Readers ask about pool plans and local questions
Q A Beckley pool? No definite plats for building a swimming pool here. Q Why plea to a misdemeanor in a felony case? Prosecution often accepts a lesser charge to save time and money. Q Which schools are in Raleigh-Wyoming Scholastic Press Assoc? Active members include Stoco Mullens Pineville Oceana Glen Rogers Marsh Fork Clear Fork Woodrow Wilson. Q How are certified seed potatoes produced? They are grown under inspector supervision with disease free stock and size and variety requirements. Q When can a child start school? Six by Oct 31, 1966. Q Where is the Federal Reserve Bank for the area? Richmond Virginia. Q What causes things to appear on I Dream of Jeannie? Trick photography. Q When are day and night equal? On first days of spring and autumn. Q Will New River train excursion return in autumn? No announced plans by C&O for autumn trip. Q When is the next solar or lunar eclipse? Two solar and two lunar eclipses in 1966. only Oct 29 lunar penumbral eclipse visible here. Q Who is the Black Knight Country Club swimming instructor? Allan Skellett Hope. Q Why must 18 year olds go to Vietnam? Editorialized to change the law. urge representatives. Q Is there a federal prison in Atlanta? Yes, address Federal Penitentiary Atlanta GA. Q When finish Woodrow Wilson High School? Ready for occupancy 1967-68 term.
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Raleigh-Wyoming Scholastic Press Association
Stoco
Mullens
Pineville
Oceana
Glen Rogers
Marsh Fork
Clear Fork
Woodrow Wilson
Lawrence Cavendish
Scattered Pieces Put Together After Oklahoma Crash
Investigators began piecing together a four engine Electra crash in Oklahoma aiming to learn why it plunged into a rocky hillside killing 82 people. CAB focuses on propellers and the recovered flight recorder to determine power, speed, altitude, and descent details. Victims include 76 Army recruits en route from Ft Ord to Ft Benning and six American Flyers crew members. sixteen soldiers survived.
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Gene Autry
Okla
UPI
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Oklahoma
Cattle Country
Ft. Ord
Calif
Ft. Benning
American Flyers Airlines
Weather Update Beckley Area With Cloudy Then Rain
Beckley and vicinity expect rain to end and clearing this afternoon with a high near 65 and a low around 45. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Tuesday will bring increasing clouds and rain by evening with a high near 60. Airport conditions show a high of 78 and low of 53 in the last 24 hours. River notes indicate Greenbrier normal and muddied, Lake Bluestone normal and clear with 2.5 gates open. a new Hinton gauge reads 3.4 ft. Five day forecast: WV temperatures 2 to 6 degrees below normal. south highs 70, lows 48. north 67/41. Rain expected midweek and again later in the week.
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Beckley
Dy Lake
Bluestone
Hinton
West Virginia
Storms Slash Across Texas Hit Red Bluff Lake and Rosenberg
Storms drenched Texas over the weekend flooding thousands of square miles with up to 20 inches of rainfall, causing extensive property damage and many deaths. Four people drowned at Red Bluff Lake when a motor boat capsized, and five more were killed in a two car crash near Rosenberg on the Gulf Coast.
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Longview
Tex
Red Bluff Lake
Rosenberg
Gulf Coast
Contract Dispute Ends: Two-Week Strike Is Over
Thousands of miners returned to work as a two week strike ended with a new contract agreement between the United Mine Workers and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. About 5,000 miners resumed duties at midnight, with more to follow, though pockets of resistance remained in southwestern Pennsylvania where dissident members kept some mines closed.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Mine Workers
UMW
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
BCOA
Washington
Pennsylvania
iThe Bcoa
Compa
Hard Hat Junction
Illinois
Colorado
Kentucky
C. EF. Bean
Alabama
Southern Coal Operators Association
Thomas Crawford
Consolidation Coal Co
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsy
Steve Kochis
US Jets Halt Viet Cong Attack At Coast Command Post
U S jets and naval gunfire repelled a Viet Cong assault on a government command post along the central coast, killing 50 attackers. The clash began when the Viet Cong struck a government battalion in Khanh Hoa, 200 miles northeast of Saigon, as troops were on a patrol. An American destroyer joined in with heavy fire while U S fighter aircraft strafed and bombed. Two waves were driven back and the Viet Cong withdrew. Casualties among government forces were light. In weekend reports, 32 guerrillas were said killed in other fronts. Two U S Air Force F 105s were shot down near Hanoi, with pilots Maj. Jimmy L. Jones and Maj. Richard A. Dutton listed, one missing. The Thunderchiefs also targeted the Bac Gian bridge near Hanoi Haiphong. No MIGs sighted in these engagements.
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Saigon
APS
U. S
Khanh Hoa
U. S S
Hanoi
Jimmy L. Jones
Luling
Texas
Richard A. Dutton
Las Vegas
Bac Gian
Haiphong
Red MIG 17s Pose Problem In Air War
In a weekend clash over North Vietnam 14 to 16 Communist jets including MIG 17s and MIG 21s attacked U S Air Force fighters in three dogfights. Two downed planes were MiG 17s. both presumed North Vietnamese pilots. Capt. Robert F. Blake and 1st Lt. S W George credited with one kill via radar guided Sparrow missile and Capt Maj F Cameron and 1st Lt. Robert E. Evans with a heat-seeking Sidewinder. The engagement marked the North Vietnamese air force first real effort to halt U S bombing. The MIGs flew from 25 miles northeast to 6 miles north of Hanoi in a 15 minute span.
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Saigon
API
U. S
North Viet Nam
Air Force
Robert F. Blake
Presque Isle
Maine
S. W. George
Oklo
Maj
F. Cameron
Sanford
N.C
Robert E. Evans
Haina
Hawaii
Hanoi
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to skip Pope meeting
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, touring Italy after days of talks with Italian leaders, apparently will not seek a meeting with Pope Paul VI. A Library of Congress study for Rep. Donald M. Faser suggests staggered four year House terms could weaken a new president’s legislative power.
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Andrei A. Gromyko
Italy
Paul VI
Library of Congress
Library
Legislative Reference Service
Donald M. Faser
D-Minn
House
Johnson faces tough half year amid Vietnam unrest and civil rights fears
The eighth annual United Press International breakfast meeting warned that the coming half year could bring President Johnson a severe test with Vietnam instability, civil rights unrest, and other domestic worries. An African woman was killed in Capetown during a brief gun and machete clash between police and mixed-race protesters in a park.
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Johnson
Viet Nam
United Press International
Capetown
U S Charges Soviet Refusal Over Tourist Death Inquiry
The United States accuses the Soviet government of withholding full information on the alleged prison train death of American tourist Newcomb Mott. Separately, the Supreme Court orders Hawaii elections this year to use a temporary legislative reapportionment plan creating a 25 member Senate from eight districts.
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United States
Newcomb Mott
Supreme Court
Hawaii
Lion Attacks Warden During BBC Film Shoot in Zambia
In Livingstone Game Park Zambia a lion mauled game warden Danny Haddon during a BBC television film sequence. The lion reared and pinned him against a wire fence before crew members frightened it away. Haddon was hospitalized for injuries.
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Lusaka
Zambia
UPI
British Broadcasting Corp
Livingstone
Danny Haddon
Governor's Conference On Travel Opens Today
In Wheeling, Governor Smith opened the three day travel conference after receiving a preliminary Commerce Department travel service report. The industry surpassed 417 million last year, with motel hotel sales and restaurant and service station gains cited. Panelists include Burl Sawyers Robert McDonough Gus Douglass and Angus Peyton. Prominent speakers from United States Travel Service Discover America Inc and Holiday Inns of America are also slated to speak.
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Wheeling
UPI
Smith
Commerce Department
Burl Sawyers
Robert McDonough
Gus Douglass
Commerce
Angus Peyton
Sylvan M. Barnet Jr
United States Travel Service
Donald Y. McCoy
Discover America Inc
Kemmons Wilson
Holiday Inns of America
Six Die On West Virginia Roads In Weekend Crashes
United Press International reports six people died in West Virginia traffic crashes over the weekend. Victims include Mary Nekarda 54 Canton Ohio and John Nekarda 67 a Czechoslovakia citizen in a one car wreck on the West Virginia Turnpike. Patty Bloss in her late 30s Huntington died near Lewisburg after colliding with another vehicle. A five year old Jeffrey Thornsburg was struck and killed on West Virginia Route 83 near Welch. Rhonda Evans 6 Elkview died after running in front of a car driven by Ovie Burdette Elkview in Pinch Kanawha County. Frances Daughtry 73 died on West Virginia Route 49 near Williamson. Betty Bowman 28 Granville Monongalia County died in a head-on near Odenton Maryland while riding with Donald Meleady 26 who was hospitalized.
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United Press International
West Virginia
Mary Nekarda
Canton
Ohio
John Nekarda
Czechoslovakia
Joseph F. Nekarda
Patty Bloss
Huntington
Lewisburg
Mig jets over Vietnam may include Chinese aircraft
Saigon dispatch cites UPI sources reporting that at least two of the MIG fighters challenging U S raiders over North Vietnam last Saturday were Chinese Communist aircraft.
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Saigon
UPI
U. S
Viet Nam
Picketing Resumes at Cape Kennedy Moonport
Striking electricians resumed picketing at all entrances to the space center turning away about 10 percent of the moonport's 1,150 man construction workforce.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
The
Space Center
Moonport
Humphrey Urges Realistic U S Goals Abroad
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told a meeting of the Associated Press that the United States should not expect world applause for efforts to raise living standards abroad and fight communism. He outlined three tasks: achieve peace, narrow the gap between rich and poor, and keep a strong economy, warning that peace in Asia and South Vietnam hinges on addressing poverty and resisting totalitarian tactics.
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New York
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
United States
Humphrey
Associated Press
Asia
Viet Nam
Jackie Winds Up Visit To Madrid
Mrs John F Kennedy wraps up an eight day trip to Spain calling it an unforgettable vacation. She departs for London with a box of bull fighting souvenirs for John John and Caroline. The gifts include bull models and dolls of the bull ring cast.
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Madrid
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Spain
la Kennedy
London
John-John
Caroline
Seville
Dodd Probe Grows as FBI Ethics Review Expands
Washington reports show Senator Thomas J. Dodd facing intensifying scrutiny as the FBI and the Senate Standards and Conduct Committee broaden their inquiry into charges that he accepted and gave favors to a registered foreign interests agent. The ethics review, long kept confidential by six veteran senators, is now linked to Dodd's dealings with Chicago lobbyist Julius Klein and other testimony about dinners in 1961 and 1963 featuring then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Washington
UPI
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
FBI
Senate
Connecticut
Johnson
Senate Committee On Standards and Conduct
Ethics Committee
Dodd
Chicago
Julius Klein
Catholics Demand Ouster Of Lodge In Vietnam Protests
Militant Catholic youths in Saigon led more than 8,000 demonstrators against U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, demanding his removal amid fears of Buddhist influence in a civilian government. Protesters accused Lodge of betraying Johnson’s hard line and urged action against the Buddhist movement and the so called struggle force. Similar rallies occurred in Bien Hoa and Da Nang as Catholic groups threaten possible clashes with Buddhists.
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Saigon
UPI
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Johnson
Bien Hoa
Here
da Nang
Student Struggle Force
Catholic Greater Union Force
Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Action Groups Blast Sukarno Criticism Surges in Indonesia
Antara reports an unprecedented list of statements by student, teacher, religious, and peasant groups condemning President Sukarno. They challenge his rule by decree, his emergency appointment as president, and his United Nations seat. Observers note it as rare open dissent for Indonesia’s revolutionary hero ruler.
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Jakarta
API
Antara
Sukarno
Tondonesian
Mem United Nations
Indonesia
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