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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1965
Page
4
In Da Nang area, U S Marines firepower obliterated a Viet Cong battalion nine miles southwest of Chu Lai. Resulting in 80 enemy dead and 6 wounded, the heaviest Marine toll of the war so far. Two Marine helicopters collided off Chu Lai, with eight crewmen feared dead.
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Families of astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White attended services despite thunderstorms to pray for a safe Earth return. Patricia McDivitt visited Mission Control and heard her husband speak to ground crews, while both families joined Mass and prayers at local churches.
A twin engine Navy amphibian plane with five crewmen and nine passengers was towed back to the Norfolk Naval Air Station after an emergency Atlantic Ocean landing about 100 miles east of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. No injuries were reported. The Hoist salvaged the plane to Ft. Wool, then a Coast Guard tug towed it to the seaplane hangar at Norfolk.
Pravda reports about 25 percent of the Soviet Union's annual glass production breaks in shipments, costing 33 million dollars. The paper notes breakage rising to 40 percent in large consignments and says windows in new buildings are replaced two or three times due to slipshod workers.
Midshipman Douglas J. Katz of Bluefield West Virginia will graduate from the U S Naval Academy on June 9 with a bachelor of science degree and be commissioned Ensign in the Navy. He played varsity football lacrosse and intramural basketball at Annapolis and will report to Mayport Florida aboard the destroyer USS Perry after leave.
London AP reports Metropolitan Athengoras of Thydenella told a Westminster Abbey audience that some British church leaders spread doubt among believers. He warned against a “religionless Christianity” and implied but did not name figures like Dr. John Robinson, bishop of Woolwich, criticizing views on the Deity as outmoded.
An 18 year old girl in Minden, Germany admitted to police that she set fire to her family's house and barn. She said she grew tired of the hard work and keeping the 120 year old buildings clean after her father refused to modernize.
In Baton Rouge a 35 year old engineer awaiting murder charges after beating his wife to death. The man stood 125 feet above ground on a bridge approach as a Catholic priest and police negotiator spoke with him for hours until he surrendered.
Gov Hulett Smith and 34 state department officials will attend a Government-to-the-People program in Martinsburg. The event opens to residents of 11 Eastern Panhandle counties with hours 1 30 p m to 7 p m at the Air National Guard hangar.
David C. Poteet of Bluefield is a candidate for the master of arts degree at the University of Richmond commencement tonight. He earned a bachelor of science at Washington and Lee University before enrolling in the university's graduate school.
Thornton W. Burgess who saved Peter Rabbit from Reddy Fox in Old Briar Patch stories died at 91. He wrote 15 000 short stories for syndication 100 books and many magazine pieces. His latest collection The Burgess Book of Nature Lore appeared last month by Little Brown & Co.
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