Factory Worker Admits Shooting Australian Labor Leader
A 19 year old factory worker in Sydney described as a strange brooding youth admitted he attempted to assassinate Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell outside Mosman Town Hall after a Viet Nam protest rally. He faced attempted murder charges, bail was set, and Calwell survived after window splinters cut his face. Calwell forgave the youth, saying no premeditation.
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Sydney
Australia
UPI
Arthur Calwell
Viet Nam
Kogan
Mosman Town Hall
Calwell
Bluefield State Chooses Glenville Educator as President
The State Board of Education named Dr. Wendell G. Hardway of Glenville State College as Bluefield State College president effective July 1. He becomes the first white president at the formerly all Negro institution, succeeding Dr. L. B. Allen who resigned last December amid discrimination charges. Hardway will take over from acting president Dr. E. J. Scrafford. The board also approved budgets and construction plans for several colleges, named new administrators, and set policy changes including a driver education credit and a moving violations limit for teachers.
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Charleston
UPI
State Board of Education
Glenville State College
Bluefield State College
Wendell G. Hardway
L. B. Allen
Hardway
Glenville
Division of Education and Psychology
Bluefield State
E. J. Scrafford
Allen
West Liberty Fine Arts
Marshall University
Eldon Shipman
Romney
Jack Brady
Harry Straley
Morris Harvey College
State Education Department
Institutions of Higher Learning
F. Ray Power
Vocational Education Department
Federal Housing, Home Finance Agency
HHFA
Shepherd College
Tech
Ky lifts siege as Buddhist leaders seek negotiated end
After a hours long standoff Ky regime opens gates to aid flow, arrests two youths over a police killing, while rebels and monks drift toward negotiation. Thich Tam Chau and Thich Tri Quang meet in Saigon hospital to dissolve rifts and pursue civilian government transfers.
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Seige
Thich Tam Chau
Chau
Thich Tri Quang
Saigon
Tin Quang
Hue
United Press International
Tri Quang
Johnson
Lear Goes West London Western in Shakespearean King Lear Film
Hollywood producer Anthony Mann announced at a London news conference that he will make a Western based on Shakespeare's King Lear. The project aims to fuse classic tragedy with Western frontier myth while casting and production details are to follow.
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London
UPI
Hollywood
Anthony Mann
William Shakespeare
King Ear
Byrd and police union cite shackled cops at FOP meeting
West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd told the Fraternal Order of Police convention that police are shackled by citizen review boards and court limits. Philadelphia sergeant John Harrington cited 16 million public contacts and 723 complaints in a year, arguing civilian brutality is a bigger issue. Byrd cited 1964 figures of 18,000 assaulted officers and 54 killed, with 1,376 DOJ brutality complaints and two convictions.
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Charleston
UPI
Philadelphia
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
Supreme Court
West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police
FOP
Byrd
John Harrington
Philadelphia Police Force
Harrington
Citizen Review Board
Review Board
U. S. Department of Justice
De Gaulle seeks peace talks with Soviets amid Viet Nam fears
French President De Gaulle aims for a conference on Viet Nam peace with no strings attached, hoping the Soviet Union backs talks. He fears the conflict could trigger a third world war and watches for a joint move with Moscow while sending cautious signals to Peking and Hanoi. Talks with Kosygin and Brezhnev began Tuesday.
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United States
Southeast Asia
Viet Nam
de Gaulle
Peking
Hanoi
Alexei N. Kosygin
Leonid Brezhnev
County Cancer Group Will Supply Medicine
The Raleigh County Cancer Association in Room 507 of the Raleigh County Bank Building will furnish medicines for cancer patients previously aided by welfare medical cards. Director Mrs Gay Pittieri says hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for walk ins, with contact at 252 3151.
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Raleigh County Cancer Association
Raleigh County Bank
Gay Pilliteri
Enterprise returns after Viet Nam air war triumph
The USS Enterprise arrives in San Francisco Bay after eight months and 13 000 sorties over North Vietnam. 5 200 crew members are greeted with jubilation and tearful reunions as families rush to the deck, while the captain recalls losses and the crew describes a brutal, hazardous campaign with limited details on casualties.
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Paul R. Jeschke
San Francisco
UPI
Enterprise
Golden Gate
Viet Nam
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco Bay
Alameda Naval Air Station
James F. Holloway
Mrs. America’s Dress Stolen During New York Tour
Mrs. Joy Neufer, 32, of Houston, says a plastic garment bag with her ice blue beaded evening dress was stolen at Broadway and 42nd Street during publicity photos for her See America First tour. The dress and accessories were valued at 120 dollars. Neufer, a mother of three and newly crowned Mrs. America, expressed disappointment and homesickness as police investigated the theft.
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New York
UPI
America
Times Square
Joy Neufer
Houston
Tex
Broadway
42Nd Street
Texas
Charles J. Neufer
Houston Business Forms Company
Marjorie Fullmer
Mrs. America
Miss Fullmer
Air battles and Nathan Hale clash over Vietnam frontline
American jets engage in heavy air combat as two pilots recount spraying a Mig and a Sidewinder kill while U S patrols log 90 missions. Across the battlefield the Nathan Hale operation sees Communist assault repelled by US forces with 70 killed and prisoners taken.
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Air Force
Navy
Hanoi
Dong Hoi
U.S
South Viet Nam
Saigon
King of civil rights marchers in Philadelphia riot
A protest by King and three civil rights workers two years ago erupted into a stone throwing clash. Several marchers and 10 white men fought as police broke up the tumbling brawl. King said some Philadelphia policemen allegedly encouraged the attackers. He was unhurt but visibly shaken by heckling during his speech.
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King
Philadelphia
Time For Driver Test Changed By Police
A spokesman from Company D State Police Headquarters on the U S 1921 By Pass announced West Virginia driver license examinations will switch to a new schedule. Tests run from 9 am to noon and from 1 pm to 5 pm, replacing the previous 9 am to 5 pm window.
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West Virginia
Company D
U. S
Deaths and Funerals: W. T. Lowe 82 of Beckley
Funeral services for W. T. Lowe 82 of 205 French St. Beckley are set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Beckley First Baptist Church with Rev. Kenneth Swank officiating. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Park. Lowe died Tuesday night after a long illness. born May 17, 1884 in Summers County, he was a former transfer company owner and a church member. Survivors include wife Blanche, son Garnet, two brothers, a sister, and three grandchildren. Pallbearers listed. friends may call Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home after 6 p.m. today.
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W. T. Lowe
French St
Beckley First Baptist Church
Kenneth Swank
Sunset Memorial Park
Lowe
Summers County
Thomas G
Sarah Beckner Lowe
Beckley First
Ashworths Mourn Loss of Lula Johnson Ashworth
Local attorneys Robert J. and John C. Ashworth report the death of their mother Lula Johnson Ashworth 79 of Moundsville after a two month illness. She died at 11 a.m. Tuesday in a Glen Dale hospital. She was a member of Moundsville Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband Dr. Robert A. Ashworth two sons Dr. Harold B. Ashworth of Moundsville and Dr. Charles V. Ashworth of Burton Ohio two daughters Mrs Stretch Dorothy Howell of Chesterland Ohio and Mrs Cecil Betty Fulkerson of Charlotte North Carolina. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Moundsville Baptist Church with burial at Grisell's Funeral Service on 5th Street in Moundsville.
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Robert J
John C. Ashworth
Robert A
Lula) Johnson Ashworth
Moundsville
Ashworth
Glen Dale
Services set for Mrs Irene Brown in Oak Hill
Mrs Irene Brown 51 of Cleveland Ohio and formerly Oak Hill will be buried at Lawn Memorial Park after services at Ty Tee Funeral Home Chapel Oak Hill Rev J C Bybee will lead. She died in a Cleveland hospital Monday born November 17 1914 in Twins Branch she was the daughter of Howard Waugh and the late Ellen Waugh.
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Irene Brown
Cleveland
Ohio
Oak Hill
Ty Tee
J. C. Bybee
Pet Lawn Memorial Park
Velma Newton
Carlisle
Garnet Jones
Chicago
Yvonne ‘Leffel
Richwood
Ivan H. Lowery Funeral Arrangements Pending
Ivan H. Lowery 52 of 301 Temple St was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital Tuesday morning death attributed to an apparent heart attack Beckley Fire Department Rescue Squad responded to the home at 10 55 a m son of the late Rev.
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Ivan H. Lowery
Temple St
Beckley
Communists Seek Coalition in New Party Plan
The article notes leaders plan a 128 page new program for a coalition of Communists with leftist groups to form a mass political party. Dr Hebert Aptheker runs in Brooklyn's 12th District to unseat Rep Edna F Kelly as a Communist candidate.
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Hall
Popular Front
Hebert Aptheker
Brooklyn
Edna F. Kelly
State Department
Six Road Projects See Low Bids Total 1.4 Million
Apparent low bids totaling 1.4 million dollars were submitted Tuesday to the State Road Commission for six improvement projects across five counties. The bids cover work on U S 19 at Rivesville, Sec 193 at Rivesville, Sec 45 and 45 12 at Lawsville and Evertsville, W V 18 between West Union and Troy, a U S 21 Alternate U S 60 bridge in Charleston, a Lee Street resurfacing in Charleston, and W V 23 between the Tyler and Doddridge County line, with bidders including Kenneth M. Dunn Co Inc Robert O Orders Co Knight Construction Burdette Asphalt Shelly Sands and W Q Waters.
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Charleston
UPI
State Road Commission
Marion
U.S. 19
Rivesville
Kenneth M. Dunn Co., Inc
South Charleston
Robert O. Orders Co
St. Albans
Lawsville
Evertsville
Kenneth M. Dunn Co. Inc
Doddridge
W. Va
West Union
Troy
Knight Construction Co
Kanawha
U. S. 21
U.S
Lee Street
Elk River
W. Q. Waters Co
Lee
Oakwood
Burdette Asphalt Paving Co
Tyler
Tyler and
Shelly & Sands, Inc
Zanesville
Ohio
Honey Musicians to Perform State Concert at Capitol
The Honey In The Rock vocalists and musicians will present a folk concert in the Capitol Rotunda on June 28 at noon. The group will perform selections from the production Honey In The Rock and will be featured on the final day of the Mountain State Art and Craft Fair in Ripley, which runs June 30 through July 4 with nightly entertainment.
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Capitol Rotunda
Mountain State
Ripley
Browder on capitalism and coexistence with communism
Earl Browder, former Communist Party organizer, now praises American capitalism and peaceful coexistence with the West. He argues China’s growth shapes future power, notes socialism’s spread in the U.S., and claims the CPUSA is harmless while Moscow influenced the party until the 1930s.
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Jerry Klein
Princeton
N. J
NEA
America
Earl Browder
Communist Party of the United
Kansas
Browder
Communist Party
U. S
Stalin
Kremlin
Roosevelt
Moscow
China
Italy
U.S
CPUSA
Nist
United States
Hitler
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Red China
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