Free Society Association Sees Exciting Response
Washington UPI report says the Free Society Association led by Denison Kitchel has seen an exciting response to its month old push. Dues range from five dollars to a thousand dollars, with recruitment and publications underway as the group targets up to 500000 people via ads and direct mail.
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Washington
UPI
Barry M. Goldwater
Free Society Association
Denison Kitchel
Phoenix, Ariz
Goldwater
Arizona
Kitchel
Society
Republican National
Ray C. Bliss
Outfit
GOP
Bliss
Association
Former Korean President Rhee Dies In Exile
Honolulu UPI reported former Republic of Korea President Syngman Rhee died at Maunalani Hospital at age 90. He had lived in exile after being overthrown, dying quietly from a stroke at 12 35 a.m. HST. Funeral plans were pending with services expected at Makiki Christian Church in a few days.
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Honolulu
UPI
Republic of Korea
Syngman Rhee
Mamalani Hospital
Francesca
Rhee
Maunalani Hospital
Queens Hospital
Thomas Min
Korea
Park Chung Hee
Makiki Christian Church
Rejected School Plans Discussed At The Mill
State School Supt Rex M Smith met with officials from five counties to discuss desegregation plans rejected by the U S Office of Education. Plans must be approved for Raleigh, Mingo, Mercer, Mc Dowell and Jefferson counties by Sept 1 to qualify for federal funds. Discussions focused on small points as federal officials review the plans and seek clarifications.
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Jackson's Mill
UPI
Rex M. Smith
U. S. Office of Education
Raleigh
Mingo
Mercer
McDowell
Jefferson
Smith
Office of Education
Congress OKs 10.7 Percent GI Pay Hike Plan
The House was set to approve a bill granting a 10.7 percent pay rise for all U S servicemen, doubling the White House proposal. The cost climbs from 1 billion to about 1.5 billion yearly, with administration figures favoring 5 percent for most and 2.7 percent for newer enlisted. The plan drew fire from McNamara and Rivers, who called the higher hike deserved. Also, IRS agents faced Senate questioning on surveillance in a broader G I Bill debate.
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Washington
UPI
House
U. S
Johnson
L. Mendel Rivers
House Armed Services Committee
South Carolina
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Rivers
Special Internal Revenue Service
Boston
Senate
Awaiting Rescue At Sea 600 On Disabled liner
A West German passenger liner with 600 aboard, the Seven Seas, drifted 500 miles east of St. John's Newfoundland after a minor engine room fire cut power. No injuries reported. Holland-America Lines ordered the tug Irish Seas from the Azores to tow the stricken ship to Newfoundland, ETA Tuesday.
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ST. John’s
NFLD
UPID
North Atlantic
Seven Seas
Here
New York
Rotterdam
Holland-America Lines
Azores
Irish Seas
Newfoundland
Holland - America
Beckley Area Weather Report and Forecast
Fair conditions with cooler tones and diminishing clouds this afternoon. Highs near 78, tonight’s low around 52, followed by mostly sunny Tuesday with highs around 80. River Greenbrier and Lake Greenbrier normal and clear. new gauge at Hinton. West Virginia five day forecast calls for near normal temps, cooler midweek, and light scattered showers after Wednesday.
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Beckley and
Beckley
Clea Lake
Hinton
Presidio
Tex
Pellston
Mich
West Virginia
Supreme Court Allows Intervention in Constitutional Convention Suit
The West Virginia Committee on Equal Representation won permission to intervene in a state suit seeking a constitutional convention. The group argues tax funds for the convention require delegates chosen by population. Gov. Hulett Smith filed the suit, contending the current delegate formula is unconstitutional as some counties lack a seat.
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Charleston
UPI
State Supreme Court
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Johnson Leads Nation in Adlai Stevenson Tribute Burial
President Johnson traveled to Bloomington Illinois with a Washington delegation including Mrs Johnson Luci Humphrey and Chief Justice Warren to honor Adlai E Stevenson at his funeral. Stevenson to be buried near a granite monument honoring his grandfather and former vice president. Ground fog delayed Lynda Johnson's flight from Minnesota. Denison Kitchel disclosed a brief 1960 membership in the John Birch Society.
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Johnson
Bloomington
Ill
Adlai E. Stevenson
Luci
Humphrey
Earl Warren
Washington
Stevenson
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery
United States
Lynda Bird Johnson
Superior National Forest
Minnesota
Denison Kitchel
New Free Society Association
Barry M. Goldwater
John Birch Society
McNamara tours Vietnam front lines in secrecy
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara departed Saigon on an undisclosed front-line tour of American combat positions in the Vietnamese countryside to evade potential Communist assassination plotting. Police probe a two alarm basement fire in the Old Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill that caused smoke damage to Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield's first floor office. Diplomats from 114 U N member nations join the U S delegation for a memorial commemorating Adlai E Stevenson.
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Robert S. McNamara
Saigon
Senate
Capitol Hill
Mike Mansfield
U. N
U. S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Pope Paul VI heads for vacation in Castel Gandolfo
Pope Paul VI travels to his summer villa Castel Gandolfo on doctors orders to spend more time outdoors. A minor quake rattled dishes in northern California but caused no damage or injuries. Singapore reports foil a landings by saboteurs as a Malaysian patrol craft disrupted the attempt Saturday night. A 12 man Charlotte team won the John F Kennedy Memorial Trophy at Camp Dawson for outstanding teamwork after a two week course near Kingwood West Virginia.
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Pope Paul VI
Castel Gandolfo
San_ Benito County
California
Singapore
Charlotte
N. C
Camp Dawson
Kingwood
W. Va
Mars Photos To Get Professional Scrutiny
In Pasadena, planners aim to present Mariner-4 Mars snapshots at the AIAA meeting in San Francisco July 26. JPL may release more images as experts study the nine transmitted pictures and possible further runs, with AGU discussions planned for Dallas in September. A hazy horizon, W-shaped feature, and craterlike depression attract inquiry, but life on Mars remains unresolved.
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAA
San Francisco
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mariner-4
Earth
William H. Pickering
JPL
ALAA
Mariner- 4
American Geophysical Union
AGU
Dallas
Texas
Mars
Soviets Launch Zond 3 Probe Toward Sun
The Soviet space agency Tass reports Zond 3, launched from an Earth parking orbit, is headed to a heliocentric solar orbit to study prolonged spaceflight and interplanetary conditions. As of Moscow noon, the craft lies about 141000 miles from Earth with instruments functioning.
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Moscow
UPS
Automatic Space Station
Zond 3
Tass
Moon
Launching Postponed CAPE KENNEDY
At Cape Kennedy an Air Force mission to deploy two new atomic detectors for satellite patrol to enforce the nuclear test ban was indefinitely delayed due to trouble with a rocket guidance system.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Air Force
Son In Law Held In Beating Death
Middlebourne police hold 28 year old Jimmy Galloway on an open charge in the death of his father in law Otto Saffle following a Sunday argument. Saffle threatened Galloway with a butcher knife before the beating. Autopsy to determine exact cause of death.
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Middlebourne
UPI
Jimmy Galloway
Near Here
Galloway
Otto Saffle
Saffle
Smith to Fly for Talks on Wood Plastics and Naphtha
Gov Hulett C Smith will fly to Washington for talks on a new wood plastics product and naphtha imports. He will present a table on the West Virginia University developed super wood to AEC chairman Glenn Seaborg and offer part of the MecClintic Wildlife Reserve as a site for a proposed 280 million dollar nuclear facility. He will press for a naphtha import quota for a 250 million chemical plant and discuss marketing conditions and production prospects with officials including Stewart Udall.
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Charleston
UPI
Hulett C. Smith
Washington
Smith
Southern Interstate Nuclear Board
West Virginia University
Atomic Energy Commission
Glenn T. Seaborg
West Virginia
Nuclear Energy and Space Committee
Southern Governors’ Conference
MecClintic Wildlife Reserve
Pt. Pleasant
AEC
Stewart Udall
Wood County
Marbon Chemical Division
Borg Warner Corp
New River Gorge tourism complex nears progress milestones
Representative James Kee reports over 75 percent land acquisition for the New River Gorge complex including Hawks Nest State Park in Fayette County and Twin Falls in Wyoming County. The four-county effort aims to create a national recreation area, generating about 700 jobs with a $8 to $15 million regional impact over ten years.
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New River Gorge
Hawks Nest State Park
Fayette County
Twin Falls State Park
Wyoming County
James Kee
DW Va
Raleigh
Fayette
Summers
New River Gorge Corp
Kee
Area Redevelopment Administration
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Hawks
Twin Falls
Pipestem
Gorge
Hawks Nest
Fifth Congressional District
West Virginia
George Smith oldest West Virginian at 118
Montgomery dispatch reports George Smith born 1847 near Dallas Texas is the state's oldest citizen at 118. He votes straight Republican and spends time with the Bible. He was injured when a bottle struck his arm, prompting age verification by the State Welfare Department. His two daughters live in Cleveland and his son’s whereabouts are unknown.
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Montgomery
UPI
George Smith
Smith
Dallas
Tex
State Welfare Department
Cleveland
Ohio
North Carolina
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Harriman Kosygin to Hold Second Meeting in Moscow
In Moscow American ambassador at large W Averell Harriman may meet Premier Kosygin today or Tuesday for a second time despite Soviet criticisms of U.S. Viet Nam policy. A high embassy official said Kosygin lectured Harriman sternly about Viet Nam after their first three hour talks last Thursday. Harriman planned a later meeting with Deputy Premier Kunayev.
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Moscow
UPI
W. Averell Harriman
Alexei Kosygin
United States
Viet Nam
Harriman-Kosygin
Kosygin
Harriman
K. N. Rundnev
Soviet Union
Business Growth At Beckley Exhibition Mine
Business is picking up at the Beckley Exhibition Mine at New River Park as tourism rebounds. This year 7,438 visitors from 46 states and 16 foreign countries have toured the facility, up 1,184 from last week for an average of 170 visitors daily.
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Beckley
New River Park
Greece eyes compromise as Papandreou returns
Greek demonstrations surge over King Constantine’s removal of Premier George Papandreou. Papandreou readies first public appearance since ouster, while new Premier George Athanassiadis Novas signals openness to conciliation. Stefanos Stefanopoulos cited as potential interim leader if Center Union splits can be bridged.
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Athens
Greece
UPI
Constantine
George Papandreou
Papandreou
George Athanassiadis - Novas
Stefanos Stefanopoulos
Center Union Party
Athan
Five Die In West Virginia Weekend Traffic Crashes
United Press International reports weekend wrecks on the West Virginia Turnpike killed five people. Among the dead were William McGee, 42, of Medford Massachusetts, Pan American Airlines pilot, and Doris Groff, 49, of Alexandria Virginia, in a car-truck collision about 25 miles from Charleston. The toll climbed the 1965 highway fatalities to 230. Creola Thompson, 41, of Danville Boone County, died in a two car crash on a one lane bridge near Danville. Arthur Ray Lilly, 44, of Dunns Mercer County, died from injuries after a head on collision at Shady Springs Raleigh County. Thelma Winters, 49, of Charleston and a Ripley native, died hours earlier in a separate crash nearby.
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United Press International
West Virginia
Ripley
William McGee
Medford
Mass
Pan American Airlines
Doris Groff
Alexandria
Danville
Arthur Ray Lilly
Dunns
Mercer County
Beckley Hospital
Shady Springs
Raleigh County
Burning Boat Explodes After 17 Leap To Safety
BRUNSWICK Georgia March 1 upi A burning 65 foot excursion boat Sara Jane IIl with 17 aboard escaped flames as Captain Deacy Curly Crossland piloted toward St Simons Island using a grappling pole The fuel tanks exploded moments later injuring no one seriously police credited a near miraculous evacuation and courage on deck The fire started in the engine room on the return from fishing off the Atlantic coast
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Brunswick
UPI
Deacy
Curly
Crosslaw
Crosslan
St. Simons Island
Curtis Tucker
Atlantic
Firefighter Saves 3 Month Old With Mouth to Mouth Rescue
Beckley Fire Department rescuer Ray Dowdy used mouth to mouth resuscitation and chest massage to revive three month old Michael Monarchy after he stopped breathing at his Beckley home. Michael was rushed to Raleigh General Hospital and remained in fair condition.
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Beckley
Michael Monarchy
Ray Dowdy
Beckley Fire Department
James and
Beulah Monarchy
Beckley Ave
Monarchy
Michael
Dowdy
Appalachian Regional Hospital
Fire Department
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