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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1964
Page
7
Antonio Segni, aged 73, resigns as president after a brain stroke left him partly unable to speak. Senate President Cesare Merzagora orders a joint session of Parliament for December 16 to elect a successor for a seven year term, risking coalition tensions under Premier Aldo Moro.
The Coast Guard continued a search for two Navy aviators from Oceana based F4B Phantom II. Lt. Robert L. Carter, 25, pilot, of Antioch California, and Lt. J. G. James L. McDonald, 27, radio interceptor officer, are missing after the jet vanished about 35 miles east of Virginia Beach during a routine intercept training flight. No distress signals were observed amid overcast conditions gradually improving.
Acapulco on the Pacific coast is popular with affluent Mexicans for Christmas and Easter. Some who cannot afford the trip disconnect their telephones to hint they are away.
Three highway deaths over the weekend raised West Virginia's 1964 traffic toll to 429, from 399 a year earlier. All three fatalities followed Friday night mishaps. Dwight Russell Behner, 22, of Wheeling and Harry L. Phillips, 20, of Pound, Va., sailors on leave from Little Creek Navy base, died in a one car crash on the West Virginia Turnpike near Beckley. Roy Adkins, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Adkins of Lavelette, Wayne County, died from injuries in a single car crash near Huntington.
The article notes Rep John J Flynt Jr a Democrat from Georgia is on a Far East junket visiting Japan Korea Formosa Hong Kong and Manila returning by Christmas Dec 22 with expected presents. It also mentions Rep George Mahon Texas new House Appropriations chair barring foreign junkets for lame duck members but not for those reelected.
The historic Spanish name Cape Canaveral survives on maps while the sandspit townsite is Cape Kennedy. Residents' wish keeps the original name visible in local references and signage.
FBI Associate Director Claude Tolson denounces Newsweek for its December seven piece on J Edgar Hoover and the FBI. He cites inaccuracies on statistics and claims about five agents loaned to Rep John Rooney and notes of condolence to Robert Kennedy.
Patrick Muldrew Jr. of Tiltonsville Ohio faces trial in Wheeling for being an accessory to the robbery slaying of Elm Grove supermarket manager Robert R. Nelson. A prior conviction was overturned after a federal judge ruled the first indictment faulty.
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