China hints volunteers may intervene in Viet Nam war
Reports from Peking quoted units near Viet Nam Formosa and Hong Kong pledging support with deeds to the North Vietnamese. The broadcast noted Korean volunteers condemning U.S. aggression and implied possible direct action while not naming an actual intervention.
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Michael T. Malloy
Saigon
UPI
China
Viet Nam
Peking
Formosa
Laos
U.S
Ho Chi Minh
South Viet Nam
North Vietnamese
Hong Kong
Tactical Air Command Placed On Increased Alert
The Tactical Air Command of the Air Force has been placed on increased alert amid the Viet Nam crisis. It provides airlift fighter support and reconnaissance for the Army, with 136,000 officers and men including Air Reserve and Air National Guard units.
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Langley Air Force Base
Army
Air Reserve
Air National Guard
Victims Flown Home From Viet Nam War Pleiku Arrivals
A steady stream of wounded U S soldiers arrived at McGuire and Travis air bases after the Pleiku attack, carried on litters and in coffins. Among the injured were Pfc David L Mazurik and Sp4 Harold J Feldman Jr, both wounded in their beds during the ambush. Other soldiers from Pleiku and Qui Nhon were flown to the United States for treatment, with more casualties expected as the Vietnam conflict continued.
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United Press International
Johnnies
Joes
Howards
Davids
Carls
Pleiku
Viet Nam
Qui Nhon
Air Force
Travis Air Force Base
California
Scott
Illinois
McGuire
New Jersey
Andrews
Washington, D.C
Pfc
David L. Mazurik
Winbar
Harold J. Feldman Jr
Oxford
Mich
Feldman
Valley Forge Army Hospital
Phoenixville
Joseph W. Rigby
Rockney
Tex
CWO
William F. Beyers Jr
Lederach
Leonard J. Labiak
Chicago
Leonard L. Barone
Marion
Pvt
Josep J. Hughes
Brooklyn
N.Y
Lt. Rigby
Travis
San Francisco
Legislature Teacher Pay Raise Voted
Charleston UPI reports the West Virginia House defeated a motion to postpone a state lottery bill while the Senate passed a teacher pay raise measure 32 to 0. The House also advanced a bill to abolish capital punishment and a three‑bill package creating an uninsured driver fund. Both chambers planned morning sessions and anticipated votes, with action on several amendments expected before adjournment.
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State Senate
House
del. Jesse Barker
D-Kanawha
Senate
West Virginia
del. Robert M. Steptoe
D-Berkeley
Virginia
Worst In Years Midwest Hit By Blizzard
Blizzard spreads across the Midwest with over a foot of snow. Omaha to Lincoln motorists stranded as drifts rise. Western Iowa schools closed. up to 10 inches of snow in an hour. Nebraska Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin travelers urged to stay home. Freezing rain freezes highways south of the storm path. Wisconsin reports many ditchings as severe weather hits the South with tornadoes and windstorms injuring at least 12. Northern Kansas Iowa eastern Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota paralyzed by the blizzard. State highway crews plow.
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Midwest
Omaha
Lincoln
Neb
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Traffic Patrol
Kansas
South Dakota
Beckley Area Weather Summary and Forecast
Beckley and vicinity shows variable clouds and wind this afternoon with a high near 60. Tonight will be clear and colder with a low around 22. Saturday will be fair with a high in the low 40s. Be alert for river and lake conditions as Greenbrier is 2 ft above normal and muddy, new gauge at Hinton reads 4.3 ft. West Virginia five day forecast calls for near normal temps 44-22 in the north and 46-28 in the south with mountain precipitation 0.4-0.8 inch early next week.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Hinton
Brownsville
Tex
Bismarck
N.C
West Virginia
Dockers Agree To Open North Atlantic Ports
Washington UPI report says longshore leaders reject immediate return to work with binding arbitration except in North Atlantic ports where contracts exist. West Gulf and South Atlantic locals resist mediation and binding arbitration, while ILA President Grea Son orders a 8 a.m. Saturday restart where agreements are in place. Panel members plan to brief President Johnson at 12:15 p.m. EST.
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Washington
UPI
Gulf and South Atlantic
North Atlantic
West Gulf
South Atlantic
West Gulf Coast
Abel's Lead Narrows In USW Presidential Bid
Abel clings to a shrinking margin as USW locals report returns, narrowing a lead once near 17,000 votes. The final result hinges on an official count by the union’s international tellers starting Feb. 19, with results possibly delayed beyond today.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
I. W Abel
United Steelworkers Union
USW
David J. MacDon- Abel
Viet Nam War Quote From Soldier And Mao Tzu-tung Mention
Washington Pfc. Eddie L. Anderson describes the Viet Nam war as fought against uniformless Viet Cong telling that you cannot tell a North Viet Nam from a South Viet Nam. Hamburg a West German magazine quotes Mao Zedong predicting the war lasting only a year or two longer and that Americans will likely lose interest.
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United Press International
Washington
Eddie L. Anderson
Viet Nam
Hamburg
Germany
Mao Tze-tung
McDonald aide accused of stalling union election count
Pittsburgh report says Mark Tinc ture, a campaign official for USW President David J. Mc Donald, charged aides of challenger I. W. Abel with delaying the vote count and claiming they intend to steal the election.
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Pittsburgh
Mark Tincture
United Steelworkers Union
USW
David J. McDonald
McDonald
I. W. Abel
Clergy Leader Protests Shackling of Pneumonia Patient
Selma Alabama Negro clergyman Andrew Young protests the leg ironing of a pneumonia-stricken civil rights worker moved from jail to a hospital. He says the act shows what people are demonstrating about.
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Selma
Ala
Andrew Young
Charleston Williamson Road Project Approved
UPI reports top government approval for a preliminary engineering study on an improved Charleston Williamson highway under the Appalachian bill. Burl A. Sawyers announced a contract with a consultant to begin the report. Routes discussed include through Tur tle Creek Boone County and Lincoln County near Alum Creek into Kanawha, with possible ties to Logan and an uprated U S 119 route to Williamson.
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Charleston
UPI
Charleston-Williamson
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
State Road Commission
Kentucky
Burl A. Sawyers
Sawyers
Turtle Creek
Boone County
Lincoln County
Sod
Kanawha County
Lincoln-Kanawha Line
Alum Creek
Ex-UMW Chief 85 Today John L Lewis Birthday
Ex-UMW president John Llewellyn Lewis turns 85 as he marks the day with a rare day off. Though retired from UMW leadership, he still heads the UMW Pension Fund five days a week and lives in suburban Alexandria. Lewis remains a towering figure in U.S. labor, famed for defying presidents and shaping the CIO. His health and views on the modern labor movement are noted, with family history and residence at Lee’s home cited.
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Washington
UPI
John Llewellyn Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
UMW
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Mine Workers
UMW Pension Fund
Roosevelt
Steel
Alexandria
Robert E. Lee
Kathryn
John L. Lewis Jr
Harriman to Become Roaming Ambassador in State Dept Shuffle
President Johnson announced a department reshuffle naming Averell Harriman as roving ambassador and Thomas C. Mann as undersecretary for economic affairs. Mann will move from assistant secretary for Inter American affairs to the undersecretary post. Jack Hood Vaughn was chosen as ambassador to Panama to replace Mann.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
State Department
Averell Harriman
Thomas C. Mann
Harriman
Department
White House
Mann
Alliance For Progress
Jack Hood Vaughn
Panama
FBI Nabs Oak Hill Man In Michigan
The FBI arrested 21 year old Raymond Arvel York of Oak Hill in Pontiac Michigan on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for breaking and entering. York was sought for a Glen Daniel WV theft at Stover Appliance Center on Nov 29 1964 with over $2000 in TV and stereo sets taken. Federal charges were filed Feb 8 1965, and he will be extradited to Beckley for Raleigh County Criminal Court.
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FBI
Oak Hill
Pontiac
Mich
Raymond Arvel York
Beckley
Stover
Glen Daniel
York
Michigan
U. S
Paul J. Fourney
Wayne County
Detroit
Raleigh County
State Search On For Missing Army Plane
Army helicopters and search planes began air search operations for a missing single engine Army plane. The aircraft departed Akron Ohio at 5 p.m. Thursday on a return flight to Fort Meade Maryland with sole occupant Marshal Frizzell of Fort Meade. Authorities pursued a possible en route landing site but found nothing. Civil Air Patrol units from West Virginia joined the search and said the flight plan could have carried the plane over northern and eastern West Virginia or Morgantown.
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FT. Meade
Federal Aviation Agency
Northern
Panhandle
West Virginia
Eatern Panhandle
Morgantown
Civil Air Patrol
Two Pilots Describe Strike Against North Viet Nam
Maj. Robert F. Ronca and Capt. John B. Cutler told a Saigon news conference they went prepared to face Soviet MiG 17 interference but met little more than rifle fire from foxholes. Ronca, commander of the 613th Tactical Fighter Squadron, said one aircraft was lightly damaged and repaired in thirty minutes as 24 F100 bombers hit the Chap Le complex about 40 miles north of the 17th parallel.
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John B. Cutler
Washington, N.C
Ronea
North Viet Nam
Saigon
Foxholes
Robert F. Ronca
Norristown
Ronca
da Nang
Viet Nam
Ronen
Downed pilot defies captors in Vietnam news conference
MOSCOW via UPI Lt Cmdr Robert H Shumaker a 31 year old Annapolis graduate from New Castle Pa was shot down and captured in North Vietnam The Tass report from Dong Hoi said Shumaker faced reporters and repeated the retaliation line without apparent remorse Tass noted embarrassment in his expression The plane he flew reportedly crashed a half mile offshore and sank
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Moscow
UPS
Viet Nam
Tass
Dong Hoi
Robert H. Shumaker
New Castle
Annapolis
Democratic Republic of
Shumaker
Pentagon
Last Survivor Rescued From Billet Rubble
In Qui Nhon South Viet Nam rescue crews freed the last known survivor from a bombed U S Army barracks. Sp 4 Arthur G Abendschien 30 of Deptford N J had been buried 35 hours 35 minutes with a three inch gash on the head and minor wounds. Officials then abandoned hope of saving the 18 other Americans 22 escaped some critical wounded. A tunnel was punched into the wreckage as a comrade poured hot coffee on him to revive him.
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Qui Nhon
South Viet Nam
UPS
Arthur G. Abendschien
Deptford
N.J
Abendschien
New Jersey
Viet Crisis Triggers Sharp Stock Slide in New York
News from New York reports the Viet Nam crisis causing the day’s largest stock drop since Kennedy’s assassination. Declines outpaced advances three to one as 882 issues fell versus 861 the prior day, amid reports of a major Communist attack.
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New York
UPS
Viet Nam
Kennedy
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John
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