Navy Planes Bomb Four North Viet Nam Bases Raid
UPI report says U.S. Navy planes struck four North Viet Nam bases destroying or damaging about 25 Communist patrol boats and igniting an oil depot. Two American aircraft were shot down. pilots presumed lost. Five-hour raid followed two North Vietnamese patrol-boat attacks on U.S. destroyers. President Johnson ordered the strike and addressed Syracuse, urging strength against aggression. U.N. Security Council called into emergency session in New York. Johnson vowed to seek peace while warning aggression will not go unchallenged. China and Moscow issued cautious or combative responses. Defense Secretary McNamara and others summoned to White House.
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Charles W. Cord Dry
Washington
UPI
Johnson
U.S. Navy
North
Viet Nam
Ticonderoga
Constellation
U.S
Syracuse
N.Y
Defense Department
Western Pacific
New York
United Nations Security Council
North Viet Nam
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Dean Rusk
White House
United Press International
GOP
Barry Goldwater
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Thailand
Moscow
Radio
Tokyo
Radio Hanoi
United States
Red China
Hanoi
Bangkok
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
London
Sydney
Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
de Gaule
New Delhi
Southeast Asia
Crisis at a Glance Across Global Reactions and Urgency
United Press International reports McNamara announcing 64 air sorties against North Vietnamese targets and the loss of two American planes. President Johnson pledges firm U.S. retaliation against North Vietnamese attacks on destroyers. Global leaders promise support, with Goldwater backing Johnson. Troop movements, SEATO talks, and international condemnations unfold as crisis deepens.
Bi partisan support urged for Johnson Viet Nam resolution
Congress slated immediate consideration of President Johnsons emergency resolution backing naval action in Southeast Asia and promising to keep peace by any means. Senate and House leaders urged swift processing with possible joint hearings featuring Defense and State secretaries and Joint Chiefs chair.
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Washington
UPS
Senate
Johnson
U.S
Southeast Asia
Everett M. Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
White House
Dirksen
Foreign Relations and
Armed Services Committees
Albert Gore
D - Tenn
Viet Nam
John H. McCormack
D-Mass
House
Hubert H. Humphrey
Congress
Secretaries of Defense
State
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S. Naval
Beckley WV Weather Forecast Pleasant Cloudy With Mild Heat
Beckley expects variable cloudiness and pleasant conditions this afternoon with a high near 82 and a cool night around 58. Thursday should be fair with highs in the low 80s. Observed readings show a 76 high and 59 low in the last 24 hours, with normal river and lake levels and no precipitation. Five day outlook calls for slightly below normal temperatures then warming, with weekend showers and rain totals around a quarter to three tenths of an inch.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Hinton
West Virginia
Goldwater backs Johnson on Vietnam trip cut short
News in brief reports Barry Goldwater, Republican presidential hopeful, cutting his California vacation to return to Washington amid Southeast Asia developments. Mentions Mindszenty leaving Budapest to Rome, Stanleyville fighting, Merman and Borg separated, and local political appointments and events. Includes Nixon predicting Goldwater moves, Khushev meeting, and Charleston workshop remarks.
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Barry M. Goldwater
Johnson
Washington
California
Southeast Asia
Vatican
Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty
U. S
Legation
Budapest
Rome
Stanleyville
Moise Tshombe
Richard M. Nixon
Hershey
Orel J. Skeen
Ripley
Department of Welfare
Nikita 8
Khushchev
Communist Party Central Committee
Toay
Shopping Center Planned Locally in Beckley Area
Beckley plans a modern shopping center on the old Beckley Mount Hope Airport site. The New River Co. bought 45.39 acres for 125000 to ensure development near U S 19 21 and Secondary 21 1 with Beckley Acme Supermarket leasing 7 6 acres for 50000. The project includes a 17000 square foot market and an 8000 square foot Sperry Hutchison Green Stamp outlet, plus other shops and a mall layout with dry goods drugs shoes and apparel.
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Beckley
Raleigh County
Beckley-Mount Hope
Acme
Sperry Hutchison
New River Co
New Town
Stamford Road
W. A. Haslam
Appalachian Co
Basile N. Meadows
Carl A. Holley
Donald D. Hod ‘Son
Raleigh County Health Center
Raleigh County Bank
John N. Meadows
Hodson
Holley, Kenney Schott and Associates, Inc
Bair Building
North Beckley
Shady Spring
Oceana
Meadows
Security Council To Weigh Crisis
United States seeks urgent Security Council session in New York to discuss North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. naval vessels. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson plans a 30 minute report and will not seek council action. Stevenson requested the emergency meeting before midnight via letter to President Nielsen. He flew back from Maine to brief the United Nations on the Hanoi regime attacks and U.S. responses.
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United Nations
N. Y
UPI
United States
Security Council
Adlai Stevenson
U.S
Council
Stevenson
Sivert E. Nielsen
Nielsen
Maine
New York
Hanoi
Frank Carpenter
Johnson
Three Children Die In Wildwood Fire On Boardwalk
A general alarm fire swept a frame arcade on the Wildwood boardwalk trapping three Levittown children in a Mars ride. Gregory Thompson 10 Michael Thompson 8 and Melody Dye 8 perished while parents watched. Police Capt Louis Fiocca and arcade attendant helped rescue other riders as fire crews battled the blaze for about an hour.
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Wildwood
API
Levittown
Gregory Thompson
Michael
Melody Dye
David Thompson
Thompsons
James
Louis Fioccca
Leslie Nidorf
North Wildwood
Fiocca
Salinger to Be Sworn as California Senator Today
Washington UPI reports former White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger expected to be sworn in today as the new U.S. senator from California despite a potential Republican challenge.
House Calls Up Anti-Poverty Bill
Washington United Press International reports House leaders plan to bring up Johnson's anti-poverty bill, with crucial votes possibly deciding victory or defeat for the administration. Goldwater criticizes it as an election-year gimmick, while a handful of Republicans support it. The House also expected to approve an investor protection bill expanding oversight of non listed securities, and Republicans attack the $1 billion Appalachia relief plan as hastily drawn and costly.
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Washington
UPI
House
Johnson
Barry M. Goldwater
Senate
Appalachia
Jackie Kennedy Leaves for Europe on European Vacation
Mrs John F Kennedy flies from New York to London on the first leg of a European trip. She will cruise off Yugoslavia visit Italy and stay with sister Princess Lee Radziwill and oilman Charles Wrightsman at a villa near Port Ercole north of Rome with a Secret Service agent aboard.
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New York
UPI
John F. Kennedy
London
Yugoslavia
Italy
Kennedy
Secret Service
Charles Wrightsman
Lee Radziwill
Port Ercole
Rome
Grocery owner ponders name change after $60 robbery
In Alamo Texas a grocer robbed of sixty dollars on Tuesday muses about renaming the store. He says Jimmy's Gold Mine may be too inviting and is considering a change.
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Alamo, Tex
UPI
Jimmy
Three Civil Rights Workers Identified Dead
Three badly decomposed bodies found in a farm pond near Philadelphia Mississippi were identified as civil rights workers Andrew Goodman Michael Schwerner and James Chaney. They vanished June 21 after a speeding arrest during a college voter registration drive.
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Jackson
Miss
UPI
Philadelphia
FBI
Washington
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner
New York
James Chaney
Meridian
Mississippi
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Rescued Miners In Good Shape
Nine miners pronounced in amazingly good condition after an eight day underground ordeal near Mount River were to leave hospital today. They were rescued from a chalk mine after a roof collapse last Monday while five colleagues remained missing. tapping sounds had given faint hope over the weekend.
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Champagnola
France
UPI
Mount River
U.S. rushes jet fighters to Viet Nam
Six Delta Dagger F102 jets were flown from Okinawa via Clark to Tan Son Nhut and placed on five minute alert as tensions rose after North Vietnamese attacks. Reports indicated up to 12 jets were sent, with Da Nang possible arrivals, amid broader U.S. air strikes on the North.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
UPIT
United States
North Viet Nam
Okinawa
Clark Air Force Base
Philippines
Tang Son Nhut
U.S
da Nang
Bien Hoa
Johnson
Seventh Fleet
Gulf of Tonkin
Johnson orders swift strike after North Viet Nam torpedo attack
Washington reports President Johnson ordered a rapid military response to torpedo boat attacks on U S destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin. Officials said the move aimed to deter further Communist miscalculation and demonstrate U S resolve in Southeast Asia.
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U. S
Gulf
Washington
UPI
Johnson
North
Viet Nam
U.S
Southeast Asia
Gulf of Tonkin
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Jack Evans
New Cumberland
W. W. Barron
Hancock County
Robert E. Roach
Jersey City
Jennings Randolph
Charleston
Eve Breck
Salinger
Jackie
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Maddox
C. Turner Joy
Barry M. Goildwater
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