was declared competent to stand trial for the May killings of Laura Ramsay and Robert Mountford Jr. by Giles County authorities. A Central State Hospital psychiatric team found him not brain damaged and capable of cooperating with counsel. He is held on a $200,000 bond in the Giles County Jail after being captured in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The Senate voted 99 to 0 to confirm Sandra Day OConnor, ending an all male era. The Arizona judge will be sworn in Friday and join the Supreme Court for the 1981 82 term starting October 5. OConnor praised the broad Senate support as Reagan called the moment historic.
John Wilkes Booth Jr., 83, of Suffolk, a Veterans Administration patient, died Sunday while claiming to be the grandson of Abraham Lincoln's assassin. He contested historians' view that Booth died on a Bowling Green farm and said Booth fathered a son in Shelby County Texas. He also alleged a government conspiracy behind Lincoln's death and sought to help clear two convicted conspirators.
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