Siluix Mine Disaster Prompt Sympathy and Scrutiny
The community mourns seven miners killed in the Siluix Mine explosion at Mount Hope, New River Company. Calls grow for full disclosure as officials defend safety measures while reporters are barred from company property. An investigation begins to uncover facts and safety conditions surrounding the tragedy.
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Siluix
New River Company
Mount Hope
Silux Mine
Paris
Bonn
West Germany
NATO
Bacon Price Rise Ignites Inflation Debate in Indiana
Indianapolis newsman Antoni E. Gollan notes bacon costs up about 280 dollars per ton in six years, with other staples like coffee and flour also rising. The piece compares modern price shifts to 1962 steel price hikes under Kennedy and Johnson, arguing inflation hurts the common people and tying government spending to price levels.
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Antoni E. Gollan
Indianapolis
Ind
Gollan
Richard L. Roudebush
R-Ind
Oudebush
Indiana
Kennedy-Johnson-Humphrey
USS. Steel
Kennedy
Antitrust Division
Department of Justice
U.S. Steel
Roger M. Blough
Kennedy-Johnson
JFK and Co
Roger Blough
Bug Dust Case For The Press In Crime Reporting
UPI Reporter roberts view on pretrial publicity in the Richard Speck nurse murders case. He argues press reports inform the public and jurors, defends reportage of arrest details, and suggests Britain’s system shows pretrial coverage need not doom fairness.
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U.P.I Reporter
Roger Tatarian
United Press International
Richard Speck
Chicago
Supreme Court
Speck
Bar
Illinois
New York
U.S
Britain
London
Prayer for Today from Watertown minister
A brief devotional prayer requesting living water from Jesus to refresh parched hearts and bloom with joy. It asks for Thy saving Name and closes with the signature of Bernard E. Michel, minister at Ebenezer Moravian Church in Watertown, Wisconsin.
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Lord Jesus
Bernard E. Michel
Watertown
Wis
Ebenezer Moravian Church
Washington Notebook McNamara Savings ‘Phony’ Critics Say
Washington Notebook reports on Luci Baines Johnson's Austin duplex and Secret Service questions, McNamara defense cost cuts under fire, a anecdote about a 25 cent savings, a 1876 Custer note on Gatling guns, FTC plastics merger history, and a Columbia Law link in a light, clipped Washington chronicle.
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NEA
Luci Baines Johnson
Patrick Nugent
Austin
Tex
Luci
Secret Service
Pat
Defense
Robert McNamara
Pentagon
McNamara
Federal Trade Commission
Columbia University
FTC
Columbia Law School
Weather wisecrack misses the mark on forecasts
A humorous critique notes how half baked weather odds spark domestic trouble as a husband teases his wife with percentages. The piece mocks the idea of precise forecasts guiding social plans and warns that many wives will resist such probabilistic daily weather theatrics.
Bruce Biossat Riots Setback To Negro Goals
Chicago and Los Angeles riots are seen as a misguided surge of a broader Negro revolution. The piece argues violence heightens white resistance, misleads some Black activists, and risks innocent lives, while urging nonviolent progress on jobs, housing, and schools. It discusses law enforcement and the dangers of extremism and police brutality debates.
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Chicago
NEA
Los Angeles
Watts
West Side
California
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
Break Looms Over Kidnaping in Red China-Holland
Holland and Communist China edge toward a break after a Red Chinese engineer was kidnapped from a Dutch hospital. The man died in The Hague, the Dutch expelled the Chinese charge d affaires, and Peking called the Dutch envoy persona non grata. China accuses the United States of pressuring Chinese in the legation to betray their country.
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China
Holland
Hague
Peking
Hague Legation
United States
Legation
Midas Corp Expands Into Travel Trailer Field
Midas International Corp., best known for mufflers and 460 shops, moves into travel trailers after acquiring Ken Craft of San Fernando, California, and Frolic of Elkhart, Indiana. The firm plans more acquisitions, aiming to diversify into power tools and other consumer products and markets. Sherman touts travel trailers as freedom giving and notes cross country production capability between East and West facilities.
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William D. Laffles
UPI
New York
Sherman's Corporation
United States
Midas
Sherman
Ken-Craft
San Fernando
Calif
Frolic
Elkhart
Ind
San Fernando Valley
Social Security Payments Reach Beckley Area Population
Thirty years ago figures released by the Social Security board show 419 Beckley area residents received old age and survivors insurance as of March 31 1941. Files from May 1966 indicate nearly 30 000 local residents drew $22 million in benefits in 1965. Rhodell C A Davis became police chief at the first city council meeting of the new administration. Oak Hill Hospital near completion of a 30 bed expansion now in use, hospital secretary Tom Mason said.
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Social Security Board
Beckley Area
Rhodell
C. A. Davis
Oak Hill
Oak Hill Hospital
Tom Mason
Beautiful home wedding noted in 1916 Raleigh Register
On June 29 at Mabscott, Miss Ethel Cook daughter of Mr and Mrs Ward Cook married Mr Cleveland Madison Bruce of Charleston. Bruce works for Raleigh Grocery at Mabscott and the couple have many friends. Also, H T Carmichael and family who stayed at Jordan House on North Kanawha Street moved to Chambersburg Pennsylvania shipping their goods last week and departing for their new home.
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Silux
Ward Cook
Mabscott
Ethel
Cleveland Madison Bruce
Charleston
Bruce
Raleigh Grocery Company
H. T. Carmichael
Jordan House
Kanawha Street
Chambersburg, Pa
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