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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1966
Page
1
Francis L McCarthy reports from Havana that Castro's regime shows growing chaos across military and political ranks. Purges, staff shakeups, resignations, and expulsions hint at deteriorating power structures while mass emigration and internal repression intensify.
New meteorologist R Roy Simpson takes command at the Weather Bureau Airport Station near Raleigh County Memorial Airport. He arrives from Pomona California and will oversee aviation weather, forestry, mining, manufacturing and agricultural services. Simp son is a Missouri graduate with a long bureau career. He succeeds Lewis Hayes who retired October 22 1965.
A compiled Q and A from The Register covering births in Pittsburgh Allegheny Arsenal in 1833, the Beckley home site at Neville St, age rules for hunting licenses, origins of April Fool's Day, trout season, Red Skelton's age, longest city street South Kanawha, Beckley Junior Dept of Woman's Club, lawyer consultation fees, Expo 67 Montreal opening, Stephens Lake naming, teen years at 18, World Series salaries, Stephen's Lake naming, and Juliet Jones writer Stan Drake.
Cloudy windy with occasional showers this afternoon high 54. Tonight and Saturday colder with snow flurries likely low 32 and high in the low 40s. Airport data show 41F high, 34F low in past 24 hours. wind WSW 20 mph gusts to 30. River levels Greenbrier and Lake normal and clear. Five day WV forecast colder then gradual warm up, light precip mainly in mountains.
Non-management employees of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in Williamson did not report for work this morning. AC and P officials say no communications from the Communications Workers of America have been received about the labor dispute. Officials warn of a local misunderstanding among Williamson employees and are attempting to contact union officers to resolve it.
Labor leader Harold Wilson secured a clear majority in Britain’s general election. He pledged to build a new Britain with measures popular or unpopular and to press Britain’s case on disarmament and world issues. Labor held 362 seats to Conservatives 250 with 13.1 million votes for Labor and 11.18 million for Conservatives.
London dispatch reports Sir Winston Churchill's son-in-law and key Conservative negotiator Edward Heath ally Soames failed to hold his Bedford seat. Labour challenger B S Parkyn defeated him by 378 votes after a recount in a 49,216 vote total.
In Clay West Virginia population 486, Murray Smith of the town bank drafts a plan to relocate the New York Stock Exchange to Clay citing absence of taxes and crime and suggesting renaming Main Street Wall Street. Funston and Lindsay are mentioned in a exchange tax dispute.
Gen Westmoreland announced a major new U S Pacific Fleet command in South Viet Nam named U S Naval Forces Viet Nam. Rear Admiral Norvell G Ward will head the command and serve as Naval component commander to Gen Westmoreland, replacing Lt Gen Lewis W Walt in the role. The ceremony occurred aboard the escort ship USS Towem o in Saigon.
Chieu was escorted by student leaders to the Committee of the Revolutionary Council headquarters after a rally amid unverified claims of interference in Viet Nam's politics. U.S. Consul Thomsen in Da Nang warned Americans to limit travel to essential business and urgent political needs. Da Nang houses U.S. Marines, about 50 miles south of Hue and 380 miles north of Saigon.
Charleston report says 408 West Virginians will be drafted in May. Brig. Gen. Williams announced the state call, increasing April's 240 by 168 to reach the May total. Nationally about 34,600 men are slated for conscription, with married men with no children favored for exemption.
The BLFE asks a federal court to lift a temporary anti strike order as a railroad walkout enters a second day. Labor Secretary Wirtz urged unionists to return, reporting to President Johnson, while EMS officials seek an emergency hearing to dissolve the injunction. The strike cripples freight and passenger service across 38 states, with Pennsy idling up to 32,000 workers and GM reporting 60,300 idle.
Weirton police charged Conrad J. Pesyna of Steubenville with murder in the stabbing death of Mary Lou Davies 33 whose nude body was found by her son on the way to school. A six inch knife was found at the scene. The husband Clifford was at work when discovered. The act occurred about 7 30 a m.
President Johnson unexpectedly visited a Washington USO dinner to commend comedian Bob Hope for entertaining U S service members worldwide. He awarded Hope a special prize and said winning peace is a lonely battle with Hope having done much to ease that loneliness. Indira Gandhi finished a six day U S visit and planned talks in London and Moscow before returning home. The Midwest experienced a weather swing with Michigan snow and Missouri temps near 90.
Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children John Jr and Caroline will fly to Argentina next week for Easter on Miguel Carcano estate. They will stay about a week at the former Argentine foreign minister’s ranch. Comedian Danny Kaye begins first Viet Nam tour in Saigon before an GI audience near bombed officers billets. Sholokhov denounces Western writers who sought clemency for jailed Russians at the 23rd Communist Party Congress, saying he feels ashamed for defenders.
Dr Martin Luther King and Harry Belafonte were feted in Stockholm as heroes for their civil rights fundraising drive in the United States drawing broad support. Police and port authorities prepared for a possible longshoremen strike in Philadelphia as new hiring rules and cutbacks took effect. A Vatican-Polish dispute was revealed as a Polish Embassy spokesman said Pope Paul VI would not visit Poland this year. Israelis and Syrians exchanged intermittent fire for five hours over a wheat field near a Sea of Galilee farm.
President Johnson asked Congress to extend the Medicare voluntary sign up period to May 31 to save over a million Americans aged 65 and over from missing coverage. If approved, those who neither signed up nor rejected would be able to enroll by July 1 when benefits begin, avoiding a two year wait for the next period. The Senate Finance Committee had moved to extend the deadline to May 31, with action expected on a tax bill.
Dwight Billings of the District Social Security Office in Beckley estimates at least 95 percent of Raleigh County residents over 65 have signed for Medicare, possibly as high as 98 percent. With 8,008 residents aged 65 plus in 1960, about 160 to 400 eligible persons may still be unsigned.
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