Saigon Plans 500 Air Raid Shelters for 400000 Residents
Saigon officials announced a plan to dig 500 air raid shelters to protect about 400000 residents amid ongoing drills. City Prefect Duong Ngoc Lam urged residents to build shelters at home and criticized prior public reaction, saying an emergency atmosphere is being created. Premier Nguyen Khanh noted rural deaths while Saigon faces criticism for a carefree mood during wartime.
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Duong Ngoc Lam
Saigon
Paris
Nguyen Khanh
Lam
U. S
Admiral Says Warning Made No Difference
Rear Adm. Robert B. Moore, commander of the American strike task force off Vietnam, said the U S attack on North Vietnam last Wednesday would have succeeded even if a warning letter had been sent. He disputed Johnson's advance disclosure and noted planes hit targets about 1 p m local time. The admiral spoke to reporters aboard USS Ticonderoga as the strike unfolded.
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Uss Ticonderoga
APS
Robert B. Moore
U.S
North Viet Nam
Moore
Viet Nam
Johnson
Washington
United States
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Hanoi
Cyrus R. Vance
North
Hainoi
Peking
Boy's Frozen Body Found In Railroad Car
In Hialeah Florida a sealed refrigerated rail car carrying California honeydew melons held a boy’s frozen body. Det Sgt Ted Semanski said the about 12 year old Latino or Mexican youth likely froze to death during the cross country ride from Rose Valley Produce Co Woodland California. The shipment left Fresno July 28 and arrived in Hialeah last Saturday. The body was found Monday night when inspectors opened the car. The boy wore a lightweight shirt and patched dungarees with no jewelry or ID.
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Hialeah
Fla
UPI
California
Ted Semanski
Rose Valley Produce Co
Woodland
Calif
Semanski
Fresno
Berserk Boatswain Kills One Shipmate
The Lebanese ship St. Nicholas reported that her boatswain Ali Kasargi killed crewman Abdullah Reishi and wounded another after a knife attack. The vessel, about 1200 miles north of Honolulu en route to Asia, described the situation as very dangerous with no other weapons aboard.
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San Francisco
UPS
St. Nicholas
Coast Guard
Honolulu
Asia
Ali Kasargi
Abdullah Reishi
Battle to Save 2000-Year-Old Redwood Tree
In Porterville California a 2000 year old giant redwood in Sequoia National Forest suffers a weeklong smoldering fire. The state forestry department pumps in 40 firefighters and equipment to protect the seed tree vital to regional forest restoration. The fire began at the 150 foot level after a lightning strike. A helicopter used chemicals to quell flames but the blaze continues. Estimated state manhour cost surpasses $1,000. The tree could yield lumber for five average houses.
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Porterville
Calif
UPI
State Division of Forestry
Harry Harp
Harp
Sequoia National Forest
Small Chinese MIG Force Now In N. Viet Nam
UPI reports that 12 to 15 Soviet built MIG fighters from Red China have flown into North Vietnam after U S Navy strikes. The aircraft may come from Hainan or southern China and pose no immediate threat to U S carriers. Defense officials discuss probable Chinese use and pilot training in Hanoi.
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Washington
UPI
Red
South China Sea
South Viet Nam
Communist
North Viet Nam
Faithful triplet Annie McDonnell dies at 97
Framingham Massachusetts Mrs Annie Faith McDonnell the last survivor of the faith hope and charity triplets died today at Cushing Hospital She was 97 years old.
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Framingham, Mass
Upi
Annie Faith McDonnell
Faith, Hope
Charity
Cushing Hospital
Goldwater cites secret hearings on deliverable nuclear capability
Barry Goldwater’s claim that deliverable nuclear capability could fall 90 percent in a decade stems from data presented in closed Senate subcommittee hearings. Sources say much of the detail is classified, with interpretations varying as Goldwater pushes peace through preparedness ahead of a GOP unity summit in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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Washington
UPI
GOP
Barry M. Goldwater
Senate
Goldwater
National Association of Counties
White House
U. S
U.S
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Hershey
U.S. Backs Research Projects and Funding History
Washington report details how Congress funded Morse in 1842 and notes today the U.S. spends about 15 billion dollars annually on research. A House committee reports it cannot track hundreds of thousands of current studies due to lack of a central list and urges Congress to maintain one.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Samuel F.B. Morse
Baltimore
Uncle Sam
House
Quotes From United Press International Display Pain and Scars
New York Giants lineman Jack Stroud describes multiple injuries including knee operations and detached retina while noting twenty years in football. Spanish bullfighter Cordobes recounts a brutal fall when a sword spike pierced his foot. Illinois Attorney General William G. Clark discusses the ex-colonel swindling over two million from Disabled American Veterans.
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United Press International
New York
Jack Stroud
New York Football Giants
Solicitor Bilked DAV Of Millions
Illinois Attorney General announces arrest of Harold Sager a Chicago based solicitor for the Disabled American Veterans in a broad fraud case claiming more than 2 million dollars from donations under the alias Col Harold S McClintock with a pattern of 100 plus transactions across states including brassieres lipsticks soybean plants spark plugs and office equipment from donors and DAV funds.
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Chicago
UPI
Disabled American Veterans
DAV
Harold Sager
New York
Veterans Group
Illinois
Clark
Sager
Col
Harold S. McClintock
Weather Station Here Allocated 77 200 For 65
The Weather Bureau in Raleigh County Memorial Airport will receive 77200 in federal funds for 1965, with Senate subcommittee adding 22000 to place the station on a daily eight hour schedule. Expansion plans also approved for Parkersburg at Wood County Airport raising state bureau totals to 393100 for seven stations in West Virginia, including allocations for Huntington Charleston Elkins Kearneysville and WVU climatologist.
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Weather Bureau
Raleigh County Memorial
Robert C. Byrd
Senate
Wood County
Parkersburg
Byrd
State, Justice, Judiciary and Commerce Department
House-Senate
House
Robert M. White
West Virginia
Huntington
Charleston
Elkins
Kearneysville
West Virginia University
Weather Warm And Humid Beckley And Vicinity
Beckley area forecast calls for warm humid conditions with scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. High near 83, low around 64. Wednesday mostly cloudy with morning showers, then partly cloudy and cooler by afternoon. River and lake conditions listed as normal and clear. gauge at Hinton at 1.6 feet.
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Beckley
Eek Capeeavsacce
Greenbrier
Hinton
Estes Appeal Denied in Mail Fraud Conspiracy Case
The US Fifth Circuit refused to reverse Billie Sol Estes convictions, upholding four counts of mail fraud and one conspiracy count from a $20 million fertilizer storage tank scheme. He faces a possible 15 year federal term and eight years on state fraud charges, with appeal options narrowing.
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New Orleans
UPI
Billie Sol Estes
US 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Estes
John Cofer
Austin
Tex
el Paso
Tyler
Young Driver Charged In Death Of Woman
An unidentified 17 year old boy was charged with negligent homicide in Charleston after driving struck Dorothy Means 62 crossing a city street near her home. Means died in a Charleston hospital Monday evening. The death raises West Virginia traffic fatalities to 267, up from 214 a year earlier.
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Charleston
UPI
Dorothy Means
Means
West Virginia
Plant Worker Killed in Maryland Mill Accident
John Conrad Eberline, 38, of Westernport Maryland, was killed Monday when he was pulled into a drying apparatus at the Lake Maryland mill of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company near Keyster. He was a father of four and an employee of the plant.
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Keyser
UPI
John Conrad Eberline
Westernport
Lake
West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co
Eberline
Cyprus Truce Mostly Kept Amid Isolated Incidents
United Nations says cease-fire between Greek and Turkish Cypriots was generally observed though isolated ground clashes and accidental fire continued. Turkish air force reconnoitered northwestern Cyprus around Kokkina and Polis port, with casualties and property damage reported. talks with Greece pursued as both sides awaited next move.
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Ray J. Moloney
Nicosia
Cyprus
UPI
United Nations
Kokkina
Turkey
Ankara
Turkish Foreign Office
London
Cyprus High Commission
U.N
Polis
Spyros Kyprianou
Athens
Ledra Street
President Johnson backs Southeast Asia aid resolution
President Johnson signed the fight if we must resolution at a White House ceremony pledging U S help to any Southeast Asian nation requesting aid for freedom. United Auto Workers resumed talks with Ford and Chrysler after a three day weekend. Luci Baines Johnson recovering from flu in Beverly Hills, plans to fly to the White House. Neshoba County autopsy on three slain civil rights workers remains sealed. Huntington voters face charter decision. Folllanshee seeks sewer plan approval. WV cemeteries protected from disturbance. Beulah Winter dies after brother's death.
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Congress
White House
U. S
Southeast Asia
Court House
Charleston
Kanawha County
United Auto Workers Union
Ford
Chrysler
Barry M. Goldwater
GOP
Scripps Clinic
la Jolla
Calif
Brenda
North Atlantic
Luci Baines Johnson
Friends
Beverly Hills
Jackson
Miss
Neshoba
W. Rayford Jones
Huntington
Follanshee
Public Service Commission
State Attorney General's
West Virginia
Panther
Camp Creek
McDowell
Mercer
Salinger Seat Upheld by Senate Rules Committee
The Senate Rules Committee upheld Pierre Salinger’s right to his California seat despite challenges from Republican senators and former actor George Murphy. The dispute centered on his status as a sitting senator and proceeded amid partisan opposition and procedural questions.
Wade In At Bluefield Pool Shows Civil Rights Demonstration
About 35 Black students from Bluefield State College staged a peaceful wade-in at East River Swimming Pool in Bluefield over the weekend. Demonstrators entered the water after a short picket and remained for roughly eight hours amidst minor name-calling from some of the 50 white swimmers who left. Pool officials warned of arrest but did not pursue charges.
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Bluefield
UPI
East River
Bluefield State College
C. Anderson Davis
State Naacp Executive Committee
Nhu’s Sister Employed by U S Agency in Vietnam Link
Army confirms Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu’s sister, Madame Tran Le Chi, 35, works at the John F. Kennedy Center for Special Warfare as a Vietnamese language instructor since June 18 at a salary of 5200 dollars. Her role has been kept quiet due to political implications. She previously urged Nhu to quit politics and return home.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
UPI
Army
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu
John F. Kennedy Center For Special Warfare
Madame Tran le Chi
Madame Tran
Washington
Madame Nhu
Europe
United States
Poverty Measure Passed Victory in Senate War on Poverty Bill
The Senate approved and sent to the White House a $947.5 million war on poverty program. It authorizes aid to impoverished areas, funds youth camps for skills and outdoor conservation, and supports small business and farm projects for anti poverty efforts. A loyalty oath provision was a major House Senate dispute.
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Washington
UPS
Senate
Johnson
White House
House
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
GOP
United States
Bound Bodies Found In Canal
Miami police report two bound bodies, an elderly white man and woman, found in a canal south of the city. The pair were wrapped in canvas, with weights, tied at limbs, and had been in the water for about three days. One man noted a gunshot wound to the head of the man. The canal lies beside U.S. Highway One.
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Miami
UPI
Dade County
Here
Immediate $1,000 Pay Hike Proposed by WV Federation of Teachers
West Virginia Federation of Teachers outlined a legislative program calling for an immediate $1,000 annual salary boost for teachers. The plan includes full extracurricular compensation, extended sick leave, cred ential maintenance pay, county vocational programs, 50 percent final salary pension, state health and accident insurance, and a statewide ten ure transfer with no penalty. Cooke urged pressing candidates in this year’s election to back the plan as education funding improves.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Cooke
Ofice
Leahy
Mundry
Executive Council
Legislative Committee
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