First Lady opens White House conference beauty drive
Mrs Lyndon B Johnson opened a White House conference on natural beauty urging Americans to wipe out ugliness and create a more beautiful America. She warned civic ugliness harms mood and urged sound economical programs to beautify the nation. Conference leaders called for research coordination funding and continued meetings to rebuild the country over the next 40 years.
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Washington
UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
America
Johnson
OAS Peacekeeping Force Takes Over Dominican Crisis
An inter American peacekeeping force led by Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim assumed control to end the Dominican crisis. U.S. Lt General Bruce Palmer Jr. named deputy commander as ceasefire took hold. Imbert Barreras urged surrender while mediators push for political resolution. Contingents from Brazil Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras and Guatemala participate alongside U.S. Marines and paratroops.
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Antonio Imbert Barreras
George Bundy
Cyrus W. Vance
Johnson
Imbert
Francisco Caamano Deno
Old City
OAS
U.S
Brazil
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Honduras
Guatemala
U.S. Army
Merger Hearing Slated Today
Charleston report notes third PSC hearing on Columbia Gas System proposed merger of United Fuel Gas Manufacturers Light and Heat Cumberland and Allegheny Gas into Columbia Gas of West Virginia Inc. Utilities claim major savings, PSC staff estimates administrative savings at 243000 dollars. Officials to cross examine staff and present rebuttal testimony as hearings resume.
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Charleston
UPS
Columbia Gas System
West Virginia
Public Service Commission
Columbia
United Fuel Gas Co
Manufacturers Light and Heat Co
Cumberland and Allegheny Gas Co
Columbia Gas of West Virginia, Inc
PSC
Weather Summary for Beckley and Vicinity
Cloudy and warm with a 40 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms Tuesday. High this afternoon around 80, low tonight about 55, and a mid 80s high tomorrow. Beckley last 24 hours: high 82, low 56. Precipitation trace, NW winds 8 mph. Five day forecast: WV temperatures 2-7 degrees above normal, rain under one-quarter inch with scattered storms through the weekend.
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Beckley
Afernoon
Corecosery
O.M
Greenbrier
Dy Lake
Hinton
Presidio
Tex
Concord
N. H
West Virginia
Nine violent deaths in West Virginia weekend toll rises
Three highway deaths occurred on U S 52 near Huntington and U S 21 near Charleston. A Bluefield house fire killed Jeanette Lucas 70 and Carl Lucas 56. Drownings included Donald Hinkle 10 of Fairmont Gerald Leadman 23 of Hurricane Harry Alley 18 of Dixie and Ricky Jones 3 of Branchland. The toll for 1965 reached 152.
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West Virginia
Bluefield
U.S. 52
Huntington
John L. Reynolds
Wayne Rt. 1
Albert Cornwell
Lavalatio
Donald Ray Hinkle
Fairmont
Tygart Valley
Gerald A. Leadman
Coal River
St. Albans
Harry Alley
Dixie
Nicholas County
Gauley River
Gauley Bridge
Ricky A. Jones
Frank Jones
Branchland
Lincoln County
Guyandotte River
Jeanette Lucas
Carl Lucas
Upstate State Fall Kills Two
Federal and state mine officials inspected the Badger Coal Co. mine near here after a Sunday fall that killed Curtis Mitchell and William Huffman. The eight man crew entered to move a belt-loading machine when a roof section collapsed. six others escaped injury. The bodies were recovered about two hours later. The mine, about 2,100 feet inside the hillside, employs about 130 workers and is located two miles north of here.
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Philipps
UPS
Badger Coal Co
Curtis Mitchell
Arden
William Huffman
Audra
Mitchell
Huffman
Hillside
Here
Bombs Disrupt Montreal Empire Day Holiday
A bomb ripped through the Prudential Assurance Co. building in downtown Montreal as Empire Day, a Canada holiday, began. Police say separatists staged multiple threats and bombs were found at a army barracks and a federal post office while a ticking clock triggered no detonation. No injuries were reported.
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Montreal
UPI
Queen Victoria
All Canada
Prudential Assurance Co
Federal Post Office
Man Dies From Smoke Inhalation In Apartment Fire
Earl Darrah, 56, was found dead from smoke inhalation in his Moundsville apartment today after a fire traced to a faulty heating stove. Coroner D. R. Morris noted burns on a hand, arm, and face but ruled smoke inhalation as the cause. Darrah was alone. the apartment sustained limited damage.
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Moundsville
UPI
Earl Darrah
Darrah
D. R. Morris
Viet Cong ambushes kill Americans and many Vietnamese
Weekend clashes left four U.S. servicemen dead and about 100 South Vietnamese casualties, with 91 Americans reported dead or missing and 49 wounded. A major ambush 150 miles southwest of Saigon targeted a 200-strong South Vietnamese battalion with U.S. advisers. Air raids on North Vietnam continued, including carrier Midway strikes near Hanoi.
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Saigon
U.S
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Midway
Supreme Court voids 1962 anti Communist mail law
The Supreme Court ruled the 1962 law restricting foreign mailings of Communist propaganda unconstitutional as a First Amendment abridgment. Justice Douglas led the ruling, with Brennan Goldberg and Harlan concurring. The cases from New York and San Francisco involved Corliss Lamont and Leif Heilberg.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
U. S
William O. Douglas
Byron R. White
William J. Brennan Jr
Arthur J. Goldberg
John M. Harlan
Douglas
New York
San Francisco
Corliss Lamont
Basic Pamphlets
High Court
Justice Department
Leif Heilberg
Bureau of Customs
Dressee
Lamont
Peking
British Expert Claims U S Has Lost Viet War
London based counter-insurgency expert R K Thompson, head of the British advisory mission to South Viet Nam, told the Evening Standard that the Viet Cong have defeated the Americans in the guerrilla phase and may win total victory within a year unless the war becomes a long haul. He warned the United States must stay resolute to shift the tide and that a final decision could take up to five years.
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London
UPI
London Evening Standard
R. K. Thompson
South Viet Nam
U.S
United States
Feint to frighten U S Chinese border buildup noted
Nationalist Chinese intelligence officers say Communist forces have moved military equipment toward the Vietnam border in two weeks. They frame it as a feint to deter U.S. plans to widen the war, not as imminent intervention. Reports cite U 2 flights and rail disruptions near Canton.
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Taipei
Formosa
UPI
Viet Nam
Peking
United States
London
The
Sunday Express
China
Hong Kong
Geoffrey Thursby
Canton
Hainan Island
Gulf of Tonkin
Spectacular Saturn-1 Blastoff Set Tonight
Cape Kennedy countdown begins for a 3 30 a m EDT launch of a Saturn-1 booster carrying Pegasus the winged meteoroid detection satellite officials expect a dramatic night time display drawing crowds to beaches and shoreline areas for this eight straight victory booster mission
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
Cape
Free World
Pegasus
Shroves
Earl Webb Dies In Tennessee
Earl Webb, former major league baseball star who set the 1931 single season doubles record with 67 for the Boston Red Sox, died of a heart attack in Jamestown Tennessee. He was 67, raised near Pond Creek Kentucky and Williamson West Virginia area, and had worked as a mine foreman in Kopperston following retirement. Webb played for and managed Kopperston teams in the Raleigh County Baseball League before it dissolved in the mid 1950s.
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Kopperston
UPI
Jamestown
Tenn
Earl Webb
Webb
Boston Red Sox
Pond Creek
Williamson
W. Va
Mingo
Wyoming County
Raleigh County
Right To Work Law Repeal Plugged In Congress
Labor Secretary Wirtz urged repealing the Taft Hartley union shop provision arguing it denies the right to decide by returning the issue to private bargaining. He testified to a House subcommittee stressing the need to end federal baron to settle the long running right to work debate. The hearing drew major lobbying opposition from strong Capitol groups.
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Washington
UPI
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
House Education and Labor
Strikes Losing Edge in Automated Industries Says Mediator
William E. Simkin, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, warns that strikes are losing influence as automated production expands. He notes a trend toward unrest at the local union level and cites the UAW 1964 contract rejection as an example of rank and file revolt.
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Washington
UPI
William E. Simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Simkin
Congress
United Auto Workers
UAW
Secret Police Officials Implicated in French Subversive Network
Paris authorities announced 12 arrests in a western France based subversive ring tied to jailed OAS members and two fugitive OAS leaders. Police seized pistols and propaganda materials. the operation followed De Gaulle’s provincial tour amid repeated assassination attempts. Notable detainees include Jean Bigorre, 46, head commissioner of the counter espionage service for western France, and his deputy Pierre Castellane, 52.
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Paris
UPI
Secret Police
France
Charles de Gaulle
Secret Army Organization
OAS
Gitive Oas
de Gaulle
Jean Bigorre
Pierre Castellane
Lefevre Resigns After Belgian Election Loss
BRUSSELS UPD Premier Theo Lefevre submitted the resignation of his Catholic Socialist cabinet after parliamentary returns showed the coalition lost the lower house majority. The Liberal party won a record 48 seats, reducing coalition strength to 141 of 212. Spaak warned of a victory for extremists and difficulty in finding moderate solutions.
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Brussels
UPD
Theo Lefevre
Royal
Liberal Party
House of Representatives
Lefevre
Catholic Social Christian Party
Belgium
People’s Union
Communist Party
Socialist
Paul Henri Spaak
Spaak
Austria Elects Jonas President
Franz Jonas the Socialist mayor of Vienna was elected president of Austria for six years. He defeated former Chancellor Alfons Gorbach, Conservative People's Party candidate, by about 63,000 votes. Jonas, 65, is expected to back the Socialist People’s Party coalition.
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Vienna
UPJ
Franz Jonas
Jonas
Alfons Gorbach
People’s Party
Adolph Schaerf
Ministry of the Interior
Gorbach
Jackson County Defeats Third Special School Levy
RIPLEY UPS voters in Jackson County again rejected a special school levy. Unofficial returns show 52 percent in favor, short of the 60 percent required. Officials had hoped for passage on the third try, with more than 2 million dollars in federal matching funds at stake being lost due to failure to pass.
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Ripley
UPS
Jackson County
Army troops clash with strikers in 17 tin mines
In La Paz Bolivia UPI reports army forces moved against striking workers in 17 tin mines after miners seized about 70 soldiers as hostages. The miners threaten civil war against the military junta government.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
UPI
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