Two Reporters Beaten by Watts Gang After March
In Watts Los Angeles two Newsweek reporters Karl Fleming and David Moberg were assaulted by about 20 Negro youths during looting after an orderly march of 500 Negroes to a police station. Fleming suffered a fractured jaw and possible concussion while Moberg escaped with minor injuries. Police described the area quiet by dawn.
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Los Angeles
News
Watts
Karl Fleming
Newsweek
David Moberg
Fleming
Oak Park Hospital
Daniel Freeman Hospital
Inglewood
Gem
South
San Pedro St
Moberg
77Th Street Division
CBS Reports on LSD Therapy Shown by Kuralt
CBS Reports aired a documentary on LSD therapy at Spring Grove State Hospital focusing on two patients a 49 year old grandmother and a 33 year old father of three. The program treated LSD as a psychoanalytic tool showing careful experiments and six month follow ups with cautious optimistic notes.
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Spring Grove State Hospital
CBS Report
Charles Kuralt
Kuralt
Senate
Flood Control Talks Planned for Pa West Va Border
State officials plan talks with Pennsylvania on the Wheeling Creek Flood Control Compact, proposing 12 dams in the northern panhandle and adjacent Pennsylvania counties. A meeting date is to be set before the June 12 interim committee, with Ohio County covering most costs and completion possible by 1972 if approved.
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Charleston
UPI
Pennsylvania
Panhandle
Commission On Interstate Cooperation
Chester Hubbard
Wheeling Creek
Marshall
Ohio
Greene
Washington
Hubbard
Commission
Charles McElwee
Ohio County
Washington County
Marshall County
W. Va
Greene County
Gemini to Apollo timing hinges on ATDA launch
After launching the Augmented Target Docking Adapter on Gemini 9, NASA will have exhausted standby targets. If Agena satellites are lost, Gemini could slip into 1967 and delay early Apollo earth orbit missions. Geminis 10 through 12 must increase work load to meet goals.
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ATDA
Space Agency
Agena
Russians Propose Conference to End German Divisions
In Moscow the Soviet Union urged a Europe-wide conference excluding the United States to settle the divided Germany issue. It called for dissolving both the Warsaw Pact and the Atlantic Alliance, hinted at West German UN membership, and proposed a central European nuclear free zone with a treaty to halt nuclear spread and ban use against nonnuclear nations. East Germany would gain UN access, tied to broader Western acceptance of a divided Germany.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
European Nations
United States
Germany
Warsaw Pact
Atlantic Alliance
West Germany
United Nations
U.N
East Germany
East
Groundwork For Tax Study Laid
West Virginia lawmakers advanced plans for a long-range tax structure study with a $2,500 grant to WVU and Purdue University experts led by Dr. James Papke to deliver recommendations by November for the 1967 legislature. The panel also debated debt consolidation and out of state loan regulation as June meetings loom.
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Charleston
UPS
West Virginia
West Virginia University
James Papke
Purdue University
del. J. E
Ned) Watson
Fairmont
WVU
School of Law
Watson
H. Laban White
Clarksburg
Paul A. Miller
Carl Early
Earl Vickers
Second Mortages
Gemini system seeks to correct Atlas booster failure
The review board cites a sudden veer caused by a malfunctioning booster and sustainer engine. Maj. Gen. Ben I Funk orders an immediate detailed technical review of Atlas rockets used as space boosters. Stafford and Cernan climb from the Titan 2 atop the failed Atlas and return to Houston to resume ATDA training.
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Ben I. Funk
Air Force Space Systems Division
Stafford
Air Force
Cernan
Manned Spaceflight Center
Houston
ATDA
Deaths and Funerals in Oak Hill and Beckley
Funeral services for Dorothy Tur, 74, Oak Hill, will be Friday at 1 p.m. at Oak Hill Gospel Tabernacle, with burial at High Law Memorial Park. She died Tuesday at home after a heart attack. Born March 1, 1892 in Kobrin Russia, she was preceded in death by her husband Alex in 1953 and survived by several siblings in Russia. Visitation at Tyree Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Thursday. Also, Irene Boots Nickleson died Tuesday in Roanoke hospital. funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Dorothy Tur
Oak Hill
Oak Hill Gospel Tabernacle
Allen Gallimore
High Law Memorial Park
Kobrin
Russia
Alex
Tyree
Irene
Boots) Nickleson
Beckley
Roanoke, Va
Roanoke
Mary Mills
Funeral services for William McKinley Carter in Princeton
William McKinley Carter 33 of Princeton died Monday night in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness. Services will be held Thursday at 2 p m in the George W Seaver Chapel with Rev Jimmy Jones officiating. Burial in Rest Haven Park Cemetery. Born August 5, 1932 in Princeton he was a son of Everett C and Ester Martin Carter. Surviving are his wife Catherline Bennett Carter two brothers Russell of Princeton and E C Jr of Roanoke Va two half brothers Barnett Meadows Princeton and Fred Meadows Beckley and a half sister Mrs Harry Fields California. Continuous coverage provided by RNS.
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William McKinley Carter
Princeton
George W. Seaver
Jimmy Jones
Resthaven Park
Carter
Bluefield
Everett C
Ester Martin Carter
Athens Road
Catherline Bennett Carter
Russell
E. C. Jr
Roanoke
Barnett Meadows
Fred Meadows
Beckley
Harry Fields
California
Shapp Upset in Pa In Democratic Gubernatorial Primary
Milton J. Shapp, a Philadelphia industrialist who opposed party bosses, scored a historic upset victory in Pennsylvania's Democratic gubernatorial primary. Republican Lt. Gov. Raymond P. Shafer won the GOP nomination sweep, with Walter Alessandroni posthumously named lieutenant governor. Casey, Stassen, Brett, and Murray trailed in the results, as the Republican committee planned a June 18 convention to select Alessandroni's replacement.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Milton J. Shapp
Pennsylvania
Raymond P. Shafer
William W. Scranton
Republican
Walter E. Alssandroni
Robert P. Casey
Scranton
Keystone
Shapp
Casey
Erwin L. Murray
Emporium
Shafer
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
George Brett
Lancaster
Stassen
Brett
GOP
Alessandroni
Blair F. Gunther
U.S
Barry Goldwater
Republican State Committee
WVU President to Speak on Charleston Graduate Center
WVU President Paul A. Miller will address the Legislature's Joint Committee on Government and Finance at the July meeting to discuss a proposed WVU law and public affairs graduate center in Charleston. Miller asked to speak. Frasure presented the letter. a subcommittee motion was withdrawn pending Miller's July 11-12 talk. The WVU Board favors moving the law school and allied schools to Charleston.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia University
Paul A. Miller
Joint Committee On Government and Finance
Miller
Carl M. Frasure
WVUI
Frasure
WVU
WVU Board of Governors
Law School
Allied Schools
Public Service Commission Approves Two Potomac Valley Dams
The Public Service Commission approves Potomac Valley Soil Conservation's plan to build two flood control dams in Mineral County. One dam will be 2.47 miles southeast of Burlington on a Potomac River tributary and the other on Liller Run, a tributary of Patterson's Creek.
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Charleston
Public Service Commission
Potomac Valley Soil Conservation
Mineral County
Potomac River
Burlington
Patterson’s Creek
Actress Carmen Siria Dies By Self Inflicted Gunshot
Montevideo reports that Carmen Siria a Uruguayan National Comedia member killed herself on the empty Solis Theatre stage. A note with the name Maria Chiredjian her real name was found beside her purse. Workmen heard the shot but could not save her.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
UPL
Carmen Siria
National
Comedia
Solis Theatre
Maria Chiredjian
Wiley Walker of Wiley and Gene dies in Oklahoma City hospital
Country singer Wiley Walker of the Wiley and Gene duo died Tuesday night in an Oklahoma City hospital after a lengthy illness, according to UPI. The performer was known for his partnership with Gene and contributions to country music.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Wiley Walker
Wiley and
Gene
Wall Street veteran Walcott Blair dies at 72
New York stock exchange member Walcott Blair, 72, formerly of Chicago, died Tuesday after a brief illness. Blair spent years on the floor and was known for his trading acumen and community involvement. He is survived by relatives and colleagues in the financial sector.
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New York
UPI
Walcott Blair
Chicago
New York Stock Exchange
Funeral set for UCLA horticulture dean emeritus Hodgson
Services will be held Friday for Robert W. Hodgson dean emeritus of UCLA College of Agriculture and a renowned expert on subtropical horticulture.
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West Los Angeles
Calif
UPI
Robert W. Hodgson
College of Agriculture
University of California At Los Angeles
Hazard Mine Search Continues For Missing Men In Ky
Nearly 50 rescuers resumed the search at the Blondell Mine near Hazard for Perry County men Charles Couch and Paul Hatton Jr who disappeared Tuesday afternoon. The mine holds at least 20 rock falls and five entrances are blocked. Authorities, blasting ongoing in the region, fear falls or carbon monoxide may have trapped the men. Rescuers, including state and federal mine inspectors, scouted the maze of tunnels, hoping the missing men remained alive.
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Hazard
Couch and Hatton
Buchannon Mining Co
Jerry Feltner
Perry County
Feltner
Kentucky
Couch
Hatton
Rock Falls
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Harlan County
Convicted Spy Harry Gold Paroled From Prison
Harry Gold, 55, convicted courier in the atom bomb spy ring, was paroled today after 16 years of a 30 year sentence at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg. A key figure in the 1950s spy trials, he testified against Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953. Gold was first arrested in the case, implicated by Dr. Klaus Fuchs for passing atomic secrets. He was sentenced December 9, 1950 for conspiring to transmit national defense information to a foreign government from 1943 to 1947.
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Lewisburg
UPI
Harry Gold
Russia
Gold
Ethel
Julius Rosenberg
Rosenbergs
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs
United States
Senate backs Johnson on nuclear arms curb aid
The Senate voted 84-0 urging President Johnson to press for a new international agreement to halt nuclear weapon spread. Clark said a U.S. guarantee West Germany won’t own weapons could persuade Russia to sign this year. Kennedy urged stronger talks with Communist China.
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Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N. Y
China
House-Senate
Interior Department
House
CIA
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Johnson
Civil Rights Commission
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Explosion at Roberts Chemical Plant Rocks Town
A chemical reactor blew at the Roberts Chemical Co plant in nitro benzene processing, injuring one man and causing minor damage. Elmer Fike, firm president, noted a suspicious vigil and said two workers fled just before the blast. Charles W. Mack of Charlestown was treated for minor cuts. The top of a 500 gallon reactor was hurled about 100 yards and a small fire was quickly put out. Damages estimated at $5,000. The company, a 65‑employee satellite supplier, was conducting a sulfonation process.
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UPI
Elmer Fike
Roberts Chemical Co
Charles W. Mack
Charleston
Fike
State Men Back From Conference On Aging
Dr B C Harrington of Elkins and Harry F Walker of Charleston returned from the National Conference of State Executives on Aging. Harrington heads the state Commission on Aging. They were among more than 300 participants from all states attending workshops and panel discussions.
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Charleston
UPI
B. C. Harrington
Elkins
Harry F. Walker
State Executives On
Harrington
State Commission On Aging
Governor Smith Visits Fairmont for Government to the People
Gov Hulett C Smith arrives in Fairmont with 25 aides for the Government to the People program at Marion County Armory. A high school band welcomes the delegation before a 6 p m news conference and face to face citizen meetings to raise problems and suggestions.
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Fairmont
UPI
Hulett C. Smith
Smith
Suitcase Statehouse
Marion County
Chamber Directors Will Meet Thursday
The Beckley Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce board will convene at noon Thursday at the Beckley Hotel. Executive committee members are scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. Thursday in Chamber offices, per Managing Director Robert Hamilton.
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Beckley - Raleigh County
Start Your Automotive Survival Kit With Seat Belts
A concise tip advises beginning an automotive survival kit with seat belts as a foundational safety item. The guidance emphasizes practical readiness and safety resilience for preparedness scenarios.
SRC Low Bid For 28 Highway Projects Totals 11.2 Million
The State Road Commission announced bids on 28 highway construction and improvement projects totaling 11.2 million dollars. Vecellio and Grogan Inc. of Beckley and Foster and Creighton Co. of Nashville bid 7.7 million for a 5.1 mile I 77 segment with four structures in Wood County. Other joint bids include A Shuttle and Co. with Rock Big Equipment for Marion and Monongalia counties totaling 1.4 million. Major entries cover projects across Berkeley, Braxton, Kanawha, Marion, Marshall, McDowell, Mercer, Monongalia, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Brooke, Calhoun, Fayette, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jackson, Roane, Tyler, and Wirt counties with various miles and road sections bidding.
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Charleston
UPI
State Road Commission
Wood County
Vecellio and Grogan Inc
Beckley and Foster and Creighton Co
Nashville
Raleigh
Marion
Monongalia
A. Shuttle and Co., Inc
Rock Big Equipment Co
Opekiska Lock and Dam
U. S. 19
Berkeley
Rock Cliff Drive
Potomac Construction Co
Marinsburg
Braxton
U.S. 19
Sutton and Muddlety
Meadows Stone and Paving, Inc
Gassaway
Kanawha
Loudendale
Anderson
Black Rock
W. Va
Virginia Line
W. and H. Contracting Co., Inc
Bluefield
Opekiska
General Paving Co
Morgantown
Hartman Run
General Paving
Nicholas
Crupperneck
Ralph Burns Paving, Inc
Hillsboro
Pocahontas
Millpoint
Webster County
Terra Alta Limestone Co
Aurora
Randolph
Chenowith Creek
R. H. Armstrong, Inc
Parsons
Brooke
Meckling Hill Road
Tri- State Asphalt Corp
Wheeling
Calhoun
Grantsville
Russett
State Construction Inc
Huntington
Fayette
W.va
Robson and
Kincaid
State Construction
Grant
Scheer
Mineral County
Carl D. Stickey, Inc
Keyser
Greenbrier
U. S
White Sulphur Springs
Anderson’s
Black Rock, Inc
Hampshire
Augusta
Hardy County
Carl Stickley, Inc
Hancock
Culler Hill Road
Tri-State
Artificial heart advances mark third patient at Methodist Hospital
McCans received a DeBakey artificial heart that carried most pumping work while he showed limited speech and recognized his wife. The operation followed a Senate push for 25 million dollars for more heart pump research and involved a different device from the one used on Marcel De Rudder, who died after a lung collapse days after surgery. The New York surgeon reported another device earlier this year with a fatal outcome 24 hours post op.
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McCans
DeBakey
Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Marcel de Rudder
de Rudder
New York
Methodist Hospital
Buddhists Anticipate Plans After Da Nang Tense Standoff
Buddhist leaders in Da Nang expect a Friday announcement by militant monk Thich Thien Minh on future action. The church has denounced Premier Ky's occupation but issued no call to arms. Monks fear pagoda raids by police and troops recalling the August 1963 attacks.
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Thich Thien Minh
Nguyen Cao Ky
da Nang
Ngo Dinh Diem
Kidnapping Case Sparks Violent Shootout in Pennsylvania Hills
A wide manhunt for Peggy Ann near the Maryland border ends in gunfire when FBI agent Anderson and two tracking dogs are killed during a pursuit at Hollenbaugh’s cabin near Burnt Cabins. The kidnapper, dubbed the mysterious masked mountain man, remains at large as authorities pursue leads in Perry County.
Killer Kidnapper Brings Fear To Shade Gap Area
The Shade Gap community, 150 residents, grows anxious after a chilling kidnapping. FBI agent Terry Anderson, age 42, and two state police with dog handlers confront the suspect on Neelyton Mountain in the Alleghenies. A volley of pumpkin balls kills Anderson, and the suspect is described as an ex convict who spent 13 years in a hospital for the criminally insane.
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Peggy Ann
Hardy
Shade Gap
FBI
Terry Anderson
Tuscarora
Neelyton Mountain
Allegheny Mountain Range
Pennsylvania
Hollenbaugh
Anderson
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Rio
Hampshire County
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Harrison
Reynoldsville
Jackson
Ocaville
Wirt County
Roane
Spencer and
Reedy
Tyler
Sistersville
Middlebourne
Shelly and Sands, Inc
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