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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1966
Page
1
UPI reports U S Navy jets again attacked two North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin this week. In South Vietnam the Viet Cong intensified its pre election terror, hitting a village marketplace with a deadly Claymore mine.
Viet Cong raids around Can Tho and Ngoc Hoa threaten South Vietnam's Sept. 11 constituent assembly elections. Bombs, mortars, and assassination plots prompt doubled guards for American and Vietnamese officials. Navy jets and aircraft losses reported near Haiphong. rescuers save a downed pilot as air battles unfold. South Vietnamese forces press through jungles and paddies in search and destroy operations.
President Johnson calls for a patriotism expanded by imagination and compassion to end global poverty and violence. Speaking to the American Legion convention, he argues that freeing people from poverty is essential to lasting peace and quotes that an armistice ends fighting but not the war.
Congress should appropriate funds directly to the Appalachian Regional Commission to speed project review. Senator Jennings Randolph said this would streamline processing and let Congress evaluate the program as a single unit.
Eight elderly Roman Catholic nuns were expelled from China into Hong Kong as hundreds of Red Guards gathered at the border. The group included one nun on crutches and another unconscious on a baggage cart. Two nuns were taken to hospital after shock from the ordeal. They cried with joy upon reaching Hong Kong, while border guards faced criticism from Catholic officials for rough treatment.
Los Angeles API reports five people died when two traffic monitoring helicopters collided in flames above Dodger Stadium. Captain Max Schumacher 39 UFOKMPC pilot and four others perished. LAPD observer Nicki Inicki 46 and officer Larry Amberg 28 survived no.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday approved four ambassador nominations: A Alexis Johnson to Japan, John S Hayes to Switzerland, Carol C Laise to Nepal, and Lee G Cyr to Rwanda. Final services were held in Weston this afternoon for former West Virginia congressman and Weston mayor Andrew Edminston.
The Senate Commerce Committee approved two bills on Tuesday. One bans sale of toys containing dangerous substances and another authorizes limiting total aspirin in each bottle to less than a fatal dose for a small child. The House passed compromise parcel post rate increases and loosening size and weight limits for parcels between large cities, sending the measure to the White House.
About 225 migrant workers from the British West Indies will be permitted to come to Jefferson and Berkeley Counties in West Virginia from Sept. 19 to help harvest the apple crop. The U S Labor Department authorized the Tri County Fruit Growers Association on Tuesday to bring the workers.
SAN FRANCISCO UP I reports nurses at three city hospitals ended a day long sick leave by ratifying a pay hike 347 to 104 from 465 565 to 578 703 monthly immediate. The measure awaits county board approval and followed a state of emergency declaration by Mayor John F Shelley to fund the raise, costing over 1 million this year.
The Rio Grande surged toward a crest in northern Mexico and along the Presidio Ojinaga border area. Flooding from Chihuahua rains swelled the river to 18.5 feet past the Presidio port of entry, submerging both approaches to the international bridge. Customs officials operated from rowboats as the river flooded gauges and riverbanks. Authorities expected the crest and retreat by Wednesday, with thousands displaced and the region declared heavily affected by the flood, per UPI.
Mostly sunny today with a high near 82 and a clear night with a low around 57. Partly cloudy tomorrow in the low 80s, with winds northeast at 12 mph. River conditions show Greenbrier normal and clear, Lake normal with two gates open, and a Hinton gauge of 1.8 ft. Highs reach 105 in Imperial California, lows 33 in Kalispell Montana. West Virginia temperatures averaged just below normal. highs near 79 to 83 and lows 53 to 60 with possible showers Friday into Friday night totaling about half an inch.
Two prominent area men, Walter James of Prosperity and A. G. Wilcox of Shady Spring, are in fair condition in local hospitals after heart attacks. James, owner of James Dairy and a county commissioner, fell ill Aug. 20 while assisting at the Dry Hill Prosperity Fair. Wilcox, retired president of Wilcox Manufacturing Co., is hospitalized at Raleigh General.
French President Charles de Gaulle met for 30 minutes in Phnom Penh with Nguyen Truong Ho Chi Minh’s envoy in Cambodia. Truong delivered Ho’s personal message described as more important than prior Viet Nam talks. Details of Ho’s message were not disclosed.
Mrs. Vonda Jean Mullenax, sentenced to life for the Preston County murder of her husband, escaped from the West Virginia Prison for Women. She jumped from a prison truck at 8 15 a m and fled into woods inside the wire fence as a patrol searched the area.
BECKLEY UPI Troy Cole Jr. of Fairdale was killed in a single car crash near Fairdale at about 1 30 a m Two passengers, Russell Acord and Buster Carter both of Fairdale, were not injured. Cole, 20, drove into a creek at Spankers Branch and overturned while attempting to crawl through a window. He was reportedly traveling at high speed on a narrow dirt road. Cole’s body was at Melton Mortuary pending arrangements. The death was the ith fatality on County Roads this year.
Reader questions cover creel limits, arrests of John Hodel, Chaplin age, Elks membership rumor denial, public rest room behavior, festival entry, and city hydrant count. Answers: eight catfish creel, Hodel arrested on three occasions, Chaplin still alive per 1889 birth, Hodel never applied to local lodges, rest rooms abused by all classes, festival entry now closed but contact Miss Pearl Rohter, about 186 city hydrants.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and President Johnson backed a sense of the Senate urging a substantial reduction of U S forces in Europe. The plan cites Western Europe’s improved relations with Russia and its self sufficiency, noting France seeks withdrawal of forces and arguing U S commitments may exceed needs.
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