West Virginia Approves Death Penalty Abolition and Teacher Pay Rise
West Virginia legislature passes a package to abolish the death penalty and launch a three year 32 million dollar teacher pay program. The plan increases base salaries, adds experience steps and new classifications, and extends the school year to 10 months.
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Phares E. Reed
West Virginia
Harry R. Pauley
D-Mcdowell
House Education Committee
Pauley
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Jesse S. Barker
D-Kanawha
Robert K. Holliday
D-Fayette
Barker
New Hampshire
March Plans Fizzle in Bluefield Racial March Off
The planned Bluefield racial march on the YM YWCA was postponed after NAACP youth leader John Nettles said assurances from sources indicated Y facilities would soon be integrated. City officials denied making any promise, while YMCA directors refrained from promising integration and urged caution amid ongoing negotiations.
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Bluefield
John Nettles
NAACP
Ym-Ywca
Nettles
Whittle
Ber
Ymca Board of Directors
College Avenue
Bluefield State College
Concord College
Y Board of Trustees
A. A. Modena
L. B. Allen
Mark Roseman
Naacp Youth Division
New York
Modena
Dr. Allen
Look
W. Malcolm Fuller
Bluefield Human Relations Commission
Fuller
Allen
Viet Cong band smashed near base amid retaliatory strikes
Viet Cong guerrillas dug in near the North Viet Nam border base were bombed by Vietnamese planes and overrun by a ranger unit. Five killed and 10 captured in the clash as U S Saigon officials cite several retaliatory actions following the Pleiku attack.
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North
Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Red
da Nang
Bien Hoa
Pleiku
Washington
U.S. Ambasaador
Maxwell D. Taylor
Nha Trang
South China Sea
Qui Nhon
U.S
Taylor
William C. Westmoreland
Viet Nam
Ralph Broughman Returns Home After Viet Nam Death
Ralph Wayne Broughman, a specialist fourth class in the Army, was killed in Viet Nam after serving a Navy hitch and working as a Richmond firefighter. His body will be met by a Veterans of Foreign Wars honor guard, with funeral services at Trinity Baptist Church in Covington and burial at Alleghany Memorial Cemetery.
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Covington
Ralph Wayne Broughman
Virginia
Broughman
Viet Nam
Trinity Baptist Church
Alleghany Memorial Cemetery
Robert Broughman
Mallow
Here
South
Carburetor Blamed On Airplane Crash
The Civil Aeronautics Board blamed a carburetor malfunction for a private plane crash at Bluefield West Virginia on Aug 9. The pilot Roy Ball 51 of Anawalt and passenger Bill Warner of Welch were killed when the carburetor failed cutting fuel to the engine during takeoff.
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Washington
Bluefield
W.va
Civil Aeronautics Board
Bluefields
Roy Ball
Anawalt
Bill Warner
Welch
Longshoremen Agree To End Most Port Strikes
In a Friday agreement the AFL CIO International Longshoremen's Association ordered workers to end the 33 day dock strike in major East Coast and Gulf ports. The move allows ships to resume in Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore and New Orleans while talks continue elsewhere.
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Washington
East Coast
Gulf
Johnson
Atlantic
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Orleans
Thomas W. Gleason
Afl-Cio International Longshoremen’s Association
South Carolina
Florida
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Western Gulf
Ralph A. Massey
ILA
South Atlantic and Gulf Coast
W. Willard Wirtz
Massey
Wirtz
John Toun
Wayne
Final Bridge Planning Set for Mercer Street Bridge Bid
Bluefield city officials and Norfolk and Western Railway engineers meet in Roanoke to finalize plans for the $200000 Mercer Street Bridge project. They aim to solicit bids March 16 with construction to begin mid April and complete within the year. The 50 50 funding split includes 105000 from a recent bond issue.
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Mercer Street
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western Railway
Roanoke
Randolph G. Whittle
Norfolk and Western
Whittle
Bluefield Avenue
Princeton Avenue
Dusley
Kentucky Boy Killed In Mingo Accident
A Kentucky teen, Cecil Blevins Jr., about 17, of Bent Branch, was killed when a truck rolled out of control on a mountain road near Nolan, West Virginia. The driver Howard Harrison said Blevins jumped as the vehicle began to slip, and he was crushed under the rear wheels.
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Williamson
Kentucky
Here
Cecil Blevins Jr
Bent Branch
Hatfield
Blevins
Nolan
W. Va
Howard Harrison
Kosygin Calls for Unity Among Socialist Nations
Premier Kosygin urged imperialist provocations to unite Asian socialist powers in a single front. He spoke in Pyongyang after talks with Chinese leaders in Peking, noting Khrushchev’s ouster opened room for unity but reports from Beijing suggested China offered no reciprocal push for closer ties.
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Moscow
Alexei N. Kosygin
Viet Nam
Soviet Union
Red China
Pyongyang
Tass
Mao Tze-tung
Chou En-lai
Peking
Kosygin
Nikita Khrushchev
Socialist Commonwealth
Communist Bloc
China
North Viet Nam
North Korea
People’s Republic of China
Korean Democratic People’s Republic
Indochina
Khrushchev
Communist Movement
Washington Woman Hurt and Suspect Arrested
A 21 year old woman was injured in her home near 15th and P Streets NW. Odell Jackson, 18, of 13th Street NW, was charged with the reported incident and housebreaking and admitted to three other incidents. The woman is white and Jackson is Black.
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Washington
15Th
P Streets
Odell Jackson
13Th Street
Jackson
Rifle Accident Kills Area Man
Roy Shortridge a 39 year old Tazewell County man was killed when a high powered Remington 30-06 rifle he was cleaning discharged at his home on Pounding Mill Branch. He fell beside a bed after the chest wound. Shortridge a miner and father of three left surviving wife Velva McGlothlin Shortridge three children six sisters and three brothers. Funeral services are set for Sunday at Drill Chapel Church with burial in Fletcher's Ridge family cemetery.
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Tazewell County, Va
Roy Shortridge
Rt. 1
Pounding Mill
Shortridge
Mill Branch
Tazewell County Sheriff's Department
Velva McGlothlin Shortridge
Noah Shortrdge
Keen Mountai
Marie
Mae
Roger Shortridge
Virgie Shortridge
Keen Mountain
Julia Shortridge
San Francisco
Calif
Margaret Childress
Mouth Card
Mary Noe
Mavisdale
Honaker Funeral Home
Fog delays recovery of Eastern Air Lines crash
Thick Atlantic fog hampered search efforts for the Eastern Air Lines DC7B that crashed off Jones Beach after departing Kennedy Airport. Coast Guard officials said most wreckage was located on the ocean bottom, with salvage vessels awaiting better weather to raise the fuselage.
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New York
Eastern Air Lines
Coast Guard
James Durfee
Jones Beach
Long Island
Kennedy Airport
Boston
Atlanta
West Virginia to See Near Normal Weather Through Wednesday
After two weeks of warmth the U S Weather Bureau predicts West Virginia will experience near normal conditions through Wednesday. This outlook suggests milder days with cooler nights and no major storms on the horizon.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
West Virginia
Riots engulf Indian south as language policy sparks chaos
Massive clashes across Tamil speaking Madras State erupt into deadly violence as mobs of up to ten thousand clash with police and troops. Rioters loot trains and burn government buildings while Prime Minister Shastri seeks guidance after at least sixteen dead in one Madras skirmish.
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New Delhi
India
Shastri
Madras
Ras
Kerala
Mysore
Andhra
Bengal
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Hulett Smith
Del
Donald E. Smith
Dcabell
Huntington
Smith
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Robert F. Ronca
Norristown
Ralph Broughman
Spec
Abby Teeee
Princeton Classified Society
R. W. Imrie
United California Bank
Los Angeles
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
Criticim
Indian Subcontinent
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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