Coast Guard Cutter Hit By Mistake In Vietnam War Attack
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter, the USS Point Welcome, was mistaken for an enemy contact and attacked by three U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers, killing two crewmen and wounding five. The incident follows a prior mistaken bombing that killed 26 and wounded 114 at Truong Thanh, 80 miles southeast of Saigon. Survivors say no Viet Cong were in Truong Thanh. officials cite intelligence of Viet Cong activity prompting the strike. The wounded include a Vietnamese liaison officer and British reporter Tim Page.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast
U.S
South Viet Nam
Tim Page
Viet Nam
Hue
UPI
Elizabeth Halstead
Can Tho
Fea US
IV Corps
FAC
Boston
Mass
Point Welcome
James Andrews
House Pushing Legislation on Airline Strike
Washington reports the House Commerce Committee moves to advance a bill to end a 35 day airline strike. It seeks authority for a 150 day no strike extension and new mediation, with plans to seize the five airlines if needed. IAM President Roy Siemiller doubts union approval of binding arbitration.
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Washington
UPS
House Commerce Committee
Congress
Airlines
International Association of Machinists
IAM
P. L. (Roy) Siemiller
Senate
Johnson
Harley Staggers
D-W.va
Whitman murder report finds no alcohol or barbiturates
A lab report to a grand jury finds no trace of alcohol or barbiturates in Charles J. Whitman's blood, concluding substances did not play a significant role in last week’s murders. Other items note a labor board election in Greenbrier County, Byrd condemning police handcuffs, and defense bill provisions guiding base closures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Whitman
Department of Public Safety
Whitman
National Labor Relations Board
Leckie Smokeless Coal Co
Greenbrier
Robert C. Byrd
Weather Forecast Beckley and Vicinity Showers Likely
Showers this afternoon and tonight with a high near 77 and a low around 62. Partly cloudy tomorrow with a 50 percent chance of showers and a high in the upper 70s. Airport conditions show a high of 84 and a low of 66 in the last 24 hours. River readings: Greenbrier normal, Lake normal with 1.8 gates open. Today's extremes list Palm Springs 114 and Stampede Pass 40.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Lake
Hinton
Palm Springs
Calif
Stampede Pass
Wash
Spacecraft Near Lunar Orbit in Uncorrected Flight
PASADENA Calif UPI scientists and computers tracked a 850 pound unmanned lunar orbiter speeding toward the moon in a photographic mission to map safe landing spots for astronauts. Three days remained for a potential midcourse maneuver as the craft, launched Wednesday from Cape Kennedy, aimed for a 28 mile lunar pass and a Sunday orbit insertion with initial photos due August 17 from Goldstone in California.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
America
Moon
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cape Kennedy
Earth
Madrid
JPL
Robert H. Gray
Goldstone
California
Mojave Desert
Q and A from Ring Register Hotline
The column provides brief answers to reader questions on taxes car licenses pool access and gardening. Topics include exemption from county and state capitation taxes after age 70, Black Knight Country Club membership types, Alan McCune’s roster status, personal property taxes for car licenses, pool access at Maxwell Hill, 1934 World Series winner, automobile tax while not operable, junked cars tax exemption, and timing for planting chrysanthemums gladiolus and petunias with guidance from local officials.
Murdered Cellmate Ex-State Man Gets Chair In Oklahoma
James French, 30, of Huntington West Virginia, was executed in Oklahoma’s electric chair for the 1961 strangling of a cellmate. He faced final hours calmly after a last meal of pheasant under glass and others, told a guard to take care, and requested cremation with Shakespearean ashes.
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Mcalester
Okla
UPI
James French
French
Huntington
State Penitentiary
Tulsa, Okla
Drug Kingpin Gets 25 Years in Harlem Narcotics Ring
New York dispatch reports Leonard Aiken, 55, convicted as the kingpin of the nation’s largest narcotics organization, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison and fined 20,000. Bail set at 150,000 pending appeal. Top lieutenant Leroy Davis, 39, got 15 years and 20,000 bail. Three pushers Webster Bivins, 38, Charles Cole, 43, and Clifford Rogers, 31, received 12, 10, and 6 year terms with fines and bail pending appeal.
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New York
UPI
Leonard Aiken
Aiken
Harlem
Leroy Davis
Webster Bivins
Charles Cole
Clifford Rogers
Civil Rights Debate Set For Sept 6
Senate floor battle over the House civil rights bill moves toward a Sept 6 debate after Senate Democratic Leader Mansfield announced the plan. He attributed any cloture difficulty to Republican Leader Dirksen, who opposes open housing and may delay adjournment targets with the labored hearings in the Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
Senate
Mansfield
Judiciary
Dirksen
Whites Attack Grenada Demonstrators in Mississippi
United Press International reports 250 Black demonstrators faced cherry bombs and curses from White men in Grenada Mississippi on a Wednesday night as police kept order with the threat of billy clubs. A Molotov cocktail shattered a Detroit drug store window but the fire was quickly put out amid rain. In Chicago 300 demonstrators picketed the Real Estate Board as part of the open city drive, while homebound workers hurried home. Police called the night quiet.
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United Press International
Grenada
Miss
Billy Club
Detroit
Chicago
Chicago Real Estate Board
WVU to operate first state educational TV station
Appalachian Regional Commission grants 313724 plus 522874 from HEW and 577026 from WVU fund a 1.4 million classroom TV station on UHF 24 in Morgantown. Studios on WVU campus, transmitter on Chestnut Ridge. Channel 24 aims late summer 1967 with coverage across 15 WV counties and three in Pennsylvania.
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Charleston
UPI
Appalachian Regional Commission
Morgantown
Hulett C. Smith
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
West Virginia University
WVU
Chestnut Ridge
Sand Springs
Preston County
Washington
U. S
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Smith
Paul Miller
West Virginia
Channel 24
Pennsylvania
Barbour
Doddridge
Harrison
Lewis
Marion
Marshall
Monongalia
Ohio
Preston
Randolph
Taylor
Tucker
Tyler
Upshur
Wetzel
Debakey Heart Patient Makes Much Progress
In Houston Mrs Esperanza del Valle Vasquez 37 became the first artificial heart pump recipient to sit up and drink liquids after a four hour operation led by Dr Michael DeBakey The breakthrough follows two earlier patients who died soon after their procedures with one surviving 67 hours before death and another dying after 111 hours with no blood oxygen issues noted and lungs clear.
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Houston
UPI
Esperanza del Valle Vasquez
Mexico City
Michael DeBakey
Vasquez
Marcel L. de Rudder
Westville
Ill
Walter L. McCans
Woodinville
Wash
de Rudder
McCans
Governor and Crowson discuss liquor policy and raids
Gov Hulett Smith met with Rev L E Crowson to review liquor enforcement and a European study trip by Liquor Commissioner Clarence Elmore. Crowson said the governor opposed selling liquor in state parks and expected increased raids with State Police cooperation in Charleston Morgantown and Fairmont.
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Charleston
UPI
Hulett C. Smith
L. E. Crowson
Smith
Crowson
Clarence Elmore
Morgantown
Fairmont
Elmore
National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association
Festival Princesses Aid For Math Problems
ELKINS WV UP I Linda Powers 18 of Beckley a top science student and a Westinghouse scholarship finalist was named a Mountain State Forest Festival princess. Patricia Ann Houchins 18 of Wayside Monroe County a 4.0 WVU math major was also named princess at the event.
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Elkins
UPI
Mountain State Forest
Linda Powers
Beckley
Westinghouse Science Talent Institute
Patricia Ann Houchins
Wayside
Monroe County
West Virginia University
English Woman Finds Gator In Her Garden
In Leicester Mrs Mary Williams spotted a three foot long alligator nestling among her roses. She screamed and fled as Herbert Hawksworth of the Royal SPCA hurried over to lasso the creature. Local reptile expert Robert Osborne identified it as a South American alligator before it bit him.
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Leicester
England
UPI
Mary Williams
Mrs. Williams
Herbert Hawksworth
The
Royal Spca
Robert Osborne
Osborne
Hawkworth
Ailment Delays Speck Transfer
CHICAGO Richard Speck the 24 year old accused of slaughtering eight nurses on Chicago s south side will remain in his iron bed in the Cook County jail infirmary for at least two or three more days. Warden Jack Johnson said a lingering heart ailment has delayed Speck s transfer to an isolation cell within the jail complex. Johnson said the EKG shows a slight problem but no serious condition and doctors ordered bed rest as Speck recovers from inflammation of the sac around his heart.
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House
Congress
aeeSers
Aes and Steel Companies
Chicago
Manufacturers Light and Heat Co
Pittsburgh
Federal Power Commission
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Senate Judiciary Committee
American Bar Association
Johnson
ABA
Nevada
Dunes
Sam Cohen
Daniel Lister
API
Richard Speck
Cook County
Jack Johnson
Speck
Coast Guard cutter attack quotes drift over Vietnam War
Quotes from James Andrews aboard a Coast Guard cutter recount an attack near Vietnam with a warning about lights at night. In Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. criticizes North residential areas during Chicago marches. In Leicester, Mrs. Mary Williams identifies an intruder as an alligator in her rose garden.
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Jackson
Miss
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Chicago
Leicester
England
Mary Williams
Police man quiets civil rights protest in Grenada
In Grenada Mississippi a police officer named Giles Crisler broke up a noisy white crowd harassing a Black civil rights demonstrator. He warned all present that violations would be dealt with on either side and ordered the crowd to stop hollering or face arrest for disturbing the peace.
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Grenada
Miss
Giles Crisler
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W. Va
Alan McCune
Atlanta
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