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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1963
Page
1
Thousands gather before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for the march for jobs and freedom. President Kennedy commends the peaceful demonstration and pledges continued civil rights action as Martin Luther King Jr delivers a key address.
AP reports the March on Washington drew over 200000 people from across the nation for a one mile march from the Washington Monument. The crowd was orderly with only three arrests. President Kennedy praised the march and pledged antibias action while Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the closing address. Heat exhaustion cases appeared despite 84 degree weather. A Philip Randolph announced many Congress members attended the Lincoln Memorial event. George Lincoln Rockwell appeared early seeking a banned meeting.
West Virginia Centennial Train attracted 7 622 visitors over a three day Bluefield stop. Train master Harold F. Lydick said Bluefield ranked ninth or tenth in attendance among 60 communities visited in three months. The nine car train departed for Portsmouth Ohio, its next to last stop last night.
Congress approved a $5.35 billion civilian space program for the current fiscal year sending the bill to President Kennedy. The measure funds Apollo with $1.147 billion to reach the moon and return by 1970, plus allocations for satellites and geophysics.
Mingo County voters approve a $450,000 three year courthouse and jail levy and a $3,252,000 five year school levy. The courthouse plan secures a $1,245,000 federal grant, with total funding of $1,695,000 from federal and county sources to finance a five story courthouse and jail plus Memorial Building renovations.
Joseph Allen Gullion a 39 year old formerly of Boissevain Virginia and Princeton died Monday night in a Cleveland Ohio hospital from burns received in an apartment house fire in Cleveland The body was sent to Pocahontas Union Funeral Home Pocahontas Virginia funeral arrangements are incomplete
In Hazleton AP exclusive, David Fellin and Henry Throne recall 14 days entombed underground. They describe seeing a blue light door and marble steps, rationing water from a pipe, enduring extreme cold, keeping faith they would escape, and finally being rescued early Tuesday morning.
Congress approved and President Kennedy signed a law mandating arbitration to resolve key railroad labor disputes. Unions called the measure a backward step but pledged cooperation, while railroads welcomed the move as ending the looming strike before midnight.
Seven men trapped 2,712 feet underground in a Utah potash mine were located alive after 27 hours. Rescue teams faced gas, water and machinery trouble as they pulled two to the surface and prepared to reach five more. Three bodies were recovered. The trapped men built bulk heads to block smoke and conserve air, with one survivor led by Donald Hanna and Paul McKinney.
New York AP report says Thomas Trantino surrendered at East 22nd Street station after accomplice Frank Falco died in a Midtown hotel raid. Falco and Trantino were linked to the slayings of two New Jersey officers and a teen in East River cases.
Rescue experts using a supersensitive microphone and loudspeaker failed to reach Louis Bova, 54, trapped 15 days in a Hazleton mine. Officials, including H. B. Chambury and Lt. Gov. Shafer, plan further drilling and may send a man down if Fellin and Throne identify the chamber from photographs.
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