08 Aug 1966
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1966
Page
1
The Associated Press reports Ohio ended a weekend with 31 traffic deaths, matching the prior non holiday peak. One car crashes killed many teens, including a father and two boys in Miami County, two teens in Cincinnati, and multiple youths in the Akron area as weekend tolls surged.
A writ of mandamus to force Logan City Board of Education to reverse its plan to close five elementary schools was dismissed by the Fourth District Court of Appeals. The court assumed good faith by the board and ruled it cannot review discretionary decisions.
U S Representative Robert E Sween ey of Ohio accuses SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael of being an anarchist and a danger to the civil rights cause in a Sunday night speech. Carmichael had defined black power and called Black soldiers in Vietnam mercenaries. Watts to mark anniversary with three day Watts Summer Art and Jazz Festival featuring top R and B acts, parade, and art exhibits.
European Common Market officials and delegates take a month off after sealing the largest nine year package deal. They plan merging agricultural and industrial markets of the six nations by July 1968, creating a main structure for a single market serving 200 million Europeans. Shots fired in Stark County as deputies search for prowlers. gunshots heard after arrival at Greentown home break in.
Athens officials announce talks on redevelopment as plans for city renewal move forward. Weekend scene shifts to Buckeye area with horseback riders and local events noted in the edition.
The U S military command said American pilots faced a near record 24 Soviet missiles over North Vietnam on Sunday. Seven U S planes were shot down, marking the heaviest day of losses in the air war. A spokesman would not specify if ground fire or missiles caused the losses.
The report notes nine missing airmen after heavy ground fire halted rescue efforts in Ia Drang as 150 U S Cavalry troops clash with about 500 North Vietnamese forces. Air Force and Marine pilots logged 406 single plane sorties in South Vietnam with South Vietnamese crews adding 214 strikes amid ongoing operations near Saigon and the Red River corridor.
Washington AP report. Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien urges Democratic congressional candidates to campaign in full support of President Johnson’s Viet Nam policy. He cites polls and interviews indicating Americans favor staying the course and notes two dozen district talks on upcoming races.
Investigators recovered one cockpit recording device in a battered condition after Braniff Flight 250 crashed near Falls City Nebraska killing 42. A second device burned beyond use may hold clues. CAB plans to check for cockpit conversations in the 30 minutes before impact. The BAC One Eleven jet was eight miles northeast of Falls City en route to Omaha. Temperatures near normal for week. rainfall forecast light, with scattered showers.
Washington lawmakers resumed hearings urging labor and management to settle the dispute to avert legislation. Commerce Committee chair Harley Staggers warned a Senate passed bill could order striking mechanics back to work for up to 180 days. He predicted House passage would equal Senate support.
Senator Lausche urges federal laws if states fail to curb strip and surface mining damage. He references an Udall interim report for the Appalachian region outlining goals to prevent environmental devastation and promote mineral industry growth, noting reclamation progress has been insufficient.
Police hunt for Edna Louise Sullivan as two Marlin suspects Roy Green and Kenneth McDuff face murder and rape charges. In a separate case, the Whitman campus shooting victims were identified as Robert Brand and Mark Dunnam, with Brand’s and Dunnam’s families named.
About 1,500 civil rights demonstrators faced a hostile crowd of roughly 200 in an all white Northwest Side neighborhood. Police protected the integrated marchers as rocks, bottles, and firecrackers were aimed at them while officers used force to quell hecklers and detain aggressors.
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