Revised UK Plans Win On 32 Votes
Bluefield Board of Directors approved a $586,784 amended Urban Renewal plan for the $3 million Bluefield Avenue Project on a 3-to-2 vote. Controversy centered on a low rent public housing component at Pears Third Street, with critics warning it could harm property values. The board also authorized Mayor Warden to enter a final cooperative agreement with the Urban Renewal Authority to accept the grant and start the project.
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Woodrow Wilson
Angelo Monaco
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Princeton Avenue
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Warden
Mayor Warden
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West End
Public Housing Authority
George McCulloch
McCulloch
Henry Warden
Board of Directors
Goforth
School Sidewalk Program Planned
A large scale sidewalk project near four Bluefield schools is planned for spring and summer this year. City Manager Randolph Gwahitue said the major project will be funded by property assessments and based on local topography, with a public hearing set for March 30 after a survey by the city engineer, manager and Police Department.
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Fairview School
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Shenandoah Avenue
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Cumberland Road
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Orchard Avenue
Maryland Avenue
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Lebanon
College Avenue
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Augusta
Walton Avenue
Whittle
Detective Bureau stenographer recalls a thousand confessions
Sadye Serody marks 40 years with the Philadelphia Detective Bureau as the homicide unit stenographer. She has written down confessions from more than a thousand killers and remains unfazed by the grim work despite questions about nightmares or faith in humanity.
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Philadelphia
Sadye Serody
Miss Serody
Anderson Seeks Viet Nam Talks With China
Sen Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico urged negotiations to end the Viet Nam war saying the United States has made every effort to discuss the conflict with Red China. He spoke Monday night at the University of New Mexico and argued it is best to stop the fighting despite potential loss of face.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Clinton P. Anderson
United States
Anderson
University of New Mexico
Turkish caretaker government taps Suat Urguplu as premier
Suat Hayri Urguplu, described as politically neutral and moderate, was named premier in Ankara to head a caretaker government until general elections in October. He will oversee a transitional administration and uphold stability ahead of the vote.
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Turkey
Suat Hayri Urguplu
Missing mother of eye surgery infant in Richmond case
A two month old girl who had glaucoma surgery is ready for discharge but her mother, described as a tall pretty woman about 35 with a possible foreign accent, has vanished. The child was brought in as Kim Carson by a Mrs Carson who paid 30 dollars and promised to return. Police believe the baby may have been born in Miami and was examined there about a month earlier. The infant will go to a foster home while authorities search for the mother.
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Kim Carson
Carson
Richmond
Miami
Kim
Paul Pysell
Norfolk
Mapson
Charlottesville
Mrs. Posell
New Regime Takes Office In Viet Nam
In Saigon a new government and a 20 member Legislative Advisory Council assumed duties with Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh's command. Dr. Phan Huy Quat became premier and urged unity to support the U S backed war. Tran Van Kien became finance minister amid shifting cabinet lines.
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Phan Huy Quat
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Tran van Huong
Quat
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Hanoi
Tran Quant Thuan
Thuan
Gia Long Palace
Finance
Tran van Kien
Bui Ton Huan
Huan
High National Council
Bomb damages Swiss Guard door at Vatican
A blast score early Wednesday damaged a heavy wooden door of the Swiss Guard at the Vatican City. No injuries were reported and no motive given amid Rome protests over the German authorized play The Deputy. The Rome Prefecture cited the 1929 Lateran Concordat to shield the papacy from public offense.
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Italy
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Stanford Dean Resigns Over Eroticism Furor
Stanford University Dean of Women Lucile Allen resigned after student leaders accused English teachers of using erotic literature to seduce freshmen. A faculty committee found no sexual misconduct and President Sterling announced the findings while Allen stressed her denial and regret over the misunderstanding with the English Department.
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Calif
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Lucile Allen
Sterling
Nora Crow
Darrell Halverson
Space Bird Pegasus Soars From Cape Kennedy in Space Test
A Saturn 1 launches Pegasus a large satellite to study meteoroid sandblast effects on manned craft. Pegasus, named for a mythic horse, spans 96 feet with wing panels in orbit and is a major step toward lunar missions. Ranger 8 also targets the Moon with an Atlas Agena launch.
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Slaying Case Tied to Escaped Convict Mapson
Samuel Eugene Mapson Jr., 22, escaped from a road detail last Thursday and is charged with the killing of Lauraine Pysell, 19, in Charlottesville. Mapson was arrested early Tuesday in Norfolk after hiding in his wife’s attic, and police have tied his clothes and prison garb to the investigation.
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Charlottesville
Samuel Eugene Mapson Jr
Norfolk
Allan N. Spitzer
Charles R. Haugh
Mapson
Profit
Laraine Pysell
Soviet Air Chief Expelled by France
Sergei Pavlov, representative in Paris for Aeroflot, was expelled from France on Tuesday. French authorities gave no reason for the expulsion.
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Paris
Sergei Pavlov
Aeroflot
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Swedish sextuplets dead at birth in Stockholm report
A Stockholm newspaper reported that a Swedish woman gave premature birth to six babies, all six infants dying at birth. The AP noted the sextuplets were born in Stockholm and did not survive.
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Stockholm
Bluefield Seeks Modern Johnny House Designs
The City of Bluefield closes its Johnny House contest with over 50 submissions of drawings and oral suggestions for modern facilities at City Park. City Manager Randolph G. Whittle says entries range from church-like structures to Noahs Ark and a river boat, with a plaque bearing the winner to be placed on the building.
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City Park
Randolph G. Whittle
Separation Of Siamese Twins Appears Successful
In Houston Texas AP report surgeons separated Siamese girls Karen Marie and Kimberly Marie born December 8 in Bay City. The operation lasting 8 hours involved liver separation a three inch bridge removal and pericardium breastbone work with a synthetic mesh and possible future plastic and abdominal repairs. Drs Luke Able Franklin Harberg Benjy Brooks and Frank Ise led the team with Dr Denton A Cooley as consultant.
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Nichols
Texas Children’s Hospital
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John Webber
Bay City
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Luke Able
Franklin J. Harberg
Benjy Frances Brooks
Frank H. Ise
Three Arrests in Plot to Bomb Liberty Statues
New York police halted a deliberate scheme by three American Negroes and a Canadian blonde linked to the Black Liberation Front. The group planned to strike the Statue of Liberty Washington Monument and Philadelphia Liberty Bell with 22 dynamite sticks timed around Washington's Birthday. Undercover officer Raymond Wood infiltrated the group after a United Nations party, and the suspects include Robert S. Collier Walter A. Bowe and Khaleel S. Sayyed.
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Philadelphia
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Brooklyn
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Montreal
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Black Liberation Front
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