Former WVU star urges WV GOP to repudiate Goldwater
Former WVU football star Johnny Thackston proposed a Republican resolution opposing Barry Goldwater at a Fairmont gathering to craft the state party platform. The body rejected the measure, but it may reappear at the August 15 state convention in Clarksburg. Thackston, a 1955 Woodrow Wilson graduate and WVU law student, rose to fame with four field goals in 1959.
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Monongalia
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Johnny
Woodrow Wilson
Flying Eagle
Ex-Boxer Admits Hired Killing Of 2
Former heavyweight boxer testifies he killed Judith Lopinson and Joseph Malito and planned to kill three others for $10,000 hired by restaurateur Jack Lepinson. Frank Phelan, 26, described the basement ambush at Dante's Restaurant and the killings before a habeas corpus hearing for Lepinson.
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Ranger 7 Midcourse Maneuver Aims For Moon Close-Up
Ranger 7 executed a crucial midcourse maneuver with extreme accuracy to alter its path from a moon collision course toward a precise target on the sunlit lunar surface. Caltech’s JPL team remotely triggered the change to position the spacecraft for near term close up pictures, with full tracking to follow over the coming hours.
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Food Lowered To 9 Trapped In Chalk Mine
Nine men were 223 feet underground in the Mount Rival Chalk Mine near Champagnol after a collapse trapped 12 miners and two truck drivers. Rescue workers planned a 36 inch bore as rains delayed drilling while food and wine were sent through a tube and a microphone confirmed contact with the outside world.
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France
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Goldwater Recalls Johnson Advice On Dog Ears
Senator Barry Goldwater said President Johnson warned him not to pull his dog's ears during their late week meeting about campaign emotions. The Republican nominee relayed the remark to reporters on Tuesday, framing it as political ad guidance.
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UPI
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Rk-Minn
Pennsylvania
Civil unrest erupts at Medford rock and roll dance
A riot erupted at a Medford Massachusetts dance drawing 1200 youths, more than 200 Black and white participants clashed, with dozens injured and eight needing hospital care. Police used clubs to break up the melee as out-of-town youths were bused toward Boston.
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Purree
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Goldwater Wins Barber Shop Poll in Georgia Town
In Ocilla Georgia a barber shop poll in Hayes Barbers five days of voting shows Barry Goldwater with 354 votes to 7 for Lyndon Johnson. Six ballots were discarded as illegible. The town is described as a traditional Democratic stronghold.
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Goldwater
Hayes
Russell Hayes
Negro Miss Idaho among 15 Miss USA semifinalists
UPI reports 15 Miss USA semifinalists include Dorothy Johnson of Idaho, the first Negro contestant among the group. Johnson, 18, from Pocatello, models part time and works as a telephone operator. her father is a janitor. Finalists will be narrowed Wednesday then chosen Saturday for the world title. Others: Alabama Pamela Borgfeldt. Alaska Patricia Marlin. California Jeanne Venables. DC Bobbi Johnson. Kentucky Joanna Reid. Maryland Royette Tarry. Mississippi Patricia Turk. New Jersey Barbara Richartz. New York Dorothea Langhans. Ohio Gail Krielow. Oklahoma Jackie Maloney. Oregon Toye Esch. Texas Diane Balloun. Utah Janet Erickson.
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Pocatello
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Alaska
Patricia Marlin
California
Jeanne Venables
District of Columbia
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Kentucky
Johanna Ruth Reid
Maryland
Royette Michele Tarry
Mississippi
Patricia Turk
New Jersey
Barbara Joan Richartz
New York
Dorothea Langhans
Ohio
Gail Krielow
Oklahoma
Jackie Sue Maloney
Oregon
Toye Fae Esch
Texas
Diane Balloun
Utah
Janet Joy Erickson
Weather Outlook Beckley and Vicinity
Partly cloudy and hot today with scattered showers and thunder showers this afternoon and tonight. High 88, low 66. Thursday fair and cooler. Five day forecast for West Virginia shows temperatures 2-3 degrees below normal in most areas, with cooler Thursday and Friday then warming over the weekend. Showers tonight total 0.25 to 0.5 inch, otherwise little or no rain. River and lake conditions largely normal and clear.
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Greenbrier
Hinton
West Virginia
Zone Schools Or We Will Judge Tells County Board
In Raleigh County a federal judge ordered the county Board of Education to produce clear readable school zone maps by August 24 and state policy statements. The action, linked to NAACP claims of racial segregation, requires zones based on attendance with changes due to population shifts and new school construction.
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John A. Field Jr
Federal
Beckley
Judge Field
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Fletcher Mann
NAACP
Willard Brown
Charleston
Goldwater Rebuffs Press in Unity Meeting with GOP Leaders
Washington UPI report on Barry Goldwater and running mate William Miller meeting with GOP congressional leaders to press a unity message. Miller plans more talks. Goldwater denies a new Scranton pledge while confirming a Monday night talk. The session centered on drafting a unified statement for release by House and Senate GOP leaders.
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Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
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Goldwater
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dean Burch
Arizona
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Girl Drowns In Pool At Riverside Park
A six year old Morgantown girl Cathy Jo Conner drowned while her mother Delores Beattie watched at Riverside Park Pool ten miles south of Morgantown Tuesday evening. Lifeguards failed to revive her and she died on arrival at University Hospital.
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Fall Into Shaft Kills Boy 15
John Douglas Dunfee, 15, of Huntington, died after falling about 30 feet into an abandoned turbine shaft at a Howell area mill. With a church group he was throwing rocks into the shaft, landed on his head in water, and died five hours after arrival at St. Marys Hospital.
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UPI
John Douglas Dunfee
Howell
Cabell County
Dunfee
Guyandotte Baptist Association
St. Marys Hospital
Governor's Daughter To Wed Mullens Man
Charleston West Virginia United Press International reports Mary Barron Morgan eldest daughter of Gov W W Barron will remarry August 7 to Martin Terry Penn former Princeton Mullens resident. Penn works in the budget division of the State Finance and Administration Department.
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UPI
West Virginia
Mary Barron Morgan
W. W. Barron
Martin Terry Penn
Princeton
Mullens
Penn
State Budget
State Finance and Administration Department
Federal Building Dedication in Beckley Honors Byrd Slack
Senator Byrd and Rep. Slack led ceremonies for Beckley’s new Federal Court facility on Woodlawn Avenue. The speeches urged expedited litigation, economic benefits from juror stays, and stronger justice administration, with a holiday mood and flags across the city.
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Robert C. Byrd
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John M. Slack, Jr
Senate Appropriations
Jury Acquits Man Of Market Holdup In Huntington
A nine man three woman jury in Huntington acquitted James T. Scott, 44, of Follawsbee, in the May 13 Eastern Food Market robbery. Store workers identified Scott, but defense witnesses testified he was with Mary Lou Glinka in Elm Grove and that he placed a call to Louisville during the robbery. He had been arrested at home days after the $2,600 holdup.
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UPI
James T. Scott
Follawsbee
Eastern Food Market
Scott
Mary Lou Glinka
Elm Grove
Louisville
Jacqueline Kennedy Buys $200000 Fifth Avenue Coop
Mrs. John F. Kennedy buys a $200,000 Fifth Avenue cooperative apartment in New York. The 35 year old widow will move into the 15 room residence in September, marking a major personal milestone reported by United Press International.
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UPI
John F. Kennedy
Fifth Avenue
Mrs. Kennedy
Sep
Talk Attempts Fail In Laos Fight Continues
Government troops push toward a key road junction in northern Laos as new talk efforts to end the Laotian civil war fail. Forces advance from Vang Vieng toward Muong Kas, while others move south toward the junction near Route 7 and Highway 13, with Highway 13 linking Vientiane to Luang Prabang. A Soviet Polish mission to influence Souphanouvong failed to secure a summit between factions.
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UPI
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Vang Vieng
Muong Kassy
Plaine Des Jarres
Luang Prabang
Sala Phou Koun
Khang Khay
Pathet Lao
Red Prince
Souphanouvong
Three West Virginia Cities Urged to Plan for Federal Aid
Washington UPI Three West Virginia cities Huntington Weirton and Wheeling are among 79 urban areas in 28 states warned they could lose hundreds of millions in federal aid unless they start a continuing comprehensive planning process before July 1 1965. The Bureau of Public Roads said projects must fit with anticipated mass transit and rail systems in line with the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1962.
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UPI
West Virginia
Bureau of Public Roads
BPR
Huntington
Weirton
Wheenie
BPA
White House declines Goldwater TV debate request
Washington UPI reports the White House rejected for now a suggestion from Senator Barry Goldwater to hold a television debate with President Johnson during the fall election campaign. Johnson approves a $697 million federal private partnership to build an electric power transmission system linking 11 Western states.
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UPI
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Hubert Humphrey Favored VP Pick by W Va Delegates
West Virginia delegates favor Sen. Hubert Humphey D Minn for vice president with 8 votes while Sargent Shriver 5 and Robert Kennedy 4 trail. Ben B Stout of Clarksburg may back Jennings Randolph as favorite son, Randolph likely to chair the Mountain State delegation.
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UPI
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D-Minn
West Virginia
Missouri
Stuart Symington
Robert McNamara
Ben B. Stout
Clarksburg
Jennings Randolph
Randolph
Mountain State
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White House
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