Housing plan gains support despite looming referendum
Four Public Housing Authority members urged backing for Bluefield’s public housing program at a Thursday meeting. Representatives from the Bluefield Ministerial Association and Chamber of Commerce joined in defense, while City Manager Howard Leist said the city board now supports cooperation, signaling renewed momentum despite a potential abolition referendum.
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Public Housing Authority
Bluefield Ministerial Association
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Howard Leist
Philadelphia
Woman 80 Dead in McDowell County Crash Near War
An 80 year old Newhall resident, Mrs Fannie Withrow Shrader, died when her car, driven by Ivory Davidson of Squire, collided with a northbound vehicle driven by Jerry Brewster of Newhall on State Route 16 seven miles south of War. Davidson was treated for shock. Brewster unharmed. The death marks McDowell County's second highway fatality this year. Shrader died at Welch Emergency Hospital. services pending.
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Newhall
McDowell County
J. L. Dotson
Fannie Withrow Shrader
Ivory Davidson
Squire
Dotson
Davidson
State Rt. 16
War
Jerry Ellis Brewster
Brewster
Welch
Bishop
Shrader
Welch Emergency
Condon Appeals to Soviets for UFO Study Cooperation
Dr. Edward Condon, head of an Air Force funded UFO investigation, has appealed to Soviet scientists via the National Academy of Sciences to cooperate on flying saucer research. He notes no reply yet and says the study aims to determine if UFOs are natural phenomena or spacecraft.
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Washington
Edward A. Condon
Soviet Union
Condon
National Academy of Sciences
Soviet Academy
Denver
University of Denver
U.S. National Bureau of Standards
Air Force
Moscow
Snow Dazzles Gulf States with Narrow Snow Band
A narrow band of snow crossed southern Georgia Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi delighting youngsters and puzzling forecasters. Snow extended into northern Florida with hail up to an inch and accumulations forecast up to four inches in parts of the Gulf states.
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Gulf States
Associated Press
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Florida
St. Petersburg
Highland City
Lakeland
Mulberry
Tampa
LaGrange
Atlanta
Fla
South Caroa North Carolina
Virgin
Laurence Olivier Undergoes Emergency Surgery
Sir Laurence Olivier, 60, flown from Edinburgh to London for an emergency appendectomy at St Thomas's Hospital. A spokesman said the operation was successful and that further exams found no trace of the actor's prior prostate cancer.
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London
Laurence Olivier
Edinburgh
St. Thomas's Hospital
Olivier
Kenneth Shuttleworth
West Virginians Face April Draft Call Highest Since Korea
Charleston AP reports Selective Service says 576 West Virginians will be drafted in April the largest monthly call since the Korean War.
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Charleston
Selective Service System
West
Marine Corps Inductions Ordered as Draft Calls Surge
The Defense Department boosted draft calls toward the Vietnam War peak and ordered Marine Corps inductions for the first time in two years. JCS proposed about 50,000 National Guardsmen and Reservists to rebuild U.S. forces. April draft quota reached 48,000, near the 1966 Vietnam peak, with Marines to induct 4,000.
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Wheeler
JCS
Vietnam
U.S
Pentagon
Defense Department
Florida teachers strike drags as university students rally at Capitol
About 1 000 students and faculty from Florida State University and Florida A M joined a Capitol march in support of teachers amid the Orlando walkout. Gov. Claude Kirk faced pressure as private talks began in Tallahassee to end the stoppage impacting roughly half a million students.
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Fla
Florida
State Capitol
Florida State University
Florida A and M
FSU
Capitol
Kirk
Claude Kirk
Wade Hopping
Brevard County
Melbourne
Florida Education Association
George Dabb
Floyd Christian
FEA
Dade
Miami
Hillsborough
Tampa
Escambia
Duval
Palm Beach
Pinellas St
Florida State
Florida A&m
Capitol Steps
Red Bastion In Hue Falls Ends Viet Cong Hold
Viet Cong flag at Hue's Citadel torn down as government troops and U S Marines drive to mop up about 350 enemy fighters. From Tan Son Nhut to Khe Sanh, rockets and mortars kill and wound Americans as Allied forces press through Hue amid heavy bombardment and a running battle along the northern frontier.
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Saigon
Hue
Imperial Palace
U.S
Tan Son Nhut
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
Kae Sanh
East Wall
Vietnam Press
South Wall
U S Seeks Swiss Help On Plane Hijacker's Cuban Status
The United States asks the Swiss Embassy in Cuba to determine if Lawrence Rhodes Jr. received political asylum there after hijacking a Delta jet from Tampa to West Palm Beach and forcing the pilot to Cuba. Rhodes faces federal air piracy and kidnapping charges and a West Virginia fugitive warrant for a $12 000 coal company robbery.
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U.S
Red
Cuba
Miami
Fla
United States
Lawrence Mahlon Rhodes Jr
State Department
Fidel Castro
Rhodes
West Virgnia
Welch
W. Va
Delta Air Lines
Tampa
West Palm Beach
West Virginia
Amherst Coal Co
Lundale
Jaeger Recalls Rhodes Jr In Plane Hijack Case
Lawrence Rhodes Jr. is charged by the FBI with hijacking a Delta Airliner and forcing a Cuba-bound flight for political asylum. His father Lawrence Sr. from Jaeger says he wants to forget the whole affair and doubts his son's involvement. The town recalls Rhodes with a cowboy image and scattered memories of his youth.
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Rob Dalton
Jaeger
McDowell County
Lawrence Mahlon Rhodes Jr
Rhodes
Delta
Cuba
Lawrence M
Rhodes Sr
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Young Rhodes
Welch
Lawrence Rhodes Sr
FBI
Daily Telegraph
Lawrence M. Rhodes Jr
Cleve Helton
Helton
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