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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1977
Page
1
The buyer outlines a year of improvements at Snowshoe including 150 lodging units and new ski trails. Plans also call for a golf course a fourth ski lift tennis courts and a new restaurant.
Joseph Quinlan, father of comatose Karen Ann Quinlan, continues to visit her at the hospital in New Jersey on her 23rd birthday while spending spare time at home attempting to fix a clock. The family has kept up regular visits as she has remained unconscious for two years.
The House Budget Committee urged reducing personnel costs cutting military sales slowing defense purchases and delaying unspent approved funds to save 2.3 billion next year. The panel tentatively voted to recommend trimming 2.3 billion from Carter's 1976 defense proposal leaving a 109.6 billion military budget.
Funeral services were held or announced for Gerald C. Spade 50 Kilsyth who died after a long illness in Beckley Hospital. Earl S. Spradley 33 Beckley died on arrival after a short illness. Final rites for Carl Dooley Wheeler 63 Maxwell Hill Road were planned with burial in Blue Ridge Cemetery.
Community leaders oppose Berwind Land Company plans to develop near the New River Gorge area citing risks to the gorge rim and potential federal protection. Critics call for a 1000 foot buffer and moratorium while developers insist on site plans and local benefits.
The Raleigh Register corrects an error from Monday’s edition misidentifying W S Lyne as Beckley Hospital administrator and Kathleen Marnhout as Raleigh General Hospital nursing supervisor. The names were right but the hospitals were reversed.
The report shows 24 hour airport data with high 69 and low 54, today’s 10 am temp 67, winds SW 16 mph, barometer 29.99, trace precipitation this period and 2.27 inches for the month. Extended outlook calls for showers ending Thursday then sun Friday and Saturday with highs upper 50s to low 60s and lows in 30s to 40s. River readings list Greenbrier at normal and clear, Lake Bluestone normal with gates open, Hinton gauge 3.1 feet.
The Raleigh Register lists mail subscription prices as of October 1 1974 daily and Sunday one year $51 plus $1.83 sales tax total $52.53 six months $36 plus $0.78 tax total $36.78 three months $13.50 plus $0.41 tax total $13.91 Mail service only where no carrier exists and sales tax applies to WV addresses but not other states.
Free non operating Beltone hearing aid model offered to readers who respond to the advertisement. No cost or obligation, weight under a third of an ounce, designed to evaluate in home use. Mail to Beltone Electronics Corp Dept. 2877 4201 W Victoria Ave Chicago IL 60646.
Belva Jean Copney of 110 Coponiti St was charged with malicious wounding after a Monday shooting at Robert Copney’s home in Raleigh. Copney remained in serious condition at Raleigh General Hospital, later reported as stable, following the incident. she was arraigned before Magistrate T Herb Wills and released on a $2500 property bond.
Doyle Worrix of UMWA local 6522 says the Jonben mine workers will vote Wednesday on whether to return to work after 35 men walked off last Wednesday protesting the Smith and Stover Mining Co job postings. Worrix notes three unposted positions, one three months old.
No arrests have been made in connection with seven fires Sunday morning in Fayette County. The blazes destroyed a church three barns a blacksmith shop and a house under construction while another barn was set ablaze but saved. Investigators report all fires within a 10 mile radius.
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