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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1963
Page
2
Charleston AP State Police plan highway patrols for the Labor Day weekend with Burchett urging public caution. Historical data show high traffic deaths and alcohol involvement, guiding the force to distribute safety leaflets along major routes and Turnpike entries.
Bluefield Virginia will stay on Daylight Saving Time until West Virginia switches to Eastern Standard Time on September 22. The rest of Virginia, except areas near Bluefield, returns to Eastern Standard Time at midnight Monday September 2.
John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee says the March on Washington unified civil rights groups and marked a turning point while Bayard Rustin presses a leftward master plan. Austin urges labor alliance and civil disobedience to press government reaction. Lewis cites southern voter registration as a major ongoing goal.
Five more miners were found alive in the Moab Utah potash mine bringing total rescued to seven. Water in 300 foot rescue shafts does not deter crews seeking Louis Bova entombed 17 days.
West Virginia House Speaker Julius W. Singleton Jr hinted at gubernatorial ambitions during a State Chamber of Commerce convention. He said he is actively interested and may file for the Democratic nomination next year, with a possible formal announcement at a Morgantown Labor Day event.
In Moab Utah five more miners were rescued after 49 hours trapped by a July explosion in Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. potash mine. Ten others were found dead with all 25 miners accounted for. The final bodies were recovered from a west lateral tunnel as a temporary morgue was set up in a local garage.
Washington AP The railroads moved to form an arbitration board to head off a strike. J E Wolfe of Chicago and Guy W Knight of Philadelphia are named to represent management and labor relations respectively. Unions will appoint two representatives by Friday and then seek three neutral members for a seven member board to decide two key issues in the four year dispute.
The Senate committee voted 16 to 1 to urge Senate ratification without reservations of the treaty banning nuclear tests except underground. Two delay motions failed 1 to 5, and a bid to obtain Washington Moscow correspondence failed 10 to 7. The panel plans to report understandings of the treaty and set a floor vote for September 9, with former President Eisenhower among reservations supporters.
Vincent Lewis of Charleston received a mysterious note postmarked Charleston with $23 for the windshield broken in 1954. He said he would return part if the giver claims honesty and explains the incident.
A helmet from one of the tankers was found in the Atlantic as debris tied to two KC135s vanished during a classified refueling mission. The item, identified by the Air Rescue Service in Orlando, is the first positive clue to the fate of Capt. Gerald Gardner and 10 other crew members from the 19th Bombardment Wing at Homestead AFB.
Lawmen seized 74 slot machines in Fairmont raids dating back 19 years. The machines were smashed with sledge hammers and burned, valued at $59,200, and had accumulated in City Hall as a result of raids on city and county establishments.
In Hazleton Pennsylvania rescuers battling to reach trapped Louis Bova in the Sheppton coal mine encountered a water deposit in a 12 inch shaft and a 6 inch companion shaft. The wet obstacle came as the effort to locate Bova continues with four bore holes and a lowered microphone aiding the mission. Fellin and Throne, injured but recovering in hospital, said drowning remains the greatest hazard to the entombed man.
Hazleton Pa AP rescue leaders criticized David Fellins statement that he and Henry Throne should have been rescued in five days rather than fourteen. Fellin defended himself saying he was not criticizing officials. Leaders questioned his tone and cited the hard work of the rescue operation.
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