China Calls For Full War Preparations
Peking urged a nationwide campaign to mobilize forces for possible troop dispatch to Viet Nam tied to U S escalation. The standing committee of the National Peoples Congress spoke through New China News Agency, signaling potential mass troop shipments if needed. Soviet and American actions loom large as both sides threaten and counter.
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Tokyo
UPI
China
Viet Nam
Peking
National Peoples Congress of
Red China
Communist Party
Mao Tze-tung
Communist New China News Agency
Navy Jets Bomb North Viet Nam Amid Civilian Deaths
U S air and Vietnamese planes conducted three major raids over North Viet Nam with a 40 aircraft attack on Highways 7 and 8 triggering landslides that blocked routes for troops and supplies. A Navy pilot was killed in a separate raid. In South Viet Nam Communist attacks killed an American civilian and wounded soldiers near Da Nang as a 3,000 strong regiment moved into position for a decisive battle. Eighty American and South Vietnamese planes roamed the skies while other efforts targeted a bridge near Dong Hoi and Highway 1.
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Saigon
UPS
North Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
South Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang
Dong Hoi
Highway 1
U.S. Air Force
Missing Man Found Dazed In Bluefield
Antonio Legato a 23 year old Mc Dowell County man missing since his car wreck Sunday night was found walking in Bluefield. He disappeared after his car struck a utility pole and then hit a second auto at Pinnacle Rock. Rescue squads searched the area dragging the Blue Stone River. A bystander recognized Legato and he was taken to Bluefield Sanitarium in shock. It was unclear how he traveled the eight miles from Pinnacle Rock to Bluefield.
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Bluefield
UPI
McDowell County
Antonio Legato
U. S. 52
Pinnacle Rock
Princeton
Bluestone River
W. L. Conley
Legato
Bluefield Sanitarium
Conley
Weather Outlook Beckley and Vicinity
Cloudy and cool conditions persist in Beckley with a high near 64. Tonight and Wednesday show partly cloudy skies with a low around 44 and a high in the low 70s. River gauges near Beckley report normal Greenbrier and Lake conditions, with a new gauge at Hinton reading 3.9 ft.
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Beckley
Beckley High
Greenbrier
Hinton
Laredo
Tex
International Falls
Minn
BPW Releases $1 Million From Surplus Funds
The State Board of Public Works released 1 million dollars from surplus funds with 500000 going to the State Department immediately. The Tax Department will use funds for property reappraisal and 149000 to the State Aeronautics Commission for improving airport facilities. The rest, 351000, goes to the Industrial Development Authority and the Department of Natural Resources, with DN R plans for pools at Babcock State Park Laurel Lake and Berwind Lake. State Tax Commissioner Battle seeks to adjust railroad tax formula. action postponed until tentative 1965 figures are compared. Potomac State College seeks 6200 to cover utility bills. Department of Public Institutions asked to propose space for the new Department of Corrections.
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Charleston
UPI
State Board of Public Works
State Department
Tax Department
State Aeronautics Commission
Industrial Development Authority
Department of Commerce
Department of Natural Resources
Babcock State Park
Beckley
Laurel Lake
Mingo County
Berwind Lake
McDowell County
G. Thomas Battle
BPW
West Virginia
Battle
Potomac State College
Keyser
Department of Public Institutions
Truman E. Gore
Department of Corrections
Brazilian Journalists Tour Charleston Area
Ten Brazilian journalists toured the Charleston area under the State Department program. Charleston was chosen as a state capital in Appalachia and the group plans a flight to Los Angeles after the visit.
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Charleston
UPI
U.S. State Department
Appalachia
Los Angeles
Editorial Hulett Questions for Jack on Flat Top Lake Saga
The DMA Flat Top Lake affair raises questions about governance under Governor Smith. The Record reports high salaries and overlapping roles including Fred Vines as conservator of the peace, with unclear salary ties to the Lake Association and a potential conflict with the Motor Vehicles Department. Questions persist about Vines attendance, the point system committee, and access to Turnpike gates as rumors circulate.
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Department of Motor Vehicles
Smith
Nichols
Motor Vehicles Department
Fred Vines
Flat Top Lake
The
Lake Association
Vines
Flat Top Lake Association
Lake Assn
Burglary waves hit Miami Beach hotel rooms
Safety deposit box bandits struck a second time in five days, taking 60 lock boxes from a modest Miami Beach hotel, with the amount recovered not yet known. Last Friday gunmen grabbed 78 boxes in an oceanfront hotel, estimated at 130000 dollars in cash and jewels.
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Miami Beach
Ohio Democratic
Air Force
Curtis M. LeMay
Ohio
Japan
France To Boycott SEATO Meeting
France will skip the SEATO ministerial meeting in London next month over Viet Nam policy disputes. Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville will not attend. observer Achille Clarac will represent Paris at the talks. The French Foreign Office warned that London discussions will focus on Indochina and the Viet Nam conflict with no shared position or joint action expected.
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Paris
UPI
France
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
London
Viet Nam
Defense Alliance
Maurice Couve de Murville
Achille Clarac
Bangkok
Seato Permanent Council
Foreign Office
Indochina
Council
Castro forecasts communist takeovers in three Latin nations
Fidel Castro told Havana radio that communist guerrillas would seize Guatemala Colombia and Venezuela as national armies are ineffective mercenaries He claimed Cuban arms smuggling financed most of his weapons and boasted weapons suffice for 100 revolutions while warning of potential incursions and noting he can detect offshore mother ships with patrol planes.
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Miami
UPI
Fidel Castro
Guatemala
Colombia
Venezuela
Havana
Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuba
Latin America
German Measles Aftermath Feared Major Tragedy Foretold
Washington officials warn of a potential major tragedy from a German measles epidemic in the United States this year. Dr. Richard Masland of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness testified that 0.5 to 1 percent of babies born to mothers pregnant during the epidemic may be defective, possibly thousands nationwide. He noted about 2 million women were at risk and that the epidemic would hit the West Coast and Hawaii this summer with gamma globulin showing about a 50 percent reduction in cases.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Richard Masland
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness
House
Masland
West
Coast
Hawaii
Public Health Service
Steel Studies Union Proposal
Pittsburgh UP I report that the United Steelworkers propose a three year contract with three annual wage bumps of 17.5 cents. The plan aligns with 3.2 percent wage guidelines from the President's Council of Economic Advisers and appears driven by White House pressure amid looming May 1 strike threats. Initial demands submitted March 29 to 11 major steel firms were cited as high as $1 to $2 per hour over three years.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers Union
USW
President's Council of Economic Advisers
White House
Smoking Bill Backers Fear Hollow Victory
Washington UPI reports supporters of a health warning on cigarette packages fear a hollow victory as Congress moves a package warning bill. Senate Commerce likely to approve a package warning. advertising warnings remain contested among House and Senate plans.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Senate Commerce Committee
House
Senate
Paul G. Rogers
D-Fla
Maurine B. Neuberger
D-Ore
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Tech Granted Loan to WV Tech for Housing Project
Washington UPI reports the Community Facilities Administration approved a 6.61 million loan to West Virginia Tech to finance construction of student housing facilities. The loan guarantees funds for campus housing expansion and related construction work.
Baby Drowns In Creek Near Dunlow
Wayne County infant French Watts age 17 months drowned in rain swollen Brush Creek near his Dunlow home. Sheriff said the child was missed by a babysitter and a search was started. Parents were en route to Huntington to visit a relative when the tragedy occurred.
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WAYNE
UPI
Wayne County
Brush Creek
Dunlow
French Watts
Everett Watts
Harry W. Smith
Huntington
Vaccine To Combat Cat Fever Found
U S Public Health Service reports an oral vaccine effective against cat fever a disease that heavily affects military recruits during basic training A field trial at a Marine training camp showed the vaccine prevented the illness in all vaccinated volunteers while 25 percent of the unvaccinated group contracted it The symptoms resemble a bad cold with high fever and sometimes lead to pneumonia
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Public Health Service
Shott Nominated as GOP State Chair in West Virginia
Bluefield television executive John Shott was nominated by the Republican Executive Committee to seek the state chairmanship after C. S. Weaver resigned. Shott, WHIS-TV general manager and member of the state committee since 1957, comes from a family with deep Republican ties and would lead the party in Charleston.
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Bluefield
UPI
Tenta
John Shott
GOP
Republican Executive Committee
Charleston
C. S
Jack) Weaver
Shott
Fred O. Blue
Shot
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Printing Co
State
Republican Committee
Integration Nazi Seeks Virginia Governor Run
United Press International reports George Lincoln Rockwell 47 of Arlington Virginia filed a petition to seek Virginia governor on a constitutional white Christian platform arguing major parties have degenerated. The Virginia Election Board will certify signatures before candidates are listed. Separate items note Martin Luther King’s Selma return and Bogalusa protests with calls for federal troops. Mississippi reports include Republican reaction to voting rights and two civil rights workers fined after a sit-in.
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United Press International
George Lincoln Rockwell
Virginia
Rockwell
Arlington
U.S.A
Virginia Election Board
Alabama
Martin Luther King
Selma
Ala
Montgomery
Bogalusa
City Hall
Dixie
U.S
Johnson
Jackson
Miss
Wirt Yerger
Congress
Pascagoula, Miss
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Olin D. Johnston
D-S. C
Charles E. Price
State Workmen's Compensation Department
State Board of Probation and Parole
J. Alexander Creasy
Defense
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Honolulu
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Tania Beryll
Rome
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