U N General Assembly Eyes Big Four Hope Amid U S Soviet Clash
At the United Nations General Assembly a special emergency session on the Middle East looms as U S and Soviet factions vie for influence. Kosygin leads the Soviet push while U Thant secures a Belgian vote to open the session. Talks hint at a possible Big Four summit with De Gaulle seeking a balanced stance.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
Middle East
Alexei N. Kosygin
Lomats
U Thant
Soviet Union
Israel
Thant
Retired Peterstown councilman dies in Monroe crash
A 70 year old retired miner and former Peterstown Town Council member Evans F. Thomas was killed when his car, apparently after a heart attack, rammed a utility pole near Peterstown Athletic Field Road and Rt. 12. He died at a Pearisburg hospital after the 8 45 a.m. accident. Thomas worked 38 years for Peerless Coal and Coke Co. and resided in McDowell County until retiring in 1958. He is survived by his wife Kate J. Thomas three sisters and one brother. Funeral at Peterstown Methodist Church Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial in Peterstown Cemetery.
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Peterstown
Evans F. Thomas
Thomas
Pearisburg
Rt. 12
Peerless Coal and Coke Co
Kimball and
Vivian
McDowell County
A. W
Josie Spangler Thomas
Oka Youell
Glada Woodyard
St. Petersburg
Fla
Mary Dunn
Cashmere
Hunter Thomas
Nettie
Peterstown Methodist Church
Joseph Gieger
Charles Jack
Broyles Funeral Chapel
Masonic Lodge
Coal Gas Pilot Gets 12 Million For Conversion Plant
The Interior Department allocated 12,272,000 dollars to the Institute of Gas Technology in Chicago, a unit of the American Gas Association, to build a pilot plant converting coal to gas. The project aims to produce high quality gas interchangeable with natural gas, with ongoing government contracts and private contributions totaling over 1.4 million to date.
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Washington
Interior Department
Institute of Gas Technology At
Chicago
American Gas Association
Stewart L. Udall
Association
Rail Action Set For Next Week
Congress postponed a decision on how to handle a threatened national rail walkout until next week after union assurances no strike would start before Senate House talks. Six shopcraft unions could strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday under prior law while the Senate backed a bill allowing presidential board imposition if no voluntary settlement within 90 days. The House rejected that approach and voted for another 90 day no strike period.
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Washington
Senate House
Congress
Senate
House
Deck Officers Strike Remains After Judge Upholds Ruling
A federal judge upheld an arbitrator’s back-to-work order in a deck officers strike tying up U S merchant ships in Atlantic and Gulf ports. No injunction issued, so immediate effect unclear. AFL CIO and unions claim exemptions for passenger and military cargo ships in a pay dispute.
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Philadelphia
U.S
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Maritime Service Committee
Tanker Service Committee
Kosygin and De Gaulle discuss Mideast at length
Soviet Premier Kosygin and Charles de Gaulle met in Paris for nearly four hours to debate Arab Israeli war consequences and UN actions. Kosygin urged branding Israel as aggressor and surrender of gains under UN sanctions, while de Gaulle urged moderation for any Mideast settlement. Potential French attendance at the UN Assembly was not assured.
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Paris
Alexei N. Kosygin
New York
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet Union
Kosygin
U.N. General Assembly
Israel
Assembly
New Yoerk
de Gaulle
U.N. Assembly
U.N
United Nations
Alexei Kosygin
Maurice Couve de Murville
Jean Dussol
Orly
U. N. General Assembly
Viet Cong Threaten Reprisal Executions In Vietnam War
Viet Cong warned from Hanoi of executing American prisoners in retaliation if the South Vietnamese government carries out the death sentences of three Viet Cong bombers in Saigon. U.S. officials condemned such acts as violations of the Geneva Convention while noting ongoing heavy fighting across Vietnam with American and Vietnamese casualties reported.
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Saigon
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Harold George Bennett
Perryville
Ark
Etteville
N.C
U.S. State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Washington
Vietnam
Viet Cong
U.S
U. S. 1St Infantry
Mekong River
da Nang
Man Shot Eight Held In Baileysville Wyoming
A Baileysville drive in fight ended with Rod Robinson shot in the stomach by a .22 rifle. Nine YA men from the area, all 18 or older, were detained after deputy Fortner split two fighting groups. Benny Toler is in custody on a 2000 bond. others released on 1080 bond each.
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Wyoming County
Baileysville
Rod Robinson
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Paul Goode
Frank Fortner
Benny Toler
Ronnie Toler
Elmore Johnson
Billy Rose
Edgar Adams
Bobby Spears
Gaile Spears
Jerry Spears
Justice of the Peace
Bernard Morgan
Brenton
Morgan
Elmore Questions Circuit Court Jurisdiction Over Liquor Law
Charleston AP Elmore argues Kanawha County Circuit Court lacks jurisdiction to rule on the new private club liquor law contending the state attorney general must be named as a defendant. Judge Taylor set a June 29 hearing as UCAAP seeks a ruling to push toward a State Supreme Court decision.
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Frank L. Taylor
UCAAP
Elmore
Racial unrest tightens grip in Ohio Michigan while Tampa quiets
Authorities report arson sparked violence in Dayton Ohio with 15 fires and five buildings destroyed in the second night. In Lansing Michigan police quell a melee with about 20 arrests, many juveniles, as near Capitol area tensions rise. In Cleveland MLK Jr group seeks better jobs for Negroes in baking. SNCC leader H. Rap Brown calls for freedom for rioters. Five Tampa youths join city payroll to help calm neighborhoods amid a patrol program.
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Dayton
Ohio
Lansing
Mich
State Capitol
Cleveland
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King
Brown
H. Rap Brown
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Cincinnati
Tampa
Nick Nuccio
Boone County Woman Burned To Death
Becky Spurlock aged 67 died in a Ridgeview home fire in Marmet West Virginia. Fire officials found her body near the front door and believe she attempted to escape before succumbing to the blaze.
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Boone County
Marmet
W. Va
Becky Spurlock
Ridgeview
Unidentified Sighting Stamps South Hill UFO as Unclear
Richmond AP reports the Air Force labeled the April 21 South Hill sighting as unidentified. C N Crowder said a 16 by 12 foot aluminum looking tank-like object left a scorched spot and four depressions on a highway before shooting up and vanishing with flames still burning.
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Richmond
Air Force
South Hill
Washington Information Office
C. N. Crowder
Crowder
National Investigating Committee On Aerial Phenomena
NICAP
Trucker Fractures Fatally Crushed After Heavyargo Shift
A truck carrying a heavy cargo load braked on Hampton Boulevard to avoid a collision. The load shifted forward and crushed the driver, John W. Swanburg, 44, of Chesapeake, trapped for an hour before a crane lifted the cargo. Another multiple-fatality crash occurred near Stoney Creek, Virginia, injuring residents Es tela Bravo, 21, and Ramon L. Bravo, with Bravo later dying in a Richmond hospital. In Roanoke, Deborah Ann Cockill, 11, died after a car struck the bicycle she rode on U.S. 220. In Charlottesville, Barbara Ann Brown, 19, and John Alexander Washington, 24, died in a two-car crash near Louisa County and Charlottesville Hospital.
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Associated Press
Norfolk Naval Base
Hampton Boulevard
Norfolk
John W. Swanburg
Chesapeake
Stoney Creek
Estela Bravo
West New York
N. J
Richmond
U.S. 241
Sussex County
Charlottesville
Ferncliff
Miss Brown
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United States
Arthur J. Goldberg
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Harold Wilson
France
U. S
Kosygin-De Gaulle
Britain
George Brown
Wilson
Jozef Cyrankiewicz
Joref Lenart
Jeno Fock
Jens Otto Krag
U.N. Diplo
Lai Khe
Cer
Mii
Monroe
Trench
Moscow
Humbert Versace
Baltimore, Md
Kenneth M. Roraback
Fay
Phu Yen Province
Wyoming
Michigan
Tampa, Fla
Victoria Thomas
Aurora Lake
Heavyargo
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