04 Oct 1965
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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1965
Page
1
Moscow reports the Soviet Union launched an unmanned space rocket carrying the automatic Luna 7 station toward the moon. The 1,506 kilogram craft was sent by a multistage rocket and fitted with telemetering and scientific instruments.
Across Saigon and central Vietnam a series of clashes left heavy Viet Cong casualties as U S and allied forces pressed operations. Marines engaged near Da Nang and Qui Nhon faced tough resistance while air and naval strikes targeted Viet Cong concentrations along the coast and inland.
The Mailers Union and publishers reached a two year pact but the AFL-CIO New York Newspaper Guild strike against the New York Times continues into its 19th day. Only two of eight major papers publish as the strike began Sept 16. Details were not disclosed.
Seattle AP report says a top Machinists Union negotiator announced an agreement ending Boeing Co. 19 day strike. The accord was reached after a 15 hour session with federal mediators and would be ratified in membership meetings today by about 25 000 members representing the company workers.
Saigon AP reports two U.S. fighter planes collided during a combat mission in South Viet Nam on Saturday. The crash killed the two pilots and Bernard Rosenberg, an Albany Times Union photographer on assignment for The Associated Press.
Pope Paul VI touched down at Kennedy Airport to call leaders for true lasting peace and to support the United Nations. He addressed a huge crowd, met President Johnson, and planned a 24 mile motorcade through New York amid broad civic and religious welcomes.
The airport closed briefly to allow the Pope to land amid music by St. Camilla's Church band. U.N. chief Pierre de Meulemeester led the papal welcome as Mayor Wagner and officials greeted him on American soil. The Pope spoke in English, smiling, beneath windy, chilly conditions.
In Crawford, Ga a grand dragon of a Georgia racist group twisted the arm of 17 year old Frank Bates and hurled him onto a state patrol car during a racial demonstration. Bates and another protester were arrested and jailed in Taliaferro County as bystanders shouted at police. Calvin Craig of Atlanta warned the governor must act to prevent escalating tensions.
Several hundred General Electric distribution transformer plant employees in Pittsfield were set to walk out at 1 30 this afternoon in a continuing wave of wildcat stoppages begun two weeks earlier by IGE Local 255. The action targets a grievance rejected at the third level, with more than 500 workers possible, and is expected to last one day, offered as a legal stop page without penalties.
The United States and Mexico voiced in principle support for a feasibility study toward building a large nuclear powered water desalting plant for Sonora and Baja in Mexico and Arizona California in the United States. The reactor would desalinate sea water and possibly generate electricity under IAEA sponsorship. The move was announced by Dr. Donald Hornig at the international desalination symposium in Washington.
Gene, a male prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary, underwent a surgical sex change shortly before his release. He now lives as Jean, calling it the culmination of a lifelong search for identity. A Salem doctor performed the operation after discussions with prison officials and medical staff.
A brief forecast notes temperatures will average degrees below normal set at 33. Cool conditions are expected tomorrow and Wednesday, with a gradual warmup on Thursday. Friday turns colder again with showers expected Thursday night and into Friday.
The Pope left the airport in an open limousine with the bubble top removed, traveling through a crowd in Queens toward Manhattan. The 46 degree day saw a calm, orderly reception as Francis Cardinal Spellman rode beside him and 4,000 spectators gathered, including many nuns.
DALTON The Crane Tan on Main Street at Curtis Avenue, a hotel since 1885, will close Nov 28 as demolition crews move in this winter. Wayfarer Inns, under Josiah Merrill since 1964, operated the inn. Winthrop Crane III of Crane & Co. confirmed the building’s tearing down. The site’s first hotel opened in 1889 replacing a boarding house serving travelers tied to the paper industry and was named Irving House by Zenas Crane and W. Murray Crane.
Prisoners at San Quentin watched the film How To Murder Your Wife on Sunday night and a prison paper reviewer called it hilarious to some inmates.
The Most Rev. James J. Navagh, 64, bishop of Paterson New York, died Saturday of a heart attack in Rome while attending the Vatican Ecumenical Council. He had led the Paterson diocese since being appointed bishop in 1960.
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