Soviet jets harass West Berlin during Bundestag opening
Soviet jet fighters fired blanks over West Berlin to protest the Bundestag session in Berlin. Jets buzzed Congress Hall at rooftops, with four in formation diving to 300 feet as pedestrians ducked. Tanks and armored divisions were massed on the Berlin Helmstedt highway amid Allied protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph B. Fleming
Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
Bundestag
Congress Hall
Bonn
Eugen Gerstenmaier
Bornholmer Strasse
East Germany
Berlin - Helmstedt
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Navy Planes Plaster II Viet Nam Traffic
Dr. N. H. Dyer state health director visited Raleigh County Health Center Beckley to review operations since April first when state took over. County will regain control when funds and requirements are met. State plans ongoing clinics, daily presence, and weekly trips. Also notes large Viet Nam air strikes and casualties as U.S. planes target north and south Vietnam in an intensified air war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. H. Dyer
Beckley
Raleigh County Health Center
State Department
Dyer
County Health Board
West Virginia
State Health Department
Saigon
UPI
U.S. Navy
Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
da Nang
Air Force
City seeks state aid to curb clubs and illegal vice
MOUNDSVILLE West Virginia city officials led by City Manager Jack Upton urge state aid to fight gambling and illegal liquor sales. He warned that private clubs operate openly with about 30 in the city. Upton criticized local condoning and potential political backing for illicit activity, urging action to protect children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moundsville
UPI
Jack Upton
Upton
GOP Sweeps Logan Election
United Press International reports Republicans won all elective posts in Logan on Tuesday. Logan Mayor H. H. Cudden led with 1,044 votes to Democrat Mary Paul 335. New Logan council members include John Aldredge A S Ammar Averill Hunter Litz McGuire and Sam Mureddy. In Parkersburg Dean T Jackson won mayor with 5 203 votes to 4 929 for Stanton C Knotts and council seats went to W O Muncey Lloyd Daugherty Paul Uhlman and Paul Bee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Logan
Parkersburg
Dean T. Jackson
H. H. Cudden
Mary Paul
GOP
Cudden
Averill Hunter
Litz McGuire
Sam Mureddy
Jackson
Stanton C. Knotts
W. O. Muncey
Lloyd Daugherty
Paul Uhlman
Paul Bee
Viet Cong threaten to execute U.S. civilian in Saigon
In Hanoi the Viet Cong warned via North Vietnamese News Agency broadcast that they would shoot a captured American aid official if South Vietnam executes suspect Nguyen Van Thai for bombing the U S Embassy in Saigon. They named G. Herzt as the U S operations mission member to be executed and called Thai a patriot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
UPI
Hanoi
South Viet Nam
U. S
Saigon
G. Herzt
Nguyen van Thai
Herzt
Smith Urges Negro Equal Access to Marshall Fraternities
Marshall University President Stewart Smith told a Jacksons Mill student conference that Negroes must supply the second step toward social acceptance, urging fraternities and sororities to open doors to all students on merit and potential while reforming practices and attitudes. He cautioned that change comes from friendliness, not ultimatums or protests. Civil rights groups on campus have pressed reforms after a recent band incident and suspensions amid racial tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson's Mill
Smith
Atti
Marshall
World News in Brief Sees Rusk in Tehran and Medicare Push
Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived in Tehran to lead a 30 member U S delegation to CENTO ministerial talks focusing on Vietnam The West Virginia governor backs Medicare as congressmen pledged strong support A list notes Patricia Neal’s brain surgery recovery and a two year return prospect Lyndon B Johnsons wife travels to New York for art events A Public Works committee explores a new building for city safety departments Senator Stuart Symington undergoes gallstone surgery expected to require a week to ten days in hospital
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Dean Rusk
Tehran
Iran
U. S
The
Central Treaty Organization
CENTO
Viet Nam
Hulett Smith
West Virginia
Patricia Neal
Lyndon B. Johnson
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Board of Public Works
Department of Public Safety
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Washington Hospital Center
Johnson taps Rowan for Viet Nam psychological warfare
President Johnson assigns U S Information Director Carl T Rowan to direct all U S psychological warfare programs in Viet Nam. Also notes Adenauer’s vacation in Italy and other brief items including a river tragedy recovery, Grissom invitation to Memorial Day 500 race, and a jail term for Beach Boys members in New York. Public Service Commission orders Holden Water Co to buy water from Pure Water Co amid unsafe supply. House Rules Committee backs health care bill. Senate committee approves 1.3 billion school aid bill, both moving to floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
U. S
Carl T. Rowan
Viet Nam
Konrad Adenauer
Cadenabia
Italy
Lake Como
Marvin Hopkins
Warsaw
Wheeling
Ohio River
Warwood Dam
Virgil I
Gus) Grissom
Indianapolis Speedway
Museum of Natural History
Jack “Murph
Murph
House Rules Committee
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
U S 60 Closed April 19 for I 64 Work Detour Set
Virginia and West Virginia plan major 1 64 work meeting at the state line. A 65 foot cut will lower Alleghany Mountain and a 40 foot fill buries the old U S 60. Detour will add about six miles via routes 159 and 311, following what was U S 6. authority cites large rock and earth movements on both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
West Virginia
Local Boy To Take Luci To The Ball
George James and Tommy James of Crab Orchard plan to escort Luci Baines Johnson and her friend to the National Cherry Blossom Festival Ball at the Washington Hilton. Luci will attend with her date arranged by her friend, while the James brothers attend as escorts and their sister Mary Katherine James is WV Cherry Blossom Festival princess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luci Baines Johnson
Washington Hilton
Luci Baines
George James
Beckley College
Luci
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tommy James
Tommy
Washington
George
House of Representatives
Mary Katherine James
West Virginia
Miss James
West Virginia University
Woodrow Wilson High School
WVU
Mountain State Forest Festival
Johnson to define U S Viet Nam policy in address
President Johnson prepared to outline U S policy on Viet Nam and Southeast Asia in a 9 p m address to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Diplomats hope the speech clarifies terms for peace talks while officials discuss regional aid and long range goals amid calls for specific negotiation plans.
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Johnson
United States
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Voice of America
Wartorn
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
George W. Ball
McGeorge Bundy
Carey Resigns IUE Presidency
Paul J. Jennings was elected unanimously to succeed James B. Carey as president of the International Union of Electrical Workers. Carey resigns amid charges of election rigging and a potential AFL CIO investigation. The 31 member executive board expected to install Jennings, a Newark insurgent, to avert a probe and possible court fight over the 255000 member union. Carey announced his resignation and planned a farewell address as the board met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulletin Washington
UPI
Paul J. Jennings
James B. Carey
International Union of Electrical Workers
IUEE
Washington
IUE
Newark
N.J
Carey
Afl-Cio
Carey-Jennings
Wyoming Supreme Court bans Fogelsong name in funeral homes
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Sam Fogelsong and the buyers who acquired his former funeral business cannot use the Fogelsong name for their funeral homes. The decision, upholding injunctions from both sides, states a personal name must be used truthfully and in good faith to avoid unfair competition.
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Charleston
UPI
State Supreme Court
Fogelsong
Wyoming County
Sam Fogelsong
Wyoming County Circuit Court
Supreme Court
High Court
James L. McDougal
Robertson and Fogelsong Funeral Home
Mullens Establishment
Fogelsong Funeral Home Inc
Billion Dollar Appalachian Power Project Announced
Winchester Ky. UPI says a 1 billion plan by Yankee Dixie Power Association aims to spur Appalachian employment with three large coal adjacent generating plants in Kentucky Alabama and Pennsylvania serving 18 states from New England to Florida. It forecasts 5000 coal mining jobs and 30 percent lower wholesale power costs. funded by revenue bonds with no federal money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
UPI
Appalachia
Hugh Spurlock
Yankee-Dixie Power Association
Spurlock
Eastern Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corp
Kentucky
Alabama
Pennsylvania
New England
Florida
Appalachian
Coart
Earth
Early Bird In High Orbit Shines For COMSAT Launch
Washington reports Early Bird, the 85 pound commercial satellite, lifted off from Cape Kennedy aboard a Delta rocket to begin a first of its kind satellite communications system. Initial orbit shows 11 hr 10 min period, 22 680 mile apogee, 900 mile perigee with a planned 40 hour motor burn to reach a synchronous orbit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Bird
Cape Kennedy
Communications Satellite Corp
Comsat
Space Agency
Delta
Andover
Maine
Three Klansmen Indicted In Liuzzo Death
Three of four Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in the death of Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit civil rights worker, were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to violate her civil rights. Liuzzo was killed March 25 on a highway between Selma and Montgomery, aiding demonstrators. The trio, Collie Wilkins, Eugene Thomas, and William Eaton, face up to 10 years or a fine of $5,000. a fourth suspect, Gary Rowe Jr., was not indicted. The men, held on $50,000 bond each, were identified by the U.S. marshal’s office and represented by Klan attorney Matt Murphy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
UPT
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Detroit
Liuzzo
Selma
Montgomery
Alabama
U.S
Roy Call
Louise Charlton
Matt H. Murphy
Ku Klux Klan
Weather Summary Beckley and Vicinity Forecast
Variable cloudiness with scattered showers or thunder showers this afternoon. High 69. Clear tonight. Low 47. Thursday sunny. High in the low 70s. Beckley highs 65 and 62 in past hours, low 50. River Greenbrier normal and clear, Lake normal and muddy, new gauge at Hinton 3.7 ft. Today highs near 91 in Ocala, Florida and 19 in Millinocket, Maine. Five day forecast shows 5 to 8 degrees above normal with weekend showers totaling about half an inch.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Hinton
Ocala
Fla
Millinocket
Maine
West Virginia
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West Germany
Vinh
Coral Sea
South China Sea
U.S. 60
George James Luci
By June Davis
Library of Congress
Columbia Prep School
Washington, D. C
K. R. James
Crab Orchard
By Stewart Hensley
Wyoming
Fendant
McDougal
Sam
Chauncey Browning
Robertson and Fogelsong
Bank of Raleigh
F.D.L.C
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