Ben Het Awaits Move From Enemy Forces
A U S officer says 3,000 North Vietnamese at Ben Het could seize the Special Forces camp. More than 100 U S artillerymen and Green Berets have been killed or wounded since June 1 as sustained shelling continues. South Vietnamese irregulars suffer heavy losses as North Vietnamese regiments test defenses atop the central highlands camp 280 miles north of Saigon.
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Saigon
Ben Het
U.S
Cambodia
Laos
Ben Het Test For Saigon U S Troops Sick Of Battle
U S Army artillerymen at Ben Het Special Forces Camp in the central highlands report dire conditions after a logistics failure. They lack fresh water, face high casualties, and defend a precarious position with limited support as sappers breach their perimeter. The men say the mission is an experiment left to chance and fear a major attack.
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Ben Het
Vietnam
North Hill
Highlands
Khe Sanh
Con Thien
U.S. Army
A Battery
6Th Artillery
U.S
Mishap Is Fatal To Area Miner
A McDowell County man died at the Miller Coal Company Mine in Keystone after loose coal fell from a chute and buried him. Oscar Hamlin 55 of Northfork was trapped in a coal bin at the tipple and suffocated. Four fellow workers dug through the coal and recovered his body about 12 minutes later. Hamlin had worked at the mine about five years and was born in Walton Virginia, son of John Hamlin and the late Rena Bond Hamlin. He had lived in Northfork for 28 years.
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McDowell County
Miller Coal Company
Keystone
Paul B. Miller
Northfork
Oscar Hamlin
Miller
Hamlin
Walton
John Hamlin
Christiansburg
Rena Bond Hamlin
Telegraph-ere For John Lindsay Fun City Wanes
Telegraph era nostalgia dims as John Lindsay era memories fade in Fun City. The report notes cultural shifts and public sentiment, reflecting on changes in entertainment and urban life.
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John Lindsay
Agnew Calls Law Against Inflammatory Propaganda
Vice President Agnew urged a new law to curb inflammatory propaganda by revolutionary groups in the United States. He cited the Black Panther Coloring Book given to Black Panther breakfast program attendees in San Francisco churches and a public school. A police officer delivered a copy to the Senate investigations panel.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
United States
Agnew
Black Panthers
San Francisco
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Terrorists Target Supermarkets Ahead of Rockefeller Tour
In Buenos Aires terrorists attacked 14 of 17 supermarkets owned by the International Basic Economy Corp in protest of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's visit next week. Seven stores were destroyed and seven damaged. spokesman cites about 2.85 million dollars in damage.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Nelson A. Rockefeller
International Basic Economy Corp
Candidates Reply To Telegraph In Sunday's Edition
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph asks ten candidates for five Bluefield City Board of Directors seats about urban renewal public housing annexation rezoning to allow a Holiday Inn on Cumberland Road and other topics. Candidates will explain defend past actions and propose ideas for city improvement. watch for Sunday.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
City Board of Directors
Cumberland Road
Bluefield
Jail crackdown on narcotics and hacksaw blades in Mercer County
Mercer County authorities said they acted to stop the sale of narcotics and hacksaw blades in the Princeton county jail after an inmate accused a jail trustee of supplying contraband. The inmate’s letter to the Daily Telegraph claimed inaction followed notification to jail staff and Judge Jarrett.
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Princeton
The
Daily Telegraph
Jarrett
Final Glimpse Of Judy Garland In New York
The mourners lined Fifth Avenue and 81st Street to view Judy Garland in a silver lame wedding gown as she lay in a baby blue casket with yellow roses. Her death followed a London sleeping pills overdose. Liza Minnelli urged white and yellow funeral attire for Friday's private service before burial in Ferncliff Cemetery Mausoleum.
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Judy Garland
Goodby
Helen Strier
Manhattan
Judy
Fifth Avenue
81St Street
London
Frank E. Campbell
81St and
Madison Avenue
Miss Garland
Mickey Deans
Israelis claim downing two Egyptian MIG21 fighters
Tel Aviv reports Israeli jets shot down two Soviet built Egyptian MIG21s after a dogfight over the Gulf of Suez south of the Suez Canal. Cairo denies but says Egyptian jets struck at Israeli fighters attempting to enter Egyptian air space.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Gulf of Suez
Suez Canal
Cairo
Boy Killed in Farm Tractor Accident in Virginia
Virginia State Police report a 10 year old boy, Paul Dennis Dean of Pounding Mill, died when a tractor carrying him slid off Route 637 near Cliffield. The vehicle, driven by 17 year old Jack Donson Dean, struck a tree and overturned. Trooper D E Stilwell investigated.
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Tazewell County
Virginia
Paul Dennis Dean
Pounding Mill
Cliffield
Richlands
Jack Donson Dean
D. E. Stilwell
Miners Await Moore Decision on Black Lung Agenda
West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore told 309 miners he has not decided whether to include black lung on the July special session agenda. He promised serious consideration, noting the agenda could shift to January’s regular session if needed, and said a second special session could be called later if required. The Black Lung act takes effect July 1, with unions seeking amendments.
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Charleston
Arch A. Moore
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Moore
Black Lung
United Mine Workers
The
West Virginia Black Lung Association
Tragic Route 702 Crash Claims Tazewell Youth
An 18 year old from North Tazewell Va Haskel Bane Bowman Jr was killed Thursday when the car rolled backward and pinned him against an embankment on Virginia Route 702 two miles south of Boissevain. Passenger Marvin Blaine Phillips Bluefield Va took over driving as Bowman walked behind the car to reenter. Bowman died instantly with the body taken to Rodriguez Pocahontas Union Funeral Home pending arrangements.
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Tazewell County
Boissevain
C. K. Purkey
Virginia State Police
Haskel Bane Bowman Jr
North
Tazewell
Purkey
Bowman
Marvin Blaine Phillips
Bluefield
Rodriguez - Pocahontas Union
Pope Plans Africa Trip First for Paul VI On July
Pope Paul VI plans a July trip to Africa to consecrate a shrine to 22 Uganda martyrs in Kapala Uganda Uganda counts 2.8 million Catholics in a 7.75 million population The pontiff aims to meet church leaders there after a string of firsts in his travels and a jet age record set by his predecessors.
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Africa
Vatican City
Paul VI
Geneva
Switzerland
Holy Land
St. Peter
Jordan
Israel
India
France
John XXII
Italy
Paul
Pope Paul
Heart of Africa
Kapala
Capi
Tal
Uganda
Lake Victoria
Equator
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