Centaur Rockets Dummy Toward Paper Moon
Cape Kennedy UPI A Centaur Atlas rocket carried a dummy Surveyor payload toward a paper moon on a 63 hour flight to 240 000 miles out. Officials said separation from the upper stage was not confirmed yet but expected. The test supports a live Surveyor lunar lander launch planned for late year.
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Space Agency
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Showdown Looms As Paratroopers Pour Into Pleiku
Russia ready to ink disarmament pacts with the West if conditions met. Tsarapkin says a comprehensive nuclear test ban and a nuclear nonproliferation treaty could be signed immediately, but not tied to a Viet Nam settlement. In Saigon, Viet Cong split a relief column near Duc Co as US paratroopers rush to Pleiku amid heavy fighting and air support.
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UPI
Russia
Viet Nam
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Tsarapkin
United States
Soviet Union
NATO
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Moscow
The
United
Saigon
Due Co
Central Highlands
Pleiku
Mari
Highway 19
U. S
Duc Co
101St U. S. Airborne Division
Escanee Begins Trip Back To W Va Prison
Tilton James Hall known as Melvon J Hurley begins return to Moundsville Penitentiary from Utah after escaping a prison road gang in 1948 and serving 18 years of a 99 year sentence for the 1930 killing of his stepmother in War Eagle Mingo County. Bail bond?
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Utah
UPI
Tilton James Hall
West Virginia
Hall
Melvon J. Hurley
War Eagle
Mingo County
Moundsville
Set D. W. Lowe
Johnsons Vietnam Briefings Building Bipartisan Support
President Johnson’s five part briefings on Vietnam for House and Senate members appear to be building broader support. Ford McCormack Mansfield Moyers all described a more united stance and improved understanding, with no commitments asked or given during the sessions.
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UPI
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Washington
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Viet Nam
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Capitol Hill
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Mich
Ford
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D-Mass
Ment
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Mont
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Congress
28-Ship Gemini Fleet Deployed for 8 Day Flight
CAPE KENNEDY UPS report says 28 ships are deployed worldwide to support the Gemini eight-day spaceflight beginning August 19. About 10,000 personnel will be on station around the globe for the orbital voyage of astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad. If needed, ships and planes will be positioned across the Atlantic and Pacific for an earlier landing.
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America
Leighton I. Davis
Department of Defense
Globe
L. Gordon Cooper
Charles
Pete) Conrad
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
Pacific
Castroite Confesses 5 Shipboard Murders
Miami based report says a pro-Castro Cuban sailor, Robert Ramirez, confessed to killing captain and four crew aboard the freighter Seven Seas after disputes over political views. One crewman is missing and another survived by sheltering in the bilge. Ramirez was found in a lifeboat near Miami by the German freighter Bellavia.
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UPI
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Robert Ramirez
Ramirez
City Asks Incinerator Planning Extension
Beckley plans to extend the planning period for a proposed incinerator Mayor John W. Smith said. A site change is under consideration with a North Beckley site studied by City Engineer Dennis Leary, affecting hauling distances. A March federal planning grant of $43,100 backs engineering work for an $815,900 project.
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Beckley
John W. Smith
Smith
Dennis Leary
Weather Fair And Cooler Beckley And Vicinity
Partly cloudy this afternoon and not as warm with a high of 74. Tonight will be fair and cooler, low 48. Thursday mostly sunny and pleasant. Beckley records show high 71 and low 52 in the last 24 hours, with no precipitation and humidity around 51 percent at 12:30 pm. River conditions: Greenbrier normal and cloudy. Lake normal and clear. new gauge at Hinton reads 2.0 ft. Elsewhere today, Blythe California high 110, Alpena Michigan low 38. Five day forecast: West Virginia temperatures 85-64 in the south and 81-57 in the north with showers most likely weekend.
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Greenbrier
Hinton
Blythe
Calif
Alpena
Mich
West Virginia
World War I Hero Casey Jones Dies
Casey M. Jones 75 longtime West Virginia veteran affairs leader died Wednesday at Walter Reed in Washington DC. He was believed to be the first WV wounded and decorated in WWI. Jones led DAV rehabilitation in DC after serving as state veterans service officer and first state DAV commander. He also advised Congress Veterans Affairs Committee and twice ran for WV Congress, losing to John Kee. He was a former newspaper man in Charleston for Ogden papers and associate editor of the Hinton Daily News.
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John Kee
Charleston
Ogden Newspapers
West Virginia
Hinton
American Beauty Queen in Long Beach Pageant Win
Gail Karen Krielow 21 from Ohio with blue eyes and rifle skills won the American Beauty Queen title in the 14th International Beauty Pageant held in Long Beach. Miss Krielow, 36 24 36, will compete with 30 plus contestants for Miss International Beauty on Friday at Municipal Auditorium.
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Calif
Gail Karen Krielow
Ohio
Bids For National Training School Under Review
Washington UPI bids for the National Training School for Boys at Morgantown West Virginia are under review by the Federal Bureau of Prisons after bids reached about 1 million dollars above estimates. The agency may seek a supplemental appropriation or revise plans to cut costs causing possible yearlong delay. William Green Construction Co. of Long Island posted the apparent low bid of 18 114 450 for the facility.
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Congress
William Green Construction Co
Long Island, N.Y
Mother of Quints Leaves Wellington Hospital
Mrs. Shirley Lawson mother of New Zealand s first quintuplets left the hospital with her thriving babies still in care. She touched and bottle fed two of the infants before departure, marking her first contact with her children since their birth.
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Wellington
New Zealand
UPI
Shirley Lawson
Dixie Voter Registration Growth Alters Southern Politics
Federal registrars enrolled hundreds of Negro voters in nine Deep South counties after long denial. Justice Department suits target poll taxes in Virginia Alabama and Texas as political emphasis shifts with black turnout potentially redefining local and statewide power. Klansmen face trial for Liuzzo murder while civil rights demonstrations draw criticism from Newsom the nation’s oldest Negro college fraternity.
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Justice Department
JPF Varites
Virginia
Alabama
Texas
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South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Birmingham
Ala
Ku Klux Klan
Matt Murphy
Fort Worth man admits murders of UT coeds Stark and Rigsby
In a The News COED case authorities say James C. Cross Jr., 22, of Fort Worth, Texas, has admitted the strangulation murders of University of Texas coeds Shirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby. The confession was reported as part of ongoing police proceedings and details remain under investigation.
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James C. Cross Jr
Fort Worth, Tex
University of Texas
Shirley Ann Stark
Susan Rigsby
Frelinghuysen Proposes Quips On Bills And Locations
Rep Peter Frelinghuysen suggests tongue in cheek lines to accompany major bills. He jokes the farm bill could be empty grain storage bins, pollution rules deserve rush hour on a Los Angeles freeway, a minimum wage bill fits a NAM meeting, and a right to work repeal joins Taft at Capitol Hill with background music I Surrender Dear.
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UPT
Johnson
Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen
R-N.j
Billie Sol Estes
Los Angeles
National Association of Manufacturers
Capitol Hill
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Frelinghuysen
Ground Broken For $2 Million Lumber Plant
Governor Hulett C. Smith spoke at Parsons ground breaking for a $2 million Parsons Forest Products lumber plant. He praised West Virginia’s shift from exporting timber to using it for state benefits and noted the historical rise and decline of the hardwood industry since the early 1900s.
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UPI
Hulett C. Smith
West Virginia
Parsons Forest Products
Smith
West
Shopkeeper Fails 30th Try Hold Up Charlie's
New York UPI report from Spanish Harlem recounts a 30-year hold up history at Charlie DiMaggio's shop. Three men mobbed the Lexington Avenue deli and a 65-year-old owner shot one gunman dead and wounded another during the attempted robbery. The surviving thief fled with about 300 dollars as police pursued suspects and no charges were filed yet.
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UPI
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Lexington Ave
Manhattan
Spanish Harlem
Charlie DiMaggio
Slug
Earl Hickson
Third Avenue
Asst. Dist
John J. Sheey
Three Speakers Slated for Kanawha Young GOP Picnic
Charleston upi Three leading Republicans join the Kanawha County Young Republican Club picnic as speakers Arch Moore Jr former Gov Cecil Underwood and former Panama ambassador Joseph V Far.
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UPI
Kanawha County
Young Republican Club
GOP
Arch A Moore Jr
Cecil Underwood
Panama
Joseph Far“vi
Morgantown
Soviet trawler near Guam suspected of signaling Viet Cong
A Russian trawler three miles off Guam's Apra Harbor since December is suspected of providing Viet Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam with early warning of B52 raids. UPI reports Guam Pacific forces will not comment. the ship’s radar setup could give about 3.5 hours advance notice.
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Apra Harbor
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Viet Nam
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