Danube Flood Kills and Displaces Hundreds Across Europe
Danube flood rages through Austria Czechoslovakia Hungary Yugoslavia and West Germany killing at least 10 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. The crest reaches 28 to 30 feet in places as dams burst and towns evacuate.
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Romania
Bulgaria
Soviet Union
Black Sea
Pentagon to create standby UN relief brigade of 1000
Six Republican House members proposed a permanent force of about 1000 military technicians for UN peacekeeping. The volunteers would cover communications construction medical care and supply duties with training and inoculations. A First Brigade for International Relief on Standby would have its own insignia and HQ.
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Washington
U.S
United Nations
Republican House
Armed Services
United States
Classifieds and Notices from Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Fragmentary OCR shows newspaper list items and subscription details. Mentions Associated Press service and carrier rates. Lacks cohesive event or person to identify a specific news item.
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Peanet
Bland Dues
New
Associated Press
West
Virgin
Msnwice Audit Bureau
Injured Bluefield Girls Improve in Train Accident
Three children from Bluefield and Bluefield Virginia remained about the same in serious condition at Bluefield Sanitarium on Wednesday night after a train pedestrian crash Monday. Vicki Stout six Ra Mona Misak five Susan Rodgin eight suffered head leg injuries while crossing a trestle with church campers. two others escaped unharmed.
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Bluefield
Bluefield Sanitarium
Vicki Stout
Ralph Stout
Double Gates
Ramona Rebecca Misak
S. J. Misak
Jefferson Street
Susan Gail Rodgin
J. S. Rodgin
Bland Road
Bhiefield
Johnson Attends Judge Russell Funeral in Winder
President Lyndon B. Johnson flew to Athens Georgia and then by helicopter to Winder for the funeral of Judge Robert L. Russell of the Georgia Court of Appeals. He described Russell as a great friend and attended the burial service at the Russell family cemetery before visiting the family home.
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Winder Sga
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert L. Russell
Georgia Court of Appeals
Russell
Johnson
Winder
First Baptist Church
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Bethesda
Herman E. Talmadge
Carl E. Sanders
State Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Washington
Athens
Judge Russell
Bluewell Scouts Camp In Monroe
Several Boy Scouts and leaders from Troop 222 Bluewell joined an outing at Camp Shanklin Ferry near Bozoo in Monroe County. Activities included fishing hiking singing games and cooking with Scoutmaster James M. Jones Robert Honaker and Stewart L. Severt in charge. Participants were Terry Honaker Lee Severt Anthony Graham David Blankenship Timmy Shoda Billy Sizemore David Burnett and guest Mat Jones.
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Camp Shanklin Ferry
Bozoo
Monroe County
James M. Jones
Robert Honaker
Stewart L. Severt
Terry Honaker
Lee Severt
Anthony Graham
David Blankenship
Timmy Shoda
Billy Sizemore
David Burnett
Mat Jones
Soviet Names Pozhidayev Ambassador to Egypt
Dmitry Pozhidayev, ex Soviet ambassador to Switzerland and Morocco, was named the new Soviet ambassador to Egypt in an official announcement issued on Wednesday.
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Moscow
Dmitry Pozhidayev
Switzerland
Morocco
Egypt
Bland Girl Named Reporter For FHA Convention
Diana Blevins of Dungannon was elected vice president and Nancy Dalton of Bland named reporter at the Virginia Association of Future Homemakers of America. The officers will be installed Thursday during the convention at Hotel Roanoke. A total of 132 girls received state homemaker degrees as FHA officers and adviser Helen Hopper conferred them.
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Roanoke
Diana Blevins
Dungannon
Scott County
Virginia Association of Future Homemakers of America
Nancy Dalton
Bland
Hotel Roanoke
FHA
Helen C. Hopper
Richmond
Global wire reports highlight espionage and political violence
Oslo caps Capt. Kristen Green jailed for 12 years on Soviet espionage charges and dismissal from the Norwegian air force. In Nebit Dag a machinist faces arrest for selling his 14 year old daughter in marriage to a Young Communist League member. Berlin protests East German helicopter flights violating four power pacts. Thailand and the United States discuss a radio station for propaganda purposes. Meersburg police report Yugoslav exile Stanko Kardum admits firing on Yugoslav diplomat Andrija Klaric amid a broader probe into eight suspects.
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Norway
Air Force
Kristen Green
Soviet Union
Moscow
Nebit Dag
Turkmen Republic
Communist League
Pravda
Berlin
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Britain
France
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Thailand
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Meersbusbg
Germany
Meersburg
Stanko Kardum
Munich
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Kardum
East German shooting of couple sparks pre-anniversary tension
McGhee argues the East German regime hides brutality with the big lie while denying he and Doebler were paid by masterminds. He says the pair were harmless boaters, demands justice for border guards and an end to shootings at Berlin borders. Officials fear rioting ahead of the 1953 uprising anniversary and mass rally at Kennedy Square.
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West Berlin
John F. Kennedy Square
Yukon man faces grand jury in fatal Yukon shooting
Claude Harvey age 69 of Yukon will appear before the McDowell County Criminal Court grand jury next month on a murder charge. He is jailed on $5,000 bond after waiving a preliminary hearing. Susie Belle Stallworth 36 of Yukon died after being shot five times at the Stallworth home in an argument over laundry.
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Yukon
McDowell County
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Grand Jury
R. L. Martin
Susie Belle Stallworth
Stalsworth
Harvey
Squire C. M. Hayslette
OAS mediation spurs rebel move amid Dominican clash
The Organization of American States mediating team says rebels fired first as heavy fighting hit Santo Domingo after a pro Castro rally urged liquidation of Yankee imperialists. The 82nd Airborne and Brazilian troops held the international corridor as hospitals reported heavy wounded and full capacity.
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International Security Zone
U.S. 82Nd Airborne Division
Organization of American States
82Nd Airborne
Alvim
House Votes to Create Department of Housing and Urban Development
The House approved creating a new federal department to give cities a voice in the President's Cabinet by a 217 to 184 vote. The bill would merge the Federal Housing Administration and the FHA’s housing activities, with the head to be in the Cabinet. The Senate is expected to back the measure, and President Johnson is likely to sign.
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Dwyer
Federal Housing Administration
Federal National Mortgage Administration
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Health, Eduction and Welfare
White Hailed In San Antonio
Astronaut Edward H. White II greeted San Antonio on a six hour visit, thanking the city for a good start at his birth. He placed a 40 pound wreath at the Alamo, watched by about 150000 along the parade route as he and family traveled from the airport to downtown in warm 90 degree weather.
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Johnson
Fort Sam Houston
Middlebourne Man Killed as Wife Is Injured in Crash
Azra Edgar Woodburn 71 of Middlebourne West Virginia died in a crash at the intersection of Ohio 241 and Ohio 619 south of Akron. His wife Edna was critically injured after both were thrown from the car when a northbound tractor-trailer on Ohio 24 struck their westbound vehicle. The truck driver and a companion were only slightly injured.
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Middlebourne
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Ohio 241
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Here
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Barberton Citizens Hospital
West Virginia Weather Sees Cooling Trend into Monday
Extended forecast predicts a cooler pattern across the state with average highs 4 to 8 degrees below normal. North portions may see highs near 80 while south areas hover near the mid 70s, with lows around 55 to 62. Rain could total up to half an inch by period's end.
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Oklahoma Official Convicted of Perjury in Court Bribery Case
Otto Cargill Sr., a veteran Oklahoma political figure, was found guilty on three counts of perjury for denying bribery of Oklahoma Supreme Court justices before a federal grand jury. Trial began June 1. sentencing not set, with potential penalties up to 2,000 dollars and five years per count. Witness N. S. Corn, a former justice, testified Cargill bought votes and arranged for voters among five other justices.
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Otto Arthur Cargill Sr
U.S. District Court
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
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N. S. Corn
Fingerman
Corn
Mason Boy Missing In The Ohio River
Coast Guard personnel and volunteers searched without success for Sidney Jefferies an 18 year old Mason County West Virginia youth who drowned in the Ohio River near Wurtland Kentucky after falling from the towboat R H Bosworth II while cleaning its side Civil Defense units from Greenup County Kentucky aided in the Wednesday effort with a witness saying he disappeared while swimming back to the boat about 25 miles downstream from Huntington West Virginia.
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Coast Guard
Mason County
W.va
Ohio River
Sidney Jefferies
New Haven
R. H. Bosworth II
Greenup County
Civil Defense
Huntington
France to repay Eximbank loan ahead of schedule
Paris finance minister Valery Giscard d Estaing announced France will repay 178.5 million dollars of its Export-Import Bank debt earlier than due. He said the payment would be made within the next few weeks.
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Paris
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
France
U. S
Nevada conducts 14th weapons test this year underground
A low yield nuclear blast equivalent to less than 20000 tons of TNT was set off underground Wednesday at the Nevada test site. The Atomic Energy Commission announced the test as its 14th weapons related experiment for the year.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
AEC
Officers Named At Girls State
FAIR MONT, W Va AP Donna Gabriel of Fairmont was elected governor of Rhododendron Girls State. The junior will be sworn in with other winners. Chauncey Browning Jr. will administer the oath. Gabriel and two Nationalist party nominees won two of six Board of Public Works seats. Federalist winners include Brenda Jean Ernst secretary of state, Margaret Jean O Roark auditor, Rebecca Fletcher attorney general, Pamela Slaughter agriculture commissioner, Barbara Ann Lambert treasurer. Supreme Court picks: Julia Kaye Ketterman, Nancy Cottrill, Charlotte Rolston, Kathy Seaver, Susan Fraker.
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W. Va
Donna Gabriel
Fairmont
Rhododendron
Port High School
Supreme Court
Chauncey Browning Jr
Miss Gabriel
Nationalist Party
Board of Public Works
Brenda Jean Ernst
Beckley
Margaret Jean O’roark
Weirton
Rebecca Fletcher
Huntington
Pamela Slaughter
Dunbark
Barbara Ann Lambert
Princeton
Julia Kaye Ketterman
Elkins
Nancy Cottrill
Weston
Charlotte Rolston
St. Albans
Kathy Seaver
Susan Fraker
New Martinsville
Bluefield meeting debates Tazewell High to junior high plan
Attorney Zane Dale Christian led a Graham High gathering in Bluefield Virginia where the Tazewell County High conversion to a fully integrated junior high was outlined. No decision was made and no commitment given as supporters and opponents argued educational merits versus building a new facility and separating students.
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Bluefield
Graham High
Zane Dale Christian
Christian
County School Board
J. L. Walthall
Evans Omar
Claude van Dyke
Bernard McCall
Lester Jones
Walthall
Jones
Tazewell County High
Learning Is Chemical Work
A report by H Hyden and P W Lange from the University of Goteborg, in collaboration with U S Air Force research, states learning is a brain chemical process. The study traces cellular changes in rat cerebral cortex during learning from initial steps to mastery, noting rising ribonucleic acid as performance improves.
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Washington
Journal of
The
U. S. National Academy of Sciences
Police climb peak in central Himalayas gains record
An expedition of policemen in New Delhi topped the previously unconquered 21 430 foot Ganesh Parbat peak in the central Himalayas, according to AP reports received.
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New Delhi
India
Ganesh Parbhat Peak
Himalayas
Deaths and Funerals Highlight Fisher and Keyes
Julien Pierce Fisher 42, former Bluefield resident now of Orlando Florida, died after a brief illness in an Orlando hospital. Surviving siblings include four sisters and two brothers. The body returns to Hawkins Funeral Home. C L Keyes 74, Bluefield native later of Garden Grove California, died at home after a long illness. He had run a Bluefield plumbing business. Survivors include wife Jewel C Keyes, a son O P Keyes, a daughter and a brother. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Julien Pierce Fisher
Bluefield
Orlando
Fla
Joseph and
Bella White Fisher
Appalachian Power Company
Edward B. Harrison
W. R. Ray
Cedar Bluff
Willard Casey
Richlands
John Shortridge
Jewell Ridge
R. J. Fisher
Cliffield
W. P. Fisher
Alexandria, Va
Hawkins Funeral Home
C. L. Keyes
Elizabethton
Tenn
Garden Grove
Calif
Jewel C. Keyes
O. P. Keyes
Longview Ave
Harry Thompson
Anaheim
R. J. Keyes
Pearis St
Funeral notices for Homer R. Ryan Joseph Paul Chapman and William Hobart Thomas
Funerals set for Homer R. Ryan 58 of Grundy Va Thursday at Harmon Baptist Memorial Church with Rev Jack Mutter officiating. Burial Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery Richlands. Pallbearers listed and flowers carried by named individuals. Also services for Joseph Paul Chapman 5 Coaldale today at 2 p.m. Belcher Cemetery burial. William Hobart Thomas Prosperity appears at 2 p.m. Bailey Funeral Home Chapel Princeton with Resthaven Cemetery burial and pallbearers named.
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Grundy
Chapman
Joseph Paul
Coaldale
John Mendez
Belcher Cemetery
Cravens Funeral Home
Bluewell
Thomas
William Hobart
Bailey Funeral Home Chapel
Princeton
Resthaven
Claude
Clyde
Harold Farley
Amos
Bobby Bailey
Ronald Miller
Humphrey touts federal aid and Bluefield potential
Vice President Hubert Humphrey campaigns in Bluefield praising a 3.3 billion five year program to aid distressed areas and noting West Virginia as heartland. He calls for cooperation among local state and federal governments and cites Bluefield as part of a major resort land and infrastructure lifeline effort. He lauds the Bluefield All-America Air Force Flight and pledges national renewal.
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