Air Force and Navy strike Viet Nam depots. two planes down
U S Air Force and Navy planes hit oil storage depots and ammunition dumps in North Vietnam while two aircraft were lost and both crews rescued. Capt James R Mitchell of Ogden Utah, on his 99th mission, parachuted after his F105 was shot down and was rescued by a helicopter. A second RF4C was lost under unknown causes. In Saigon, Viet Cong strikes continued near Cu Chi and Soc Trang airbase, with other raids and a bomb threat thwarted by an engineering corps officer. An American police advisor, Normal L Clowers of Tacoma, was killed in a Viet Cong ambush on Highway 1.
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Saigon
UPS
Navy
South Viet Nam
25Th
U.S. Army
Soc Trang
Hanoi
25Th Division
Cu Chi
Guam
U.S
Viet Nam
James R. Mitchell
Ogden
Utah
Dong Hoi
da Nang
Don Hoi
Panhandle
North Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Marine Corps
Yen Bay
China
L. Clowers
Tacoma
Wash
Highway 1
Clowers
United States
Senators push tar and nicotine labeling bill in health notice
Wire dispatches report Sen Warren G Magnuson introduced a bill to require cigarette makers to disclose tar and nicotine yields marking the first anniversary of the health warning requirement on packs. Also noted are Treasury coin sale plans, a tuberculosis sanatorium conversion, a Klan terrorism bill, Navy radio station funding, a $924 million urban program, WV divorce records, Cleveland unrest cleanups, and U S Steel second quarter results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren G. Magnuson
Johnson Administration
Congress
Treasury
House
Wheeling
State Board of Public Works
Brooke
Hancock
Marshall
Ohio
Wetzel
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Masons
Navy
Sugar Grove
Penderton County
Robert C. Byrd
Byrd
Naval
Senate
West Virginia
Paul Shanks
Vital Statistics Division
State Health Department
Cleveland
Hough
U. S. Steel Corp
Board Reveals Fate of Trade Dollars in Charleston Fire
The West Virginia State Board of Public Works disclosed that 118115 in plastic centennial trade dollars were mostly destroyed in a Charleston incinerator last Tuesday under state police Lt J A Woodley and legislative auditor aide A H Sizemore. The remaining 100 were saved for the Department of Archives and History.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
State Board of Public Works
J. A. Woodley
A. H. Sizemore
Legislative Auditor's Office
Department of Archives and History
Weather Summary For Beckley Area Today And Outlook
Mostly sunny and hot this afternoon with a high near 88. Fair tonight with a low around 62. Partly cloudy and hot tomorrow with only a 20 percent chance of thundershowers. Highs in the upper 80s. Greenbrier River low and clear, Lake level normal and clear. Palm Springs 111, Kalispell 40. West Virginia forecast: temps 2 to 5 degrees above normal, rain Thursday Friday and Monday totaling over three quarters of an inch.
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Beckley
Uae
Hinton
Palm Springs
Calif
Kalispell
Mont
West Virginia
Speck Indicted as Prosecution Sees Eight Indictments
Chicago report says Richard Speck faces eight murder charges after a grand jury indicted him for the slayings of eight student nurses in July. Prosecutors used seven witnesses to build the case while the sole survivor’s testimony remained undisclosed. Speck's attorney and jail officials described his mood as normal after the indictment.
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Chicago
UPI
Richard
Speck
Illinois
Corazon Amarao
Philippines
Getty
Fidel Castro Says Cubans Ready to Aid Hanoi
Havana reports Fidel Castro urged the United States Soviet Union Chile Brazil and Argentina to back Ho Chi Minh and promised to send whole combat units with equipment to Vietnam if Hanoi asked. He praised Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh during a 2.5 hour speech marking Moncada attack anniversary.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
United States
Soviet Union
Chile
Brazil
Argentina
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Castro
Ernesto
Che’’ Guevara
Ho Chi Minh
Moncada
Fulgencio Batista
Coast Guard seeks trace in Stilwell disappearance
The Coast Guard reported no trace of Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell after a DC3 carrying him and three others vanished. Hornet and Yorktown swapped duty as 13 ships and 30 planes scoured about 120 000 square miles of the Pacific with visibility around 1200 feet. Stilwell, a Green Beret commander, rode along for instrument flying time. passengers included pilot Hal Grimes and navigator Harold Fossum. The DC3 carried life raft gear and survival supplies.
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San Francisco
UPS
Coast Guard
Joseph W. Stilwell
Hornet
Yorktown
Pacific
Eastern
New Mexico
Stilwell
Green Beret Training Center
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Hal Grimes
Pacific Palisades
Calif
Harold Fossum
Pomona
Becktley Warren Williams League funding and light plans
The Warren Williams League in Beckley costs about 2500 dollars yearly. The city recreation board provides 1700 dollars, with the rest from concession sales. Sponsors cover players, uniforms, and equipment. the league funds field operations, umpires, scorekeepers, and other expenses. A plan to overhaul lighting is under study to fix bulbs and boost the system before the 1967 season.
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Warren Williams League
Beckley
Jack Beard
Beard
Senate seeks end to 20 day airline strike
In Washington the Senate Labor Committee weighs legislation to end the day-old airline walkout. Indications show the administration must certify a national emergency before any precedent setting action on collective bargaining is approved. The effort aims to end the strike while proving emergency justification.
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Washington
UPS
Senate Laer
Second Robbery In Four Days In Boston Armored Truck Heist
Boston police said clues from ballistics tests and the abandoned panel truck point to the same bandits in a $68,000 hustled cash robbery at Jamaica Plain Administration Hospital. Two guards were wounded as three gunmen in black with ski hoods fled in a blue panel truck, possibly following a prior Bedford payroll robbery.
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Boston
UPI
Bedford
Mass
Edmund L. McNamara
Donald Bettano
Bernard Fisher
Jamaica Plavie Administration Hospital
McNamara
FBI
Bettano
Fisher
Silver fashions shimmer in Paris winter collections
UPI reports a silver metallic trend dominating Paris fashion, with silver lame headpieces from Jules Trahay at Jeanne Lanvin, wide brim felt hats with silver bands, and Dior shoes finished in silver metal. Evening outfits feature silver accents, while mini dresses echo 1910s styles with bold stripes and flaring hems.
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Paris
UPI
Jules Francois Trahay
Jeanne Lanvin
Christian Dior
Dior
Arlette Nastat
Romanian Folk Ballet Cancels U S Tour
Hollywood discloses the Romanian folk ballet cancels its four city summer tour in the United States due to strong public opinion in Romania against the Vietnam War. Impressed impresario Sol Hurok says Osta informed him the 100 dancer company would not perform at the Hollywood Bowl San Diego Chicago and Washington venues. The troupe had previously played at the Los Angeles Music Center to positive notices.
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Hollywood
UPI
Romanian Folk Ballet
Romania
U.S
Viet Nam
Impressario
Sol Hurok
Hurok
Osta
Hollywood Bowl
San Diego
Calif
Chicago
Washington, D.C
Los Angeles Music Center
Bolshoi Ballet
The
Bowl
CIA Supports Trip By Dodd
The CIA released a letter from Director Helms partially backing Senator Thomas J. Dodd's explanation of a 1964 West Germany trip. Dodd said he went to interview Bogdan Stashynsky, a Soviet defector and assassin, while aides claim the trip aided Julius Klein’s German contracts. The Ethics Committee probes possible improper campaign fund use and other financial questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Ethics Committee
CIA
Richard M. Helms
Connecticut Democrat
Dodd
Julius Klein
Germany
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Bogdan Stashynsky
Ethics Committee
Rockefeller Opposes Ex-Court Justices In Arkansas Runoff
Two former Arkansas Supreme Court justices lead the seven-man Democratic field in Tuesday's primary, setting Aug 9 runoff to face Rocke feller. Jim Johnson led with 57,122 votes and Frank Holt had 49,326, with Alford, Hays, Boyce, Sulver and Rebsamen trailing. Faubus ends term, McClellan Gathings Mills Trimble renominate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock, Ark
UPI
Arkansas Supreme Court
Orval E. Faubus
Winthrop Rockefeller
Jim Johnson
Faubus
Frank Holt
Johnson
Holt
Dale Alford
Brooks Hays
Sam Boyce
Kenneth Sulver
Raymond Rebsamen
Idaho
Robert Smylie
John L. McClellan
Foster Johnson
E. C. Gathings
Wilbur Mills
James W. Trimble
No Discrimination Found In Viet Nam
Whitney M. Young Jr., director of the National Urban League, told President Johnson on a Viet Nam battlefield tour that interracial teamwork among U S troops was unprecedented. He did not find Negro casualty rates or dangerous assignments disproportionately higher than whites, but noted serious questions about officer promotion practices.
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Washington
UPI
Whitney M. Young Jr
National Urban League
Johnson
U.S
Viet Nam
Young
Riots Probe Says Panth ers Planned Looting
A 17 year old Negro youth testified to a grand jury in Cleveland that much of last weeks riots looting arson and sniper activity were planned by a gang called the Black Panthers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
UPI
Black Panthers
Nuclear Rocket Studied To Deflect Asteroid Threat
Sydney University physicist Prof Stuart Butler says US Britain and Russia study landing a nuclear warhead on asteroid Icarus to smash it if a tiny orbital deviation risks a Earth collision. Icarus nearly a mile wide, four million miles from Earth in June 1968.
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Sydney
Australia
UPI
Sydney University
United States
Britain
Russia
Earth
Stuart Thomas Butler
Butler
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Air Force
President Johnson
Fort Camp
Bell, Ky
101St Airborne Division
Board
Fidel
Brig
Gen. Stilwell
Inggister
Don Drysdale
Drysdale
Paul Fourney
Milt Pappas
Pete Reichert
Lawrence Cavendish
Central Intelligence Agency
Thomas J. Dodd
West Germany
Rockefeller
Arkansas
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