Cooper Tycoon of Space Sets 3rd-Long Orbit Record
Cape Canaveral UPI reports L Gordon Cooper nears completion of a 22.9 orbit mission aboard Faith 7. Amid steady go signals and hours of sleep, he logs more than 440,000 miles in space while edging toward Apollo-era milestones. Scientists compare his 25 hour 19 minute flight to Soviet records, highlighting the U S push to reach the moon by 1970.
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Cape Canaveral
UPI
L. Gordon Cooper
Alvin B. Webb JR
America
Pacific
Globe
Cooper
South Indian Ocean
John A
Shorty) Powers
The
Space Agency
Faith 7
United States
U. S
Ghermann S. Titov
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
Cooper in space on Faith 7 sleeps as mission proceeds
Mercury reports John Glenn? No, Gordon Cooper sleeps about seven and a half hours aboard Faith 7 as he drifts over the southern Pacific. Officials note he used only a quarter of the primary oxygen and most fuel remains. Cooper, terse in ground communications, says he slept well and is pleased with the flight.
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Charles Berry
Project Mercury
Cooper
Berry
Earth
Mercury
John A
Shorty) Powers
Zanzibar
Powers
United States’ Project
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Muchea
Orbit Pay Sets Space Flight Compensation
Maj. L. Gordon Cooper will receive 44.88 for a 34 hour orbital flight including space pay. The Air Force details show the astronaut’s monthly pay at 982.93 with 570 base pay 14.50 quarters allowance 47.88 subsistence and 200 flight pay. This equals 31.70 a day or 1.32 an hour.
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Washington
UPI
Maj. L. Gordon Cooper
Air Force
No Evidence Of Brutality Found Local Troopers Cleared By FBI
The FBI cleared two Beckley State Police officers of brutality in the April 12 beating claims by Ashley Hye of Charleston. The Civil Rights Division said no federal violation was found and the file was closed. State Police also found no mistreatment after a WV Department of Public Safety investigation.
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Charleston
Atkinson
Civil Rights Division
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C
Brown Hugo Payne
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Ashley Hye
West Virginia
Weather Report Beckley Area Forecast Tonight And Friday
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Friday. Tonight low 54 to 58 degrees, Friday becomes a bit warmer with more scattered showers. Temperatures show high 24 hr for the period ending 12:30 p.m. at 64, low around 46 to 58, West wind near 9 mph. Oak Hill highs yesterday reached 73 with 45 low, river Greenbrier normal and clear, Lake normal and clear with two gates open. New gauge at Hinton reads 2.2 ft.
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Beckley
Tod
Oak Hill
Hinton
Birmingham Quiet New Demonstration Staged In Carolina
United Press International reports another large protest against segregation in North Carolina with 1500 college students marching in Greensboro. In Birmingham a business group urged acceptance of a desegregation agreement, while Mayor Hanes rebuked it. Rioting in Nashville and Raleigh continued debates as police arrested demonstrators. Officials in Birmingham and Raleigh pursued talks with Negro leaders to ease tensions amid denials by Gov. George Wallace and a Kennedy federal troop deployment.
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United Press International
North Carolina
Birmingham
Ala
Art Hanes
Nashville
Tenn
Raleigh
N. C
Greensboro
NLRB Finds Local Bottling Co Unfair Labor Practices
NLRB examiner Eugene F. Fry finds Pepsi Cola Bottling Co of Beckley engaged in unfair labor practices against the Teamsters Union. The Beckley plant faced coercive threats, firing, and a failed union vote after a year of dispute. Fry recommends set aside the August 31 election, hold a new election, and require the company to resume operations and recognize the union for collective bargaining.
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Beckley, Inc
National Labor Relations Board
Teamsters Union
Eugene F. Fry
Washington, D. C
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Comany
Enac
NLRB
Fry
Beckley
Vice Ponssent HP. Hunnicutt
Teamsters
Presbyterians Debate Controversial Report
In Des Moines Iowa the 175th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church opens with a heated debate over a report opposing school prayer laws Sunday closing laws birth control programs and public funding for parochial schools. The assembly will consider church state relations and tax exemptions for religious groups and ministers. A moderator election ends the weeklong meeting with six candidates including five pastors and Mrs J Morton Douglas of Weirsdale Florida the first woman nominated for the post.
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Iowa
UPI
General Assembly
United Presbyterian Church of the
U.S.A
United States
Marshall L. Scott
J. Morton Douglas
Weirsdale
Fla
Florida
Three Arrested In Huge Capital Policy Operation
Three Charleston area men face charges in what Kanawha County Prosecutor Charles Walker calls one of the state’s largest numbers operations. Howard R. Board, William Patrick, and Allen Dempsey were held on possession of numbers slips with bonds set at 10 000 and 5 000 respectively. The trio’s arrests, by four state troopers, followed seizures of numbers slips gambling records and cash. Walker estimated the operation yielded 20 000 to 25 000 weekly from stock market style numbers with players have a near 1000 to 1 chance to win. Also on Wednesday Charleston police seized about 100 dollars worth of morphine from Mrs. Margaret Crouch who is held on narcotics possession pending a court order after failing to answer a narcotics indictment.
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Charleston
UPI
Kanawha County
Charles Walker
Howard R
Moe) Board
William Patrick
Allen Dempsey
Walker
Margaret Crouch
Crouch
Kanawha
Bonn Approves French German Friendship Pact
Bonn reports that West Germany's Bundestag gave overwhelming approval to the Jan Paris pact between Chancellor Adenauer and French President de Gaulle. The vote showed broad support from all three parties after a dispute over NATO duties was resolved by a foreign affairs committee preamble.
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Germany
UPI
Konrad Adenauer
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
Bundestage
West Germany
NATO
Foreign Affairs
Future WVU Expansion On New Campus
West Virginia University plans most future growth on the Evansdale Medical Center campuses. Immediate projects include a Forestry Center and a dormitory for 700 to 1,000 students on Evansdale, with completion anticipated by fall 1965. A student center is also under advance planning as the last central campus structure.
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Morgantown
UPI
West Virginia University
Evansdale Medical Center
Paul A. Miller
Evansdale
Cel
Lake Levy Recount Request Possible
Strong indications point to a possible recount of votes from Saturday's Lake levy election. A boxed two column ad in recent papers named J. O. Harvey as contact for a recount, while Harvey denied knowledge and hung up when asked about funding. The $400,000 levy, approved 60.37 percent, would pair with a $1,200,000 federal grant.
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Stepphen
Lake Levy
Register
Post-Herald
J. O. Harvey
103
Fifth Street
Harvey
Peril Of Pesticides Cited Steps Ordered
Washington reports President Kennedy ordered immediate government action after a 46 page Science Advisory Committee study on pesticide health risks. The panel says contamination is evident, urges ongoing use with caution, more research on exposure through food water and air, and calls for comprehensive studies by HEW and potential legislation.
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Washington
UPS
Kennedy
Science Advisory Committee
Congress
Senate
Jerome Weisner
Miss Carson
AFL-CIO urges quick $10 billion tax cut in push for jobs
The AFL-CIO Executive Council backed an immediate $10 billion tax cut for lower and middle income families and urged Congress to raise federal spending. It said tax relief would lift family incomes and spur spending, while any cut should not reduce overall federal outlays. The resolution stressed focus on creating jobs and ensuring benefits reach lower income taxpayers.
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ST. Louis, Mo
UPI
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Congress
Economic Policy Committee
the Council
Council
Afl-Cio
Ex-Williamson Doctor's Wife Dies In New York Fire
In Hornell New York Mrs Bethel I Rabin 45 wife of Dr A Rabin formerly practiced in Delbarton West Virginia was overcome by smoke in a Tuesday night house fire Authorities identified the victim as Mrs Rabin her family remains in Williamson West Virginia.
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Williamson
N.Y
Hornell
N. Y
UPI
Williamson, W. Va
Bethel I. Rabin
A. Rabin
Delbarton
W. Va
Weather woes hit Sherwood Glutz's Beckley garden
Sherwood Glutz reports to the weather men in Beckley that dry conditions threaten his corn and garden, joking about a dust cloud yesterday as he tried to plant and noting his fields may blow toward Summers County if rain does not come soon.
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Beckley
Summers
Appalachian Task Force Maps Program For West Virginia
West Virginia moves to join a federal state plan to spur Appalachian economic development. Paul Crabtree, Gov. Barron’s representative, will lead meetings with state departments as Under Secretary Roosevelt visits for review. A West Virginia University Appalachian Institute and Center for Appalachian Studies are planned to bolster research and development.
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John T. Kady
Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Appalachian
Paul Crabtree
W. W. Barron
Washington
State Department
Crabtree
Statehouse
Commerce
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Roosevelt
Kennedy
Gover
Soviet Scientist Spy Penkovsky Executed in Moscow
Soviet Tass reports Oleg Penkovsky a Russian scientist and spy was shot by firing squad in Moscow after a death sentence and failed appeal. He was convicted last week with British businessman Greville Wynne, who received eight years of loss of liberty.
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Oleg Penkovsky
Tass
Penkovsky
Greville Wynne
Wynne
Supreme Soviet
National Debt Limit Increased To 309 Billion
Washington Kennedy boasted of an undefeated 1963 record as Democrats pushed through a debt ceiling raise over Republican opposition. The measure would lift the ceiling from 305 to 309 billion through July and August, with a potential future rise to about 320 billion due to deficit spending and tax cuts sought by the president.
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UPI
Kennedy
House
Treasury
Senate
Congress
Dyer Warns Against Teen-Agers Smoking
Health Director N H Dyer warned that teenage smoking leads to addiction linked to lung and upper respiratory cancer and other diseases. He urged schools and parents to call attention to the health hazard and teach by example while noting many parents cannot abandon the habit.
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UPI
N. H. Dyer
Dyer
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