West Virginia Leads in Job Corps Planning Efforts
West Virginia is seen as a frontrunner in anti poverty program planning after a Tuesday visit by Harold Brewer and John Creston of the Job Corps. Gov. Barron’s aide Paul Crabtree said he has 500 to 600 names of unemployed youths. Two centers are planned at Anthony Greenbrier County and Bolivar Heights Jefferson County with Bolivar likely opening first in March or April. Crabtree outlined the recruitment and screening process with final placement by federal officials. Additional programs include a $57,000 Work Training effort for Wyoming County and Community Action Programs in Mineral Hardy Counties with several counties awaiting approval. An Adult Basic Education grant of $233,391 and a planned large urban Job Corps Center were also noted. Only Tennessee attended the meeting due to weather.
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Nicholas S. Ludington
Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Harold Brewer
John Creston
Paul Crabtree
W. W. Barron
Office of Economic Opportunity
Anthony
Greenbrier County
Bolivar Heights
Jefferson County
Crabtree
Washington
Employment Security Department
OES
West
Ters
Wyoming County
Mineral
Hardy
Webster, Taylor
Parkersburg
Council of the Southern Mountains
McDowell County
Mercer
Clay
Tennessee
Giant new U S transport plane eyed for 700 passengers
President Johnson approved Pentagon plans to develop a gigantic military transport capable of carrying up to 700 people or heavy cargo. The project aims for operational status in the 1969 fiscal year with a range of 5000 to 7000 miles and a cost of about 750 million dollars plus up to 1 billion for a fleet of 58 aircraft.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Johnson
Pentagon
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Johnson City
Tex
McNamara
Air Force
Two Youths Admit Killing Georgia Executive
Federal agents said Roy Dale Chatterton and Woodrow Whisman confessed to slaying Georgia industrial executive Copeland after being picked up in north Georgia. The body was found wrapped in wallpaper in an abandoned Rome, Georgia, house. Police tied the pair to the crime after leading detectives to the scene. The men, both from Huntington, West Virginia, face murder and robbery-related charges and are wanted in Kentucky and Huntington for additional crimes.
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Savannah
UPI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Huntington
W.va
Georgia
Copeland
FBI
Roy Dale Chatterton
Woodrow Whisman
Chatterman
Whisman
Rome
North
Stanford
Richmond
W. Va
Kentucky
West Coast Shaken By Earthquake
A 5.7 magnitude quake rattled the West Coast from Los Angeles to the Mexican border, centered about 250 miles south of Pasadena. No deaths or injuries reported, but widespread fear and property damage followed in Southern California, with notable scenes of panic in San Diego and Caltech reporting.
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San Diego
Calif
UPI
Los Angeles
California
Mike Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Alaska
San Francisco
Charles Richter
Caltech
Pasa
Baja California
Mex
U S to Protest Plane Incident in Egypt
UPI reports the United States plans an official protest to Egypt over the shooting down of an unarmed American oil company C82 cargo plane near Alexandria. The craft crashed Saturday. both pilots died. Mecom Oil Co. of Houston claims two Russian-made Egyptian Migs fired the shot.
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Cairo
UPI
United States
Egypt
Alexandria
Amman
Jorda
Benghazi
Libya
Mecom
Weather Update Beckley Area Cloudy and Warmer
Cloudy conditions and rising temperatures expected for Beckley and vicinity this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Highs near 53 this afternoon, lows around 40, upper 50s Thursday. last 24 hours low 32 at 1 30 am and high 39 at 3 pm. Precipitation none. winds southwest steady. Five day forecast calls for 4 to 8 degrees above normal with mild days through Saturday then cooler Sunday and Monday. some rain expected over weekend totaling about a quarter inch.
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Beckley
Beckley High
Eeere Ae
Greenbrier
Hinton
West Virginia
Three Held For Bombing Of UN
Three anti Castro Cubans face arraignment on charges from the December 11 attack on the United Nations headquarters in New York. Carlos Perez Ignacio Nova and Guillermo Nova were identified as suspects, facing counts of endangering life placing an explosive near a building and conspiracy.
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New York
UPI
United Nations
Carlos Perez
Ignacio Nova
Nova
Guillermo
Bergen
N.J
East River
U.N
Ernesto
Che) Guevara
United States
Philip Walsh
New York City
Food Baskets To Be Distributed Thursday
Beckley Salvation Army plans a Christmas aid effort with nearly 1,000 area families to receive food baskets at the Beckley Citadel starting at 10 a.m. Thursday. Coats shoes toys will be available. Lt Raymond Kitchen cites five club volunteers who packed 290 baskets for delivery.
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Beckley
Raymond Kitchen
Citadel
Kitchen
The
Gulf Woman's Club
Rusk urges Viet unity amid war effort
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told South Vietnamese leaders to put aside rivalries and press the war against the Communists, stressing unity is worth many divisions of troops though the U S will not pull out. He backed Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and insisted the administration will support him. He said no specific government is required.
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Washington
UPI
Dean Rusk
South Viet Nam
Rusk
United States
U.S
Saigon
Maxwell D. Taylor
Nguyen Khanh
Taylor
Johnson
UPS
Axwell D. Taylor
High Council
Khanh
Amecan
Council
Southeast Asia
Yale Party Raid Nets 3 Judges and 12 Marshals
Federal officers raided a Christmas party in a new federal building press room, ordering about 50 guests to disperse. Among those present were at least three federal judges Abraham Marovitz Joseph Sam Perry and Julius Hoffman nine federal prosecutors a dozen U S marshals and newsmen. The GSA carried out the raid under a law banning drinking on federal reservations. The event marked a rare crackdown at a courthouse party in a building slated for razing.
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Chicago
UPI
Federal
U.S
General Services Administration
Abraham Marovitz
Joseph Sam Perry
Julius Hoffman
GSA
Varney Plant Future To Be Discussed
Stockholders of the National Seating and Dimension Co. at Varney Mingo County will meet December 29 to discuss actions after the plant's November closing. Gov. Barbour’s representative said crews are searching for a new landlord to save 175 jobs. no firm offer has been received yet, though three companies have visited the site as promising leads.
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Charleston
UPI
National Seating and Dimension Co
Varney
Mingo County
J. Henry
W. W. Barron
Washington
National Seating
Barbour
13th Ballot Seen Crucial To Leone In Italy
In Rome the Italian parliament held its eighth straight day of voting with a 13th ballot to pick a successor to Antonio Segni who resigned after a stroke. The session aimed to name a seven year president, with Giovanni Leone the leading contender during the historic vote climate.
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Rome
UPI
Antonio Segni
Segni
France
Rene Coty
Giovanni Leone
State Senator Dies Without Taking Office
Moorefield funeral set for Donald J. Baker 47 who died of a heart attack soon after becoming senator for West Virginia’s 16th district. Baker, a Hardy County farmer and former House member, was married to Betty Head and survived by four children. Interment in Olivet Cemetery follows his illness and sudden death discovered by his wife.
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Moorefield
UPI
Presbyterian Church
Donald J. Baker
Olivet
House of Delegates
Hardy County
Baker
William Loy
Romney
Petersburg
Robert Welton Baker
Betty K
Thomas
Sen. Baker
Christmas Preparations Mount In Nazareth
Nazareth readies for Christmas with six illuminated trees along Pope Paul VI Street and giant projectors to light a cross over the town. Seven churches plan high mass on Christmas Eve as galage honors Archbishop Pakim Orthodox Archbishop Isodors and Bishop Kalkani.
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Nazareth
Israel
UPI
Jesus
Pope Paul VI
Christ
George Pakim
Isodors
Kalkani
Paper Products Firm To Open State Plant In Wheeling
Technical Tape Corp plans a Wheeling plant after a 292000 federal loan. with offices in New Rochelle, N.Y., the firm will hire up to 300 workers in three years. It will occupy a former West Virginia Ordnance Co. site and produce wall coverings translucent envelopes and place mats.
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Wheeling
UPI
Technical Tape Corp
Dan Gotthilf
New Rochelle
N.Y
Technical
West Virginia Ordnance Co
One Miner Killed Two Injured In Roof Fall
A roof fall at Christo pher Coal Co. Pursgrove No. 15 mine near Osage killed 31 year old machine operator Stanley J. Spooner of Morgantown on arrival at a local hospital. Foreman Denzel E. Ammons of Westover and machine operator helper LeRoy Barr of Fairview are listed in satisfactory condition. Spooner was married and a father of two.
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Morgantown
UPI
Christopher Coal Co
Pursgrove No
Osage
Stanley J. Spooner
Denzel E. Ammons
Westover
Leroy Barr
Fairview
Fairmont
Spooner
American Enlisted Advisor Killed in Communist Ambush
U S military reports an American enlisted advisor was killed and another wounded after a Communist ambush in Thua Thien Province about 75 miles north of Saigon. A third is missing possibly captured. the slain soldier died in a medical evacuation en route to a hospital.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
UPS
U.S
Thua Thien
Here
Was Big Robbery An Inside Job
Two bank messengers from Paterson New Jersey were cleared after lie detector tests in the ambush robbery of a First National Bank armored car at St Anthony s Rectory. Police weighed an inside information leak given the careful timing and planning of the heist while suspects continued to be questioned.
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First National Bank of
Passaic
Godley
Fernandi
Train struck truck. Harris dies in Algoma crash
Wreck victim Cornell S. Harris of Algoma, 62, died Tuesday from injuries after a Norfolk and Western train struck his truck at a crossing on West Virginia Route 17 in Algoma. The 1964 highway fatality toll rose to 449, up from 420 the previous year.
Russia rejects plan to end UN financial crisis
United Nations officials reported that Russia rejected a plan intended to resolve the UN financial crisis, signaling continued tension over funding and leadership issues at the world body.
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United Nations
N. Y
UPI
Russia
Trooper and Reporter Involved In Mishap
A state policeman Trooper A C Bartlett and Dennis Sanger of the Register were in a one car crash on Lillybrook Mountain while responding to a wreck report near Beso eo. The accident, due to a slick patch, left no injuries reported. A separate 8:30 a.m. crash on Tams Mountain injured Theodore Roop in good condition at VA Hospital and Clifton Cleo Mills in fair condition at ARH with chest injuries.
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Register
Besoeo
Lillybrook Mountain
A. C. Bartlett
Dennis Sanger
The
Tams Mountain
Theodore Roop
Veterans Administration Hospital
Clifton Cleo Mills
Ury
Appalachian Regional Hospital
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Hart
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Pinecrest Sanitarium
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
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