Americans in Congo report Carlson among dead
In Stanleyville Congo rebels killed about 50 white hostages as Belgian paratroops and U S planes conducted a rescue. Dr Paul Carlson a Culver City missionary was identified among the dead amid hotel and Lumumba Square killings. About 350 evacuees were flown to Leopoldville with more expected.
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Washington
API
Stanleyville
Congo
U.S
Paul Carlson
Leopoldville
Carlson
State Department
Lumumba Square
Patrice Lumumba
Belgium
Michael Hoyt
Donald Parkes
Hoyt
The
Moise Tshombe
Congolese National Army
Ateki
U.S. Air Force
Lumumba
Johnson Shriver Plan War On Poverty At LBJ Ranch
Johnson and Sargent Shriver discuss more than 100 anti poverty projects ready to start in 30 states, with grants announced at a 1:30 p.m. news conference. They will also push long range goals and visit San Marcos to arrange a job training center at Camp Gary for 1000 to 2000 youths. The presidents stay at the ranch through Thanksgiving weekend, with a possible follow up with General Taylor early next week.
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Johnson City
Tex
UPI
Sargent Shriver
Johnson
Lbj Ranch
Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
White House
San Marcos
Southwest Texas State College
Southwest
Camp Gary
Johnsons
Maxwell D. Taylor
Three Missing After Apartment Bldg Explosion
An explosion ripped through a three story Kansas City apartment building injuring at least 15. Three people, two children and an elderly man, were missing as the top floors collapsed onto first floor rooms. Police cited a gas leak ignited by a cigarette. Debris and fire crews searched the ruin as a crane aided efforts.
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Kansas City, Mo
UPI
Lawrence Pecard
Russell Brown
Debra
Cameron
Brown
Officials Feared Other Assassinations Planned After Kennedy Shooting
The Warren Commission reports 26 volumes detailing the Dallas tragedy and the alleged lack of a broader conspiracy. It notes Oswald acted alone, while recounting in depth the reactions of leaders like LBJ, RFK, Hoover, and McCone, and the lasting anguish of Jacqueline Kennedy.
Beckley Area Weather Report Cloudy With Showers
Beckley and vicinity expect mostly cloudy skies today and tonight with a high of 57 and a low around 40. Wednesday remains cloudy with a 60 percent chance of showers, highs near mid 50s. Last 24 hours record shows 50 at 4 p.m. and 35 at 3:30 a.m. River Greenbrier normal and clear. Lake level 7 ft below normal with 4 gates open. new gauge at Hinton 2.1.
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Beckley
Hinton
Kennedy widow to attend Los Angeles fund dinner
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy will make her first public appearance after mourning. She will be guest of honor at a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center fund raising dinner in Los Angeles on December 2. President Johnson attended a bull sale at Blanco County Fairgrounds where an LBJ Ranch Hereford sold for 830 dollars. Kremlin leaders postpone an official visit to Bonn for talks with West Germany, sources in London say.
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Jacqueline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Johnson
Blanco County
Tex
Kremlin
Bonn
London
Mercer Woman Dies In U S 460 Collision
Princeton authorities report Mrs Annie B Underwood 68 of Green Valley Mercer County died after a two car crash on U S 460 Monday. The 1964 highway death toll rose to 414, up from 375 a year earlier. She died in a Princeton hospital about nine hours after the wreck. Four others were injured, including a young couple reportedly en route to be married. their condition was listed as good.
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Princeton
UPI
Annie B. Underwood
Green Valley
Mercer County
U.S. 460
Three Wives A Study In Courage
Warren Commission details the reactions of Jackie Kennedy Nellie Connally and Lady Bird Johnson to the JFK assassination in Dallas on November 22 1963. Mrs Kennedy recalls the moment he was shot and her effort to save him, the car ride to Parkland, and her memory of the events as she held the President in her lap. The piece covers their shared helplessness and grief as authorities describe the tragedy.
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Washington
UPI
Jackie Kennedy
Nellie Connally
Lady Bird Johnson
Dallas
Texas
Warren Commission
John F. Kennedy
Parkland Memorial Hospital
LBJ Found It Hard To Believe Aboard Dallas Flight
Washington UPI: In the hours after Kennedy s assassination President Johnson delayed departure from Dallas to ensure Jacqueline Kennedy could board with her husband s body. He recalled the events to the Warren Commission and said he found it hard to believe Kennedy was dead. Kenneth O Donnell informed him at about 1 20 p m that Kennedy had died and urged a return to Washington. Johnson refused to leave Mrs Kennedy until she was ready.
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Dallas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Warren Commissio
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Johnson
Secret Service
Warren Commission
Ken O'Donnell
White House
Kenneth P. O’donnell
O’donnell
John Kennedy
Notre Dame's Huarte Wins 1964 Heisman Trophy
Notre Dame quarterback John Huarte won the Heisman for 1964 in a tight vote. Tulsa’s Jerry Rhome and Illinois’ Dick Butkus were runners up as Notre Dame nears an undefeated season under Ara Parseghian. Huarte to receive the award December 3 at the Downtown Athletic Club.
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New York
UPI
John Huarte
Notre Dame Today
Downtown Athletic Club
Fighting Irish
Jerry Rhome
University of Tulsa
Dick Butkus
Illinois
Huarte
Anaheim
Calif
Southern California
Notre
Paul Hornung
The
Angelo Bertelli
Johnny Lujack
Leon Hart
Johnny Lattner
Hornung
Roger Staubach
Navy
Former Mayor O Dwyer suffers mild heart attack
Former New York Mayor William O Dwyer, later U S ambassador to Mexico, was admitted to Beth Israel Hospital after a mild heart attack in his Manhattan apartment Monday night and was listed in satisfactory condition by a hospital spokesman.
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New York
William O'Dwyer
Beth Israel Hospital
O’dwyer
U. S
Mexico
Mary Markham
Santa Monica
Calif
Lauritz Melchior
Pomona
Farmers Home Administration
Monongalia
West Germany offers 25000 reward for Bormann capture
West Germany posted a 25000 dollar reward for the capture of Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's right hand man, already condemned to death in absentia by the Allied tribunal at Nurnberg. Alexei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son in law, has been named a department head at the magazine Soviet Union. Sen. Jennings Randolph spoke at a Charleston wage seminar sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Labor and the Institute of Labor Studies at West Virginia University, praising the minimum wage law as a major 30 year labor advance.
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West Germany
Martin Bormann
Adolf Hitler
Nuernberg
Alexei Adzhubei
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Sen
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Charleston
W. Va. Department of Labor
Institute of Labor Studies
West Virginia University
Randolph
Union Locals Back Abel for International President
Thirty United Steelworkers locals in District 23 covering West Virginia and parts of Ohio and Kentucky support I W Abel for international president. Nearly half of District 19 locals in Pennsylvania back Abel against David J McDonald. Amb. Howard P Jones to retire from diplomatic service. Italian Communist party largest in the West with 26 percent in nationwide local elections. Christian Democrats lead with about 9.5 million votes. Gov Barron honored by WVU for Appalachian Center support. Seven convicts escape Washington State Penitentiary, hostage incident near Portland. Ford and UAW sign three year contract. full production to resume by month end.
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United Steelworkers
West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
I. W. Abel
Pennsylvania
Abel
David J. McDonald
Howard P. Jones
U. S
Indonesia
Italian Communist Party
West
Christian Democrats
W. W. Barron
WVU
Paul A. Miller
West Virginia University
Appalachian Center
Washington State Penitentiary
Portland
Ore
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Union
WVU Growing Faster Than Other Institutions
A UPI report states West Virginia University is expanding more quickly than 24 other state and land grant schools. WVU reports overall enrollment rose 15.7 percent from 1963, outpacing the 14.6 percent increase at peer institutions.
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Morgantown
UPI
Joint Office of Institutional Research
West Virginia University
WVU
West Virginia
To Decide Burch Fate in GOP Meeting
The Republican National Committee will meet January 22 23 in Chicago to discuss the future of GOP Chairman Dean Burch. Burch has conceded his status would be discussed at the session.
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Washington
UPI
Republican National Committee
Chicago
GOP
Dean Burch
Burch
French Quintuplets Struggle For Life
Five newborns in Paris fight for survival in a modern child care center funded with American aid. The quintuplets include three boys and two girls born to Monique Sambor, a 27 year old postman's wife. The family faced a tense birth as the infants arrived nine weeks early. Catherine the smallest weighed two pounds 2% ounces and was listed as weak at birth while the others weighed up to two pounds 12 ounces.
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Paris
UPI
Monique Sambor
Catherine
Man Found Dead in Car Near Richmond Kentucky
A man tentatively identified as Dyer Richard Herold, 23, of Summersville West Virginia, was found dead Monday morning in a car on U S 227 about 15 miles northeast of Richmond. The ignition was on, doors locked, engine not running, and cause of death was undetermined. Papers on the body included a Berea College registration card. Berea officials confirmed a man named Herold graduated last year.
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Richmond, Ky
UPI
Dyer Richard Herold
Summersville
W.va
U.S. 227
Here
Herold
Berea College
Berea
Johnson takes full responsibility for Congo air drop rescue
The White House said President Johnson accepts full responsibility for U S participation in the Belgian American air drop aimed at rescuing white hostages from Congo rebel forces.
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Johnson City
Tex
UPI
Johnson
U. S
Congo
White House
Congo Massacre and Hostage Crisis in Stanleyville
Rebels killed and hundreds of hostages evacuated as Belgian paratroopers raced to save whites in Lumumba Square Stanleyville. Amid the chaos Congo President Tshombe declared the city temporarily recaptured while U.S. officials reported most Americans in the area were safe.
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Lumumba
Stanleyville
Paul-Henri Spaak
Keating warns GOP doomed without ousting Ultras
Sen. Kenneth B. Keating says the Republican Party will fail in 1968 if ultra-conservatives retain control. He urges a broad coalition to win, faults Goldwater's ally Dean Burch, and predicts defections or a possible third party if the hard line remains. He notes Johnson’s strong coattails in New York and calls for a centrist tilt.
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Washington
UPI
Kenneth B. Keating
Barry M
Johnson
Goldwater
Keating
Dean Burch
Burch
Testimony in Gambling Case Continues in Federal Court
In Federal Court, James R. Hawthorne faces gambling law charges and using Western Union to move slot proceeds across state lines. Key witness John Poteet testified he delivered bottled gas to the Clover Club site and Hawthorne signed the bill. Boone of First National Bank of Ronceverte linked Hawthorne to an account titled the 19th Hole Supper Club.
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James R. Hawthorne
Western Union
John Poteet
White Sulphur Springs
Poteet
Hawthorne
Clover Club
19Th Hole
W. A. Boone
First National Bank of
Boone
Ronceverte Bank
Perdue
York
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