Soviet cosmonauts land after historic Voskhod II flight
Moscow reports the two man Voskhod II mission ended safely at 12 02 Moscow time near Perm after 26 hours 2 minutes in orbit. Col Pavel Belyayev and Lt Col Alexei Leonov walked in space, tested external operations, and declared the mission fully accomplished. They return to earth underlining Soviet lead in space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Shapiro
Moscow
UPS
Soviet Union
Pavel Belyayev
Voskhod
Alexei A. Leonov
Krem
Voskhod II
Perm
Tass
Urals
Molotov
Col
Belyayev
UPI
Earth
Leonov
Lev Landau
Landau
West Virginia Hospitals Face License Revocation Over Fire Safety
Twenty five hospitals and twenty four nursing homes in West Virginia are under threat as the State Health Department and State Fire Marshal Lewis E. Myles refuse renewals for fire safety violations. Myles will seek license revocation if violations aren’t remedied promptly, with letters sent to each facility. Despite closures being unlikely due to nursing home and hospital demand, several named institutions across multiple towns face potential shutdowns.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
State Health Department
Lewis E. Myles
Health Department
Myles
Bluefield Sanitarium
Broaddus Hospital
Philippi
City Hospital
Martinsburg
Clark Maternity Hospital
Jaeger
Davis Memorial
Elkins
Grafton City Hospital
Grant Memorial
Petersburg
Laird Memorial
Montgomery
Logan General
Madison General
Memorial General
Morgan County War Memorial
Berkeley Springs
Oak Hill Hospital
Pineville Maternity
Potomac Valley
Keyser
Stevens Clinic
Welch
St. Joseph’s
Buckhannon
St. Luke's
Bluefield
Southern Hills Hospital
South Charleston
Tucker County Hospital
Parsons
Valley Convalescent Hospital
Wetzel County Hospital
New Martinsville
Williamson Memorial
Wyoming General
Mullens
DePue
Spencer
Airley Heights
Britton Rest Home
West Union
Brook Haven
Follansbee
Christian Nursing Home
Fayetteville
Daugherty
Fox Nursing Home
Chester
Haught Memorial
Parkersburg
Holbrook
Jones
Beech Bottom
Kidwell’s
Romney
Lida Clark
Clarksburg
Lostia’s
Lumberport
Marshall
Vienna
Matewan Nursing Home
Morris Memorial
Milton
McConaughey Guest
Cameron
Nella’s
Ohio Valley
Pulliam
Shepherd
Ellenboro
Sundale
Morgantown
Walnut Avenue
Fairmont
W. Va
Masonic Home
White Gables
West Virginia abolishes death penalty in landmark signing
Governor Hulett C. Smith signed the bill ending capital punishment in West Virginia, warning the law is not lax. The electric chair is retired, with nine executions since 1949, the last in 1959. Key sponsors Sen. Kaufmann and Reps Barker Holliday attended, with Rev. Crowson. Some want the chair kept as a historic exhibit. Ernest Stephenson remains jailed awaiting appeal.
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Charleston
Paul Kaufmann
Dkanawha
Senate
Dels
Jesse Barker
D-Kanawha
Robert Holliday
D-Fayette
L. E. Crowson
South Charleston
Moundsville Penitentiary
Moundsville
Otto C. Boles
Boles
Elmer Bruner
Cabell County
Ernest Stephenson
Huntington
Steelworkers reach strike settlement basis with Can Co
The United Steelworkers Union announced a basis for a strike ending contract dispute with American Can Co, one of the nation’s two major can manufacturers, in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers Union
USW
American Can Co
Bright But Chilly Weather for Beckley and Vicinity
Beckley area forecast calls for mostly sunny and chilly conditions this afternoon with a high near 38. Tonight will be fair and quite cold with a low around 16. Saturday brings increasing clouds and continued cool conditions with highs in the low 30s. Beckley records show last 24 hours high 43 and low 26. Wind from the west at 15 mph. Sunset at 6:35 p.m. Sunrise Saturday at 6:28 a.m. Greenbrier River normal and muddy. Lake normal and muddy. 9 gates open. New gauge at Hinton reads 4.1 ft. Today’s extremes include a high of 89 in Cocoa, Florida and a low of 11 in Alexandria, Minnesota. Five-day West Virginia forecast: temperatures 5-8 degrees below normal. weekend cold, warming a bit by Tuesday. precipitation may total a half inch, possible Monday or Tuesday.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Dy Lake
Hinton
Cocoa
Fla
Alexandria
Minn
West Virginia
Lynda Bird Johnson Turns Eleven In Public Eye
Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, marks her birthday in Washington and speaks with newswomen about life in the White House spotlight. She says the role is not a complaint but a duty to set a positive example for American youth as she balances university classes and social events.
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Washington
UPI
Lynda Bird Johnson
Johnson
White House
Lynda Bird
George Washington University
NAACP Chief to Speak at Sunday March in Bluefield
The Rev. C. Anderson Davis of Bluefield head of the West Virginia NAACP will join the Sunday march and memorial services for Rev. James L. Reed and Jimmie Lee Jackson. Davis will speak to marchers at their return to the Central Baptist Church at 105 Brooks St.
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C. Anderson Davis
Bluefield
West Virginia
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
James L. Reed
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Davis
Central Baptist Church
Brooks St
Air strike hits North Viet Nam depots, high loss estimate
Saigon reports 130 American jet fighters and bombers struck supply depots in Communist North Viet Nam. Maj. Gen. Joseph Moore said destruction was estimated at 80 to 90 percent at a news conference, signaling heavy damage to enemy logistics.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
UPI
North Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Joseph Moore
Gromyko calls U S must negotiate Vietnam directly
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko ended talks with Britain and said the United States must negotiate directly with North Vietnam after ending its aggression. He dismissed any conference on Vietnam during what he called a dangerous situation as U S jets attacked targets in North Vietnam.
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London
UPI
Andrei A. Gromyko
Viet Nam
United States
Gromyko
Harold Wilson
Michael Stewart
U.S
Air Force and Navy strike North Viet Nam depot complex
About 60 US Air Force planes and 60 to 70 Navy aircraft hit a Bien Son supply and ammunition depot complex 35 miles north of Vinh. Land based jets and Navy planes bombed 15 to 20 buildings with bombs rockets and cannon fire. One small wing hole reported. anti aircraft fire described as light and inaccurate. This was the seventh bombing raid against North Viet Nam since last August.
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Air Force
Bien Son
Vinh
North
Viet Nam
Moore
U.S. Navy
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Slain Burger Boy Attendant In Parkersburg Robbery
Gary Ross Cowdery an 18 year old Burger Boy Food O Rama attendant was shot to death early today during an apparent armed robbery in Parkersburg. Police say a .38 caliber pistol caused three chest and head wounds as a money container vanished and a deposit note remained clutched in his hand. Detectives planned lie detector tests as investigators questioned several persons with no witnesses noted.
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Parkersburg
UPI
Gary Ross Cowdery
Belpre
Ohio
William R. Cal
Dandy Trial Nears End
Closing arguments in the Alex Dandy trial were set in Kanawha County Court. Dandy faces aiding and abetting charges tied to 1962 flood relief funds. He testified his Pioneer Construction Co. could be paid only by invoicing under other names. The state alleges dummy corporations collected payments for work not performed. Dandy said invoices were suggested by Ruth Maley, a former Commerce Department clerk who has been convicted. Four others await trial.
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Charleston
UPI
Alex Dandy
Kanawha County
Dandy
Pioneer Construction Co
Ruth Maley
Commerce Department
Evangelist and wife return to face child abuse charges
Rev Richard Ruble and wife are returning to Missouri to face charges of beating their 10 month old child. They were arrested in Beckley on a fugitive warrant while on an evangelistic tour and held in Raleigh County Jail before being transported back to Missouri. The couple deny the allegations and blame a babysitter for the mistreatment.
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Missouri
Richard Ruble
Ruble
Beckley
Marvin
Bart) Rice
Chairton County
Raleigh
Okey Mills
West Virginia
$25,000 For Crab Orchard MacArthur Service District Planning Funds
The Community Facilities Administration approved a 25 500 public works planning advance for a sewage collection system by Crab Orchard MacArthur Public Service District in Raleigh County. The project, costing about 673 000, could start this year with Basile K Wilcox as district chairman.
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Crab Orchard
MacArthur
Community Facilities Administration
The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Crab Orchard-MacArthur
Basile K. Wilcox
Public Service
Byrd
Register
Wilcox
Gates Engin
Brothers Die In Racine Fire Waste Land House
In Racine near Boone County, two brothers named George and Sam Walker, both in their late forties or early fifties and unemployed, died in a house fire in the Indian Creek Hollow area. The one story frame dwelling was engulfed when found, with both badly burned bodies recovered. Cause of the blaze was not yet determined.
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Racine
UPI
Indian Creek Hollow
Boone County
Sheriff's Office
George
Sam Walker
Explosion in Turkish mine causes heavy casualties
In Istanbul, a gas blast at a lignite mine in northern Turkey killed dozens and trapped more than 50 miners underground. Early reports suggested about 30 fatalities, with rescuers racing to reach the trapped workers.
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Istanbul
Turkey
UPI
Romanian Leader Gheorghiu-Dej Dies in Bucharest
Romania President and Communist Party First Secretary Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej died in Bucharest at age 64. Official confirmation announced the death.
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Vienna
UPI
Communist Party
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Bucharest
White House protests and protests shadow civil rights march
President Johnson flew from the White House to his ranch to wait for Alabama’s reply on whether Governor Wallace will call in the National Guard to shield civil rights marchers. White and Negro pickets continued their day and night sit down in front of the White House despite his absence. Also reported are a massive late winter storm in the upper Midwest with 25 foot drifts, spring arriving tomorrow, a planned 80 kiloton nuclear test at Kamchatka to study quake versus blast signals, Romania's President Gheorghiu-Dej ill, and Ireland dissolving parliament to begin an electoral campaign.
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Johnson
White House
Alabama
George Wallace
National Guard
Upper Midwest
Great Lakes
Minnesota
United States
Kamchitka Island
Aleutians
Georghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Romania
Radio Bucharest
Eamon de Valera
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Mt. Kennedy
North America
Yukon Territory
Canada
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
House
Nicholas Katzenbach
Patricia Neal
Ucla Medical Center
Miss Neal
Firsts mark Soviet space feats and US moves in moon era
A long list of milestones recounts Soviet space firsts from Leontov to Gagarin and Tereshkova, plus US space planning notes. Mentions include Sputnick 1, Laika missions, Luna and Surveyor successors, and Vostok 1 flight. Also covers WVU study tour, King Farouk death, Kennedy expedition, and Ranger 9 preparations.
US To Try To Save Face With Double Header
CAPE KENNEDY UPT Two US astronauts John Young and Virgil Grissom and a moon probe face upstaging by a Russian somersaults in space. The doubleheader begins Sunday as the United States seeks to recover prestige in the space race.
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Cape Kennedy
Upt
John Young
Virgil T. Grissom
Rembrandt Painting Sells For 2 234 000 At Christie's
London based sale at Christie's drew $2,234,000 for Rembrandt Portrait of the Artist's Son Titus bought by Norton Simon Foundation of Los Angeles. The nearly world record price echoed 1961 Metropolitan NY purchase of Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. The Titus portrait measures 24 (approx) by 20 inches and shows Titus in a grey brown jacket with collar and sash, wearing a yellow cap with a velvet beret and plumes.
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London
UPI
Los Angeles Art Foundation
Christie’s Art Sales Rooms
Norton Simon Foundation of
Los Angeles
Rembrandt
Titus
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Aristotle
Homer
Data Bank Reveals West Virginia Growth and Poverty Pockets
Dr. R. H. Slavin, WVU Appalachian Center director, says a county data bank helps project industrial potential and guide plant locations. It highlights a Golden Triangle of Parkersburg Charleston Huntington and shows Northern and Eastern Panhandle prosperity alongside underdeveloped areas needing better schools to attract industry.
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Fanny Seiler
Charleston
UPI
R. H. Slavin
Slavin
Golden Triangle
Parkersburg
Huntington
Panhandles
West Virginia
Midwest
West Virginia University
Appalachian Center
West Virginia State College
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