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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1965
Page
1
Doctors pronounced the Gemini crew ready for launch as 15 Navy ships practiced recovery at sea. Weather concerns at Cape Kennedy linger over the Tuesday schedule while Grissom Young and backups Schirra Stafford undergo four hour medical exams.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Ranger 9 raced toward the moon to photograph Alphonsus and its volcanic features nasa announced the booster accuracy would hit near center 400 miles north of Alphonsus The mission aims to provide clues to the moon and solar system origin as Grissom and Young prepare the Molly Brown capsule for a seven day planned Gemini flight later this year
Saigon reports arrival of several planeloads of U S Army military police to form the 716th Military Police Battalion guarding U S installations in the Saigon area. The unit from Ft Dix NJ increases U S MP strength to over 600, replacing reliance on Saigon police in many sites.
Princess Marina, sister-in-law to the Duke of Windsor, spends over an hour with the couple at Claridge's Hotel where they stay during the duke's convalescence from eye surgery. The visit follows prior royal meetings amid the family ostracism over Wallis Simpson.
Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert said on WGN TV that planes in Viet Nam are appropriate for the struggle. He defended using the 1946 vintage A-1E as a wonderful aircraft and noted that losses are inevitable but must be balanced against achieved aims.
A Sunday fire in Hilton New York destroyed nine buildings including a bank and post office with damage estimated at up to three million dollars. Dorothy Sisson 73 was found dead in the post office block. Fire crews from ten departments fought the blaze in freezing weather as other businesses and the Masonic Temple burned or were heavily damaged.
In Yemen, a clash near the Harib frontier left at least 20 British soldiers dead as armored cars entered the conflict to aid royalist forces. British casualties rose with reports of three killed and four wounded in the Dhaleh area near the Yemen border. The fight involved the Federation of South Arabia regular army and guerrilla fire mortar hits on two positions.
Rescue workers dug Sunday to reach Anthony Rompolski 275 feet underground in a coal mine cave near Shamokin Pennsylvania. Companion Michael Kennitz 57 died and three others escaped. Rompolski is presumed trapped behind 30 feet of water and muck with about 100 tons of debris to be removed.
Four potent home-made time bombs were found in Birmingham areas including near 16th Street Baptist Church and Our Lady Queen of the Universe. Army demolition experts neutralized the devices within minutes. Police evacuated blocks and searched for others amid a tense civil unrest backdrop.
Hillsborough police report no progress in locating paintings stolen from the Crocker mansion on Saturday. FBI and local agencies traced a car seen near the grounds as investigators seek the Van Gogh Cypress and Flowering Trees and The Ploughman plus a still life by Renoir. The estate dispute involves the banker's two children and their stepmother Elizabeth Fullerton Coleman Crocker.
Socialist May or Gaston Defferre of Marseille was reelected to the city council with 41 of 63 seats, securing the mayoral post. De Gaulle backers failed to win Paris City Hall. Paris Municipal Council results show 39 Gaullists, 38 Communist-Socialist, and 13 centrists.
South Viet Nam's military leadership reportedly reorganized at a secret Bien Hoa meeting. Brig Gen Huynh Van Cao is favored for chief of staff, with opposition from Brig Gen Nguyen Cao Ky and absence of Gen Nguyen Chanh Thi. Central Viet Nam autonomy sentiment noted.
Plans for an eternal light monument to President John F Kennedy were approved in New York. The $47150 memorial will be a white Vermont marble structure five feet square eight feet high with a continuously lighted gas flame atop it located in Grand Army Plaza near Prospect Park.
The second day of spring brought record low temperatures across a dozen states from North Dakota to Georgia. Minnesotan cities logged 21 below zero while Alaska showed warmth with Fairbanks at 28 and Juneau at 33 above. Western regions stayed near normal as eastern areas faced persistent cold fronts.
Inside Abby section expands with years and notes on classifieds comics and crosswords plus editorials and a feature on Goren. Includes a capsule on 10 films highlighted for readers.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr headed a mass 50 mile civil rights march toward Montgomery guarded by Army troops. Tens of thousands joined from Browns Chapel to a one mile wide column as dynamite bombs were found in Birmingham and Klansmen protested in Montgomery. King thanked followers calling the movement unstoppable.
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