Pilots threaten new shutdown of world air service
Pilots after a hijacked Southern Airways flight threaten another global standstill to push tougher anti hijack measures. ALPA eyes a year end strike after a June court-ordered pause, while Cuba talks surface and U S officials weigh negotiations.
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Associated Press
Washington
Havana
Southern Airways
Cuba
John J. O’donnell
Air Line Pilots Association
Fidel Castro
United States
State Department
Pilots’ Association
FBI
L. Patrick Gray
Orlando
Fla
O’donnell
ALPA
Air Raids Over North Vietnam to Continue Until Truce
U S raids intensify with over 300 tactical strikes and 30 B 52 missions in 24 hours as Washington vows to persist until a peace accord is signed. The campaign targets South Vietnam battle fronts and supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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U.S
North
North Vietnam
United States
Hanoi
Demilitarized Zone
Nhan Dan
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
South Vietnam
Pentagon
Two police officers killed in ambush in Kennett Square
In Kennett Square Pa two policemen were shot and killed early Wednesday behind police headquarters in an ambush described as carried out by a cool assassin officials said.
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Kennett Square
Logan County grand jury finds no charges in Buffalo Creek dam collapse
A Logan County grand jury concluded there were no criminal law violations in the February collapse of the coal waste dam that caused the Buffalo Creek flood disaster. The report emphasizes the absence of prosecutable wrongdoing.
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Logan
Logan County
Buffalo Creek
Bluefield area mayors sigh over Supreme Court ruling
Tuesday's Supreme Court decision restricting mayors who also serve as police judges unsettled several Bluefield area communities. Mercer County Clerk Wilson Harvey reported a recount request from L G John Underwood after his large loss to Jack Scott Jr in last weeks sheriff race. Stock markets cooled after a sharp rally as heavy buying gave way to stronger selling.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Bluefield
High Court
L. G
John’’ Underwood
John I
Jack’”’ Scott, Jr
Mercer County
Wilson Harvey
Health Education in U S Lacks Funding, Calls for Overhaul
A White House panel reported health education nationwide is neglected underfinanced and fragmented, especially in nonwhite areas. The group urged a major federal funding shift and a new commitment of money from federal, state, local and private sources to target health education more effectively.
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Atlantic City
N.J
White House
the American Public Health Associaton
Nixon
Defense Department
Victor Weingarten
Institute of Public Affairs, Inc
New York
Irving Shapiro
Health Insurance Plan of
Greater New York
Clarence E. Pearson
Health and Welfare Division
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Scott Simonds
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Weingarten
Inside Dachau memory echoes from a private’s eye
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph recalls the Dachau camp through the perspective of an Army private whose father served in the Nazi secret service. Ira Berkow’s page ten piece frames enduring fear shaping recollection and the uneasy memory of terror.
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Dachau
Germany
NEA
Ira Berkow
Secret Service
Price tag on Oswalds personal items argued
In New Orleans a 5th Circuit panel heard how much Marina Oswald Porter should be paid for Oswalds personal effects seized by the government. The government offers 3000 dollars while Porter seeks 17729 dollars based on fair market value and sentimental value.
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Oswald
New Orleans
Lee Harvey Oswald
Marina Oswald Porter
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Justice Department
Porter
Warren Commission
John F. Kennedy
Texas
Grand Jury Finds No Laws Broken in Buffalo Creek Collapse
A Logan County grand jury said no criminal law violations occurred in the Buffalo Creek coal waste dam collapse of February 26. After hearing testimony from more than 30 witnesses, the panel returned no indictments and urged creation of a single state agency to regulate coal waste impoundments and oversee dam construction and repairs with set deadlines.
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Logan
W. Va
Logan County
Buffalo Creek
Safety switches urged for all powered mine equipment
UMW official calls for mandatory emergency safety switches on all electrically powered mine machinery. He argues the panic bar and brake regulation would save workers by stopping machines quickly, while industry officials caution on uniform feasibility and inspector discretion in varying mine conditions.
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Charleston
United Mine Workers
W.va
Fred Price
United Mine Workers Union Safety Division
U. S.bureau of Mine
Price
Robert L. Vines
The
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Vines
John D. Greenhalgh
Bureau of Mines
State Health Dept Plans 5 Million Budget Increase in 1974
The West Virginia State Health Department proposed a 1974 budget of 5 million dollars, up 48 percent from 3.3 million, including a 50 thousand dollar disaster item and 185 thousand dollars to match federal maternal and child care funds. The board also discussed sponsorship transfers, leadership hires, and milk inspection plans in Marshall County.
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Charleston
State Health Department
Arch A. Moore
W. Va
Arch A. Moore Jr
Buffalo Creek
State Board of Health
King’s Daughters Hospital
State Department of Mental
Eastern Panhandle
Martinsburg
Marshall County
A. L. Lively
Moundsville
Lively
Dyer
Area Mayors Disagree With Ruling Limiting Police Judge Powers
West Virginia and Virginia mayors react to a Supreme Court ruling banning mayors from serving as police judges when fines fund town revenues. Matoaka Mayor W R Davidson estimates about 200 dollars monthly from fines, while Monroeville’s case shows 23 thousand dollars of a 53 thousand dollar budget in 1968. The decision affects 15 other states with similar practices and prompts concern over local law enforcement funding and town finances.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Bluefield
High Court
Matoaka
W. R. Davidson
Davidson
Supreme Court
West Virginia
Justices of the Peace
Charleston
Monroeville
Scott
C. H. Gilmore
Pocahontas
Pope Paul VI Warns of Satanic Influence Across Societies
In a dramatic Vatican address Pope Paul VI warned that the devil dominates communities through sex narcotics and doctrinal errors. He cited Satanic cults and spiritualist sects spreading from the United States and northern Europe to Italy urging believers to resist a plurality of devils in a dark struggle.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican
United States
Europe
Italy
Rome
Pope Paul
Satan
Holland
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Moore
N. H. Dyer
Sisters of the Holy Ghost of Pittsburgh
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Maine
Bramwell
Glenn Scott
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