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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1977
Page
7
A batch of obituaries lists Helen Thorpe Barker 68 of Athens and others from Princeton Beckley and nearby areas. It covers survivors, ages, and family ties plus funeral arrangements at Founds Bailey Evans and Dodd Payne homes.
United Press reports Labor Department figures show more than 20 million Americans were unemployed at some point in 1976, with 2.9 million never finding work and 8.6 million jobless longer than 15 weeks. About 104 million held jobs, two decades' second-largest rise, driven largely by women increasing full-time positions to 18.4 million.
West Virginia State Auditor Glen Gainer Jr. pressed to keep his office’s signature on state employee pay, delaying about 750 checks as he contests ISSD control. Finance Commissioner Miles Dean and Harold Casali disputed the move, seeking a settlement urged by Gov. Jay Rockefeller’s office.
Eleven couples were granted divorces this week in Raleigh County Circuit Court. Custody decisions included Ricky Anthony Shrewsbury awarded to his mother Bobbie Lyons Shrewsbury and Sean Carl Short placed with the maternal grandmother while paternal grandparents Carl B. Short and Ruby Short share possession.
A 32 year old Mercer County woman Dorothy Anders of Trumpecker Hill near Princeton died at Princeton Community Hospital at 2 20 a m after apparently shooting herself in the lower chest with a .38 caliber handgun around 12 30 a m Three friends in the Anders home notified police and ambulance personnel Deputy Gerald E Meadows said Mrs Anders was a widow.
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