Farland named Goldwater Cuba task force chair
Joseph S. Farland of Morgan town former U S ambassador to Panama is named chairman of a task force on Cuba and the Western Hemisphere for Senator Barry M Goldwater. Dr Paul Dudley White endorses Johnson saying his election would aid medical science progress. The Soviet Union launched another unmanned space satellite. McNamara warns dozens of nations could have nuclear weapons in 10 to 20 years. Clarence Gray Eagle 92 Sioux Indian and brother in law of Sitting Bull dies at Fort Yates North Carolina. Tokyo experiences a light quake with no damage or injuries.
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Joseph S. Farland
Morgantown
U. S
Panama
Cuba
Western Hemisphere
Barry M. Goldwater
Paul Dudley White
Eisenhower
Johnson
Boston Herald
Soviet Union
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Irving Kupcinet
Clarence Gray Eagle
Sitting Bull
Fort Yates
N. C
Tokyo
Global tour nears end as de Gaulle visits Cordoba
President Charles de Gaulle visits Cordoba Argentina under tight security en route to Asuncion Paraguay, as he nears the close of a 10 nation South American tour. Viet Cong claim peasants used as human shields. Zuckert says TFX first test model due Fort Worth October 15 with year end test flight. Legislature committee on mental institutions in Charleston continues reviews from six state visits. XB70 jet flies second test at Edwards AFB with Al White piloting. Nixon to campaign for Goldwater in California. New Bedford Times endorses Johnson.
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Charles de Gaulle
France
Cordoba
Argentina
Asuncion
Paraguay
South America
Air Force
Equene M. Zuckert
Fort Worth
Tex
Charleston
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
al White
Richard M. Nixon
California
Barry M. Goldwater
New Bedford
Mass
Times Today
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sanford Sees Barry Desperate in Rally Shot
Governor Terry Sanford predicted an overwhelming Democratic ticket victory in November at a Parkerburg rally. He accused Barry Goldwater of resorting to the Joe McCarthy line that Democrats are soft on communism and said Goldwater is getting desperate as the campaign nears its end.
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Parkersburg
W Va
UPI
Terry Sanford
Barry Goldwater
Joe McCarthy
Sanford
Goldwater
Weather Forecast For Beckley Area
Beckley and vicinity expected partly cloudy and cool this afternoon with a high near 50. Tonight will be cloudy and cold with frost. low around 27. Wednesday mainly sunny and slightly warmer with a high in the upper 50s. Last 24 hours shows 48 at 3 pm and 27 at 6:30 am. River Greenbrier normal and muddy. Lake normal, clear with four gates open. Hinton gauge at 2.9 ft. Sunrise 6:25, Sunset 6:00.
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Beckley
Feogeen Kadsdansaaks
Cccccvenssesdass
Sever Ries
Greenbrier
Hinton
Fate Of Civil Rights Law Rests With Supreme Court
The 1964 civil rights act’s key provision on public accommodations faced its first Supreme Court test. Arguments questioned Congress power to regulate interstate commerce. Cases from Atlanta motel and Birmingham restaurant prompt briefing delays. ruling anticipated after two Mondays before the November elections.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Atlanta
Birmingham
High Court
Vision
Archibald Cox
Robert McD. Smith
Ollie
Moreton Rolleston Jr
Tshombe Placed Under Virtual House Arrest In Cairo
Congo Premier Moise Tshombe arrived in Cairo defying orders to stay out and was escorted to a guest palace. Egyptian officials admitted him to attend a non aligned conference, though guards barred entry and exits amid tensions over his presence.
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Cairo
U.A.R
UPI
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Heliopolis
Soviet search of four attaches sparks protest in Tokyo
Soviet Foreign Ministry says U S and British attaches spied on the Trans Siberian trip and in Khabarovsk Hotel raid. It warns of persona non grata expulsion while four officers Aubrey Liewer Smith and Saville face search seizure of cameras film and a transistor radio.
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Henry Shapiro
Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
U.S
Siberian
Jhabarovsk
Tokyo
George A. Aubrey
Annapolis, Md
Karl R. Liewer
Osmond, Neb
James F. Smith
Meers
Okla
Cmdr. Saville
Khabarovsk
Tass Today
Moscow Foreign Ministry
U. S
Hong Kong
State Department
Washington
Tot Feared Kidnaped In Texas Case
FBI enters search for 22 month old Ricky Dale Crowder missing after mother left him in a Longview drugstore parking lot Sunday night. Hundreds joined a house to house hunt but no trace found as a blue 1949 1950 model car is noted. Temperatures drop into the 40s.
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Longview
Tex
Dale
Rex Crowder
Ricky
FBI
Tyler
East
Texas
Two Escaped Convicts Caught in West Virginia Hunt
Denzil Adkins aged 31 and Elmer Riddle aged 35, two convicts who fled from Moundsville Penitentiary, were arrested after a 36 hour manhunt in Clay County. They surrendered when armed with a rifle after a confrontation with Trooper R W Bruce. Adkins, serving a life sentence for murder, and Riddle, serving 1 to 15 years for breaking and entering, were taken into custody at Elmer Taylor’s home in Bickmore with help from county deputies and conservation officers. Bloodhounds and radios aided the search as volunteers worked through the night.
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UPI
Clay County
West Virginia
Denzil Adkins
Elmer Riddle
Cpl
R. W. Bruce
Moundsville Penitentiary
Elmer Taylor
Bickmore
Adkins
Riddle
Harrison County
Low records fall in Charleston Huntington WV
West Virginia awoke to unseasonably cold air as a massive high pressure system pushed temps down. Charleston hit 33 and Huntington 28, each setting new state records for Oct 6, with prior lows dating back to 1958 and 1943 respectively. Parkersburg 31, Wheeling 32, Morgantown 29, Martinsburg 31, Beckley 27, and Bluefield 32 also logged overnight lows.
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United Press International
Charleston
Huntington
West Virginia
Parkersburg
Wheeling
Morgantown
Martinsburg
Beckley
Bluefield
Copter Crash in Japan Kills Six U.S. Airmen
A U S Navy helicopter crashed and burned in a forest near Yokohama killing all six American servicemen aboard. A Navy spokesman said the names would be released after family notifications.
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U.S
Yokohama
UPI
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Beckleyan Dies In 1921 Wreck
A Beckley man, Jerry Lee Shelton 23, died early today when his pickup left U S 19 21 at Glen Morgan and plunged into Big Beaver Creek. Autopsy planned. Shelton was driving for City Upholstery Co. and leaves a wife and infant son along with siblings.
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Beckley
U.S. 19
Glen Morgan
West Virginia
Jerry Lee Shelton
Clayton St
Shelton
Hinton
Big Beaver Creek
City Upholstery Co
Ross P. Daniel
Sprague
Thomas K. Shelton
West Hollywood
Fla
Rosa Kate Hancock Shelton
Carol McCoy Shelton
Jerry Lee Shelton Jr
Walter
Nathan
Corinne Hawks
Vicky Lynn Shelton
South
Court Rejects Seven Appeals From Prisons
Seven inmates from Moundsville Penitentiary had petitions for writs of habeas corpus and freedom denied by the West Virginia Supreme Court. The challenges cited issues from lack of counsel at trials to double jeopardy. Convicted individuals include Howard Stover Mason County 1 to 10 year forgery terms Paul L Ballenger Jefferson County robbery Bernard Stevens Logan County rape James L Burkhamer Harrison County life murder Gary L Sorrells Kanawha 1 to 10 unarmed robbery James Williams Harrison 1 to 10 breaking and entering and Jimmy Davis Logan 20 years armed robbery.
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Howard Stover
Mason County
Paul L. Ballenger
Jefferson County
Bernard Stevens
Logan County
James L. Burkhamer
Harrison County
Gary L. Sorrells
Kanawha
James Williams
Harrison
Jimmy Davis
Logan
Reds threaten to cancel Berlin border agreement
East Germany warned it may cancel its border pact with West Berlin after a Communist border guard, Cpl. Egon Schultz, was killed during the tunnel discovery that allowed 57 refugees to escape. Western witnesses denied refugee or West Berlin complicity, suggesting possible misidentification.
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Berlin
UPI
East Germany
West Berlin
Communist Party
Neues Deutschland
Cpl
Egon Schultz
Bluestone Park Barrier Irks Squirrel Hunters
Squirrel hunters protested a road barrier at Bluestone State Park blocking access beyond the fishing docks. Park officials expect removal before October 17 opening day. Local hunters, Lovell Bailey and Arnold Oney, faced a two mile walk to their favored area but respected park rules. Park superintendent Troy Garrell cited camping-area vandalism and a drought linked well drilling as reasons for the temporary closure, with work to be completed before opening day.
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Bluestone State Park
Bluestone
Lovell Bailey
Arnold Oney
Beckley
Troy Garrell
The
Register
Bailey
Oney
Eisenhower: Nuclear Weapons Not A Campaign Issue
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower said the use of nuclear weapons should not be an issue in the presidential campaign. He told a news conference he does not believe the United States benefits from revealing every potential action to a possible enemy.
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New York
UPI
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
U. S
Eisenhower
Courier endorses LBJ in UPI report Pittsburgh Courier
The Pittsburgh Courier, a nationwide Negro weekly, announced Monday its endorsement of President Johnson in a UPI report. The piece highlights the newspaper’s support for his policies and leadership.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Pittsburgh Courier
Johnson
Small Girl Attacked by Neighbor's Dogs in Middleton
In Middleton Massachusetts a 2-year-old girl named Cynthia Mendalka was mauled by three boxer dogs in a front yard. She suffered bites to body head and neck and underwent over five hours of emergency surgery. Her parents said another child in the family was bitten recently and a neighbor drove off the dogs with a broom.
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Patricia
Cynthia
Bids Opened for I-64 and WV-18 Highway Projects
Charleston reporters note that bids totaling 4.1 million dollars were opened by the State Road Commission for two highway improvements. The I 64 project in Greenbrier County covers 2.53 miles from east of Secondary 50 near White Sulphur Springs to the Virginia line including grading paving and draining. The second project involves asphalt paving of 3.536 miles of Alternate West Virginia 18 in Tyler County from West Virginia 18 to Secondary 1.
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Charleston
UPI
State Road Commission
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Virginia
W Va
Tyler County
Iw. Va
Woman Held In Fatal Stabbing In Charleston
Rosetta Dotson, 38, of Charleston faces murder charges in the fatal stabbing of 23 year old John Adkins of Cor ton Kanawha County. She was booked Monday after Adkins died at a local hospital following a tavern stabbing likely with a broken beer bottle. Police said Dotson was arrested shortly after the victim was pronounced dead.
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Charleston
UPT
Rosetta Dotson
John Adkins
Corton
Kanawha County
Adkins
Dotson
Hubert Humphrey's Watch Stolen During Address
In Omaha Nebraska Senator Hubert H Humphrey set a clock on the podium to time his Monday night speech. He left during applause and returned to find his watch missing from the podium prompting a quick investigation.
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Omaha
Neb
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Car Abandoned In State Tied To Va. Murder
Fairfax County police link an Air Force jacket found in a wrecked car near Martinsburg West Virginia to the death of Maryland man Jack R. Smith 38 of Potomac. Smith a retired Navy petty officer disappeared June 25 after his car wreck and a man seen fleeing. A .38 caliber bullet was found under the decomposed body but X rays showed no wound. Smith had left Maryland to drive to Alexandria Virginia to pick up bricks for a patio.
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Fairfax, Va
UPI
Fairfax County
Air Force
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
William L. Currer
Jack R. Smith
Potomac
Smith
Martinsburg
W.va
Navy
Alexandria
Mississippi Crackdown Continues in Desegregation Drive
The crackdown in Mississippi expanded with arrests of eleven suspects in McComb area since last Thursday. Among those charged are Sterling Gillis son of Norman Gillis Sr. and Emergy Allen Lee a former Army demolitions expert now a paint contractor. The charges relate to Negro church burnings and bombings as civil rights efforts increased in the southwest region.
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United Press International
Mississippi
Millinnaire
McComb
Miss
FBI
Sterling
Bubber) Gillis
Norman Gillis Sr
Emergy Allen Lee
Lee
Wife-Killer Dies Of Bullet Wound In Ohio Chase
Ronald C. Knotts 24 of Grafton West Virginia died in a Columbus hospital from a self inflicted gunshot after a high speed pursuit by Ohio Highway Patrol, sheriff, and Columbus police. Knotts was sought in the fatal shooting of his wife Mary Jane 18 whose body was found at her sister’s home.
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Columbus
Ohio
UPI
Ronald C. Knotts
Grafton
W.va
Mary Jane
Knotts
Ohio Highway
State to appeal timber contract ruling in Kanawha case
Charleston UPI reports the state will appeal Judge Frank Taylor's Kanawha Circuit Court ruling on the timber cutting contract. State Natural Resources Director Warden M. Lane said the state Supreme Court would be asked to review the decision.
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Charleston
UPI
Kanawha Circuit Court
Frank Taylor
State Natural Resources
M. Lane
State Supreme Court
Shooting disrupts welcome for de Gaulle in Cordoba
In Cordoba Argentina a shooting erupted in front of the Justice Palace as police tried to control crowds greeting French President Charles de Gaulle. Several people were wounded in the incident.
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Cordoba
Argentina
UPI
Justice Palace
Charles de Gaulle
Vietnamese Troops Fire On Rioters In Two Provinces
The Defense Ministry said government troops fired on armed anti government rioters in two northern provinces, killing eight and wounding 35. The ministry blamed instigation on the Communists.
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Saigon
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