Worst Air Disaster Yet Strikes Tokyo Bay 133 Feared Dead
An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 carrying 133 aboard crashed into Tokyo Bay seven miles from Haneda Airport during a routine approach. Rescue ships found debris and a body as authorities question 727 safety amid multiple prior crashes. Soviet Luna-9 space capsule achieves first lunar soft landing and transmits pictures, signaling a potential lead in the space race.
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Tokyo
API
All Nippon Airways
Tokyo Bay
Japan
Maritime Safety Agency
United States
Masaki Takahashi
Henry Shapiro
Moscow
UPI
Haneda International
Hokkaido
Britain tunes in on lunar picture from Luna 9
Jodrell Bank observers led by Sir Bernard Lovell captured signals from the Soviet Luna 9 probe and produced a lunar surface image described as fair. The 250 foot telescope translated the signals into a picture with a newspaper facsimile machine.
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Jodrell Bank, England
UPI
Moscow
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Bernard Lovell
Flaming Plane Strikes Phoenix Homes Killing Three
A flaming two engine plane rammed a row of houses in Phoenix's Mexican district, killing three people including a sleeping child and injuring seven others. Witnesses say the World War I era craft approached Sky Harbor with a aflame engine and struck multiple homes.
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Phoenix
Ariz
UPI
Sky Harbor
al Wood
Wood
Reynaldo Gomez
Reynaldo
Muniz
Michael
Weather Summary Beckley WV Area Snow Expected
Weather bulletin for Beckley and vicinity reports mostly cloudy skies with light snowfall through Saturday. Today 24 this afternoon and 14 tonight. Saturday high in the mid 20s. Airport readings show 24 in the last 24 hours at 1 pm and a low of 16 at 6:30 am. River Greenbrier normal and clear. Lake normal and clear. gauge at Hinton 1.9 ft. Five day forecast calls for 6 to 10 degrees below normal with small day to day changes and light precipitation around Monday or Tuesday as flurries recur.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Hinton
Miami
Fila
Thermal
Calif
Roseau
Minn
West Virginia
Enabling Legislation For Two Amendments Hits House Floor
The House Rules Committee sent forward enabling legislation for two proposed constitutional amendments to allow the governor to succeed himself and to place amendments before voters at special elections. The 1965 Legislature approved joint resolutions. the bills aim for a 1966 ballot. Senate debate on the minimum wage bill continued with opponents pressing for amendments to defeat it, while House measures to widen sessions and revive judicial circuits also advanced.
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Fanny Seiler
Charleston
House Rules Committee
House
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Jaycees Cancel 1966 Home and Sports Show in Beckley
Beckley Jaycees scrapped plans for the Home and Sports Show at the Raleigh County Armory due to the resignation of project chairman Lyle Weagel and health issues hindering promoter Mike Eckler. Board cites insufficient time to appoint a new chair and organize by April. The event may return in the future, possibly on a biennial basis, or be dropped if not feasible.
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Raleigh County
Beckley Jaycees
Lyle Weagel
Mike Eckler
Eckler
Weagel
Bill Lu
Jaycees
Paul Hutchinson
Jim Cabe
Bob Parsons
Steve Quesenberry
Spark
Jim Fraley
Dan McClure
Bill Stratton
Luoni
Jim Lilly
Doug Ball
Ken Chambers
John Meadows
Lee Daugherty
Operation Cooperation
Jaycee
Jaycee Treasury
Beckley Recreation Building
Fulbright Opens Full-Dress Inquiry on Viet Nam Aid Policy
Sen. J William Fulbright opened a full dress public inquiry into U S policy in Viet Nam. He criticized the major factor being more than 2 billion dollars in economic aid over ten years and questioned AID head David E Bell about a 34 15 million request this year. The committee voted to continue hearings.
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Washington
UPI
J. William Fulbright
U.S
South Viet Nam
Fulbright
Viet Nam
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arkansas Democrat
Southeast Asia
David E. Bell
Agency For International Development (Aid
Congress
Bell
South
Saigon
Inmates Offer to Serve in Viet Nam from Stillwater Prison
A group of Stillwater State Prison inmates led by William Aird and Willard La Jeunesse say 38 of 42 prisoners they surveyed are willing to enlist for Vietnam service. They wrote to Vice President Humphrey and the Joint Chiefs proposing a battalion of cons and self-contained units to outfight others. World War II veteran William Perry says veterans in the prison commissary show higher willingness to enlist.
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Stillwater, Minn
UPI
Stillwater State Prison
Viet Nam
William Aird
Willard la Jeunesse
Hubert H. Humphrey
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Minnesota
William Perry
North Vietnam Bombing Resumes Fifth Day
U S planes again attacked North Vietnamese military targets for the fifth straight day as the bombing resumed. Two American planes were reported shot down by intensified anti air defenses. A Marine helicopter was downed in South Vietnam and 90 Viet Cong were counted dead in the week of fighting.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Viet Nam
Quang Ngai Province
Navy
North Viet Nam
Ranger
Red Capital
Vinh
17Th Parallel
Hotel Fire Kills In Green Bay Downtown
Fire engulfed the Astor Hotel in downtown Green Bay killing at least five people with three residents missing. The body of Mrs Edna Colle aged 40 from Luxemburg was recovered just after the blaze began around midnight. four additional unidentified bodies were later pulled from the rubble.
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Green Bay, Wis
UPI
Astor Hotel
Green Bay
Edna Colle
Luxemburg
Wis
Man Accused Of Ordering Liuzzo Murder Identified by Investigator
Congressional investigator accuses North Birmingham man Robert S. Thomas of directing the murder of Viola Liuzzo near Selma last March. Thomas invoked the 5th Amendment as House Un-American Activities Committee pressed Alabama Klan ties and the Birmingham 1963 church bombing link.
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Washington
UPI
Birmingham
Ala
Collie Leroy Wilkins
Gary Rowe
Selma
Liuzzo
Detroit
Montgomery
Rowe
FBI
Alabama
Thomas
16Th Street Baptist Church
Appell
United Klans of America
UKA
Southern Railway
Klavern
Alpine Festival selects queen from 10 candidates
A queen will be chosen tonight from 10 college coeds and ski club entries at Alpine Festival events. Sen Jennings Randolph will crown the winner at Thomas, with reign over skiing at Weiss Knob and a ball Saturday night.
Harold Hayman dies shrinking Labour majority in Parliament
Harold Hayman 71 a Labour MP since 1950 died at his Redruth home reducing the government’s slim majority to three.
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Redruth
England
Harold Hayman
Moon Race Not Over Luna 9 Confirms Moon Landing Feasibility
The USSR Luna 9 mission proved a space probe could land on the Moon in a Sea of Storms area, easing fears about lunar dust and crust. The achievement signals ongoing two nation competition toward manned lunar landings, with the United States aiming for a three man Apollo ship by 1968.
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Moscow
Yuri Fokin
Moon
Fokin
Tass
Gherman Titov
Russia
Belkas
Strelkas
United States
America
Soviet Union
Earth
Luna 9
Mabscott Children Made Wards Of Court
Five Mabscott children, two hospitalized with frostbite, were made wards of the Court of Raleigh County by Juvenile Judge Harry L. McCreery. The children, all from Elen Louise McDaniel, are in Child Welfare custody. George McDaniel, 18 months, had both feet and three fingers amputated in Lexington after frostbite gangrene. brother Robert is in satisfactory condition at Beckley Hospital with frostbite treatment.
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Mabscott
Raleigh County
Harry L. McCreery
McCreery
Elen Louise McDaniel
George McDaniel
Lexington
Robert
Tory
Beckley Hospital
Philip Guseman
Child, Welfare Department
America lauds Soviet moon landing as impetus for U.S. effort
President Johnson sent congratulatory telegrams to Soviet leaders praising the successful soft landing. NASA official Edward Welsh called the achievement encouraging for the Apollo program and noted the moon surface appears capable of supporting a lander.
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Washington
UPI
Russia
U.S
Johnson
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Presidium
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Edward ©. Welsh
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Fayette Greenbrier Airport Bills Passed
The House of Delegates approved local bills to create airport authorities in Fayette and Greenbrier Counties and sent them to the governor. Greenbrier County bill passed 93 to 0 with Del. Tommy Myles voting against Fayette’s measure. Pendleton County development fund bill passed 89 to 0 and moves to the Senate.
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Charleston
UPI
House of Delegates
Fayette
Greenbrier
Del
Tommy Myles
D-Fayette
Pendleton County
Senate
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Japanese National Radio Network
Haneda
Alexei Leonov
Britain
Huntsville
Marshall Space Flight Center
Lunar
Clarence Martin
Berkeley
Martin
W. T. Brother‘ton
D-Kanawha
Punxsutawney, Pa
Treasury
Ment
Thailand
North
Suh
Labor
Space Center
Houston
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