Fulbright BLAMES State Dept and Business Pressure on Viet Nam Policy
Sen. J. William Fulbright charges timidity and private business pressure undermine U S foreign policy. He cites Firestone Romania talks and Goodyear opposition as examples. He warns oil interests may exploit the Dominican crisis to influence U S policy and Dominican ties.
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Washington
UPI
J. William Fulbright
State Department
Arkansas Democrat
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Department
Johnson
Europe
Fulbright
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Romania
Firestone
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Goodyear
Viet Nam
United States
Johnson urges strength to counter Viet Nam crisis
President Johnson says the United States must show strength without recklessness as Viet Cong pressure grows. He notes more troops are pouring in and favors careful use of power to reverse the current edge held by the Communists. Johnson predicts no improvement until victory is assured. Congress faces renewed debate on a new Viet Nam mandate as Javits and other lawmakers urge a formal authorization to guide policy.
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Fulbright
H. A. True Jr
Independent Petroleum Association of America
U.S
Venezuela
Dominican Republic
United States
New York
UPI
Johnson
Viet Nam
Newsweek Magazine
Kennedy
Jacob K. Javits
Javits
Senate
White House
Congress
Governors Endorse LBJ Viet Policy
Democratic governors meeting at the 57th annual national governors caucus express unanimous support for President Johnson's handling of crises in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. Gov. Connally announced a forthcoming written statement of support while Republican governors held their own caucus on the same floor.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Viet Nam
Nelson
Pleasantly Warm Beckley and Vicinity Forecast
Pleasantly warm and sunny today with a high around 82 and cooler tonight. Tuesday eyes a sunny pleasant day in the mid 80s. West Virginia five day outlook calls for temperatures 1 to 4 degrees below normal with rainfall totaling over three quarters of an inch mid period.
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Beckley
Hinton
Blythe
Calif
Pellston
West Virginia
Education compact on governors conference agenda
Minnesota leaders discuss an interstate education compact at the national governors conference in Minneapolis. Gov. Hulett C. Smith plans to push the proposal with fellow governors. Smith and his family flew to the event and expect to return to Charleston Thursday.
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Minneapolis
UPI
Hulett C. Smith
Smith
Christie
Charleston
Electrical Storm Hits Panhandle
Severe electrical storms and flash floods caused damage across Marshall Wetzel and Tyler Counties in the Northern Panhandle over the weekend. Downtown Cameron saw about three feet of flooding, with a Weather Bureau observer recording 4.9 inches of rain in one hour. A dairy barn near Kidwell in Tyler County burned after being struck by lightning, hay bales lost, trees uprooted, and several small bridges washed out. No injuries were reported.
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United Press International
Marshall
Wetzel
Tyler
Panhandle
Cameron
Marshall County
U. S. Weather Bureau
Kidwell
Tyler County
Intensive look at Viet Nam situation nears end
President Johnson and his top military and diplomatic advisers wrap up the most intensive review of the Vietnam conflict. Johnson returns to the White House after a Camp David weekend with Defense Secretary McNamara and UN Ambassador designate Arthur Goldberg. Goldbergs swearing in was planned for 11:30 am EDT before he heads to New York.
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Washington
Johnson
America
Camp David
Maryland
Catoctin Mountains
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
United Nations
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
White House Rose Garden
New York
White House
Viet Nam
World Assembly
McNamara
Dean Rusk
McGeorge Bundy
Mrs Helen Smiley’s car crashes in parking lot incident
Mrs Helen Smiley, 60, of 207 Perdue Street, had a gas pedal stick today at 11 am in the Municipal Parking Lot. Her 1964 model car struck a wooden guard post, a parking meter, crossed the street, hit another guard post, flattened another meter, and collided with a parked car, with damages estimated at $600 and no injuries or arrests reported.
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Helen Smiley
Perdue St
US Plane Downed Near Hanoi Possibly Shot By SAM
UPI reports a US Navy Phantom fighter bomber may have been downed by a surface to air missile fired from a camouflaged mobile launcher near Hanoi. Initial indications suggest a SAM cause, but officials cautioned the event is unconfirmed. If proven, it would be the first missile downing since U S bombing began last February. No evidence yet of missiles at five Hanoi sites. Marines and Vietnamese forces killed 25 guerrillas in Sunday fighting.
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Javits Rivers
House Armed Services Committee
Javits
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
Melvin Laird
Wisconsin
Laird
America
Saigon
U. S
U.S
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Constance Bennett dies at 59 in Army hospital
The Jazz Age film star Constance Bennett, oldest of three Bennett sisters, died Saturday at Ft. Dix Army Hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been married four times, most recently to Brig. Gen. Theron Coulter.
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Wire
Constance Bennett
Joan Bennett
Barbara Bennett
Ft. Dix Army Hospital
Miss Bennett
Theron Coulter
West Virginia
Huntington Publishing Co
Dorothy S. Christian
Texas DPS tests bloody dress in missing girls case
The Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab tested a bloody dress fragment and panties found near Kerrville in the search for Dallas pair Shirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby who disappeared en route to the University of Texas. Police said there was no real substantiation the garments belonged to either girl. Kerrville lies 98 miles west of Austin.
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Austin
Tex
UPS
Texas Department of Public Safety
DPS
Dallas
University of Texas Highway
R.W. Wright
Kerrville
Shirley Ann Stark
Susan Rigsby
Sheppard freedom extended on bond during appeal
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard may remain free on bond while he appeals his wife slaying conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision keeps him out of prison during the appellate process.
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Cincinnati
UPI
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Samuel H. Sheppard
US. Supreme Court
Mayor Wagner to wed Barbara Cavanagh in private ceremony
New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner and socialite Barbara Cavanagh plan a private Roman Catholic wedding today at Cardinal Spellman’s residence chapel. The 55 year old mayor and his 36 year old bride will marry before about 30 relatives and friends. Wagner’s first wife died of lung cancer in March 1964.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
Barbara Cavanagh
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Wagner
It Was Crazy Hot In Harlem Sunday
In New York City on a scorching Sunday morning a father, James De Loatch, threatened to throw his two young daughters from a West 111th Street rooftop, attracting police intervention and psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital. In Manhattan's Lower East Side Angelo Morales dangled his 6 month old from a sixth floor fire escape until neighbors and a patrolman pulled them to safety, Morales also taken to Bellevue for observation.
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New York
UPI
James de Loatch
Lorraine
Lynn
West 111Th St
Harlem
de Loatch
Daniel O'Brien
O’brien
Bellevue Hospital
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Angelo Morales
Marisol
Morales
Emelio Corchado
Corchado
Bellevue
Kimball Admits Saigon Slayings
SAIGON UP S officials say Robert Kimball 36 of Salt Lake City admitted to killing his American boss Jack Ryan 44 and Nguyen Thi Hai 27 in Saigon. The crimes occurred on the front lawn near midnight Friday and Kimball was arrested Sunday. The confession was described as a crime of passion by a Vietnamese government spokesman.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
South Viet Nam
Robert Kimball
Salt Lake City
Utah
Jack Ryan
Nguyen Thi Hai
Aid
Ryan
Mrs. Hai
Kimball
Nguyen Ngoc Linh
Train derails after broken track near Sterling
The Union Pacific City of Denver derailed nine cars after striking a broken track 11 miles west of Sterling Colorado. Logan County Sheriff Vernon Hastings reported 30 to 45 passengers were taken to Sterling hospitals with no serious injuries.
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Sterling, Colo
Logan County
Vernon Hastings
Sterling
West Virginia Crime On Rise In 1964 Reports Rise
West Virginia recorded 9,672 serious offenses in 1964, a rate of 538.2 per 100000, per FBI uniform crime reports. The state’s population rose to about 1.797 million, while murders fell to 67 from 95 the prior year and nonfatal violent crimes varied, with increases in robberies 303 and aggravated assaults 718, and burglaries, grand larceny, and auto thefts also rising.
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Washington
UPL
West Virginia
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
United States
Special Panel To Probe Crime
Washington Johnson creates 18 member President's commission on law enforcement and justice with Attorney General Katzenbach as chairman to study causes of crime and issue recommendations for federal state and local action. FBI reports show a rise in serious crime and a large share of arrests involve youths under 18.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Nicholas Katzenbach
Commission On Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Num
Tragic Des Moines River drowning at Ledges State Park
In Boone Iowa six children drown after ignoring parental warnings at a Des Moines River picnic. The Schoenbaum and Erwin families suffered multiple losses including Albert Schoenbaum who collapsed with a heart attack. Bodies recovered. authorities say the youngsters stepped into a deep hole off a sand bar.
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Des Moines
Richard
Stephen
Douglas
Shady State Park
Speaker Named For Salute To Industry Fete
Koder M Collison will speak at the Salute to Industry Banquet at Dry Hill Prosperity Center. The Beckley Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and The Raleigh Register sponsor the event with other media. Awards will be given to numerous individuals and firms including Southern W Va Clinic Appalachian Regional Hospital Beckley Hospital Pine Lodge Nursing and Convalescent Home and many more.
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Koder M. Collison
West Virginia Department of Commerce
Dry Hill Prosperity Community Center
Beckley - Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce
Raleigh Register
John Gates
Alan Susman
Southern
Veterans Administration Hospital
Blanton E. Russell
Pinecrest Sanitarium
H. S. Edwards
American Accessories, Inc
H. W. Gilbert
Ashland Oil and Refining Company
Robert Armentrout
Beckley Oil Company
W. S. Maynard
Humble Oil and Refining Company
W. F. Henrichs, Jr
Meadows Oil Company
Louis J. Meadows
Pure Oil Company
Harold Kind
United Fuel Gas Company
S. W. Woodyard
Appalachian Power Company
Collison May Leave State Commerce Job
Koder Collison of the West Virginia State Commerce Commission says he is interested in a Washington post with the Appalachian Regional Commission. He notes nothing is definite and keeps Gov. Hulett C. Smith informed. He denies leaving over salary and says the job would benefit both West Virginia and himself.
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Charleston
UPI
Koder Collison
Appalachian Regional Commission
Washington
Hulett C. Smith
Collison
West Virginia
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