Strikes Halt Major Airlines Frustrate Thousands of Travelers
United Press International reports machinists walked out at five airlines Eastern United Trans World National and Northwest, triggering widespread delays. Pickets appeared at airports nationwide as travelers sought alternative transport amid crowded rail and bus services. Some routes and military cargo flights continued, while strikes caused long waits, phone line congestion, and major traffic jams at spaceport entrances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Out
Los Angeles
International Association of Machinists
Eastern
United
Trans World
National
Northwest Airlines
America’s Space Center
Spaceport
SAM
Trans World Airlines
Project Apollo Moonport
Demands And Offers In IAM Airline Negotiations
Washington reports the IAM and five major airlines suspended talks with the union pressing for a 53 cent hourly raise, cost of living allowance, earlier wage progression, extended vacations, an eighth holiday with double time pay, and higher health welfare and pension costs funded by airlines. Airlines counter with 48 cent increase and keep progression, reject COLA, oppose pay on holidays, and reject higher health welfare and pension costs. Local demands exceed 40 items, many unresolved.
Strike impacts hit major cities with flight cuts and passenger losses
The machinists strike forces major airlines to cancel hundreds of daily flights across 25 cities, reducing capacity and passenger totals. Atlanta sees 259 flights and 12,374 passengers, New York area 529 flights and 37,000 passengers, Los Angeles 292 flights and 20,000 passengers, and Chicago 642 flights with 40,490 passengers among others, with many cities reporting similar declines in service and load factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of Angels
American Airlines
Los Angeles
New York City
West Coast
Midwest
East
Shriners
Washington
UPI
Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Charlotte
Chicago
Midway
O'Hare
Cleveland
Denver
Detroit
Honolulu
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Miami
Minneapolis -St. Paul
New York
Kennedy and LaGuardia
Newark
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Portland
Ore
Seattle-Tacoma
St. Louis
San Francisco
Spokane
Tampa
Washington, D.C
Dulles and National
Hamlin Man Killed in Head-On Collision Near Charleston
Ruby Elkins, in his seventies, of Hamlin Lincoln County, died Thursday afternoon when his car collided head on with a truck on U S 21 near Charleston. Herbert Brown of White Sulphur Springs, truck driver, was treated and released from a local hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
Ruby Elkins
Hamlin
Lincoln County
U. S. 21
Herbert Brown
White Sulphur Springs
WVU President Miller Resigns. Heflin Named Acting Leader
Morgantown West Virginia University president Paul A Miller submitted his resignation to the WVU board of governors effective August 15 Dr Harry B Heflin of the university staff was named acting president until a successor is chosen This bulletin notes the leadership transition and interim appointment sourced from UPI report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
UPI
Paul A. Miller
West Virginia University
WVU Board of Governors
Harry B. Heflin
University
Weather Summary for Beckley and Vicinity
Sunny and pleasant this afternoon with a high near 82. Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with a low around 58 and highs in the mid 80s. Airport conditions show 84 degrees high, 61 low in the last 24 hours. River gauges indicate Greenbrier normal and cloudy, Lake normal and clear with 1.4 feet of water, Hinton gauge 1.8 feet. Five day outlook calls for warm trend across West Virginia with highs 86 to 82 and lows 64 to 58, showers early next week delivering a quarter to half inch of rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Tee Og Isestha Counnees
Greenbrier
Hinton
Buckeye
Ariz
Pellston
Mich
West Virginia
Beckley 11 Gaming Stamps Third In State
Wheeling leads West Virginia in liquor stamp purchases for 1966 67 while Fairmont tops gambling stamps. Weirton follows with liquor and gambling stamps. Charleston ties for ten. Morgantown Follansbee Chester Wellsburg each seven. Total stamps per city vary with Beckley at 11 gaming and 14 wagering stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
UPS
Wheeling
West Virginia
Fairmont
Weirton
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue District Office
Weirtonith
Aupvision
Charleston
Clarksburg
Morgantown
Wellsburg
Grafton
Follansbee
Huntington
Martinsburg
Welch
Williamson and Keyser
IV Cable Fees Said Excessive
Public Service Commissioner Boyce Griffith urged state controls on cable TV fees in Charleston. He cited tie on charges up to 350 to 500 dollars and called for licensing and rate regulation by the legislature. Griffith noted many West Virginians complain and said PSC would draft a bill for 1967 if asked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPS
Public Service
Boyce Griffith
Griffith
PSC
West
Federal Communications Commission
West Virginia
Air strike grounds major airlines and travel chaos
A machinists strike shut five of the nation's top airlines, grounding about sixty percent of air traffic and stranding travelers coast to coast. With 30,000 Shriners needing transport home from San Francisco, travel chaos spread to trains and buses while federal officials urged talks in Washington to seek a quick settlement. The strike also disrupted mail routing and affected Cape Kennedy space operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
API
International Association of Machinists
IAM
Johnson
James J. Reynolds
Eastern
United
Trans World
National
North-West Airlines
Reynolds
W. Willard Wirtz
Japan
San Francisco
U.S. Space Center
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Civil Aeronautics Board
Two Fugitives To Get Extradition Hearing
Two West Virginia fugitives Thomas Riffee and Willard Hughes face extradition hearings in Madison County Common Pleas Court after being arrested by the Highway Patrol while hitchhiking on U S 40 near West Jefferson. They escaped from Hopemont State Hospital on July 1 where they were assigned to a work detail from Huttonsville Prison and were serving sentences for breaking and entering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ohio
UPI
West Virginia
Madison County Common Pleas Court
Thomas Riffee
Weirton
W. Va
Willard Hughes
Deep Creek
Logan County
Highway Patrol
U.S. 40
West Jefferson
Madison County
Hopemont State Hospital
Huttonsville
Mobs Demand Death for U S Prisoners in World Brief
A World In Brief item reports Labor Party lawmakers defeating an opposition Conservative motion backing the U S Viet Nam war. It also covers Ralph Ginzburg appealing a prison term for obscenity, spy convictions, a deadly insecticide mix up, a new Blueville Bank charter, Billy Graham’s London crusade, and North Viet Nam broadcasts praising executions of U S prisoners. The State Department protests, while captured pilots issue regret statements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Party
Harold Wilson
United States
Ralph Ginzburg
New York
U. S S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Don J. Mattos
Leobert Henderson
Charles Town
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Blueville Bank of Grafton
Billy Graham
Queen Mary
London
Tokyo
UPI
North Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Washington
U.S. State Department
Department
Marshall Wright
International Red Cross
Air Force
David
Directors named for New River Park horseshoe tourney
Roy Cline and Howard Green direct a horseshoe tournament at City and New River Park, starting yesterday, with the event organized under The Register guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New River Park
City Park
The
Register
City Or
Roy Cline
Howard Green
Evacuees Return After Argyle Chemical Spray
About 400 children and elderly were evacuated from Argyle Minnesota after an accidental chemical spray. They were expected to return as the solution dissipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argyle
Minn
Britain
France
FBI
Lemuel Penn
Ruling Cuts Down Accidents In Ohio Drag Law
More than 1,000 persons have been arrested under Ohio's drag racing ban on public streets six years after enactment. Patrol officials say the law reduced accidents and improved enforcement, with penalties up to 500 dollars fine and six months in jail plus license revocation. Officials credit the act for a decline in on street drag racing despite staffing limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
UPI
Ohio
Highway Patrol
Maj. P. S. Kinsey
Kinsey
Warren Nelson
Attacks Hit Haiphong Oil Depot In Vietnam War
Haiphong outskirts raid knocked out pumping stations handling most of North Vietnam oil imports, officials said. Navy jets also destroyed three patrol boats, evaded MIG 21s, flying 77 missions with two planes lost. One F105 pilot missing, another rescued. Contact with two PT boats sunk and two damaged in Haiphong area during three hour battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
APS
North Viet Nam
Haiphong
U.S
Russia
Hanoi
William J. Isenhour
Lemore
Calif
South China Sea
Navy
Cmdr
Albert
Jack) Monger
Brawley
Carl
Tex) Birdwell Jr
Bryan
Texas
7Th Fleet
Tri-State Airport Grant Is Approved
The Appalachian Regional Commission approved a 74568 grant Thursday for improvements at Tri-State Airport in Huntington. The project totals 248560 with 24280 from the Federal Aviation Agency and 49712 from the Tri-State Airport Authority. Gov Hulett C. Smith and Senators Jennings Randolph and Robert C. Byrd announced the plan to enable handling of commercial, private and executive aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
API
Appalachian Regional Commission
Tri-State
Huntington
Federal Aviation Agency
NAACP Tackles Militant Stand At Convention
At the 57th NAACP convention in Los Angeles the resolutions committee begins debate on reorganization while a ‘young Turks’ movement pushes for militancy without full black power rhetoric. William Booth and Jack Tanner spar over youth division roles and board control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
APS
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Resolutions Committee
Statler Hilton
Young Turks
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
William Booth
New York City
Tanner
Fire At Penitentiary Stirs Sizable Damage
Otto C. Boles theorizes a basement fire at Moundsville Penitentiary New Wall section began Thursday from spontaneous combustion. He cites piles of Army surplus clothing on the ground floor as the possible source. No injuries reported. donated clothing and toys for inmates’ children sustained heavy damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moundsville
UPI
Otto C. Boles
Boles
Also Mentioned on This Page
Teamsters
United’s
Richmond
Viet Nam
Europe
Maguire
N.J
Travis Air Force Base
O’hare
Allegheny Airlines
Delta
Black Cape Kennedy
Airlines
Cosse
Collie
Poland
Maine
D. Hatcher
California
James Mulligan
Massachusetts
Hatcher
North
Misha Dichter
Beverly Hills
Gregory Sokolov
van Cliburn
Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital
Cincinnati
Raleigh Register
G. H. Straughn
Beaver
Mayberry
N. C
Curtis-Doubleday
Egister
Babe Ruth
Ruth
Griffith Stadium
Yankee Stadium
Forbes Field
Wilt Chamberlain
New York Knickerbockers
Concord College
Grover C. Stapleton
Davis
Babe Ruth Queen
Delsa Sisk
Woodrow Wilson High School
Frank Howard
Washington Senators
Frank
Sun
Pluto
Aphelion
Copenhagen
Viggo
Countess of
Rosenburg
Waldemar Wohlfahrt
Spain
West Germany
By Andrew L. Rothman
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!