China Conducts Second Nuclear Test Marked by Atmospheric Explosion
China announced its second nuclear test with an atmospheric blast that will release radioactive fallout over China and nearby nations. Peking Radio defended the test as a necessary measure to counter US pressure, while Western experts assess it as a sign of growing atomic sophistication. President Johnson labeled the first test crude, and analysts foresee years before China builds a weapon stockpile.
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China
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Peking
Peking Radio
King
Johnson
Marching With Col Caamano In Santo Domingo
In Santo Domingo rebel holder Col Francisco Caamano Deno and aide visit wounded rebels in a Catholic hospital as armed crowds protest the U S withdrawal. UPI reporters accompany Caamano through a rebel tight zone and observe the street scene and public recognition.
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Jack V. Fox
Santo Domingo
UPI
Martin McReynolds
Hugo Wessels
Lionel Silfa
Col
Francisco Caamano Deno
Hector Aristy
Caamano
Elmet
More Twisters Forecast Today For Southwest
United Press International reports tornadoes forecast for Dallas Fort Worth Texas and central Kansas after western Texas and western Oklahoma saw multiple twisters. A Wichita event damaged a mobile home park a school and several homes during heavy rain injuring at least seven people with no fatalities noted.
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United Press International
Dallas
Fort Worth
Tex
Kansas
Wichita
Weather Bureau
Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska Panhandle
Beckley Area Weather Today and Weekend Outlook
Sunny and warm this afternoon with a high around 77 degrees. Tonight will be fair and not as cool, with a low near 48. Saturday brings increasing cloudiness and a 60 percent chance of showers in the afternoon or evening, high in the upper 70s. River conditions show Greenbrier normal and muddy, Lake normal and cloudy, gate 3.5 open. gauge at Hinton reads 2.9 feet. Big highs and lows reported elsewhere show Presidio, Texas at 99 and Watertown, New York at 27. Five day forecast calls for 2 to 7 degrees above normal highs and lows, showers Saturday and Tuesday/Wednesday, totaling about one-half to one inch.
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Beckley
Dy Lake
Hinton
Presidio
Tex
Watertown
N.Y
West Virginia
Strafing Attack Dims Hopes For DR Settlement
In Santo Domingo a government air strike silenced rebel radio, dimming hopes for a Dominican crisis settlement. U.S. positions near the embassy were strafed by five P51 fighters, wounding three locals and prompting UPI journalist Kenny to seek treatment after a nearby jeep collision. Two U.S. security agents were earlier killed, raising U.S. casualties to 20.
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Santo Domingo
UPS
U.S
State Department
UPI
Matthew T. Kenny
U.S. Marine Medical Station
Antonio Imbert Barrera
U. S
W. Tapley Bennett
San Isidro
Elias Wessin Y Wessin
Queen Dedicates Kennedy Shrine at Runnymeade
Queen Elizabeth II opened a Kennedy memorial at Runnymeade England the birthplace of Western freedom. Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy sat with the Queen as the seven ton Portland stone monument was unveiled bearing the credo of liberty. Thousands attended including British dignitaries and Americans.
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Jacqueline Kennedy
John Jr
Caroline
England
Kennedy
Queen Elizabeth
Runnymede
UPS
Elizabeth II
John F. Kennedy
Acre
Thames
Surrey
London
The
United States
Britain
Eyewitness Account Of Strafing In Santo Domingo
A UPI report from Santo Domingo describes a dozen Americans in a jeep and bus caught in government plane strafing. Marines and other U.S. personnel sought cover near the embassy and hotel Embajador as bullets sprayed walls and ground fire echoed along the corridor.
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Reginald Brunson
Carver Ct
Coatesville
San Isidro Airbase
International Refuge Zone
Embassy District
James J. Mullen
West New York
N.J
Richard J. Stack
Kankakee
Embajador
Santo Domingo
Checkpoint Charlie
U.S
Brunson
Kenny
Pfc
Louis Esposito
Brooklyn
N.Y
Sgt
Roy Wyatt
West Jefferson
N.C
Pvt
Irvin Slifer
Roger’s Ford, Pa
RCA Communications
Wallace veto fuels push to curb anti poverty vetoes
House Education and Labor Committee approved an anti veto amendment credited to Alabama Governor George Wallace for triggering the move. The measure would end governors veto power over most community action programs and neighborhood youth corps projects while preserving oversight over VISTA volunteers and job corps camps within states.
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Washington
UPI
House
Alabama
George C. Wallace
George Wallace
Education and Labor Committee
Birmingham
Wallace
Texas
John Connally
Anti-Poverty Agency
VISTA
Man Killed In Fall From Auto
Warner E. Griffith, 36, of Hagans, was fatally injured Thursday night after falling from the rear tailgate of a station wagon being driven by his wife Ruby. Griffith was holding onto a small tractor dragged behind the car when the tractor hit a road bump and jerked him off, striking his head on the pavement. He died at a Fairmont hospital. Griffith was a postal clerk at Rivesville.
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Morgantown
UPI
Warner E. Griffith
Hagans
Griffith
Ruby
Fairmont
Rivesville
Accidents Kill 2 Miners in West Virginia
WELCH UPI report details a roof fall at Allen Creek Coal Co. No 1 mine in Bartly McDowell County that fatally injured 37 year old Walford East of War. He leaves a wife and two sons. Morgantown UPI reports Harold G. Smith in his 50s died at Christopher Coal Arkwright Mine No. 1 Laurel Point when he jumped from a mine locomotive as it collided with another. Smith resided in Uffington.
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Smith
Uffington
Rent housing for Honey in the Rock cast members
Call 253-8314 for rooms or homes for Honey in the Rock cast members and not 253-8318 as listed in ae edition of The Register.
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Honey In the Rock
Ranger Victory Over Viet Cong Battalions in Mekong Delta
In one day government forces killed 215 Viet Cong and captured 53 in a Mekong Delta assault 107 miles south of Saigon. Four Americans wounded, one Marine dead. Viet Cong losses included 18 dead and 17 wounded among South Vietnamese casualties. Chinese and Soviet made arms were seized.
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VPS
Mekong River
U.S
da Nang
Joseph W. House
Birmingham
Ala
21St Infantry
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Communist
China
Soviet Union
Mekong Delta
Verrazano Narrows Bridge jumper in peril near harbor
A 21 year old Frederick Korn perched on a narrow bridge beam for 90 minutes threatening to jump into New York Harbor. Police dragged him to safety after his father urged him to reconsider. If he had jumped he would have been the bridge’s first self inflicted death. The Verrazano Narrows opened last November linking Brooklyn and Staten Island.
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New York Harbor
Frederick Korn
Brooklyn
Staten Island
Commerce
John T. Connor
U. S
West Virginia
West Virginia Proposes First Spring Turkey Hunt
Charleston reports the state will sponsor its first spring turkey hunt in May next year. Only male turkeys may be killed during the spring shoot, with a one-turkey limit per hunter. The fall season remains open to either sex.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Natural Resources Department
Mass Arrests in Demopolis Highlight Civil Rights Tensions
Police in Demopolis Alabama arrested 48 demonstrators at a Negro church and a school on charges including disorderly conduct and disobeying officers. The arrests bring the total detained since civil rights activities resumed after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech to 128.
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United Press International
Demopolis
Ala
West Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr
Alabama
Houston
Tex
Negro and White Churches Merge in Clarksburg WV
Broad Oaks Methodist Church with a white 550 member congregation and Trinity Methodist with 88 Negro members completed plans for a merger effective June 1. The merged church will keep the Broad Oaks name, with worship starting June 6. Trinity’s property and leadership roles will join Broad Oaks in an integrated West Virginia Conference initiative.
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Clarksburg
UPI
Broad Oaks Methodist Church
Trinity Methodist
West Virginia Methodist Conference
Montgomery
Buckhannon
Broad Oaks Church
Trinity
Broad Oaks
Washington
West Virginia
Nationally Known Woodcarver Dies
Charlie Joe Permelia a noted woodcarver who gained national recognition for his works died of an apparent heart attack in his car near Lester. He was 51 and survived by his wife Francis Lannutti Permelia four brothers two sisters three sons a stepson and two daughters. The body is at Williams Funeral Home in MacArthur with entombment planned at Sunset Memorial Park. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Charlie Joe Permelia
Lester
Permelia
John Henry
Wise County
Paul
Mattie Dotson Permelia
Tolleytown
U. S. Navy
Francis Lannutti Permelia
Paul, Jr
Crab Orchard
John
Charleston
Ernest
Baltimore
Elliott
Elyria
Ohio
Pauline Britt
Tucson
Ariz
Hattie Elmore
Beckey
Darian Permelia
U. S. Army
Fort Ord
Calif
Don Permelia
U.S
Air Force
Altus
Oklo
Swarfus Permelia
Germany
Charles Lannutti
Darleen
Sharlie
Williams Funeral Home
MacArthur
Sunset Memorial Park
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Richard J. Murphy
Winston Churchill
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John W. MacCormack
Park Avenue
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
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