U S Jets Strike North Of Hanoi In Big Raid
An armada of 60 U S Navy bombers from Coral Sea attacked radar stations near the 17th parallel, one F105 was downed but rescued, and planes returned safely. In South Vietnam an American soldier died in a helicopter crash, two advisers wounded in Binh Dinh. Ambassador Taylor returned to Saigon with plans to boost U S military strength as Johnson discussed strategy in Washington. Air strikes by 76 aircraft targeted Communist rail and highway facilities with no interceptions reported.
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Hanoi
Coral Sea
17Th Parallel
South China Sea
South Viet Nam
Saigon
Binh
Michael T. Malloy
UPS
United States
Air Force
Thanh Hoa
National Cherry Blossom Festival events noted in brief
Mrs Lyndon B Johnson and Mrs Ryuji Takeuchi will take part in a cherry tree planting ceremony Tuesday to open the 1965 National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington. Sen Bayh proposes VA loans for widows of fallen servicemen. Glass container workers avert a strike with a three year contract giving 50 cents per hour raise. Police and labs seek clues to five Detroit cross burnings. one on a civil rights worker’s husband lawn near Selma. Ford Foundation suspends Indonesia operations amid anti American pressure. Lorillard raises cigarette prices by seven tenths of a cent per pack. Hope Cooke crowned queen of Sikkim. Tom Neal to be arraigned for murder in Palm Springs. Youngstown Guild strike nears end with tentative contract. Funeral today for Walter Heath, songwriter of Mule Train. Bundy says US role in Vietnam not drawing Soviet Union and China closer. Nation Catholic Conference official to speak at West Virginia race and religion conference.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Ryuji Takeuchi
Birch E. Bayh Jr
D-Ind
Veterans Administration
Detroit
Anthony Liuzzo
Selma
Ala
Ford Foundation
Indonesia
P. Lorillard Co
New York
Hope Cooke
Sikkim
Asia
Maharaja Palden Thondup Namgala
Thondup
Sir Tashi Namgal
Tom Neal
Franchot
Barbara Peyton
Palm Springs
Calif
Gail
Youngstown
Ohio
American
Guild
Glendale
Walter Henry
Hy) Heath
Clancy
Heath
McGeorge Bundy
Meet the Press
U. S
Soviet Union
China
Bundy
Matthew Altmann
National Catholic Conference On Inter- Racial Justice
West Virginia
Charleston Civic Center
Early Vietnam air raids report mixed gains and losses
U S sources describe a tense day as F105s encountered no opposition while losses occurred. North Vietnamese MIGs downed two American aircraft near Thanh Hoa, marking the first such event. Johnson weighs a Viet Nam speech amid heavy anti-aircraft fire and ongoing armed reconnaissance missions.
Berlin pressure tactics disrupt Autobahn and air links
Soviet East German actions blocked, harassed and delayed traffic on Helmstedt Berlin Autobahn. Four hour blockade lifted at Berlin end but remained halted at Helmstedt. Soviets claimed air corridor control but Allies refused. Civilians faced long delays while Allied convoys moved freely. East German guards halted traffic on two autobahns while guarding bridges along the route to Berlin.
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Berlin
West Berlin
West Germany
Helmstedt-Berlin Autobahn
Helmstedt
United States
France
Berlin Wall
U. S. Air Force European
Wiesbaden
Helmstedt - Berlin Autobahn
Hope Renewed For 4 Missing Explorers
Four missing cave explorers trapped in Rowland cave near Batesville Ark were heard from via an SOS and are reported alive. Rescue teams from the Navy Deep Sea Diving School and National Capitol cave group joined the effort as water receded and plans to reach the men with scuba gear or to wait for the floodwaters to drop were considered. The group includes Hugh Shell 42 a Batesville bookkeeper and two Arkansas College students Mike Hill Hogie Bledsoe and Steve Wilson. The light string reaches 900 feet into the cave ending in the cathedral room where rescuers believe the men remain above water.
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Fiftysix, Ark
UPI
Fiftysix
Ark
Rowland Cave
Hale Bryant
Batesville
Navy Deep Sea Diving School
National Capitol
Washington
Ozark Mountains
Bryant
Hugh Shell
Shell
Mike Hill
Arkansas College
Hogie Bledsoe
Steve Wilson
Arkansas Tech
Russellville
Hill
Julie Rex Are Oscar Probables
Hollywood betting favors My Fair Lady in best picture and Rex Harrison in best actor with Julie Andrews as best actress. George Cukor leads best director, while supporting actor Stanley Holloway and supporting actress Agnes Moorehead are named. Debates over Deb b ie Reynolds Sophia Loren and Anne Bancroft color the field as O'Toole Burton Sellers base odds shift.
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Vernon Scott
UPI
Hollywood Correspondent
Hollywood
Rex Harrison
Julie Andrews
George Cukor
Stanley Holloway
Agnes Moorehead
Chim Chim Cher-ee
Mary Poppins
Harrison
Cinch
Peter O'Toole
Richard Burton
Becket
Peter Sellers
Anthony Quinn
Sellers
Quinn
Zorba
Debbie Reynolds
Glendale
Molly Brown
Sophia Loren
Kim Stanley
Anne Bancroft
Miss Loren
Miss Bancroft
Miss Stanley
Debbie
Miss Andrews
Audrey Hepburn
Eliza Doolittle
Warner Bros
Miss Hepburn
O'Toole
Burton
London
Academy
Nomi
Johnsons Farm Plan Would Hike Bread Price
President Johnson asked Congress to pass farm legislation saving about 200 million annually but raising bread prices by about one cent per loaf and rice by a few pennies per pound. The plan shifts some price support costs to consumers, raising total costs to roughly 300 million while boosting farm income by 100 million. It includes feed grains wool cropland adjustment and allotment transfers with no cotton proposal.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
Agriculture Department
Treasury
Weather Balmy Beckley and Vicinity Forecast
Balmy conditions give way to increasing clouds and warmth this afternoon with a high near 67. Tonight remains cloudy and mild with showers and possible thunderstorms, low around 48. Tuesday brings more showers and possible storms, high in the low 70s. Greenbrier river conditions normal and clear. Lake Greenbrier normal but muddy with 6 gates open. New gauge at Hinton reads 3.2 ft. Today's extremes show a high of 94 in Laredo Texas and a low of 12 in Bradford Pennsylvania. Five day WV forecast calls for near normal temperatures, showers Tuesday and Wednesday, then more rain and warmth Friday into Saturday.
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Beckley
Caiepess Sea
Hinton
Laredo
Tex
Bradford
West Virginia
City Delays Appointments to Combined Health Board
Beckley officials push back city member appointments to Raleigh County Health Board. Court-ordered March 9 plan creates five to seven member City-County Health Board with two city and three county members. City seeks state AG guidance on board size and old board status before naming members.
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Health Board
Raleigh County Health Center
Elinor Hurt
Edna Mills Mankin
William Shanklin
Raleigh County
E. M
Ned” Payne III
Raleigh County Board of Health
Payne
Beckley
Raleigh County Board
Hurt
Princeton Man Charged With Ambushing Wife
Carl Fortner of Athens was charged with attempted murder and felonious assault after allegedly placing rails on a rural roadblock to trap his estranged wife and a friend. A shotgun blast narrowly missed the women when Fortner fired from hiding. they fled after ramming the roadblock. Fortner was arrested at his home about an hour later.
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Princeton
UPI
Carl Fortner
Athens
Fortner
Three Nude Bodies Found In Field In Michigan
In Watervliet Michigan three bodies were found in a field on Sunday night. The victims include Diane Carter a 12 year old Negro girl identified by the authorities and Mrs Amelia Boyer a 60 year old Benton Harbor resident. A third body of a Negro woman around 30 was also recovered. Diane and Mrs Boyer had disappeared within 50 yards of the same Benton Harbor site days apart.
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Watervliet, Mich
UPI
Diane Carter
Benton Harbor
Mich
Watervliet
Amelia Boyer
Bryce Hyler
Boyer
Diane
Pentagon couriers arrested in alleged defense secret sale
Washington FBI agents arrested former Pentagon courier Robert Lee Johnson, 43, at the Pentagon and James Allen Mintkenbaugh, 46, near his San Martin home in California on charges of selling U S defense secrets to Soviet agents. Separately Labor Department reports James B Carey was defeated in his bid for reelection as president of the International Union of Electrical Workers by 23 316 votes instead of 2 193.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
FBI
U. S
Set
Robert Lee Johnson
Armed Forces
James Allen Mintkenbaugh
San Martin
Calif
Labor Department
James B. Carey
International Union of Electrical Workers
IUE
Carey
Union
Greece hit by quake kills seventeen injures thirty
A powerful triple tremor struck the Peloponnesus causing 17 deaths and 30 serious injuries. Dozens injured, with Arakadia Massinia and Ilia declared emergency areas. Olympia and Megalopolis suffered heavy damage. many homes ruined. Archaeological center at Olympia reportedly intact. The quakes began at 4 13 am and lasted 22 minutes.
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Athens
API
Greece
Peloponnesian
Ministry of Interior
Arakadia
Massinia
Ilia
Olympia
Megalopolis
Apoditsa
Horemi
Freedom Rider Victory Court Reverses Alabama Convictions
The U S Supreme Court summarily reversed in Montgomery Alabama the 1961 convictions of ten of eleven riders for unlawful assembly and breach of the peace, following a sit in at a segregated lunch counter. The action cited a prior ruling and involved Yale chaplain William Sloan Coffin Jr and other civil rights figures.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Montgomery
Ala
Yale University
William Sloan Coffin Jr
Alabama National Guard
Hugo L. Black
Byron R. White
Wanted zinc bath for adult with strong bottom
Denys Parsons highlights scrambled syntax from newspapers and ads in his new collection. He cites oddities such as a British ad seeking a zinc bath for an adult with a strong bottom and other humorous misprints like urgent room requests and vanity tips.
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London
UPI
Denys Parsons
Retired Justice Sherman Minton in critical condition
New Albany Indiana UPI reports former Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton age 74 is recovering from sudden internal bleeding. His condition is listed as very critical at a hospital. Minton, appointed to the court in 1949 by President Truman, retired in 1959.
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New Albany
Ind
UPI
U.S. Supreme Court
Sherman Minton
Minton
U.S
Supreme Court
Harry S. Truman
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