Scattered Attacks Mark Ongoing Vietnam Lull
Fifteen Communist commandos attacked Phan Thiet in a pre-dawn raid as part of ongoing night actions near Saigon. Across the region, five firefights killed 72 Communists, with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong deaths totaling 185 for the day and Allied casualties light. Military observers said main Communist forces remained quiet, using local units during the lull.
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United States
Mississippi’s first Black mayor sworn in in biracial town
Charles Evers, a civil rights leader and NAACP field director, was sworn in as Mississippi’s first Black mayor in a biracial town since Reconstruction. He and five Black aldermen took office amid gala plans, parades, and a reception, underscoring a landmark in rural Mississippi.
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Charles Evers
Mississippi
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
R. J. Allen
Natchez
City Hall
Chicago
Medgar
Apollo crew hones lunar skills amid quarantine plan
NASA words describe Apollo 11 crew simulations and quarantine ahead of launch. Armstrong Aldrin and Collins train in a lunar module mockup near Cape Kennedy, with doctors reviewing germ precautions and a planned July 16 blastoff for Apollo 1 readiness.
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Weather Warm And Humid Beckley And Vicinity
Variable clouds through Tuesday with scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoon and evening. Continued warm and humid with highs in the mid 80s and lows around 64. Five day outlook calls for above normal temperatures 88 to 92 by day and 62 to 70 by night with about one inch rainfall from daily showers and storms.
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Beckley
Tinton
Ariz
Houston
Senate weighs ABM and tax surcharge this week
The Senate moves to tackle two major issues this week the antiballistic missile program and the extension of the income tax surcharge. The tax extension faces House-Senate negotiation while the ABM deployment clearance remains unsettled amid partisan debate. The Finance Committee will hold surtax hearings with Treasury backing, alongside an $7.6 billion agriculture appropriation bill with subsidies and potential reform.
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David M. Kennelly
Congress
Inmate Paints and Lettering for Rescue Boat
Claude Ballard, an inmate at the county jail, painted and lettered the rescue boat alongside equipment and other rescue gear.
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Claude Ballard
NBPSD Opposition Leader Faces Jail For Defiance
The NBPSD defiance leader slande M Elmore of Cranberry Beckley faces jail for contempt for refusing to hook to the district sewer system. Judge Wagner ordered Elmore to obtain a lawyer and appear August 6. Armer Davis also ordered to appear. The judge dismissed Elmore's suit against Cun ningham and Seay for improper representation. Foreclosure actions loom as NBPSD seeks to compel noncompliant property owners to connect.
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Slande M. Elmore
Cranberry
Beckley
Elmore
Raleigh County Taxpayers Protective Association
Tor
F. Morton Wagner
Raleigh County
Wagner
Armer Davis
The
Taxpayers Association
C. Berkley Lilly
Abishi Cunningham
Charles T. Seay
Welch
Raleigh
McDowell County
Davis
NBPSD
Kennedy Wives Discontent Over White House Parties Meader
Washington reports quote Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as deeply troubled by drinking at White House parties and by the comedian Vaughn Meader. Private memoranda describe a sharper, witty image than Mary Gallagher’s forthcoming book, with notes criticizing Meader and reporters.
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UPT
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White House
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Meader
Kennedy
Meaderd
Davis refuses sewer order in contempt case
J. Raleigh County Circuit Court ordered Armer Davis to hire counsel in a contempt of court matter. Davis told Judge Wagner he would rather face Castro than the State Supreme Court, claiming North Beckley Public Service District was illegally created and refusing to connect to the district sewer system.
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Morton Wagner
North Beckley Public Service
NBPSD
Supreme Court of West Virginia
Student Dies Handyman Charged With Murder Of Mich. Coed
In Ann Arbor Michigan Ernest L Bishop Jr a 23 year old handyman was charged with the murder of Margaret Phillips a University of Michigan doctoral candidate as a southern Michigan prison term kept him from two other slayings investigators say a connection to the remaining cases may exist but cannot be ruled out Bishop stated to be arraigned in district court today for Phillips murder while police pursue further links and details about the surrounding killings
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UPI
Walter Krasny
Ernest L. Bishop Jr
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Michigan
Ann Arbor
Margaret Phillips
Miss Phillips
University of Michigan
Air South Beechcraft Crashes in Georgia Killing 14
A Beechcraft 99 twin-engine plane operated by Air South crashed into a grassy pasture near Monroe, Georgia, killing 14 aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board dispatched a 10-man team, FAA officials cordoned off the scene, and searchers found a severed limb and hand as wreckage spread over more than an acre. The flight was en route from Atlanta to Greenville Spartanburg, with no survivors among 12 passengers and two crew members.
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Frank Thornton
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Taise A Eckel
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PAA
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Milania
Fourth of July traffic deaths set new record
United Press International reports a new three day deaths record on the nation's highways as the Fourth of July holiday ends, surpassing the previous 577 fatalities.
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United Press International
Four Die, Six Drownings Over West Virginia July Fourth
Seven people died in West Virginia traffic accidents during a 78hour Fourth of July weekend, matching last year’s toll. Six drownings occurred in state waters. the National Safety Council warned the nationwide count could top 600. Notable fatalities included Joyce Farrell of Charleston and Cecil J. Shelton of Yukon.
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Joyce Farrell
Kermit Farrell
Charleston
Carl Petry
Marmet
U.S. 119
Cecil J. Shelton
Yukon
McDowell County
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Freeman C. Bailey
Cleveland
Hansel Hariey
Chicago
Panther
Euclid
Ohio
W. Va
Bayard
Grant County
Charles Durst Sr
Joseph Kerr
Hoover Blames Campus Violence on Bleeding Hearts and Inactive Administrators
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover told Congress that campus violence stems from lax school authorities and the new left. He said many administrators fail to distinguish protest from unlawful acts and that bleeding heart attitudes magnify disorder. The April 17 remarks were in closed testimony to a House subcommittee.
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Ring Register Seeks Tips and Public Help on Local Issues
A community line invites readers to report concerns or request information by calling 253 2441 or writing The Register. The page covers public safety questions from brown recluse spiders to Social Security disability and local tax inquiries, noting local officials and a citizen Soundoff praising clerk assistance.
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