Katzenbach says no organized conspiracy behind big city riots
Attorney General Katzenbach says there is no evidence of a national conspiracy behind riots in New York Chicago and other cities while warning troublemakers may try to spark disorder. He notes unemployment especially among youth as a key factor and stresses complex causes beyond conspiracy.
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Washington
UPI
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
Big City
Justice Department
New York
Chicago
Cleveland
Alleged Falsification Charges Against Logan Sheriff Dismissed
Logan County ousted sheriff J W Ferrell saw charges of falsifying state records dismissed on Saturday along with aiding and abetting charges against two former aides. A fourth person indicted in the case remains unresolved.
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LOGAN
API
Logan County
J. W. Ferrell
Floyd Dude Ellis
Oval Damron
C. C. Chambers
Ferrell
State Road Commission
Norma Sue White
Harold Hale
Logan Construction Co
J. W. Ferrell Sr
John W. Hereford
William Abraham
Omar
Hereford
New Auto Safety Bill Faces Industry Backlash
Detroit sources quote Ford's Donald Frey calling the auto safety bill unrealistic and costly for makers, with retooling for 1968 models and potential production stoppages feared. The piece also notes related political and legal actions in Logan County involving local officials and impeachment proceedings.
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Detroit
UPI
Donald N. Frey
Ford Division
Ro W. Irvin
Detroit News
Frey
General Services Administration
Ford
Luci Johnson Prepares for Wedding Week at White House
Bride to be Luci Johnson undergoes final fittings for her gown at the White House ahead of her Saturday wedding to Patrick J. Nugent. The week includes four nuptial parties and a state dinner for Israel's President Shazar. Nugent and Luci return from Georgia where he served with the Air National Guard. Nugent parents travel from Illinois.
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Washington
UPI
Luci Johnson
White House
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Luci
Patrick J. Nugent
Georgetown
Ambassador
Zalmah Shazar
Israel
Pat
Georgia
Air National Guard
Gerard P. Nugent
Waukegan
Ill
Communists To Step Up Infiltration Of Civil Rights
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover predicts that the US Communist party will step up its efforts to infiltrate civil rights organizations. He says the party is in a stronger position after its New York convention and will seek allies among non-Communists, using ideological disarmament. Hoover cites the 1965 Supreme Court ruling allowing Communist defendants to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
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Hoover
Washington
UPI
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Communist Party
New York
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Supreme Court
Breaks Tradition Summer Fashions In Winter Parade Paris
Paris fashion notes a shift as summer styles appear in winter showings. Edward Molyneux and Antonio Castillo buck tradition with year-round couture and lower prices, aiming at worldwide clients. Cardin suggests annual collections. Molyneux showcases slant toward elegant older woman looks with modest hems and tent coats.
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Paris
UPI
Edward Molyneux
Antonio Castillo
London
Cairo
Pierre Cardin
Paris Couturiers
Molyneux
Oslo
Norway
Sydney
Australia
Gres
Balmain
Search For DC3 Officially Ended
The Coast Guard ended its search for Army Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell and two others who vanished nine days ago on a flight from San Francisco to Honolulu. The operation covered 129000 miles before being suspended at dusk Saturday. The service asked ships and planes within 600 miles southwest of San Francisco to look for any sign of the DC3. Stilwell, 54, son of World War II commander Vinegar Joe Stilwell, flew July 23 as copilot to gain instrument rating on a three day leave. also aboard were pilot Harold Grimes of Pacific Palisades and Harold Fossum of Montclair. Stilwell was head of the special warfare training center at Fort Bragg and had prior service with Green Berets in Vietnam.
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San Francisco
UPI
Coast Guard
Army
Joseph W. Stilwell
Here
Honolulu
Stilwell
Vinegar Joe
Berkeley Youth Jumps From Window While On LSD
Vernon P. Cox a 20 year old Berkeley man died after leaping three stories from a bedroom window during a "trip party" with three others. Witnesses said he alternated between reality and fantasy stating he might go to Europe while on the drug.
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Berkeley
Calif
UPI
Vernon P. Cox
Cox
Europe
Dog wins first bravery award for saving dog
Thane an 11 month old black retriever from Farnworth owned by Mr and Mrs Stanley Lomax receives the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals first dog bravery award for saving another dog from drowning in London.
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London
UPI
Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Thane
Stanley Lomax
Farnworth
Deaths And Funerals Mrs Bessie McDaniels 71 Ghent
Funeral services for Mrs Bessie McDaniels 71 of Ghent formerly Gatewood will be at 2 p m Wednesday at West View Missionary Baptist Church Odd with Rev Donald Meadows in charge Burial in Odd Cemetery She died Sunday morning in Beckley hospital after a long illness Born August 22 1894 in Ashe County NC she was daughter of the late Harrison and Mary Jones Witherspoon She was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church Survivors include her husband Monroe three sons Jency J of Washington DC Harry F and Charlie J both of Tacoma Park Md three daughters Mrs Caro Pennington of Ghent Mrs Dorothy Bailey of Amigo and Mrs Reba Wood of Phoenix Ariz two brothers Willard of Fayetteville and Lyda Witherspoon of California and 15 grandchildren The body is at the Dodd Payne Funeral Home in Fayetteville and will be taken to the church one hour prior to services Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p m Tuesday
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Bessie McDaniels
Ghent
Gatewood
West View Missionary Baptist Church
Odd
Donald Meadows
Beckley Hospital
Ashe County
North Carolina
Harrison
Mary Jones Witherspoon
Free Will Baptist Church
Robert C
Virgie) Fleshman
Winding Gulf
Fred X. Williams
Sophia
Roland Kennedy
L. H. Hayes
Sunset Memorial Park
Fleshman
B. E
Ellen Cole Meadows
Epperly Methodist Church
Eastern Star
Coal City
Robert C. Fleshman Jr
Crab Orchard
C. E. Fleshman
Midway
Willie Meadows
Wiley Meadows
Milton
Fred
Glen Morgan
Thomas
Albuquerque
N. M
Easter Crouch
Piney View
Howard Barr
Hialeah
Fla
Buford Crouch
Robert Crouch
Warren Crouch
Homer Crouch
Elzie Meadows
Tommy Meadows
Henry Harris
Glen Jean
Alex
Lizzie Harris
Concord
N.C
Roy Harris
Norris Harris
N. C
Eva Graham
Detroit
Mich
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Beckley
Bertha Acord Manning
Bolt
Belt Fundamental Baptist Church
Pine Knob
John
Perlina Acord
Lawrence
Roy
Stickney
James
Franklin, Md
Alfred
Lorraine
Ohio
San Francisco
Cal
Crockett
Glen Daniel
Kenneth
Ravenswood
Wavie Gunnoe
Clarence
Macie) Laverty
Saxon
Lynden
Hattie) Brooks
Nokesville
Lee
Virginia) Sarrett
Arnett
Snowden
Lacy
Eccles
Victoria Dillon
Whitesville
Flossie Acord
Martha Ann Cook
Fairdale
Sarah Acord
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Funeral for Mrs Fleshman in Sophia at 2 p.m.
Mrs. Rob ert C. Fleshman 63 of Winding Gulf dies after long illness. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at Fred X. Williams Funeral Home Sophia with Rev. Roland Kennedy and Rev. L H Hayes officiating. Burial Sunset Memorial Park. She leaves husband Robert Jr and C E Fleshman two sons, step mother, siblings and two grandchildren. Pallbearers named. Burial follows viewing at funeral home after 4 p.m. today.
Funeral services for Stewart Henry Shuck
Stewart Henry Shuck 70 of Fireco dies from apparent heart attack Saturday at home. Funeral at 2 p m Tuesday at Jonben Church of God with Rev Beulah Pack officiating. Burial in Jonben Cemetery. Body at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home to be moved to the church an hour before services.
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Stewart Henry Shuck
Fireco
Jonben Church
Dismissal Bid Eyed in 15 Klan Indictments
UPT reports defense lawyers in Hattiesburg plan to seek dismissal of two counts on federal conspiracy charges against 15 Ku Klux Klan defendants including sam bows and mor daunt hamilton sr. the case centers on alleged efforts to intimidate Vernon Dahmer sr in a voter registration drive sparked by a January firebombing and gunfire that left him dead.
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Hattiesburg, Miss
UPT
U.S. District Court
Harold Cox
Sam Bowers
White Knights
Hattiesburg
Mordaunt Hamilton Sr
Hamilton
Vernon Dahmer Sr
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Dahmer
FBI
Bowers Arruady
Blast Fatal To McDowell Man
A McDowell County man Barnett Lockhart from the Italian community was killed by a powerful blast inside his car on a secondary road near Long Pole Mohawk. State Police say he likely caused the death himself by placing dynamite in his lap and that an autopsy was planned as investigation continues.
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Lockhart
Long Pole
Mohawk
Kinsey
Car-Truck Collision Kills Berea Man in Belpre Ohio
Belpre Ohio. Lambert Car-Truck crash at Memorial Bridge end kills 31 year old Hebert Lambert of Berea due to burns from fuel tank explosion After collision with truck that ignored a stop sign Belpre City Council holds special session and orders warning signs at the west end of the bridge demanding caution for motorists.
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Belpre, Ohio
UPI
Herschel Lambert
Berea
Ohio
Memorial Bridge
Belpre
Parkersburg
W. Va
Lambert
Funeral services for Mrs Kate Kubach in Cincinnati
Funeral services for Mrs Kate Kubach 81 of Cincinnati will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Webb and Neal Funeral Home Chapel with Rev C W Jones presiding. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park. Born Crow Jan 4 1885 she was daughter of George T Fisher and Henneithy Cook Fisher. Survived by husband Howard one sister Mrs R A Breeden of Standardsville Va one step daughter Mrs Katherine McCown of Louisville Ky and two nephews Charles Forest and James E Fisher of Beckley plus sister of the late Charles W Fisher of Beckley. She belonged to the Christian Church of Crow.
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Kate Kubach
Cincinnati
Ohio
Webb and Neal Funeral Home
C. W. Jones
Sunset Memorial Park
Kubach
Crow
George T
Henneithy Cook Fisher
Howard
R. A. Breeden
Standardsville
Katherine McCown
Louisville, Ky
Charles Forest
James E. Fisher
Beckley
Charles W. Fisher
Christian Church of
Racial unrest flares in cities across the nation
Weekend clashes broke out in Perth Amboy New Jersey Los Angeles and Omaha as groups of Black youths clashed with police and fire crews. In Perth Amboy rocks and bottles damaged two fire trucks and half the local police were deployed. In Los Angeles incidents near Watts left police cars damaged but no injuries reported. In Omaha youths looted two stores with the National Guard previously called last July 4 to contain riots.
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Perth Amboy
N.J
Los Angeles
Watts
Omaha
Neb
Negro Youths Triggered A Small Disturbance On the City’s Near North Side
National Guard
Funeral services for Arthur Bullins in Rhodell
Funeral services for Arthur Bullins 79 of Rhodell will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rhodell Church of God with Rev. James Hebb presiding. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park Beckley. Died 1:10 a.m. Sunday Mullens Hospital after long illness. Born April 14 1887 in Jefferson NC. Survived by wife Ella, two daughters Thurman Hodge and Faye Rose, three sons Claude Bill Fred, two brothers Emmett Felzie, 25 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Body to home 5 p.m. Tuesday. Arrangements by Sam Folgesong Nease and Neely. RNS
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Arthur Bullins
Rhodell
Rhodell Church
Thurman Hodge
Faye Rose
Claude
Bill
Newark
Del
Fred
Elkton
Emmett
West Jefferson
Felzie
Sugar Grove
Sam Folgesong
Nease and Neely
Mullens
Viet Nam war updates widen targets near Saigon
Viet Nam reports show Viet Cong planning to dominate countryside around Saigon and step up daytime attacks. U S jets hit North Vietnam again, losing one F104 and an RF101 Voodoo in two incidents. Pilots listed as missing. ICC probes claims from B52 strikes on the DMZ over the weekend.
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Saigon
U.S
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Viet Nam
Air Force
International Control Commission
ICC
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
South
Airlines face government backed talks amid prolonged labor dispute
Across the controversy the five airlines resisted beyond the Presidents suggested stance. The union now bargains with government to settle with carriers as labor braces for contract talks over the coming year with several prosperous industries.
Parkersburg Lady Doctor Starts Her Career In Remote Virginia
Dr Jane Toothman a 26 year old from Parkersburg West Virginia becomes Coeburn Virginias first full time physician in five years at a new 40000 medical center. Residents from across Alleghany Mountain County hail the move noting it beats the Fourth of July. Toothman pledges free service until clinic activity grows. The area had faced doctor shortages after two physicians died and a third cut back. The Sears Roebuck foundation aided the clinic in 60 days as residents spent 52000 on care and logged more than 600000 miles. The foundation projects Toothman will treat about 10000 patients annually.
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Coeburn
UPI
Jane Toothman
Parkersburg
W.va
The
American Medical Association
Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Foundation
Toothman
West Virginia University
Kennedy backs Oswald solo view on JFK murder
Sen Edward M Kennedy tells United Press International he has not read the Warren Commission report yet is convinced Oswald acted alone in the JFK assassination. The remarks follow Epstein's critique of the commission and Goodwin’s call for an independent panel or new inquiry into the evidence.
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Washington
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Ain
United Press International
Kennedy
Edward Jay Epstein
Harvard
Epstein
Earl Warren
Oswald
Richard N. Goodwin
Congress
Goodwin
Truman Calls NATO Best Hope For Peace
Former President Harry S Truman told Sen. Henry M. Jackson that NATO offers the best hope for solving postwar issues. He urged continued NATO unity and warned against force to resolve lingering disputes, noting a new European unity since World War II. He also commented on a rising nationwide concern over birth control and foreign aid responses from state governors.
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Washington
UPI
Harry S Truman
NATO
Truman
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
North America
Western Europe
The
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Jackson
Senate
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
United States
Europe
A _ Senate
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Prayer ruling cements school prayer bans nationwide
Dr. Hunter warned the constitution blocks any public school system from allowing voluntary prayer. He noted 40 million Americans across 30 major Protestant and Orthodox groups support the Supreme Court ruling on prayer in schools and oppose revising First Amendment guarantees.
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Hunter
National Council
National Assemblies of Episcopalians
Supreme Court
Fire causes $5,000 damage at Vulcan Rail mill
An estimated $5,000 damage was done to the old Vulcan Rail Co. mill Saturday night as six fire units from Benwood and nearby communities battled the blaze for several hours.
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Benwood
UPI
Old Vulcan Rail Co
Kadar Says Soviet Troops In Hungary Justified Yet Unwithdrawn
In an exclusive 22 hour interview in Budapest, Janos Kadar states that Soviet troops remain temporarily stationed in Hungary due to East West tensions and will not be withdrawn. He discusses Viet Nam, U S Hungarian relations, Mindszenty, and Hungarys rising living standards.
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Harry Shapiro
UPI
Moscow
Budapest
Communist Party
Janos Kadar
Hungary
Lenin
U.S
North
Viet Nam
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungarian Socialist Workers (Communist) Party
Kadar
America
South Viet Nam
East Europe
Bucharest
Romania
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
China
Mindzenty
Mindszenty
Legation
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