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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1968
Page
1
President Johnson signed a measure adding 10 percent to most income taxes and forcing $6 billion in budget cuts if Congress does not reduce spending. The law requires a 10 percent withholding rise in 15 days and retroactivity to April 1 for individuals, with many taxpayers owing larger sums next April and refunds reduced for about 60 million.
A seven year old Bluefield Virginia boy Jimmy Allen Lawless died Friday evening in an auto pedestrian crash on Virginia Avenue Bluefield. Police identified the driver as Sam Martin seventy seven of Rock Street Bluefield. The child ran into the path of the westbound car around 6 35 p m He died on arrival at St Luke s Hospital The body remained at Graham Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements and investigation was ongoing with no charges filed.
Former U S Senator Chapman Revercomb was elected chairman of West Virginia s delegation to the Republican National Convention on August 5 in Miami Beach. The 14 delegates also agreed to vote individually for the GOP presidential nominee.
A man fell from a DC3 during a flight from Illinois to Texas when a door opened over south central Missouri. The 23 passengers and crew of four continued safely to Springfield where investigators impounded the plane. Gerald Potter of Pontiac Illinois was named as missing. Raul Cabeza was the pilot for Purdue Airlines.
South Vietnam's government announces immediate court martial and hard labor for those espousing pro Communist or neutralist causes. Premier Tran Van Huong says critics who oppose the regime or seek peace with the Viet Cong will be prosecuted, as authorities crack down on dissent.
Prince Charles 19, with Prince Philip, faced a mixed reception during a Wales tour in Cardiff Swansea and Port Talbot. A cracker egg and orange were tossed by youths and a girl, 400-strong crowd largely warm, amid antiroyalist placards and calls for Welsh independence. Police precautions and nearby security measures rose as investigators linked a northern Wales pipeline blast to Welsh extremist groups timed with his visit.
Ralph Jackson Perry, 19, of Thompson Valley Virginia, was sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary for second degree murder in the April 3 1967 stabbing death of Tazewell Policeman Jack Sargent. Judge W L Sexton ordered the term after a guilty plea May 29 with a pre sentence report pending. Sargent died June 3 in Bluefield Sanitarium from the April 11 stabbing near Tazewell.
Army Spec. 5 Phillip Rogers son of Mrs Carrie C Rogers of Davy was killed in action in Vietnam according to the Pentagon announcement Friday.
An auto crossed the centerstrip of Interstate 5 and struck a Greyhound bus killing four. On the bus, James McAlpine of Unity Saskatchewan and an unidentified woman died. The car’s driver Bonnie June Darden of Cottage Grove and her 2 year old granddaughter Kim Darden of Eugene perished. The bus carried 38 passengers and the driver. all others survived with noncritical injuries.
President Johnson called on Pope Paul VI last December to urge initiation of peace talks with North Vietnam. White House said the Pope’s efforts were helpful and constructive as negotiations were pursued through Msgr Casaroli, a key papal negotiator.
Washington AP reports former President Dwight D. Eisenhower is making continued and satisfactory progress after his major attack and now sits up briefly each day. Doctors note he continues in excellent spirits after the June 15 attack, his fifth since September 1955 and second in two months.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, slight and expressionless, won a three week postponement of his plea to murder Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The hearing in the Los Angeles County Jail chapel drew reporters, detectives, and spectators as Sirhan answered questions and stood with deputies surrounding him.
Miami Beach Police plan a high security perimeter for the GOP convention hall with flak jackets sniper rifles and a six foot hedge screen. The city approved buying 40 shotguns 20 flak jackets 3 sniper rifles and 50 smoke grenades as part of preparations aimed at keeping delegates and alternates free to come and go while guarding against demonstrations.
Viet Cong guerrillas struck the coastal village of Song Tra near Chu Lai killing 45 civilians and wounding 80 to 100. Fire-power and bombardment followed as U.S. forces pursued an estimated 150 enemy combatants while Saigon tightened defenses and prepared civil defense drills.
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