Navy halts Sugar Grove big dish project in West Virginia
Defense Secretary McNamara announced the Navy must stop work immediately on the Sugar Grove radio telescope project, citing rising costs from 80 million estimated in 1958 to a projected 200 million, plus advances reducing the need for a 600 foot dish. Actual expenditures reach 42 million with 1 million spent monthly, while pilot model activities continue at a 60 foot facility. Webb and Byrd discussions follow.
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Pendelton County
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Charleston
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Robert C. Byrd
Fred Korth
Commerce Department
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Byrd
Strike Halts Atomic Sub Production at Groton Yard
About 8,000 union members from 11 trades walked off at General Dynamics Electric Boat Division in Groton Connecticut halting production. Pickets at four gates left design and admin staff working. Mediators planned a conference at Mohegan Hotel New London to seek a strike end before the August 4 launch date of the nuclear submarine Alexander Hamilton.
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Mohegan
New London
Philip J. Koons
Alexander Hamilton
West Virginia Weather Forecast Today and Tomorrow
Clear and cool tonight with lows 50 to 60 across counties. Friday brings fair, pleasant summer temperatures with highs 74 to 86 across the state. Beckley reports yesterday high 80, low 66 at 7 am. Oak Hill high 81, low 58. Rainfall 0.3 inches. Greenbrier River conditions show normal gate inflow and 2 ft gauge at Hinton.
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Hinton
New Use for Junked Center May Be Found
Senator Byrd said the Commerce Department National Bureau of Standards may repurpose the junked Navy radio astronomy center at Sugar Grove West Virginia. Bureau director Allen V. Astin indicated interest in using Sugar Grove with the Boulder central radio propagation lab for research on outer space influences on radio communications. The Sugar Grove telescope, once built for ionospheric physics space communications navigation and astronomy, is to be considered amid an afternoon meeting by West Virginia's delegation with federal agencies to salvage the facility.
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UPI
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D-W. Va
Commerce Department
National Bureau of Standards
Navy
Defense Department
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Bureau
Allen V. Astin
Sugar Grove
Pendleton County
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Boulder
Colo
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Outer Space
West Virginia
WV Officials Puzzled by Defense Halt at Sugar Grove Dish
West Virginia officials could not explain why the Defense Department halted work at the Naval Radio Astronomy at Sugar Grove just weeks after a $1.47 million Area Redevelopment Administration grant for a nearby tourist facility. State leaders, including Commerce Commissioner Hulett C. Smith and Natural Resources Director Warden Lane, warned the stop may complicate plans but stressed the tourist project remains alive pending further discussions with ARA and Navy officials in Washington. Senator Robert Byrd and Gov. Barron coordinated talks to explore possible uses of the plant and potential grant amendments to adapt plans for the Sugar Grove site.
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UPS
West Virginia
Defense Department
Naval Radio Astronomy
Sugar Grove
Area Redevelopment Administration
State
Hulett C. Smith
ARA
W. W. Barron
Washington
Paul Crabtree
Navy
Barron
Smith
Lane
Parsons College melodrama mocks latecomers seating
The Parsons College production of Under the Gaslight lists a punning note that latecomers will be seated but despised. In London, the transit system apologized for a bus prank where drivers stranded passengers after luring them aboard. Wisconsin agriculture woes grow as new trading stamp devices outpace the state guidebook.
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Fairfield, Iowa
UPI
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Madison, Wis
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture
Beckley to form human rights commission soon
Mayor Cecil L. Miller said Beckley will join Charleston Parkersburg and Clarksburg as West Virginia cities with human rights commissions. A bi racial group to study racial problems will form within a month with qualified persons submitted to City Council. The commission will include Negro and white members in proportion to population and act independently to address racial issues. Howard McKinney of the State Human Rights Commission noted optimism about Beckley and Princeton forming such bodies. He also said several colleges have removed race references from student entrance materials. McKinney will attend the National Conference Against Discrimination in Seattle next week. the agency’s next meeting is August 28 in Charleston.
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West Virginia
Cecil L. Miller
Miller
Charles
Howard McKinney
State Human Rights Commission
Charleston
Princeton
McKinney
Seattle
Wash
National Conference of the
Commission Against Discrimination
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Junta In Firm Control LIMA Peru
The military junta took firm control of Peru promising to restore civilian government in a year. Public reaction was limited with sporadic student protests and calm in Lima and cities. Venezuela Costa Rica and Colombia said they would not recognize the junta while troops guarded key areas.
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UPI
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Alam named Iran premier to tackle financial crisis
Tehran reports Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appoints 43 year old veteran minister Assadol ah Alam as premier after Amini resigns for health and economic reasons. Alam supports the West and favors CENTO and closer ties with the United States amid Iran's financial crisis blamed partly on the US.
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Iran
UPI
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Assadolah Alam
United States
Alam
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Central Treaty Organization
CENTO
Two Held In Girl's Shooting At Sistersville
In Sistersville Ohio River area a 18 year old girl Rosalee Ryan was shot three times at her home and then collapsed on a neighbor's porch. She was listed in critical condition at St Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg. A .32 caliber revolver found in the river near the scene is tied to the investigation. Two persons are being held for questioning. Authorities say the motive is not yet known.
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Sistersville
UPS
Rosalee Ryan
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
Ohio
Rep Thompson Delivers Parable on Kennedy Business Clash
Washington dispatch notes New Jersey Democrat Rep Frank Thompson offered a parable to explain the Kennedy business leaders dispute. The allegorical tale features a lion, big beasts, and lunch with tax cuts, using jungle politics to discuss trust and policy.
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Frank Thompson
New Jersey
Kennedy
Thompson
West Virginia land buys probe cites inflated payments
Former right of way official Benjamin White told a House subcommittee that property owners in Beckley and across the state received higher payments after agreeing to testify for one another in condemnation cases. He noted settlements based on original appraisals were possible with a few landowners, while others pushed for panels, and warned that awards appeared inflated as a result of witnesses backing each other. The hearing targets right of way procedures for Route 16 in Beckley amid broader political clashes between Republican and Democratic administrations.
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UPI
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Benjamin B. White
Princeton
W. Va
District 10
House
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Beckley
William C. Cramer
R-Fla
Burl A. Sawyers
Patrick C. Graney
Henry Bias
B. Duffy Horan
David Levin
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Subcommittee
Cramer
Cecil H. Underwood
New State Police Troop Graduates Join West Virginia Force
Twenty eight new State Police troopers will graduate in the House of Delegates chamber after 16 weeks at the State Police Academy in Institute. Their assignments lift the department to 276 of 280 authorized. three trainees failed standards and one was dropped for medical reasons. Gov. Barron aide Richard Kyle will speak. Supt. Burchett will confer diplomas. They begin pay Saturday and report to their company.
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UPI
House of Delegates
State Police Academy
Institute
Department of Public Safety
T. A. Welty
Richard Kyle
W. W. Barron
W.E. Burchett
Texas Ranger chief says evidence points to murder in Marshall death
A Ranger commander stated that evidence indicates murder in the death of Henry H. Marshall an Agriculture Department official who questioned Billie Sol Estes cotton allotment schemes. Rangers will continue the probe under murder theory. In Washington the Senate Finance Committee approved Anthony J Celebrezze for health education and welfare secretary.
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UPI
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Henry H. Marshall
Agriculture Department
Billie Sol Estes
Ranger
Col
Homer Garrison Jr
Washington
Parachute Fails To Open Girl Survives 2 500-Foot Fall
Lois Ann Frotten, 20, leaped from a plane over Lake Mystic in Marston’s Mills, Massachusetts, when her parachute failed to deploy. She survived a 2,500 foot fall, sustained facial lacerations, and remained conscious at Cape Cod Hospital. Pilot Jack L. La Roche, her fiancé John Burke, and rescuers described the scene as a miracle.
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Mills
Mass
UPI
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Lake Mystic
Miss Frotten
Cape Cod Hospital
Hyannis
Jack L. la Roche
Watertown
John Burke
West Yarmouth
Shortening The News: Global tensions and domestic stoppages
Secretary of State Rusk departs for Geneva to meet Gromyko amid Berlin and disarmament tensions while jet crew talks falter and Eastern Air Lines strike enters day 27. Labor Secretary Goldberg notes no more meetings. Senate foreign aid bill moves toward quick approval. Saskatchewan doctors offer to resume services if legal guarantees for practice outside the Insurance Act are enacted. Soblen appeals in London as Churchill regains strength. Kefauver urges a Kennedy gold medal for Dr Frances Kelsey. Fire damages Strand Sports Center and Rambler Inn. Allegheny Airlines seeks route extensions. Charleston flood anniversary observed.
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Dean Rusk
Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
Eastern Air Lines
Arthur J. Goldberg
House
Senate
John J. Sparkman
D-Ala
Woodrow
Lloyd
Saskatchewan
Robert A. Soblen
United States
Florence Douglas
Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Pennsylvania
Elmira
N.Y
Clarksburg
Allegheny Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pittsburgh
Lexington
Louisville
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Huntington
Charleston
Sky Spy Satellite Launched From Point Arguello
A secret satellite possibly from the Midas or Samos sky spy series was launched by the Air Force at Point Arguello, California. Officials would not identify the satellite or confirm orbit, only noting that a satellite using an Atlas Agena B booster was launched from the base.
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Samos
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Amendment to ADCU May Save State 11 Million
The House-Senate Conference committee agreed on a welfare program extending Aid to Dependent Children and added an amendment that could save West Virginia about 11 million dollars. Senators Jennings Randolph and Robert Byrd of West Virginia introduced the amendment which legalizes the state method of supporting unemployed fathers.
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Washington
UPI
House-Senate Conference Committee
West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
House approves Kennedy relief reform plan for Senate action
The House today gave final approval to compromise legislation embodying most of President Kennedy's proposals to reform the nation's multi billion dollar relief programs. It now goes to the Senate for final congressional action.
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UPI
House
Kennedy
Senate
West Virginia extends ADCU program five years
The federal ADCU program is renewed for five years, enabling West Virginia to keep 12,500 public works workers at $1 per hour. Laid off when federal aid expired, the state uses ADCU funds to support a work program rather than direct handouts. Welfare Commissioner Bernard Smith cited HEW approval, while Randolph noted HEW auditors were examining the matter.
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West Virginia
Bernard Smith
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Randolph
HEW
Adopting Negro Boy Hindered By Red Tape In N J
CARLSTADT N J UPI white couple appeals to the NAACP for help in adopting six year old Michael Eley whose mother died in January. Arthur Sandberg 58 an appliance salesman and his wife Doris have four children and visited Michael in Paterson before he was placed in the Hope Deli home for three months. State officials later placed him in a foster home not identified. The couple says they want him to live with them but say tape blocks the adoption.
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N. J
UPI
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NAACP
Arthur V. Sandberg
Doris
Michael Eley
Michael
Paterson
Sandberg
Passaic County
Hope Deli
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