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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1966
Page
1
In Saigon, UPI reports US and allied forces win ground and air successes while a second major helicopter disaster in three days kills eight Americans northwest of Tuy Hoa. Marines and infantry push through bomb scarred flats near Hue as heavy fighting yields about 66 enemy dead and an estimated 200 Communist fatalities in two days.
An involved Q and A section answers local traffic rules at Woodlawn Avenue and Second Street in Beckley, with guidance on right of way and right turn on red, plus queries about job corps for elders, driving qualifications at Beckley Speedway, a silk screen agent, turning onto a one way behind Bays Buick, hunting groundhogs from a boat, and handling disturbances after 10 a.m. The article shifts to a wartime report from the Pacific and Vietnam, noting Navy air action near the coast, Marine and Army engagements near Hue, Thieu’s Can Tho forecast for 1966, and ongoing operations Nath an Hare and Deckhouse with substantial enemy casualties and aerial bombardment, including B52s from Guam targeting Viet Cong sites and other bases west of Da Nang and Saigon.
Washington officials say the Johnson administration has not decided to bomb vital oil facilities and harbor works in the Hanoi Haiphong area of North Vietnam. Undersecretary George W. Ball notes a future decision is possible despite no current plan.
Weather report for Beckley area shows warm hazy conditions with a high near 89 and a night low around 64. Tuesday expects continued warmth near 90 with hazy skies and a high of about 90. River gauges show Greenbrier and nearby lakes normal and clear with one gate open at Lake gauge in Hinton. airport had 88 and 62 readings in the last 24 hours. Five day West Virginia forecast calls for temperatures 1-4 degrees above normal, with warm start and cooler end, rainfall under a quarter inch mostly late in the week.
Venice Florida reports former SRC head Edward L. Worthington died Friday after a heart attack. A 25 year SRC veteran, he was appointed commissioner in 1946, resigned in 1947 to lead a Marshall Plan reconstruction project in Greece, and lived in Florida since retiring in 1963.
An earthquake rattled New Delhi three times in three minutes today, prompting thousands to rush into the streets. No casualties or major structural damage were reported, with tremors also felt in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab including Kanpur, Chandigarh, Ambala, and Jullundur.
French President Charles de Gaulle toured the Soviet Union in a 5,000 mile swing cheered by crowds in Leningrad and other cities. He attended mass, laid a wreath at a World War II memorial, witnessed rocket launches at Baikonur, and planned visits to Kiev and Volgograd before returning to Moscow.
The Office of Economic Opportunity approved a 9898 grant to the Raleigh County Community Action Association for an eight week summer day camp serving 350 disadvantaged children aged seven through 17 at six centers in the county. Sen. Jennings Randolph and Rep. John Slack announced the aid.
Gov. Hulett C. Smith announced a list of 70 appointments to state posts on Sunday. The package includes three new members to the West Virginia Human Rights Commission and reappointments to the State Racing Commission. Others named span the University Board of Governors, Pharmacy Board, Health Board, and Medical Licensing Board, with terms set through 1969 to 1975 and certain successors replacing outgoing members.
James Meredith’s long march to Jackson culminated with 15 000 rallying for Negro freedom. Dr Martin Luther King called it the greatest demonstration for freedom in Mississippi, with tension between whites and Negroes but no violence.
In Athens Georgia six Ku Klux Klansmen face federal conspiracy charges over the 1964 nightrider killing of Lemuel Penn. U.S. District Judge William A Bottle ordered three defendants to be tried at a time. The men Cecil Myers George Turner Jose Howard Sims Denver Wills Phillips James S Lackey Herbert Guest are all from Athens. Prosecution expects about 500 witnesses. Defendants had also faced state murder charges for the July 11 1964 ambush near Ft Benning. The Supreme Court reversal revived the federal indictments.
Senator Thomas J. Dodd seeks to disqualify Senator Wallace F. Bennett from judging him on misconduct charges. He accuses Bennett of bias and prejudgment as ethics hearings on Dodd and Julius Klein proceed with witnesses including Gerald Zeiller. Jurying on Dodd’s 1964 West Germany trip remains central to the probe.
University of Oregon coed editor Annette Buchanan goes on trial today for contempt of court for defying a court order to identify campus marijuana smokers she interviewed for a story. The report notes broader world items on Coast Guard inspections, prayer in schools, anti Viet Nam protests, and railroad leadership appointments.
Rep. Melvin R. Laird hopes to win national Republican support for a proposal to create a blue ribbon commission to conduct an overall review of U S defense policy. Magnuson argues auto safety and truth in packaging acts help manufacturers and buyers. Clark opposes an anti missile system and urges no Senate funding for it.
Basel becomes the first German speaking Swiss canton to approve women's suffrage by 13 713 to 9 141. Gov Hulett C Smith convenes WV Commission on the Status of Women in Charleston on July 9 to foster discussion and set guidance for their work ahead.
Gus Hall was elected No 1 man of the American Communist party by acclamation at the five day convention. Henry Winston was elected national chairman, a blind inmate famed for saying he did not lose his vision. Hall, 55, a longtime party member born in Cherry Minnesota, spoke of a new climate that may shield him from prosecution as a Soviet agent. He lives in a $30,000 suburban home and drives a chauffeured car, and said he was elected unopposed though not unanimous.
Unseeded Australian Owen Davidson defeated defending champion Roy Emerson in the Wimbledon quarter finals after Emerson collided with an umpire chair and a heavy microphone struck him on the head.
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