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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1965
Page
1
The Turnpike Commission tentatively approves a 4 million plan to repave the 88 mile Charleston to Princeton toll road. First section between mileposts 57 and 59 north of Beckley would begin by September 15 if approved, with full resurfacing to take ten years financed from current revenues.
A Teamsters wildcat strike enters its fourth day in Philadelphia causing shortages of food gasoline and drugs as 12 000 Local 107 members faced unresolved grievances Mayor James Tate urged Roadway Express to reinstate workers and negotiate while 750 to 11 000 jobs were at risk and four refineries suspended deliveries creating widespread supply disruptions.
David Allen Tabor 13 of Bishop Virginia was treated at Bluefield Sanitarium after a two vehicle crash on Route 12 in Mercer County. He was a passenger in his father George E. Tabor’s car which collided with Donald Gray Britt 27 of Cumberland Road Bluefield. Britt and Tabor sustained minor injuries and were not hospitalized. The crash occurred four and a half miles east of the 460 intersection at 4 15 p m Thursday. Trooper Shade continued the investigation Thursday night.
East German news agency ADN reports nine killed and 13 seriously injured when a train derailed south of Berlin on Thursday.
Sammy Boyd faced repeated malicious acts as fires and damage target his home near Deep Creek. Police plan to deploy several officers as investigators pursue leads after a recent car arson and prior arson attempts. Boyd vows to stay, noting the pattern of threats and hostility in the area.
Charleston AP reports the new retail sales tax rates set to begin in West Virginia on Thursday, July 1. The table outlines the base rates with an additional cent tacked onto every 35 cents of sale price or fraction thereof.
WHIS Radio in Bluefield suspended FM broadcasting from 2:20 p.m. Thursday due to a power line fault at the transmitter. Chief engineer Kenneth Dick said insulation burned off the multi strand wire and a fix was only briefly successful. Parts will be flown from Camden New Jersey to complete the repair. WHIS FM studios operate from the Municipal Building.
Roscoe Stevenson an 81 year old Covington Virginia attorney remained in critical condition at Bluefield Sanitarium after a traffic crash in Greenbrier County. His wife Annie Stevenson aged 67 was injured but not as severely. Both were moved from Greenbrier Valley Hospital to Bluefield Sanitarium for treatment.
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Kenneth Dayton Hatfield 17, a Gilbert High rising junior and basketball team manager, died after a motorcycle crash on U S 42 in Mingo County. Trooper C T Webb was driving a state police cruiser in the collision. Hatfield's family includes parents Joe and Gladys Hatfield and siblings Geraldine, Eunice, Linda Sue, and Mike. Funeral services are Sunday at Rosa Baptist Church in Baisden with burial at Hatfield Cemetery.
Johnny Neal Sturgill, 16, of Pound Virginia, died when the car he rode in went over an embankment and overturned on a Pound street in Wise County on Thursday.
Town of 1100 in Kansas braces as Arkansas River floods approach up to three feet. About 600 residents have left. three quarters may evacuate by Friday. No dikes to save Nickerson. sandbags limited. shops emptied. Flood damage ca. 22 million dollars with 350000 acres affected. Hutchinson and Wichita downstream protected by levees.
Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky’s government declares a state of war and tightens martial law in South Viet Nam. It breaks diplomatic ties with France, orders Saigon’s 36 newspapers closed for a month, imposes a curfew, and cuts official salaries by half while warning against profiteering. Paratroopers probe the D zone near Saigon amid ongoing air strikes on North Viet Nam with limited contact.
The Senate Finance Committee approved an administration backed bill to extend medical benefits and raise pensions for Americans over 65 at an estimated $8.8 billion yearly cost. The measure, endorsed 12-5, would expand hospital nursing home care outpatient services and home health, funded mainly by higher Social Security taxes. An optional supplemental plan would charge joiners and the government $3 monthly premiums, with benefits slated to begin July 1 1966. Retirement and survivor payments would rise about 7 percent retroactive to Jan 1 1965. The AMA weighed in while House action looms.
The American Medical Association rejected urging doctors to boycott Medicare and urged physicians to follow their conscience. The group said it may review the Medicare law in special session after federal action, while reaffirming willingness to meet with President Johnson. The Finance Committee approved the Medicare bill, sending it toward a Senate vote as House already passed a different version.
AP report from Washington describes the Organization of American States in its U S site near the White House where 20 ambassadors meet every other Wednesday. The parrot on the patio and the council chamber symbolize the varied voices and equal voting among members including Costa Rica and the United States. The piece traces OAS history from Bolivar to Blaine and notes the consensus style and past conflicts such as the 1865 Dominican Republic crisis.
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