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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1966
Page
1
The Ring Register feature compiles reader queries on topics from auto courtesy at funeral processions to local telephone delays, water deposits, eye care, and mail to Vietnam. Answers cite sources such as West Virginia Code, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co., Cabell Heights Water Co., and local professionals.
Senator Thomas J. Dodd faces charges of misconduct in his ties to Julius Klein. Former aide James Boyd testified he helped steal 4000 documents from Dodd's office while Dodd allegedly arranged a trip to West Germany in 1964 to present Klein to top officials including Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard.
Beckley and vicinity experience sunny and warm conditions this afternoon with a high near 87, clear skies tonight, and a low around 58. Friday will remain sunny and warm with a high near 80, while airport observations show a high of 83 and a low of 57 in the last 24 hours. River gauges indicate Greenbrier River normal and clear, Lake normal and clear with 2 gates open, and Hinton gauge at 2.1 feet. Extreme temperatures today include 105 at Blythe California and 33 at Ely Nevada.
UPI reports American and South Vietnamese forces scored two major victories over Communist units, with 680 enemy killed. Air and naval attacks north of Hanoi targeted oil installations and ammunition trains. US casualties declined this week while Viet Cong losses rose, and Buddhist leadership headquarters in Saigon was seized during a government raid.
Combat troops with bayonets seized the National Buddhist headquarters in Saigon, arresting 100 youths and a suspected killer in bed. Buddhist leader Thich Tam Chau denounced Premier Ky for using force on sacred ground as unrest subsides. other crackdowns followed in Da Nang and Hue.
American Communists outline a strategy to enter mainstream politics and back an independent leftist candidate in 1969. Gus Hall, party leader, argued radicalism is timely and communism is relevant to America, urging a united front with peace and civil rights movements to challenge Johnson and the 1968 Republican candidate. Hall offered no specific nominee though Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon was noted as having influence.
US war casualties fell about 50 percent for the week ending June 18, with 79 Americans killed in action and 567 wounded. South Vietnamese deaths rose to 175 with 20 missing, Viet Cong losses were 928 killed and 232 captured, Allied deaths totaled 20. Since Jan 1, 1961, US toll stands at 3,883 dead and 21,549 wounded.
A. Nuckols of Beckley West Virginia, former West Virginia Motor Vehicles Commissioner, is free on 1203 bond after arrest in Anne Arundel County on assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed weapon charges. Hearing set for July 1.
A junked automobile fire near Junior claimed the lives of Bobby Smith four and Kathy Smith three. Police say the siblings, children of Mr and Mrs Bradard W Smith, were found charred in the vehicle on Kenneth Harris’s farm after apparently playing with matches.
In Saigon elections set for September, Viet Cong members may vote but cannot run. US officials note laws require candidates be 25 and not favor Communists or pro Communist neutralists. Loopholes might block Communist voters, but no broad voter ban was ordered.
President Charles de Gaulle flew to Novosibirsk in Siberia as part of a six day tour of Russia. He traveled from Moscow with Madame de Gaulle and officials. In Novosibirsk he met Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and held informal talks on issues raised in Moscow.
War hero William O. Smedley 54 admitted planning a 10 man raid that seized Radio City offshore in the Thames estuary. Owner P Reg Calvert 37 was killed by a shotgun blast in Wendens Ambo. Smedley pleaded innocent and was remanded until July 1. Ten raiders hold six DJs and technicians captive while authorities probe.
Cambridge officials tested two vandal proof parking meters with a hammering demonstration by Charley Walsh of Everett and John Perkus of Dorchester. Walsh opened a meter in 2 minutes 45 seconds, while the other withstood roughly five minutes as the city considers purchasing 3,000 units.
In Benton Mississippi UPI reports Negro leaders chose a nonviolent returning group to Philadelphia to march again despite possible white opposition. Hosea Williams affirmed their resolve to proceed even if federal or state protection is limited as Martin Luther King Jr and allies decide to send another detachment on Friday. King faced heckling and marchers clashed with whites during a Tuesday Philadelphia event, with a white man wounded in the tension.
A white man was shot and wounded during a Canton Mississippi automobile chase by Negroes. Police said a Negro was being questioned with no charges filed. Labor Secretary Wirtz told a Senate hearing the Neighborhood Youth Corps reduced dropouts and juvenile crime. Rep Ellsworth of Kansas proposed ending what he called unfair service academy cadet selections.
President Johnson awards the Medal of Honor to Army 1st Lt Charlies Q Williams of Charleston South Carolina as the fourth recipient for valor in Vietnam. The House housing subcommittee approves a $2.3 billion six year city rebuilding plan, authorizing $600 million for fiscal 1967 to start the program. E L Bartlett charges federal radiation guidelines for hot mining wastes are based on insufficient knowledge of health danger.
President Johnson's plan to create a single department of transportation won unanimous approval by a House government operations subcommittee. Tornado watches persisted across parts of the northern plains with storms threatening North and South Dakota while a thunderstorm watch covered portions of Colorado Nebraska and Kansas. In the Senate a voice vote approved a $700 million five year extension of the library services and construction act adding funds for public institutional and library services.
Federal grants totaling 90000 will aid library improvements at 18 West Virginia colleges and universities. Each school receives a 5000 grant under the Higher Education Act of 1965, announced by Senator Byrd and Senator Randolph both Democrats of West Virginia.
In Pompano Beach Florida police maintained a tight vigil after two days of rock throwing and fighting in a predominantly African American neighborhood. Rioters clashed after a white grocer was accused of slapping a 10 year old boy triggering a six hour riot and subsequent violence. Thirty inmates were arrested, all released on bond. two officers treated. Hearings set for Saturday.
The Rev. H. Eldon Waltz 50 of Hurricane West Virginia drowned while swimming at Garden City beach in Horry County. A companion was rescued. Waltz pastors First Baptist Church Hurricane and led state temperance and church alcohol action programs. Survived by wife one son and three daughters.
Richard and Ronald Sanoria, 19 year old Marine twins from Hawaii, both wounded in Viet Nam. Richard lost a left leg above the knee from a mine near Da Nang on March 16 after enlistment January 12 1965. Ronald was wounded in the back and legs by a mine June 11 near Da Nang and later shot in the stomach by a sniper. He is at Clark Air Base Philippines and planned to join Richard at Tripler General Hospital June 29. Pacific Headquarters Marine fundraising seeks to bring their parents to Honolulu for the reunion. the family has four other children including a son in the Navy.
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