Artillery Duel Intensifies As U S Marines Hold DMZ Line
AP reports a fierce gun duel at Con Thien with North Vietnamese artillery harassing Marines guarding the DMZ invasion routes into South Vietnam. B52s pound targets. 61 Marines killed, 785 wounded. Westmoreland foresees clearer prospects for victory. Amfiala crew report noted for further details.
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Saigon
Con Thien
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
7Th Fleet
South China Sea
Blame Assigned Generally In Parachuting Disaster
Government safety investigators blamed the pilot air traffic control and the parachutists for the Lake Erie skydiving disaster that left 16 drowned on August 27. The FAA radar error and cloud conditions allowed the jump under rules against cloud jumps. Experienced jumpers also violated FAA rules and misjudged ground location near Wakeman Ohio.
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Washington
Lake Erie
Capitol Hill
National Transportation Safety Board
FAA
Board
Senate Aviation
Four Drown As Car Leaps Into Stream Near Ripley
Police recovered the bodies of two Ripley women and their two young children after a car left U S 21 and plunged into Sandy Creek seven miles north of Ripley. Five year old Beverly survived with a minor head bump. The victims were Mrs Bert Hall 38, eight month old Patrick, Mrs Leonard Robinson 31, and Angela Robinson 3. Beverlys mother of five, and Mrs Hall mother of four sons. Police investigate cause.
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Car
Ripley
Ripley, W. Va
U. S. 21
Sandy Creek
Here
Parsons Funeral Home
Bert Hall
Patrick
Leonard Robinson
Jackson General Hospital
Robinson
Hall
Two Dickinson Men Die In Kentucky Coal Mine Fall
Two Dickinson County brothers in law Willie Caudle and Lonzo Hall died in a coal mine accident at Mouthcard Kentucky near the Virginia border. A state fall four feet thick and 20 feet wide collapsed the room where they worked about 10 a.m. Rescue crews found Hall quickly, Caudle three hours later. Both men from Bartlick Virginia were pronounced dead by Pike County Coroner Haskel Mullins. The Triple A Coal Co mine, opened about a year and a half ago near Grundy, had its first fatal accident since opening. The bodies were taken to Clintwood Colley Funeral Home in Clintwood Virginia.
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Dickinson County
Mouthcard
Buchanan County
Pike County
Alvis Hunt
Triple A Coal Co
Hall
Caudle
Haskel Mullins
Hunt
Clintwood - Colley Funeral Home
Clintwood
Beulah Flood Devastates Rio Grande Valley Towns
Massive Rio Grande flood driven by Hurricane Beulah swamps Harlingen and across the border towns. 5,000 residents flee as diversions fail and sandbag barriers rise. Mexico reports 90 blocks flooded in Reynosa while Port Isabel, Brownsville area braces for further inundation.
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Harlingen
Tex
Rio Grande
Beulah
Harlingen Mordav
International Boundary and Water Commission
Arroyo Colorado
Little Madero
Anzalduas Dam
Reynosa
McAllen
Brownsville
Department of Public Safety
USS
Matamoros
Port Isabel
Juan Gonzalez
South Texas
Arroyo
Mercedes
la Feria
Rio Hondo
Lozano
Milk Poisoning Kills 14 in Tijuana City
In Tijuana 14 children died and about 30 more are hospitalized after suspected milk poisoning from La Vquita Milk Co. products. Authorities halted all milk sales as San Diego health officials test samples and aid postmortem examinations.
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Tijuana
Mexico
Hector Valdivia
la Vquita Milk Co
Health Department
San Diego
Calif
Jorge Salas
Red Cross
Dr C M Scott Dies Suddenly at 53
Dr Charles Morton Scott of Tuke’s Hospital died Monday night at his home from an apparent heart attack at 53. He recently had arterial surgery at University of Virginia Medical Center and was recuperating at 1017 Groveland Drive. Survived by wife Frances Elizabeth Walker and four children, plus a sister in Charleston. He held leadership roles in state and national medicine and served as West Virginia governor for the American College of Surgeons.
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Charles Morton Scott
Tuke’s Hospital
Scott
University of Virginia Medical Hospital
Charlottesville
Groveland Drive
Charles Matthew Scott
Hazel Morton Scott
St. Luke's
Frances Elizabeth Walker
Harvard College
Cambridge
Mass
Janet Elizabeth Scott
University of Colorado
Alice Walker Scott
Hannah More Academy
Reisterstown
William Wade Walker Scott
Helen Scott Tierney
Charleston
West Virginia
American College of Surgeons
American Medical Association
West Virginia Medical Society
Mercer County Medical Society
Southern Surgeons Club
Wyoming Students Benefit From $133,180 Youth Corps Aid
The U S Department of Labor approved a Neighborhood Youth Corps program for Wyoming County to help about 150 high school students in 1968. It funds 100 students to work ten hours weekly at 1.25 dollars and 100 others for 32 hours weekly in summer, with carryover for some into the next school year.
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U. S. Department of Labor
Wyoming County
U. S
Robert C. Byrd
Jennings
Randolph
Kee
D. R. Bailey
Bailey
Police Seek Two Who Abandoned Car
Bluefield Police hunt two men who abandoned a stolen 1963 car after a one car crash on Tyler Street Sunday morning. Desk officer Bernard Bailey said officers investigated the accident but could not locate the driver and a reported companion. The Radford Virginia Police Department said the car, reported stolen, belonged to Joseph W. Stanley of Dublin Virginia.
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Bluefield
Tyler Street
Bernard Bailey
John Disibbio
Robert Lee
Bailey
Radford Va
Joseph W. Stanley
Dublin
Prudential Agents Halt Work In Deadlock Strike
A union spokesman said all work has stopped by about 10,000 Prudential Insurance Co. agents due to a deadlocked contract negotiation. The delay affects agency operations as talks continued in Washington on Monday.
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Washington
Prudential Insurance Co
Extradition Waived In Kidnapping Of WVU Coed
A Monongalia County man James E. Brown 20 waived extradition after being charged with kidnapping WVU coed Jessie Beach 21. He was returned from Pennsylvania and held on 10000 bond. Beach escaped when Brown fell asleep and identified him to Waynesburg police. Brown also faces auto theft charges in Morgantown.
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Morgantown
Monongalia County
West Virginia University
Pennsylvania
James E. Brown
Core
Brown
Waynesburg
Jessie Beach
WVII
Mount Morris
Miss Beach
New York City Teachers Strike Pushes Schools Toward Collapse
In New York City the ongoing teachers strike enters its third week with 88 percent of students staying home. About 120000 of 1100000 pupils attend classes as talks at City Hall and with the Board of Education falter, threatening the term.
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New York
New York City
City Hall
Bernard Donovan
Washington
Traffic Hazard Hearing Grows in Bluefield Area
Representatives from the Prince ton Chamber of Commerce Green Valley Glenwood Kiwanis Club and the Bluefield and Princeton Jaycees will meet at 11 am Wednesday in Bluefield to discuss a traffic hazard on the Bluefield Princeton road. A State Road Commission engineer will inspect three traffic islands and speak to the group later.
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Princeton Chamber of Commerce
Green Valley - Glenwood Kiwanis Club
Bluefield and
Princeton Jaycees
Bluefield
Princeton
Fred A. Langenheim
Green Valley
Raleigh
West Island
R. E. Barnett
D- 10Th
Road Commission
Ingleside
Chrysler Trims Boosts AMG Lists Its Raises
Detroit AP report details price adjustments by automakers in 1968 models. Chrysler reduced its proposed average increase to 101 dollars 3.5 percent while GM and Ford announced around 110 and 114 dollar rises. AMC lifted Rambler and Rebel prices 89 dollars 3.8 percent. Ambassador price changes ranged up to 230 dollars. Warranty changes now limit coverage to first owner for Chrysler, while GM and Ford keep five year 50,000 mile warranty for first and second owners. UAW talks loom with labor contracts expiring Sept. 7.
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Chrysler
General Motors
Ford
American Motors
AMC
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Jennings hints at possible bid in Virginia 8th District
W Pat Jennings who quit congressional race in 1966 and now serves as House clerk declined to confirm or deny reports he may run for Virginia 8th District next year. The seat is held by Republican William L Scott who defeated George Rawlings last year. Jennings, 48, from Smyth County, has long been a Southwestern Virginian political figure.
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Washington
W. Pat Jennings
House
Virginia
Jennings
William L. Scott
William C. Wampler
Scott
George Rawlings
Rawlings
Howard W
Smyth County
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Ben Quang
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Vietnam
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Ortner
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Willie Caudle
Lonzo Hall
Bartlick, Va
Rio Hood
The
American Insurance Association
James B. Askew
San Diego County
Askew
C. M. Scott
Charles M. Scott
Wyoming
WVU
Albert Shanker
United Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
Board of Education
Gram
AMG
Detroit
Chrysler Corp
American Motors Corp
Minnie Mangum
Portsmouth
Commonwealth Savings and Loan Association of Norfolk
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