Flight Recorder May Help Solve Mystery Jet Wreck
Federal investigators recover part of a British BAC111 flight recorder after Braniff jet crashes in a Nebraska soybean field killing 42 aboard. Witnesses report an explosion and a vertical plunge as CAB, Braniff, Rolls Royce, and FBI search for evidence and remaining data.
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Falls City
Neb
UPI
Braniff International
FBI
Nebraska
Civil Aeronautics Board
Braniff
British Aircraft Co
Rolls Royce
Federal Bureau of Investigation
CAB
Ed Slattery
Slattery
Donald G. Pauly
SCLC Opens Deep South Conference in Jackson
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Sen. Edward Kennedy head the Mississippi start of the SCLC convention in Jackson. The four day event focuses on Negro housing salaries education and the war on poverty with about 1000 attendees. King will introduce Kennedy as the keynote speaker for the opening freedom banquet amid talks on nonviolence and the Chicago campaign.
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Edward Kennedy
D.mass
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Kennedy
Chicago
SCLC
Mississippi
James Meredith
Grenada
James Dairy Announces Price Hike
James Dairy hikes milk prices effective Aug 1 due to drought driven rising operating costs. New rates list termilk 25 cents per quart skim 26 cents pasteurized 28 cents per quart 58 cents per half gallon and 1 dollar per gallon. Other dairies report small or recent increases amid supply shortages.
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Broughton
Farm Dairy Inc
Dairies
Wisconsin
Valley Bell Dairy Co. Inc
Greenbrier Dairy
G. C. Stollings
Whitman’s Fall From Towerlinked Rampage Narrative
Police say Whitman, former Marine, was carried to the 29th floor of the tower. Footlocker found with Whitman contained a weapons arsenal and ammunition. Investigators note Dexedrine, if present, might explain the spree as a drug factor under federal law.
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Whitman
U.S. Air Strikes Hit Bridges and Supply Routes in Vietnam
U S planes damaged 33 bridges 35 barges 18 trucks 50 boxcars 14 roads and two rail lines in strikes across North Vietnam and near the HaiPhong Thanh Hoa region. A Thunderchief led by Capt Ralph A Hanson destroyed a SAM site 17 miles south of Hanoi. Ground action in the south remained light as B 52s bombed Phu Yen Province in support of Operation Paul Revere.
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Orth
United States
North Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
China
Panhandle
South Viet Nam
Ralph A. Hanson
Miami
Fla
Guam
Phu Yen
Paul Revere
Central Highlands
Saigon
Picture Taking Satellite Set For Tuesday
CAPE KENNEDY UPS A picture taking satellite is ready to be launched toward the moon by an Atlas Agena rocket Tuesday ending a three week lapse in space probes. The 850 pound lab will swoop within 26 miles of the lunar surface every 32 hours to snap close up pictures of landing sites and to view Surveyor I. The lunar Orbiter will take up to 353 pictures of nine areas and detect objects as small as a card table.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
Moon
Lunar Orbiter
March Protest in Belmont Cragin Draws Harassment and Polite Silence
Marchers faced taunts of racial slurs and thrown objects as they moved through Belmont Cragin on Sunday. Police escorted the three mile route to keep hecklers at bay while a light rain fell, turning streets into a quiet, watchful scene framed by residents at windows and porches.
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Belmont Cragin
Deaths and Funerals In Beckley and Hatcher
Funeral services are set for Mrs. Ethel M. Hedrick 80 of Beckley at Beckley Presbyterian Church with burial in Sunset Memorial Park. She died Sunday at a local hospital after a short illness, widow of Grover C Hedrick former Beckley mayor. Survivors include three daughters five sons and many relatives. Curtis Sherman Snuffer 24 of Hatcher dies from injuries in a car crash. Funeral at Pine Grove Baptist Church Ravencliff with burial at Hill Crest Memorial Gardens Matheny. He leaves a wife two children five brothers three sisters and several step-siblings. Bodies remain at local funeral homes.
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Ethel M. Hedrick
Park St
Beckley Presbyterian Church
J. W. Witherspoon
Sunset Memorial Park
Grover Cleveland Hedrick
Beckley
Raleigh County Bank
Bird
Amanda Thompson Fink
Odd
Joseph (Macie) Skank
Huntington
W. R
Anna Lee) Campbell
Moundsville
Lawrence
Ruth) Tully
Oppie L. Hedrick
Grover C. Hedrick
John Hedrick
Thomas M. Hedrick
Johnstown
Harold A. Hedrick
Cincinnati
Ohio
Fred Fink
Deerfield
Caffee
Richard L. Shank
William R. Campbell Jr
John B. Hedrick
Thomas A. Hedrick Jr
David Hedrick
Harold A. Hedrick Jr
James R. Hedrick
Howard Phillip Hedrick
Edward Lee Campbell
Joseph Shank Jr
Curtis Sherman Snuffer
Funeral Services for Henry Stump in Beckley
Henry Stump 75 of Route 2 Beckley will have funeral services at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with Rev. Samuel Smith presiding. Burial follows at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. He died Saturday at 11:40 a.m. at home after a long illness. Friends may call after 10 a.m. today at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
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Henry Stump
Beckley
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Samuel Smith
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Stump
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Funeral arrangements for Mrs Lula McClung
Mrs Lula McClung 81 of Mount Hope dies in Oak Hill after long illness. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Oak Hill with Rev Jennings Lilly officiating. Burial in High Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill.
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Lula McClung
Mount Hope
Tyree
Miss Virginia Webster Dies After Illness at Local Hospital
Virginia Webster of 108 Garden Terrace died at 11 a.m. today in a local hospital after an extended illness. Her body is at Keyser Bryant Funeral Home with funeral arrangements pending.
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Virginia Webster
Garden Terrace
Keyser Bryant Funeral Home
Mrs Marie Glasco Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Marie Glasco 72 of 812 F Street died on arrival at a local hospital at 8 am after a long illness. The body rests at Wright and Anderson Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
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Marie Glasco
F. St
Wright and Anderson Funeral Home
Government studies wage and price guideposts for Vietnam era
Prices required for the Viet Nam war during the current fiscal year ending June 30 are under review. An intensive re evaluation of the administration 3.2 per cent guideposts for wage and price increases is planned to address equity and higher wages. Whether the guideposts will be expanded beyond 3.2 per cent likely won t be decided before fall.
Twins Saved by Prenatal Transfusion New Method
Pittsburgh report says Michael and Matthew Goedert, born seven weeks early to Harold and Mrs. Goedert of Dormont, are recovering after prenatal transfusions saved them from Rh-negative blood complications. They are among the first twins in the area to benefit from the technique and have required several transfusions. The mother plans to have more children but would like to wait a few years.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Michael and
Matthew Goedert
St. Francis Hospital
Harold Goedert
Dormont
Michael
Matthew
Arthur Smith Show at Bluestone Valley Fair
In Person The Arthur Smith Show appears Thursday August 11 at 7 30 P M in Spanishburg W V with advance tickets 1 50. Tickets available at Watkin s Drug Store Beckley Wood General Store Flat Top or at the door.
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Arthur Smith
Spanishburg
W. Va
Watkin’s Drug Store
Beckley Wood General Store
Humphrey urges higher grain output and farm exports
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey visited the grain belt to urge expanded production amid shrinking surpluses and cited a strong rise in farm commodity exports. He praised the food basket as the best bargain for American families. A Morgantown hearing was set for Richard Miller, charged in the death of Lorenzo White after an alleged brick attack over a dollar in Osage. Scattered showers and thunderstorms drenched many states with heavy rain in places like Laredo and Fort Myers. Marion County charged Earl Eddy with involuntary manslaughter in a highway crash that killed George De Garmo. Eddy and Larry Marrow were injured in the same collision near Rivesville.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Morgantown
Richard Miller
Lorenzo White
Miller
White
Osage
Laredo
Texas
Fort Myers
Fla
Marion County
Earl Eddy
Rivesville
George de Garmo
Brave
Eddy
Larry Marrow
Private plane crashes into Quebec lake during meet
A small private plane spiraled into Lake St. Jean near Roberval Quebec during a swimming meet leaving the pilot Jean Marie Gourd reault and his two children dead. Three others survived by being thrown clear and were hospitalized. Ground spectators were uninjured. In Pittsburgh at Duquesne Brewing Co 500 workers ratified a two year contract with a 10 cent per hour raise and fringe benefits. The agreement can be reopened after one year for pay talks.
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Lake St. Jean
Roberval
Quebec
Jean-Marie Gourdreault
Duquesne Brewing Co
Pittsburgh
Johnson nu gent wedding cost may reach 75000
Women's Wear Daily notes Luci Johnson Nu gent's wedding could cost the President up to 75000 with White House displeasure over advance wedding fashion descriptions. No new liquor raids were logged in Charleston over the weekend. Temperance leader Rev. L E Crowson urged using legal action to padlock illegal night clubs as public nuisances.
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Women’s Wear Daily
Luci Johnson Nugent
Garment Industry
White House
Charleston
Temperance
L. E. Crowson
Crowson
Saigon University students demand end to serviceman marriages
Saigon University students protest moral decline by urging an end to the escalation of marriages between American servicemen and Vietnamese girls. Maintenance workers at West Virginia University walked off, forming picket lines at all three campuses to protest the administration’s refusal to recognize the union as bargaining agent.
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Saigon University
West Virginia University
Connecticut man slays four daughters then kills himself
Samuel Sepulveda returned home after a Friday spat and a bar visit to kill his four daughters Alma aged 1 Sonia aged 4 Helen aged 2 Wanda aged 6. He set the apartment ablaze and was found outside with life threatening wounds. His pregnant wife Iris 22 survived after razor wounds. Police described Sepulveda as jealous with prior trouble and behind in rent.
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Waterbury, Conn
UPI
Samuel Sepulveda
Sepulveda
Alma
Helen
Sonia
Wanda
Joseph Maloney
Baldwin
Betty Furness Promotes VISTA Recruitment in West Virginia
TV personality Betty Furness visits Charleston to launch a unique VISTA recruitment plan for West Virginia. Centers will operate Tuesday to Thursday in Charleston Beckley Clarksburg and Wheeling. She notes the program demands hard work and strong human qualities and arose from Washington efforts and a talk with Mrs Lyndon Johnson.
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Charleston
UPI
VISTA
West Virginia
Radiotelevision
Betty Furness
Beckley
Clarksburg
Wheeling
Miss Furness
Mildred Bateman
Robert Bailey
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Civil Rights Debate Shifts to New Issue in House
Washington UPI report says the House civil rights debate moves from open housing to racial violence. The bill seeks tougher federal law against violence and terror toward Negroes and white civil rights allies in the South, with harsher penalties and up to life terms for killing those exercising civil rights.
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Washington
UPI
House
Johnson
South
Food Costs Rising Bite Into American Family Budget
The FTC has launched an inquiry into why food prices have doubled in some cases while farmers’ prices rose moderately. Republicans push the issue as an election-year factor in both urban and rural areas, noting that basic food items strain family budgets nationwide.
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Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Final Test For Britain's Bill
London reports that Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces the final parliamentary test for his price and wage control bill this week. With a 96 vote Labor majority, passage is seen as likely by Wednesday as opponents are expected to be defeated.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
Association of British Chambers of Commerce
Wilson
House of Commons
House
Labor Party
Airlines Grounded as Strike Drags On Across Nation
Strike shutdown has grounded Eastern, National, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines. Siemiller denied in testimony that any national emergency exists. Labor leaders warned against punitive legislation while urging both sides to resume talks. Vice President Humphrey and Wirtz pressed for a negotiated settlement, but no movement occurred.
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Eastern
National
Northwest
United
Trans World Airlines
Siemiller
Staggers
W. Willard Wirtz
James J. Reynolds
Hubert H. Humphrey
Honeymooning Nugents Stay Secluded at Capricorn Villa
Luci and Pat Nugent arrived in Nassau on a Pan Am Honeymoon Special flight from New York. They stayed at Capricorn, a private oceanside villa on Nassau’s western shore, under Secret Service protection. The couple, married recently, reportedly spent their first night at Camp David before traveling to the Bahamas.
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Nassau
Bahamas
UPI
Secret
Luci
Pat Nugent
Atlantic
Johnson
Pan American World Airways
New York
Kennedy Airport
Secret Service
Margaret Buczkowski
Lawrence
Pittsburgh
Buczkowski
Camp David
Maryland
Nugents
Oceanside
Capricorn
Rebekah Harkness
National Shrine Wedding of President’s Daughter
Luci and Pat wed in a 90 minute Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The ceremony began at 12 42 p m EDT and was followed by a White House reception with ambassadors and cabinet members present. The spectacle featured 26 bridemaids and groomsmen, a 56 bell carillon, a 150 voice male choir, three clergymen including an archbishop, three bands, and lavish floral and transport arrangements.
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Luci
Pat
White House
Congress
Interim Committee Meetings In Charleston Today
Interim subcommittee meetings will cover tax structure license laws and conflicts of interest as lawmakers began a three day session Sunday night. Assistant Attorney General Clare Hess reported progress on the Wheeling Creek interstate compact with a planned public meeting in Wheeling and a final version targeted for September or October. Funds pledged include Marshall County 50000 Washington County Pennsylvania 150000 and Greene County Pennsylvania 50000 with Ohio County already contributing. Dam counts dropped from 13 to 11 and possibly eight. a key issue remains state conflicts over recreational versus flood control aims.
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Charleston
UPI
Wheeling Creek
West Virginia
Clare Hess
Wheeling
Hess
Pennsylvania
Ohio County
Marshall County
Washington County
Greene County
Ohio
Marshall
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