Bluefield Band Festival Ends With Marching Parade
The Bluefield Area High School Band Festival closed with a 90 minute parade through downtown Bluefield featuring 35 bands from Southern West Virginia in colorful uniforms. Mount Hope Alderson Trap Hill Greenbrier Stoco and many others joined the 1,800 musicians. Red and Blue concert rehearsals and a three day festival culminated in a mass concert directed by Stanley Michalski Jr. and Herbert Piemeyer. Beckley Stratton and Pineville joined in concerts but did not march.
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West Virginia
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Fayetteville
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Beckley
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Welch
Beaver
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Lewisburg
Matoaka
Athens
Hinton
Princeton
Oceana
Peterstown
Mount Hope
Alderson
Trap Hill
Greenbrier
Stoco
Stars and Stripes Forever
Washington Post
Tijuana Brass
Saints
Bluefield Beaver Band
Dixie
Nuttall High School
Lookout
Brenda Pack
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission
Beckley Stratton
Pineville
Bond Movie Preview Sparks Boston Riot At Savoy
About 15 000 youths mobbed downtown Boston after a Bond parody preview at the Savoy Theatre caused chaos. Police arrested several for unlawful assembly, a fire was started in seats, injuries were reported, and officials vow tighter controls to prevent a repeat.
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Boston
Savoy Theater
Elijah Adlow
Adlow
John F. Collins
Edmund L. McNamara
Fiery Mar Ann Charters Rescue Seventeen at Sea
Seventeen people were rescued Saturday after a charter fishing boat named Mar Ann caught fire one mile off shore. Passengers and crew leaped to a nearby commercial fishing vessel as the boat burned to the hull near Panama City Florida.
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Panama City
Fla
Mar Ann
Inside SECTION 1 SECTION 2 Business
A compact listing page outlines contents across sections including Business Editorials Classified Farm Now & Then Servicemen Princeton Science Society Sports Whittaker Youth. It serves as a reader guide to the newspaper’s varied departments and future page anchors.
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Dana
Princeton
Whittaker
Colombian security chief alleges local police manhandled newsmen
In Barranquilla Colombia Gen Luis Etilio Leyva says security police mistreated two El Tiempo reporters covering Lynda Bird Johnson's arrival. The reporters Amado Blanco and Gustavo Vasquez say their cameras were smashed and a gun drawn. they filed charges against unknown escorts, but no trial is expected. Johnson apologized and left for Lima Peru with her escort.
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Colombia
Lynda Bird Johnson
Barranquilla
Luis Etilio Leyva
el Tiempo
Amado Blanco
Gustavo Vasquez
Miss Johnson
Lima
Peru
Hoffa Returns to Chattanooga in Fourth Trial Bid
James R. Hoffa arrived in Chattanooga in handcuffs for another bid at a new trial. He wore a prison blue suit and spoke briefly to a bystander while his defense team met in the jail cellblock with co defendants Ewing King Thomas Ewing Parks and Larry Campbell. The group are seeking dismissal of charges alleging prior government wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping during the 1962 Nashville jury tampering case.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Hamilton County
U.S
Lewisburg
Teamsters Union
Federal Building
Morris Shenker
St. Louis
Ewing King
Thomas Ewing Parks
Nashville
Larry Campbell
Parks
Detroit Teamsters
King
Federal Correctional Institution
Texarkana
Tex
Campbell
Correc
Communists Return to Mortars in renewed North Vietnam raids
In South Vietnam a week of heavy fighting ends as Communists resume mortar attacks and hit and run raids. A government spokesman cites 121 civilian casualties while U S Marine casualties rise at Hill 881 North. Premier Ky signals further northern actions and hints at a presidential bid as clashes widen near Ham Tan Tracon Trang Sup and Khe Sanh.
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Saigon
U.S
Leathernecks
North Vietnam
325Th Division
Khe Sanh
Nguyen Cao Ky
1St Corps
South Vietnam
Ham Tan
Binh Tuy
Tracon
U.S. Army
Trang Sup
GOP Nominates In Dickenson for County Posts
Dickenson County Virginia Republicans met at Clintwood High School selecting candidates for four major offices and four Board of Supervisors seats for the November 7 election. Richard Breeding headed the sheriff slate, Lacy Davis for revenue, Rev. Enoch Rose for treasurer, Teddy Bailey for clerk, with four supervisors named and justice of the peace to be decided later.
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Dickenson
William C. Wampler
Clintwood High School
Commonwealth
Board of Supervisors
R. V. McCoy Jr
Willis
Richard Breeding
Trammel
Lawrence Stone
Lacy Davis
Clintwood
Enoch M. Rose
Caney Ridge
Teddy Bailey
Haysi
Weldon Vanover
Milam Sutherland
Ervinton
David Dotson
Kennedy
Franklin Rose
Sandlick
McCoy
Justice of the Peace
Firm Decision On Tax Hike Five Weeks Away
Washington officials say a firm decision on a tax increase this year is at least five weeks off, with mid June the earliest date for a full economic assessment. The 6 percent surtax remains only a proposal, tied to a stronger economy and Vietnam war spending, while troop levels and the deficit influence the final plan.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
State of the Union
Garrison accuses CIA of faked Oswald photo
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison charged the CIA with supplying the Warren Commission a fake photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald and a Cuban companion leaving the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. He claimed the CIA hid the real image and asserted the men were working for U S agencies in the summer of 1963.
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New Orleans
Jim Garrison
Central Intelligence Agency
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Garrison
CIA
Oswald
Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
Mexico City
Lee Oswald
D. A
Warren
United States
Soviet scientists debate new manned spaceflight after Komarov death
Reports from Moscow indicate a split among Soviet scientists and leaders over launching another manned mission soon. Some advocate a quick flight to avenge Soyuz 1, while others warn readiness is unclear. The debate remains tightly controlled with no official confirmation.
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Moscow
Vladimir M. Komarov
Kremlin
Komarov
Earth
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