President Johnson summons steel talks to White House
President Johnson calls steel union and management to the White House to avert a strike at midnight Tuesday. Mediators report stalemate and outside help may be needed. talks to continue until a settlement is reached with labor and management faces. Moyers notes hopeful tone as talks resume with Wirtz and Connor present.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Steel Union
White House
Moyers
Tors
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Leroy Collins
Pittsburgh
Morse
Collins
Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Commerce
John T. Connor
Bill D. Moyers
Texas
William Simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Wirtz and
Connor
Basic Goal Wrong Dr Slavin Raps W Va Schools
West Virginia economist Dr Richard Slavin questions high school focus on college prep and warns seven of ten graduates may not be prepared for today’s economy He urges study of growth areas and broader vocational training to provide marketable skills like computer programming.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Economist
Richard Slavin
Charleston Area
West Virginia University
Center For Appalachian Studies and Development
Slavin
Union Carbide
Record Lows Set In State
West Virginia records for the date fell in Charleston Elkins and Huntington as temperatures dipped to unseasonal lows. Elkins logged 34 0 degrees breaking the 1930 record. Charleston 41 surpassing 52 in 1934. Huntington 43, seven below the 1946 low. Beckley tied 36, matching the 1956 record.
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Charleston
UPS
West Virginia
Elkins
Mercury
Huntington
Beckley
Beckley and Vicinity Weather and River Forecast
Mostly sunny this afternoon with high near 69. Tonight and tomorrow partly cloudy with a low around 46. Highs tomorrow in the upper 60s. River Greenbrier low and clear, Lake normal and clear with 1 gate open. Five day forecast: west Virginia highs 83 to 61 in south and 79 to 54 in north. Rain possible late week. warmer Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Hinton
West Virginia
Fired Fairmont Street Workers Strike On
About 70 street and sanitation workers from United Mine Workers District 50 remain on strike in Fairmont after walking off Friday to press for higher wages. City official William MacOlvin fired them, later offering rehiring to most if new applications are filed, excluding four or five whom he called “trouble makers.” Strikers, who rejected the offer, returned to union headquarters, maintaining a $10 monthly raise was previously offered and noting the contract expires September 12.
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Fairmont
UPS
United Mine Workers District 50
City Street
William MacOlvin
MacOlvin
OBrien Named To Cabinet Gronouski Out
White House announces Lawrence F OBrien will be the next postmaster general while John A Gronouski is to be named ambassador to Poland. Johnson hails OBrien as a strong right arm to the president and Gronouski’s Warsaw posting fits his bridging pledge to Eastern Europe.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Lawrence F O'Brien
John F. Kennedy
Johnson
O'Brien
Gronouski
Warsaw Post
Gulf
Europe
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
National Party
Springfield
Mass
Stengel Retires as Mets Manager At 75
Casey Stengel announced his retirement as manager of the New York Mets at a midtown hotel press conference. The 75 year old will stay with the club in an executive role, while interim manager West Westrum will continue leading the team for the rest of the season.
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NEW York
UPI
Casey Stengel
New York Mets
Stengel
Mets
West Westrum
Ambush theory on Chu Lai battle shocks U S readers
Col Nguyen Van Tho discusses Chu Lai engagement with NEA correspondent, arguing Viet Cong planned an ambush rather than a reaction to U S moves. He describes VC veterans from Laos, camouflage training, and a strategy to lure Marines into prepared woods to destroy armor and equipment. The count of VC dead is given as 563.
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Washington
NEA
Nguyen van Tho
U. S
Chu Lai
V. C
Laos
Col Nguyen
Marine Corps
Viet Nam
Planes Lost Amid Growling U S Viet Nam Air Raids
U S Strategic Air Command may attack Communist targets in South Vietnam daily, with five B52 raids in six days and 55 missions against North Viet Nam. Two American planes were lost Sunday. one F105 Thunderchief pilot captured, a prop planes crewman killed. Ground fighting near Da Nang and Zone D saw Viet Cong outposts overrun and then retaken.
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VU. 5S
Chu Lai
South
Viet Nam
U. S
12Th Marines
Artillery
1St Marine Air Wing
Army
Bayfield
Talladega
Cabildo
Point Defiance
Vernon City
Saigon
UPS
U.S
Strategic Air Command
South Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Navy
North
North Viet Nam
Air Force
da Nang
Quant Tin Province
Zone D
Fairleas West Virginia Fair Ends With Record Attendance
Fair officials report the FAIRLEA West Virginia State Fair as the most successful in history. About 250000 people attended the week long event, a 10 percent increase over last year, as the fair closed Sunday.
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Fairlea
UPS
West Virginia
King Children Break Barrier at all white school
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and core SCLC aides enrolled five of their children in a formerly all white elementary school in Atlanta. Mrs King and Mrs Abernathy enrolled children as thousands of Black pupils began attending previously segregated Southern schools. This marked the first mass desegregation since the Supreme Court ruling.
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Atlanta
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Spring Street
U.S. Supreme Court
Astronauts Cooper and Conrad Begin 11 Day Debriefing
After a 10 day stretch of gruelling tests following Gemini 4, Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad rest aboard USS Lake Champlain at sea before a Cape Canaveral recovery flight. They face medical and engineering reviews, slept late under recovery restrictions, and log 120 orbits during the historic mission.
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Lake Champlain AT Sea
UPI
Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Earth
Cape Kenarerede
FIU UY
Cooper
Conrad
America
Beaver Serviceman On Recovery Ship
Hospital Corpsman First Class John W. Rogers Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers, Beaver, serves aboard the carrier Lake Champlain. The ship helped recover Project Gemini astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad after their 8 day space mission Sunday and previously aided astronaut Alan Shepard in 1961.
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John W. Rogers Jr
John Rogers
Beaver
Lake Champlain
Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Alan Shepard
Cape Kennedy
Federal Space Agency
Howard K. Minner
Atlantic Ocean
Minners
Space Agency
Cooper
Conrad
Houston
Man Is Built Better Than Any Machine Gemini 5 Flight
Gemini 5 proves humans outperform machines as Cooper and Conrad return after 199 hours in space. Manned tests reveal the body endures cold heat hunger and fatigue while the capsule withstands extreme conditions. Scientists foresee manned Moon missions by 1968 or 1969 with ongoing Gemini flights to tackle computer radar and control jet challenges.
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Alvin B. Webb JR
Cooper
Conrad
Charles Berry
Fighting in Santo Domingo continues despite clashes near palace
In Santo Domingo clashes between Inter-American Force troops and rebels continued into the night. The rebels reported five civilians killed and eight wounded as gunfire and explosions rocked near the presidential palace. IAF said a Brazilian unit came under attack and returned fire, with rebels claiming Brazilian forces fired first.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
UPI
Inter-American Force
IAF
Dominican
Betsy Becomes Full Hurricane Betsy Intensifies Over Atlantic
Hurricane Betsy strengthened into the season’s second hurricane as it churned in the open Atlantic about 250 miles north of San Juan. Winds reached 80 mph and the storm moved north-northwest at 12 mph. Forecaster Kraft noted gradual intensification with no immediate land threat.
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Miami
UPI
Betsy
Leeward
Virgin Islands
United States’ Space Program
San Juan
P.R
Longtitude
Raymond Kraft
Car crashes into Kroger as brakes fail in Wheeling
UPI reports a car rammed the Kroger super market front in Wheeling Sunday night. Glass windows were shattered after a brake failure. The car owner was Gerald Reed, manager of an A&P store in the area.
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Wheeling
UPI
Kroger
Gerald Reed
A&p
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