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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1971
Page
10
SAS said a West German private party approached it in mid July about flying 187 Americans held as war prisoners from Laos to New York, but the plan fell through. A Stockholm paper cited Dagens Nyheter reporting Operation release to fly POWs to Vientiane next Thursday.
U.S. Command in Saigon denied chartering any aircraft and said it has no knowledge of the plan. Paris envoy Xuan Thuy dismissed the POW release rumor as imagination, linking any release to a timetable tied to U.S. troop withdrawal. SAS cited top secret talks about an impending airlift, later disavowed by the airline.
President Nixon is set to sign a revised Appalachian Regional Commission bill at the White House. The measure extends ARC funding to 1.5 billion with about 900 million for highways and adds 500 million for expedited public works through the EDA, despite earlier vetoes over larger sums.
A passenger train and a freight train collided head on near Vrcin, southeast of Belgrade, killing 36 and injuring 76. Four passenger cars were demolished and one derailed. Rescue teams and ambulances rushed to the scene as engineers claimed open signals with green lights.
Astronaut Alfred Worden stepped outside the Apollo 15 craft for a 20 minute deep space walk. With James Irwin guiding an oxygen hose and David Scott at the controls Worden retrieved film from the service module instrument bay and inspected the ship exterior beyond Earth orbit. The moon lay 44 000 miles away and Earth 196 000 miles below as the Endeavour flew at about 2000 miles per hour.
Astronaut Al Worden performed a spacewalk outside Apollo 15 promptly retrieving film packs from the ship's cameras. He faced a jammed cover on one camera and reported a smaller cassette retrieval before returning to the hatch as mission control praised the work.
The Selective Service System random lottery drew dates and numbers for about 2 million men born in 1952. No. 1 priority went to those born December 4, with 366 inductions assigned for leap year. First match tied June 20 with number 30 as the leading pairing.
Meetings are held every Thursday at 11 am and 7 pm in the Beckley Hotel Ballroom. The joining fee is $7 with a weekly charge of $2.
Federal judge orders Daniel Ellsberg to face trial in California for releasing the Pentagon Papers. Arraignment set for Aug 16 in Los Angeles with Ellsberg free on $50,000 bail. The judge denied defense requests to probe alleged illegal wiretapping and eavesdropping used in obtaining indictments.
The United States and Soviet Union offered a joint draft treaty at the 25 nation disarmament conference to ban biological warfare. It calls for prohibiting development, production, stockpiling, and use of biological agents and toxins as weapons and aims for U.N. General Assembly consideration in fall.
Army Institute of Dental Research tested 10 brands including Colgate Crest McLean Plus White Ultra-Brite Gleem Vote Stripe and Super Stripe. Clinical surveys of 929 and 128 patients and a lab study with 30 hamsters found some dentifrices may trigger gingival inflammation. Further clinical studies are urged to assess prevalence and interactions.
Showers forecast for this afternoon with a high in the mid 70s and variable cloudiness. Tonight and Friday bring a chance of showers, with a low tonight in the low 60s and a high Friday near 70s. Precipitation probability: 40 percent tonight, 30 percent Friday.
Ritchie County Sheriff J C Hinkle reports seven inmates sang loudly to cover the noise as three men sawn through jail bars and escaped at 9 30 p m The escapees are John Paul Nichols 24 Cairo serving six months for carrying a concealed weapon Michael Glenn Keith 23 New Cumberland AWOL Marine held for obtaining money under false pretenses and William Doak 17 Pennsboro a delinquent child They were not considered dangerous but were strong singers.
Robert Payne's Disabled Miners of Southern West Virginia plan two weekend meetings in Mullens and Accoville to pressure for benefits for retired and disabled miners and widows. Last summer the group shut down southern mines in walkouts.
In Saigon the South Vietnamese Supreme Court ruled Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky ineligible for the October 3 election due to insufficient backed signatures. Gen. Duong Van Minh threatened to quit, leaving President Nguyen Van Thieu as the likely sole candidate. The court cited improper signature validation among Ky and minor candidate Nguyen Tran.
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