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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1966
Page
1
A Raleigh Register Beckley Post Herald combined note answers reader questions on West Virginia rivers, public amenities, and local topics. It covers wild river classifications, June naming, APC paying locations, paint remover, Mabscott mayor, baby bed rentals, funeral attire, bookmobile returns, golf tour results, Social Security questions, My Antonia film status, road resurfacing plans, and Mt. Tabor resurfacing as of summer.
NASA disclosed a July 12 to 18 launch window for a lunar orbiter carrying an 850 pound camera to photograph Apollo landing sites and Surveyor 1. The satellite will fly about 28 miles from the moon every 30 hours, spotting objects the size of a card table, while the Titan 3D rocket readies seven communications satellites and a research moonlet in first of three planned launches.
Partly cloudy this afternoon with a high near 79. Clear tonight, low around 57. Increasing clouds Thursday with a 50 percent chance of showers, high near 80. Airport observations show 74 two levels and 52 low in the past 24 hours. precipitation 0.6 inch. Greenbrier and Lake waters normal and clear with gate details given for Hinton gauge at 2.1 feet. Five day West Virginia forecast: temperatures 4 to 8 degrees below normal with highs around 84 and lows near 61 in the south, 80 to 55 in the north. showers Friday through Monday with about three quarters of an inch expected overall.
Paris reporters spotlight Big Bertha a five foot six inch, 182 pound rock singer with no hair and a striking look likened to Yul Brynner in a skirt. Her debut is scheduled for tonight as French music scene hones talent for rock n roll.
A NEA report from New York describes a dozen young demonstrators in Times Square during rush hour. A confrontation with a 21 year old in a slicker led to tension as a crowd watched, a passerby offered calm, and the group circled Broadway under light rain chanting antiwar slogans. The youth says he just left Viet Nam and is job hunting in Philadelphia.
Saigon erupting three straight days of street battles between combat police and Buddhists seeking to oust Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and U.S. backers. police used tear gas and tracer rounds as monks, pagodas, and demonstrators clashed in central Saigon. American journalists were beaten as protests intensified and hunger strikes supported Thich Tri Quang.
A two vehicle crash on West Virginia Route 3 at Harper left N. Marshall of 204 Hill Street in Beckley Hospitalized in serious condition after swerving to miss a stray dog. His brakes locked and his car slid into a concrete abutment turning over while another vehicle struck the scene, killing the dog.
U S Navy planes knocked out a Communist radar site eight miles from Haiphong, the closest American strike to the North Vietnamese port, a spokesman reported. The raid was costly for the Navy.
Hundreds of police patrolled a Puerto Rican neighborhood on the Chicago northwest side as a show of force, arresting 30 by Tuesday night for a three day total of 123. One officer was slightly injured by a rock. shootings tallied 10 with 19 injured across the three nights.
The Johnson administration sent top officials to brief 87 state legislative leaders from 49 states and Guam at the White House for a two day conference on federal state problems and programs. Secretary of State Dean Rusk opened with The Nations Commitment Overseas. The meeting follows a successful governors conference that bolstered support for the Presidents Viet Nam policy amid election year tensions.
Wire dispatches report 600 marchers staged a triumphal entry into Grenada Mississippi as officials grant major voter registration concessions to Dr Martin Luther King Jr Robert F Kennedy urges a broad African campaign for nuclear disarmament to avert a tomb of graves. The US signals readiness to fund international inspection of Cambodian territory against Vietnamese use and former NY Republican chair L Judson Morehouse is sentenced to three years for bribery and liquor license bribery at Manhattan Playboy Club.
An Appellate Court Tuesday reduced a judgment against Rep. Adam Clayton Powell to 155,785 after he was convicted of slandering a Harlem woman by calling her a bag woman graft collector for corrupt police. Chairman L Mendel Rivers said the House Armed Services Committee will begin public hearings on the draft June 22.
Washington lawmaker moves to cripple the Ku Klux Klan with a bill using federal power to regulate interstate commerce to outlaw clandestine organizations aiding crime. The measure targets the Klan and other furtive outfits and proposes penalties from fines to death in terrorism cases. Senate fate remains uncertain.
Washington John W Gardner called a one day White House conference of doctors hospital administrators and health officials to discuss last minute Medicare start up issues. President Johnson planned to meet with about 300 participants and Sen Clifford Case urged consultation on potential problems including claims paperwork and outside scrutiny of bills under the reasonable charges rule. The Social Security Administration will issue a simple single page claim form and private insurers will determine reasonable charges based on a doctor's customary fee and local community ranges.
Washington United Press report says Loverign Construction Co of Fort Lee New Jersey will finish the 9 million National Training School for Boys at Morgantown West Virginia replacing Marine Construction Co which could not finish due to financial trouble. Sen Robert Byrd says the new contractor has reported to the site and aims to complete the school by late 1967 or early 1968. Loverign has posted a completion bond and is approved by the U S General Services Administration.
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