Klan Song Sparks Patrol Amid Greenwood March
In Greenwood Mississippi a Klan song played as civil rights marchers moved through town drawing police action. A rattling snake in a news truck box injured driver Ted Alexander when it struck. Martin Luther King Jr spoke at a voter registration rally as the march paused in Broad Street Park.
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Greenwood, Miss
Mississippi
Greenwood
Memphis
Tenn
Jackson
Miss
Aubrey James Norvell
Meredith
Hernando
mid-South
Norvell
Edward Whitten
Norvell Legal Aid
Martin Luther King, Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
le Flore
George Smith
King
Ted Alexander
Twelve Seamen Missing After Fiery New York Harbor Collision
In New York Harbor twelve seamen remained missing after a collision between the British tanker Alva Cape and the American Texaco Massachusetts caused a naptha fire. Twenty dead and seventy one survivors were reported as the Coast Guard investigates signals mix up and widening Newark Bay channel.
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NEW York
New York Harbor
Coast Guard
Port of
Congress
Newark Bay
Alva Cape
Texaco Massachusetts
Austin J. Tobin
Port Authority
Kill van Kull
Staten Island
New Jersey
Texaco
Marine Board of Investigation
Esso Vermont
Alva
Della Lester Freed From Second Trial
A McDowell County woman, Della Mae Lester, is freed from retrial on charges of stabbing death of Norma Jean Hawkins after Circuit Judge Jack Marinari ruled a mistrial was unwarranted and double jeopardy applied. The previously declared mistrial followed reports a juror planned to hang the jury.
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McDowell County
Jack Marinari
Marinari
Della Mae Lester
Norma Jean Hawkins
R. L. Morgan
Morgan
Rudolph J. Murensky
Capitol to get marble face on west front in $34 million rebuild
A bipartisan Capitol renovation plan approved on Friday calls for removing the west front sandstone and replacing it with a marble face. The project will extend the outer wall to add 4.5 acres of new floor space for offices a terrace restaurant and an underground service area with work starting after temporary offices are set up in about 18 months.
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Washington
U.S. Capitol
Hic
Capitol Hill
Capitol
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
J. George Stewart
House
Hubert H. Humphrey
Gerald R. Ford
Mich
Igan
Stewart
Cernan
Abortion Charge Ties Bluefield Case To Fuda
Darlene Fuda of Bluefield faces abortion charges stemming from a May 23 incident in Bluefield. Police say the case links to other alleged abortions and an ongoing investigation with multiple persons under inquiry. Fuda was arrested in McDowell County and released on bond awaiting a preliminary hearing.
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Darlene Fuda
Bluefield
Miss Fuda
Bluefielder
McDowell County
Squire Jim Belcher
Princeton
Belcher
Mercer County Intermediate Court Grand Jury
Dan Shade
Fuda
Shade
Astronauts Describe Spacewalk Hurdles and Lessons
Navy Cmdr. Cernan and Air Force Lt. Col. Stafford recount Gemini 9 flight troubles and successes. Fogged visor led to early end of space walk. radar, not optics, deemed essential for Apollo moon rescue maneuvers. ATIDA rendezvous tested relative motion with NASA observers noting key insights for future missions.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Eugene A. Cernan
Navy
Cernan
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
Stafford
ATIDA
Law Overhauled For Diet Foods Control
Washington AP The FDA unveiled a major overhaul of rules for special diet foods and diet supplements. The plan, effective in 180 days, tightens labeling and fortification limits, defining calories and vitamin use to curb misleading claims and aid consumers.
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Washington
The
Food and Drug Administration
Goddard
Pope Expands Power of Bishops Worldwide
Pope Paul VI issued a decree broadening bishops' administrative powers across the Roman Catholic Church. Local prelates may grant exceptions to general laws in many areas while the pope retains sole authority on marriage, celibacy, and select clerical rules. He also limits reserved changes to a small number, with 20 reservations noted.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Vatican
Vatican Ecumenical Council
Paul
Pope Paul
Wise County Boy Is Killed in Lightning Strike
A Wise County youth, Ronald Stidham, 18, was electrocuted by a lightning strike near Norton. Parents notified rescue squads after he failed to return home. Workers found his body beneath a tree around midnight. he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Odell Stidham of Norton.
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Stidham
Odell Stidham
Nortom
Contract awarded for Cumberland Adt resurfacing project
The State Road Commission awarded a $33,747.50 purchase order to W H Contractors of Bluefield for resurfacing the Cumberland Road section in Bluefield. The project starts at the junction of U S 52 at Washing and extends 1,050 feet, announced Friday in Charleston.
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The
State Road Commission
W&h Contractors
Bluefield
Cumberland Road
Charleston
Washinga
N W Plans Ohio Terminal
Norfolk and Western Railway president Herman H Pevier announced plans for a 57 million coal storage and transfer terminal in Sandusky Ohio The facility will be ready by December 1 and boost capacity to as much as 45 million tons The purpose is to allow local coal mines to operate year round and maintain continuity of operations and employment.
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Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railway
Herman H. Pevier
Sandusky
Ohio
Pevier
Perler
Red Men End Meeting Today
The 1966 three day Improved Order of Red Men convention in West Virginia closes with officer elections at the West Virginian Hotel. The final sessions include memorials, remarks by Rev. Bill Smith, and speakers Jim Dalton Eva Craggs and others as visiting delegates from five states join local hosts Calumet Tribe 58 and Topeka Council 84 Bluefield.
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Improved Order of Red Men
West Virginia
West Virginian
Great Council
Red Men
Bill Smith
Bluefield Union Mission
Jim Dalton
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Whis-Tv
Calumet Tribe
Bluefield
Sachem
Lloyd Green
Topeka Council
Pocahontas
Hilda Bowling
John F. Adkins
Huntington
Reuben A. Berry
Martinsburg
Beulah Justice
Taylorville
Kenneth R. Reffeitt
James 0. Acher
Lancaster
Order of Red Men
West Virginian Hotel
Hubert Brewster
Newhall
Russell F. Jones
W. Hastings
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James H. Meredith
Broad Street Park
Greenwood Woter
J.R. Jahnson
S.L. Hilton
Hilton
U.S
Ian
Constitution
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Della Lester
Attoneys
Lester
Eeve
Sactoric
Tom
Satelli
James L. Goddard
Food and Drug Commissioner
Frank George
Glenville
Wise County
Cumberland Adt
N&w
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