West Virginia 1965 Year in Review Highlights Disasters and Reform
The 1965 West Virginia year in review recalls the Sardis mine disaster with seven miners killed after a mining machine touched a trolley wire. It notes political shifts, teacher pay raises, and integration protests, plus hospital and governance reforms. Governor Smith begins anti poverty efforts as industrial growth accelerates with plant expansions and tourism expansion nationwide.
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Ps. Velding West Vic
Goost Jyg
William C
Marland
Chicago
Ition
Rock Lake
South Charleston
Bluefield
Interior Department
Grafton Sponge Rubber
Ozite Corp
Alcan Aluminum
West's S I D E Quiz Continues With Answers Revealed
Washington columnist Dick West presents a second lighter quiz about postwar trivia. He retells a mistaken identity involving Mohammed Bashir Ahmed, then lists ten questions with its published answers including Johnson’s title, a cigar-chewing senator, Van Doren, Ham the chimp, Kaltenborn, Rudel Smith, McCarthy, the seal change, ruptured ducks, and Mildred Paperman.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
Ee Ee
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
Mohammed Bashir
Mohammed Bashir Ahmed
U.S
Charles van Doren
America
Truman
Harry Truman
Bernard Goldfine
American Red Cross
William Langer
R-N. D
Ham
H. V. Kaltenborn
Elizabeth Rudel Smith
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Mildred Paperman
Princess Soraya aims for Hollywood stardom without risque acts
Princess Soraya, ex empress of Iran, arrived in Hollywood to pursue acting after completing a Rome film. She says she studies the craft in Munich, has not dated since arriving, stays with friends, visits studios, talks with producers, and may spend a few days in Palm Springs.
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UPI
Hollywood
Soraya
Egypt
Iran
Persia
Munich
Germany
Princess Margaret
Maggie Windsor
Rome
Peopl
Hugh O’brian
Palm Springs
Kyle Blevins Silent Hero Of Lai Khe Battle
Kyle Blevins, 21, from Westerville Ohio, with the First Infantry Division in Viet Nam, directs fire atop a burning personnel carrier during a siege near a plantation edge. He remains stoic and wordless as he prunes away the enemy and moves along the line, earning the label of improbable hero for the actions that left opponents dropping like dominoes. He answered every question with a single word Nope, and refused further comment.
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Kyle Blevins
Gary Cooper
Lai Khe
Viet Nam
Tom Tiede
Enterprise Newspaper Assn
Nea
Mr. Rushmore
O.K
Wael
Blevins
Planta
FPC Gas Rate Authority Upheld By High Court
The Supreme Court backed the Federal Power Commission's plan to regulate initial interstate gas sales to protect consumers. Justice Douglas wrote the opinion, reviving the commission's move to set fair prices by area rather than cost of service, and reinstating earlier contract-based rate actions in southern Louisiana after prior appellate reversal.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Federal Power Commission
FPC
William O. Douglas
Commission
Louisiana
Auteeds
Circuit Court of Appeals
Red Apples Not Wanted in Manila Trade
Philippine customs weighed seizing 8000 cases of Ted apples valued around 50000 dollars shipped from Hong Kong to Manila. Officials believed the fruit was grown in Communist China and considered seizure under a local law prohibiting goods from Communist countries. Senator Alejandro Almendras urged action under the import ban.
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Manila
UPI
Philippines
Hong Kong
China
Alejandro Almendras
James Watt’s Steam Heating Pioneers Office Use in 1784
James Watt applied steam to heat his office in 1784 marking the first practical use of steam for heating. The breakthrough demonstrated steam's viability for room warmth and advanced early steam technology applications.
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James Watt
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Sardis
West Virginia
William Casey
Wie
West
Masoncondi County
Lakinda
Pt. Pleasant
Mildred Bateman
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Ireland
Hanna
Moundsville
Ee Ginia
Electric Moundsville
Williamson
Carl David Wide
Geraldine Chambers Capril
Tce Goody Tire and Car Rubber
National Analine
Allied Chemical
Cresap
Marshall County
Consolidation Coal Co
Martinsburg
Terra Alta
Franklin
Hall Town
Jefferson County
Romney
Preston County
Ponderosa
Fayette County
Martin Senour
Mary Carter Paint CO
By Vernon Scott
FPC Gas Rate Authority
High Court
Squibb
Deller
Rist
Thompson Drug Co., Inc
Main St. Beckley, W. Va
Portland Cement Association
West Broad Street
Columbus
Competig Cement Manefecteres
Gollamagoofer
C & P Telephone Company of
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Boll
Leroy
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