Cold Weather Keeps WV Voters Home in Primary
Voters turnout was low across West Virginia as record cold slowed participation in the primary. Only about 9 percent cast ballots by noon in six precincts, with 328 of 3,643 registered voters voting. Weather and absence of strong local races kept crowds small in Morgantown, Parkersburg, Beckley, and other cities.
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Campaign Post
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Charleston
UPI
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Martinsburg
Robert M. Bailey
U. S. Senate
Congress
Morgantown
Senate
William Moreland
Del
John Pyles
Parkersburg
U .S. Senate
Jennings Randolph
Francis J. Love
Wheeling
Harold G. Outright
Mao Tse-tung Meets Albanian Delegation in Peking
Mao Tse tung, China's top Communist leader, met a visiting Albanian Communist delegation in Peking. The meeting, Mao's first public appearance since November, was described as intimate with all questions answered in agreement. Attendees included Premier Chou En Lai and Lin Piao. a banquet followed.
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UPI
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Peking
New China
Mao
China
Communist Party
Foreign Ministry
Albania
Chou En-Lai
Communist Party Central Committee
Lin Piao
Teng Hsiao-ping
Hong Kong
Alba
Woman Prefers Funeral Arrangements Before Death
Mrs. Mary Melissie Cadle, 78, visited Rose and Ques enberry Funeral Home last Wednesday to select and prepay her casket. She died about five days later at 6 a.m. today at her Odd home, apparently of a heart attack. Obituary on Page 2.
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Mary Melissie Cadle
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral
Crops suffer heavy damage after freezing reminder
Monday night temperatures hit freezing with forecasts of extensive damage to fruit trees strawberries and gardens. Officials Franklin Lilly Oscar Hutchison and C Donald Summers warn of continued frost tonight as Ra leigh County Airport records a low of 23 and Flat Top 21. The Weather Bureau notes a 42 degree drop in 24 hours ending Monday 8 pm with .02 inches of precipitation including snow.
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Franklin Lilly
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Oscar Hutchison
Area Appalachian Center
C. Donald Summers
Soil Conservation Service
Weather Bureau
Raleigh County
Flat Top
Weather Unseasonably Cold Be Then Beckley Area
Beckley and vicinity enjoy sunny cool afternoon with highs around 48 and freezing temperatures overnight down to 23. Wednesday forecast calls for sun and modest warmth with highs in the mid 40s. Airport data show 41 degrees at noon today and 23 early morning, with 4 gates open at Greenbrier River, Lake normal and clear.
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Hugh
Greenbrier
Hinton
Presidio
Tex
Lexington
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Kanawha Man Charged With Election Fraud
Othello Green a ballot commissioner from Precinct 96 was arrested and charged with election fraud in Charleston He appeared before Justice Lenny Gates and posted bond after a warrant sworn by voter Clarence B Holley The voter said Green offered money to influence his vote
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Charleston
UPI
Othello Green
Green
Justice of the Peace
Lenny Gates
Clarence B. Holley
Holley
Red China Nuclear Power Viet Nam Situation Urgency
Washington reviews Viet Nam crisis with new urgency as Red China conducts its third nuclear test in 19 months. President to confer with Ambassador Lodge on Saigon politics rural pacification and potential Communist action. Rusk defends Ky regime while noting China’s test may affect SEA stability.
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UPI
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Viet Nam
Red China
Texas
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Saigon
Lodge
Dean Rusk
Ture
South Viet Nam
United States
Asia
China
Rusk
Southeast Asia
Rusk Struggles To Explain Viet Nam Election Plan
Washington AP Dean Rusk says the South Viet Nam political process is hard to summarize. The two stage plan aims for a September assembly vote to draft a constitution, followed by a 1967 election for a national legislature under Premier Ky’s military-backed regime.
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Washington
UPI
Dean Rusk
South Viet Nam
Rusk
Nguyen Cao Ky
Saigon Bomb Triggers Crossfire Killing Civilians
In Saigon during morning rush hour a Viet Cong pellet mine at a street intersection spurred a 40 minute gun battle between U.S. and Vietnamese guards. Five Vietnamese, three women and one child, were killed and 29 people wounded, including eight Americans, as civilians were caught in the crossfire near the Suzie Wong tailor shop close to officer billets.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Suzie Wong
Ambassador
Brinks
Asian Reaction To Bomb Calm
Western scientists say China’s Monday blast likely tested a fission trigger for a hydrogen bomb, not a true thermonuclear detonation. Japanese officials report the event sparks protests and fears Washington may spur others to pursue atomic arms as Red China advances toward an H bomb capability.
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API
China
Japan
Washington
Japanese Meteorological Agency
Uppsala
Sweden
Tomisaburo Hashimoto
Labinet
Traffic Deaths Boosted To 150
United Press International reports the 1966 West Virginia traffic toll rose to 150 with four earlier fatalities. The latest victim, Charles Brooks, 20, of Follansbee, died in an Ohio hospital from a single car crash at Wellsburg. Other deaths included Donald E. Slayton, 45, of Beckley, in a rain slicked Beckley street collision. Ira Ethel Legg, 71, in Fayette County. Thomas W. Mullens, 52, on WVa 80 in Logan County. and Ralph D. Friel Jr., 8, struck by a car on West Virginia 28 in Pocahontas County.
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United Press International
Brooke County
West Virginia
Charles Brooks
Follansbee
Ohio
Wellsburg
Donald E. Slayton
Beckley
Ira Ethel Leg
Tear Gas Becomes War Tactic in Viet Nam Action
In War Zone D near Saigon, an Army transport dumped 7,200 pounds of tear gas crystals to flush out Viet Cong forces. Troops wearing gas masks moved in as spotter aircraft watched and airstrikes followed. This marks a shift from earlier criticism of gas use and reflects new tactics in the conflict.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Birmingham
National Liberation Front
Q and A from Ring Register style civics column
Public Q A on wildlife rules civil war history ballot access relief jobs shoe care and local development covers licenses shopping center construction and library access. Answers cite state agents Wolf and Imbrogno and note dates April 1 1966 February 1965 and February 1966 as context.
Gemini 9 countdown rehearsal for May 17 flight
Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan practice a long countdown in a critical Gemini 9 hurdle to depart on schedule May 17. General Motors plans short work schedules for eight of 24 plants. Jerry Lewis sues Paramount Studios for 10 million over accounting and contract claims. Brezhnev makes a secret Bucharest flight amid possible talks with Chou En Lai as US NATO aims to unite against De Gaulle policies. An $82,789 grant funds West Virginia University’s air pollution engineering program. FDA Commissioner Goddard rejects federal tests on humans for the drug Krebiozen.
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Thomas Stafford
Eugene Cernan
General Motors
Jerry Lewis
Paramount Studios
Alexei N. Kosygin
Cairo
Middle East
Cleveland
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Buesville
Ohio
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Bucharest
Chou En-Lai
United States
NATO
France
Charles de Gaulle
West Virginia University
James L. Goddard
Food and Drug Administration
COMSAT aims for orderly annual meeting in space era
Washington reports COMSAT plans a smoother annual meeting after last year's chaos when two stockholders were ejected and a third ordered to sit down. Evelyn Y. Davis of New York vowed to attend at 2:30 p.m. EDT with a sign reading I was born to raise hell.
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Evelyn Y. Davis
New York
Hell
Kennedy urges Latin American Marshall Plan to aid reform
Sen Robert F Kennedy proposes a Latin American Marshall Plan using US aid rather than troops to shape revolutions he predicts will come. He cites 15 year-ago Europe aid, with $12 billion for three decades, and notes current Latin American spending around $1 billion including $400 million in development loans and surplus food shipments.
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UPI
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
U.S
Senate
Kennedy
United States
Europe
Congress
Export-Import Bank
Latin America
Smith To Probe Callebs Charge
Gov Hulett Smith pledged to probe charges by Republican Secretary of State candidate John Callebs that State Road Commission workers voted welfare recipients absentee ballots in Lincoln County. Callebs urged a grand jury review, claiming about 200 aid recipients voted, saying the practice harms welfare recipients through political slavery.
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Charleston
UPI
Hulett Smith
John Callebs
Lincoln County
Callebs
West Virginia
State Road Commission
South
Explosion Ripples Wheeling Furniture Store
An early morning blast damaged Reichart Furniture Store marquee urging a Yes vote on a Sunday closing law referendum. Police shifted from dynamite to two chained M-80 firecrackers as the cause. Damages estimated at 2500 dollars. no injuries reported. The store is part of a six store chain with outlets in nearby towns and states.
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Wheeling
UPS
Reichart Furniture
Ray Lucas
Martins Ferry
Ohio
Market Slump Deepens as Auto Cuts Roil Stocks
New York stock prices slide to their lowest levels of the year after General Motors announces a production slowdown and Ford confirms 18 000 fewer cars this month. Investors fear tax increases and inflation as the Dow Jones falls about 16 points the sharpest drop since Kennedy's assassination.
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UPI
Kennedy
General Motors
Ford Motor Co
Detroit
WV counties get 229578 for Head Start program
Six West Virginia counties will receive 229,578 in federal Head Start funds this summer. About 1,255 underprivileged children will participate, with Barbour 130 pupils, Marshall 180, Mason 260, Hardy 150, Hampshire 245, and Preston 300 pupils across the listed counties.
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UPI
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Hardy
Hampshire
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