New VC Regime Diplomats Take Seat At Paris Talks
Paris talks proceed with the Viet Cong National Liberation Front seat replaced by the provisional South Vietnamese government led by Nguyen Thi Binh. The change is described as cosmetic and not altering talks, while Pham Dang Lam disputes recognition of the new regime. Ambassador Walsh and negotiator Lam emphasize that negotiations proceed between the parties, with the next session set for next Thursday.
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VC Regime
Paris
United States
Saigon
Provisional Revolutionary
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
North Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Binh
NLF
Tran Buu Kiem
NLF Had Transferred All Its State Functions To the Provisional Government
Midway Island
Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu
Pham Dang Lam
Lam
Walsh
Hanoi
OVIA Urges Swift Study and Funding for Ohio River Dams
The Ohio Valley Improvement Association pressed Congress to accelerate a study on replacing the Gal lipolis Locks Dam with a new site near Apple Grove West Virginia. OVIA asked for about 16 million more for Ohio river navigation and reservoirs and a 17.5 million push for Willow Island Locks and Dam construction. The White House backed 12 million for Willow Island and OVIA supported Nixon budget mentions for Beech Fork Lake East Lynn Lake and R C Bailey Lake. OVIA also endorsed 2.8 million for a flood wall at Athens Ohio.
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Thureday
Apple Grove
W. Va
Ovia
Congress
Willow Island
Ohio
Marietta
White House
Association
Nixon
West Virginia
Beech Fork Lake
East Lynn Lake
R. C. Bailey Lake
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Advertisement Notice
Bluefield Daily Telegraph reprints contact details for advertising rates and office location at 412 Bland Street Bluefield Virginia. The notice lists telephone contact 327 6171 and notes affiliation with the Audit Bureau of Circulation and The Kat Agency.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
Luna
Audit Bureau of Circela
Kat Agency
Ihe
Mind of Young People topic at Kiwanis meet in Bluefield
Bluefield Virginia Kiwanis Club heard George Eating discuss a teenage revolution and three conflicts: values between material and human, freedom versus regimen, and sincerity versus hypocrisy. C B Woolwine was chairman. Third Divisional Inter Club meeting slated for Mountain Lake in Giles County. Harvey Tate Mystery Handshaker and B B Slimp winner. Paul Jackson led invocation.
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George Eating
Bluefield
Kiwanis Club
Eating
C. B. Woolwine
Mountain Lake
Giles County
Harvey Tate
B. B. Slimp
Paul Jackson
Athens To Get Nine New Flags
The town will raise nine American flags on its streets Saturday as a donation by the Athens Woman's Club. Boy Scouts Troop 3, with Scoutmaster Rev Maurice Miller and assistant, will erect the flags and manage future holiday flag-raisings. The effort was coordinated by Community Improvement Chairman Mrs Bart Harvey, with Andrew Fudge the city engineer installing brackets funded by the Athens Lions Club.
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Athens
Athens Woman's Club
Boy Scouts of America
Maurice Miller
Bart Harvey
Harvey
Andrew Fudge
Athens Lions Club
Resurfacing Bids Awarded by SRC in West Virginia counties
The State Road Commission awarded contracts to resurface 47.7 miles of state highways in nine counties at a total cost of 532,959 dollars. Counties named include Cabell Jackson Kanawha Lincoln Mc Dowell Mingo Raleigh Wayne and Wyoming. Bids for over 21 miles in six counties were rejected as excessive and will be readvertised.
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Charleston
State Road Commission
William F. Ritchie, Jr
Cabell
Jackson
Kanawha
Lincoln
McDowell
Mingo
Raleigh
Wayne
Wyoming
Ritchie
Red forces report troop concentrations and rising enemy deaths
The report notes red troops concentrating at bases and staging areas with a nearby strike 25 miles southeast of Saigon. US battle deaths for the week fell by nine to 252 while South Vietnamese and enemy deaths rose, reflecting two days of intensified fighting before the Midway summit. Overall US casualties reached 36 043 since Jan 1 1961 and helicopter losses climbed to 2720 with four more aircraft lost in the latest tally.
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Saigon
U.S
Paris
Apollo Crew Given Go Ahead for Moon Landing Mission
Lt Gen Sam Phillips says Apollo crew will proceed now after a full review of the program status and training. Armstrong will descend to the moon to collect surface samples while Aldrin photographs the event and both men deploy an seismometer package to study moonquakes.
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Sam C. Phillips
Aldrin
Armstrong
Amstrong
NASA
Women in White Set Program Sunday at 3 P.M.
The Women in White of the Church of God in Christ on Reese Street will present a program Sunday at 3 p.m. Miss Mamie Robinson will speak with music by The New Gospel Travelers of Princeton. Evangelist Emma White sponsors. the public is invited.
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Women In White
Church of God In Christ
Reese Street
Mamie Robinson
New Gospel Travelers of
Princeton
Emma White
Thompson Memorial Baptist Church
Willie Jones Smith
Anna Lee Haden
Bluefield
Patricia Hayes
Joycelyn Smith
Elgood
Cecelia Henry
Cheryl Griggs
Washington, D. C
Mary Long
Julia Robinson
Alma Penn
Dorotha Stephens
Columbus
Ohio
Appalachian Culture Tour Opens Three-Week Sessions
The program offers 21 day stays for $378 with meals and lodging. The first three week session starts July 6 and a second in August. Hamrick notes the idea attracted many families, with up to 300 tourists possible this summer as advertised in New Republic and Appalachian Outlook.
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Hamrick
New Republic
Appalachian Outlook
Grizzly Victim Returns Home After Park Attack
Daphne Jax a five year old girl mauled by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park was taken home to St Paul Minnesota Thursday morning for treatment by her family doctor An Air Force evacuation plane from Scott Air Force Base Illinois carried Daphne home Wednesday night Children s Hospital reported she was in good condition The bear attacked her Tuesday night puncture wounds and cuts to the chest A ranger shot and killed the animal about a half hour after the attack at Trailer Village in Fishing Bridge campground
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St.paul, Minn
Daphne Jax
Yellowstone National Park
Air Force
Scott Air Force Base
Ill
Daphne
Children’s Hospital
Trailer Village
Fishing Bridge Campground
Publisher Dunnington Dies After Gun Wound at Home
Robert J. Dunnington 59 publisher of the Sussex Surry Dispatch died from a heart gunshot wound at his Den dron home in Surry County. Police questioned a person of interest. no arrest made. The Wakefield editor was WW II veteran and William and Mary graduate. His wife Bianca, author of Bronzing with Bianca, was hospitalized in fair condition. Funeral set for Saturday in Wakefield with burial in Bowling Green.
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Wakefield
Robert J. Dunnington
Dendron
Surry County
W. C. Andrews
Dunnington
Sussex-Surry Dispatch
State Crime Laboratory
Norfolk
College of William and Mary
Bowling Green
Bianca
Petersburg General Horp
Purviance Funeral Chapel
Lakewood Cemetery
Gen Ryan Named Next Air Force Chief of Staff
President Nixon announced Gen John D. Ryan will become the next Air Force chief of staff. He currently serves as vice chief to Gen John P. McConnell and has led the Strategic Air Command and the Pacific Air Force.
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Washington
John D. Ryan
Strategic Air Command
Pacific Air Force
Air Force
White House
Nixon
Ryan
Pentagon
John P. McConnell
Hill Presents Credentials as U.S. Ambassador to Spain
Robert C. Hill submitted his credentials Thursday to Chief of State General Francisco Franco, becoming the United States ambassador to Spain. The event marks his official start in Madrid and furthers diplomatic ties between the two nations.
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Madrid
Spain
Robert C. Hill
Francisco Franco
U.S
Tax reform push to extend surtax through 1970
The Ways and Means plan, urged by Nixon, would extend the surcharge at 10 percent through December 31 and 5 percent through June 30, 1970. It also offers a one year postponement of auto and telephone excise tax cuts, plus repeal of the investment tax credit for businesses.
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Nixon
Huffman Questions Delegates in UMWA Denver Meet
Luther Huffman a coal miner and vice presidential hopeful within the United Mine Workers of America questions the existence of delegates to the union’s Denver national convention. He mailed 450 letters to delegates finding 36 with unknown or insufficient addresses. Huffman contrasts salaries of UMWA officers District 27 and District 29 noting R J Boyle earns 33 175 and Larkin Philpot 22 386 for leading large districts.
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Luther Huffman
United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
Denver
Huffman
Steve Kochis
Clarksville
R. J. Boyle
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Larkin S. Philpot
West Virginia
Philpot
Fire Destroys Tire Plant in Broadway
Fire destroyed the Rockingham Tire Co plant in Broadway early Thursday with estimated losses of 300000. Fire units from Broadway Timberville and Harrisonburg battled the blaze with no injuries and no other buildings damaged.
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Broadway
Rockingham Tire Co
Timberville
Harrisonburg
Robb Receives Bronze Star for Vietnam Service
Marine Maj. Charles S. Robb, son in law to former President Lyndon B. Johnson, received the Bronze Star from Gen. Leonard Chapman at Marine Corps Headquarters for exemplary and highly professional duty in Vietnam. His wife, Lynda Johnson Robb, attended the ceremony.
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Washington
Maj
Charles S. Robb
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam
Robb
Leonard Chapman
Marine Corps
Lynda Johnson
Body Found Near Slayings Area in Michigan
The body of a 33 year old secretary was found near Grand Rapids about 125 miles northwest of Ann Arbor. Authorities note the area had seen six brutal killings of women in two years. Connections to the Ann Arbor Ypsilanti cases remain unconfirmed as investigators assess the scene.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Donna Wicemary Gehring
Ypsilanti
Ohio Group To Give Musical Program
The Mighty Pilgrims of Cincinnati will present a musical program at the Presbyterian Church on North Mercer Street Sunday at 3 p.m. Sponsored by the Union Gospel Singers a freewill offering will be taken.
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Mighty Pilgrims
Cincinnati
Ohio
Presbyterian Church
North Mercer Street
The
Union Gospel Singers
Syria Recognizes Viet Government
TOKYO AP reports campus disputes in Japan disrupt classes at 92 universities, inconveniencing about 110000 students awaiting reopening as the National Police Agency said Thursday.
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Tokyo
Japan
National Police Agency
WV suspects dynamited multiple sites on US 52
Authorities accuse two West Virginia men of dynamiting a US 52 bridge over the Guyandotte River and a Norfolk & Western trestle, plus blasts near a Justice skating rink and a dirt road. No injuries reported. 100 sticks of dynamite were found under the highway bridge. no major structural damage observed.
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W. Va
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Justice Skating Rink
Cpl
Carl Berkley
West Virginia
Deaths and Funerals In Bluefield and Surrounding Areas
Obituaries report the deaths of John Henry Williamson 81 of Reidsville N C William Henry Boyles 74 of Princeton Walter Hawkins 72 of Bluefield and John Wasco 74 of Bramwell Also multiple funeral arrangements and service details for Collins Smith Gore and others with churches cemeteries and family survivors listed. The notices include calls to viewings at Lugo's Funeral Home and family transfers and burial plans in local cemeteries.
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William Henry Boyles
South Ave
Princeton
James Andrew Rose obituary service in Wytheville
James Andrew Rose 55 of Wytheville Va died Sunday. Funeral at 2 p m Sunday at Mt Pleasant Methodist Church Wytheville with Rev Kenneth Wilson officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Body to be moved from Grubb Funeral Home Wytheville to residence this morning and remain there.
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Virginia Middleton
Dessie E. Maes
Minnie Wright
New Britain
Greenville
Reidsville
Lugo
Ralph
June) McComas
Princeton
C. V
Bonnie) Harrison
Atlanta
Donald
Helen) Hurley
Ashboro
N. C
Eugene
Dixie Jo) Acree
Grayville
Ruby Boyles
Pulaski
Richard Boyles
Anthony Simmons
Marlington
George W. Seaver
Mont Carr
Phillips Cemetery
Lerena
John Wasco
Bramwell
Bluefield
Bramwell Presbyterian Church
Grace Rigney Wasco
Charles H. Lamb
Roanoke
Annie Tabor
Junction City
Ore
Jacob Wasco
Bellair
Ohio
Jerry Conner
Elmer C. Farmer
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Fred Ballard Smith
Elgood
Thompson Memorial Baptist Church
J. L. Lawrence
Thompson Cemetery
Rose
James Andrew
Wytheville
Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church
Kenneth Wilson
Richlands
Grubb Funeral Home
Legion Officers Are Elected for 1969 70 Term
At the American Legion Riley West Post No. 9 meeting in the club room officers for the 1969-70 term were elected. Kent Sykes was named commander with Jack Munsey as first vice commander and I W Red Robinette as second vice commander. Other officers include M M Woodyard adjutant and finance officer Richard Rice service officer Dr C H Patterson chaplain Harvey Gibson sgt at arms T Courtney Tanner historian Col Robert Hensley judge advocate and Patsy Malamudra executive committee man at large. A buffet dinner for the Post and Ladies Auxiliary preceded the meeting.
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American Legion
Riley West Post No. 9
Kent Sykes
Jack Munsey
I. W
Red) Robinette
M. M. Woodyard
Richard Rice
C. H. Patterson
Harvey Gibson
Atarms
T. Courtney Tanner
Robert Hensley
Patsy Malamisura
Post and Ladies Auxiliary
Hechler Praises Lewis While Criticizing UMWA Leadership
Rep. Ken Hechler lauded labor leader John L. Lewis for raising coal miners’ wages but criticized the United Mine Workers of America under current leaders. Hechler cited Lewis’s legacy and accused successors of frittering away influence, saying miners are now treated like serfs in the feudal coal industry. Lewis died Wednesday night in Washington at 89.
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Washington
Ken Hechler
D-W. Va
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Hechler
Lewis
Syria Recognizes Viet Cong Provisional Govt
Syria extended diplomatic recognition to the Viet Cong provisional revolutionary government of South Vietnam on Thursday, signaling a major shift in regional ties and complicating Cold War alignments in the Middle East.
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Damascus
Syria
Viet Cong
South
Vietnam
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Ivanhoe
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High Point
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School Street
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Jaeger
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Mohawk
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Ray Blankenship
Pete
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Cleveland
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Slaeger
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Meredith Collins
Chicago, Ill
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Chicago
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Ind
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Lida Brooks Gore
High St
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Frances Davis
Frank Rhinehardt
Clearwater
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Sidney F. Lively
Creamery
E. M. Meadows Funeral Home
Hinton
Ballingee
James Ransom Cunningham
Elkridge
Veterans Administration
Allen Park
L. H. Cunningham
Sinkford - Richardson Funeral Home
Keystone
Lester Struell
Jenkin Jones
Sinkford-Richardson Funeral Home
Roscoe Whitt
Raysal
Pauline Thomas
Mercer Street
Walter P. Hawkins
Legion
SU Enitil Ata
American Dairy Association
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