Chamber Examines Mercer County Jet Airport Idea
The Bluefield Chamber of Commerce will discuss a regional jet airport for Mercer County and surrounding areas at an upcoming meeting. President R R McLaughlin says the group will invite community leaders and chamber representatives to gauge interest and explore possibilities. A meeting will be planned soon, with no date yet set. Previous efforts to launch the project have stalled for various reasons.
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Mercer County
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
R. R. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Fred Langenheim
Mercer
Bluefield
Boggs Blasts Hoover as FBI Thought Control Probe Grows
House Majority Leader Hale Boggs accuses FBI Director J Edgar Hoover of expanding spying and moving toward thought control. He blames an apathetic Congress for allowing the practice to widen unchecked. Police arrest 108 during antiwar veterans demonstration on Supreme Court steps amid Capitol Mall protests despite a court ban.
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Washington
House
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Manson moved to death row after Tate murder verdict
Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader, was quietly placed in a death row cell at San Quentin on Thursday. He remains there until Sunday when he is scheduled to be returned to Los Angeles for trial on charges of murdering two additional people.
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San Quentin
Calif
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
San Quentin Prison
Los Angeles
Mercer Area Meeting Topics and New Landfill Opening
Bluefield and Princeton reports note Mercer's upcoming meeting with local officials to discuss area growth. Mercer County opens a new sanitary landfill with a dedication ceremony this evening and orders open dumps closed countywide. County education officials seek approval to study building a new elementary school at Montcalm.
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Mercer
Mercer Landfill Opens Amid Dump Closures In Mercer County
Mercer County Health Department orders the closing of existing open dumps as the new sanitary Mercer landfill opens at 8 am. A dedication at 7 pm with council, court, and health officials planned. The 150 acre site on Bluefield Princeton Road will be toured by buses.
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Mercer County
Mercer County Health Department
Mercer County Court
Southern West Virginia Regional Health Council
West Virginia
Mercer
Raleigh
Wyoming
Robert Silvagni
Board of Health
State Health Department
State Pollution Control Commission
Bluefield
Princeton
Appalachian Regional Commission
Council
SAM Sites Blasted In North Vietnam And Laos
US fighter bombers hit surface to air missile sites in North Vietnam and targets across Laos and Cambodia as part of Operation Lam Son 720. The air raids, the 27th this year over North Vietnam, aimed to block enemy buildup with limited confirmed results and unclear American involvement.
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Saigon
Indochina
North Vietnam
Lam Son
A Shau
Laos
Upper
Panhandle
Cambodia
Demilitarized Zone
Vietnams
U. S
U.S. Command
Bomb at Amtorg Office Bomb Threat Earlier Call
An explosion rocked Amtorg the Soviet trade agency in New York at 5 37 p m Thursday following a telephoned bomb threat. No injuries were reported and the incident prompted a police response. Authorities investigated the device and surrounding area.
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New York
Amtorg
Drought and Fire Threat Hit Midwest and Southwest Regions
In Dallas AP report Secretary Hardin calls the drought a major agricultural disaster. Florida endures a prolonged dry spell as it spreads to Kansas Missouri and foresters in multiple states fear damage. Wheat plowed under in Texas Oklahoma and South Dakota as rains fail to arrive. Scattered downpours ease San Angelo but ruin remains with cattle water shortages and wind erosion. Hardin visits Texas and Oklahoma. federal aid approved for 39 Texas counties and 20 in Oklahoma, while Gov. Smith seeks disaster declarations for 147 Texas counties.
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Dallas
Tex
U.S
Clifford Hardin
Southwest
Florida
Kansas
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Texas
Ohio
Arizona
New Mexico
Mississippi
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Oklahoma
South Dakota
San Angelo
Noah
Hardin
Preston Smith
Mother of Four Finds Kids Free of Hang-Ups
In a candid remark about her four children, a mother notes the siblings’ laid back approach and lack of hang ups, despite a floor cluttered with clothes in their rooms.
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Mother of Four
Court Order Banning Vets' Camp On Mall Is Cancelled
Washington AP A federal court order barring veterans from camping on the Mall was dissolved after the Justice Department did not enforce it Following clashes with police 108 Vietnam veterans were arrested at the Supreme Court steps as the antiwar protest continued The ruling had barred camping or sleeping on the Mall but was rescinded by Judge George L Hart Jr The camp endured near the Capitol while some leaders emphasized nonviolence and police noted the protest without immediate action The defendants faced minor charges and small bonds were set while veterans planned fundraising efforts to sustain their camp and legal defense
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Washington
Supreme Court
Capitol Mall
Justice Department
U.S. Distr
George L. Hart Jr
Capitol
Supreme
Montcalm school plan advances as urgent county project
Mercer County Board of Education authorized central office staff to draft a Montcalm school plan. The project is deemed the county's most urgent need, with construction cost to be set by study and capital funds consumed over two fiscal years. The board also approved a 94800 maintenance budget for the coming year and denied large-scale bond funding for the moment.
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Princeton
Mercer County Board of Education
Montcalm
Grady Parker
W. R
Pete) Cooke
Harold Tomchin
L. C. Caldwell
Central Junior High School
Bluefield
Howard Harvey
Banks lift prime rate to 5 percent across major lenders
Chase Manhattan Bank led a rise to a 5 percent prime rate, reversing a year long decline. Other New York banks Chemical, Irving Trust, Bankers Trust and Marine Midland followed, with additional joiners in Boston and Chicago amidst a broad uptick in short term rates. Treasury Secretary Connally criticized the move as surprising and unwarranted given loan demand.
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New York
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Chase Manhattan
Chemical
Irving Trust
Bankers Trust
Marine Midland
State Street Bank of Boston
Continental Illinois Bankers Trust of Chicago, and
Exchange National Bank of Chicago
Manson Placed on Death Row in California
Charles Manson, 36, and three of his followers were sentenced to death for the murder of actress Sharon Tate and six others. He was quietly moved to a San Quentin death row cell and will be returned to Los Angeles Sunday for further trials on two additional murder charges. The women were sent to the California Institution for Women in Frontera, Southern California.
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Manson
California Institution For Women
Frontera
California
Soviet Soyuz 10 Orbit Opens Three-Man Space Mission
Tass reports the Soviet Union placed Soyuz 10 into orbit with a three-man crew to perform joint experiments with the Salute station. The mission aims to comprehensively check onboard systems and test manual and automatic control, orientation, and stabilization across flight conditions.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Haiti Ends Duvalier Era As Jean Claude Takes Power
Francois Duvalier dies at 64 ending nearly 14 years of rule in Haiti. His son Jean Claude, 19, is sworn in as president for life with a cabinet mostly close to the Duvalier family. Parliament had lowered the presidential age to 18.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois ‘Papa Doc” Duvalier
Duvalier
Jean Claude
Palace
Andriew Raymond
Claude Raymond
Armed Forces
Luckner Cambronne
Interior
Defense
Police
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Roanoke County
Fry Nation
Midwest
W. W. Coble
Bill Wiman
Boston
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Ramsey Clark
Montcalm School
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