Five American Airmen Feared Killed in Viet Cong Attack
Reports from Saigon say Viet Cong guerrillas shot down a U S Army helicopter near Saigon and overran Hau Nghia Province district HQ. Spokesman confirmed three American crew killed and two missing with one Vietnamese observer aboard. A second helicopter avoided attack and returned to safety. A Mohawk aircraft was downed 50 miles south. both American pilot and Vietnamese observer parachuted to safety. Government troops reportedly suffered heavy casualties in Hau Nghia.
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VPI
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Kien Phong
We Are Losing War In Viet Nam Warns Editor
A Philadelphia Bulletin editor Burton A. Chardak reported at the United Press International Editors and Publishers meeting that the United States is losing the war in Viet Nam. He described the war as unwinnable under current conditions and cited Viet Cong control outside major cities as undermining government efforts.
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UPI
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Viet Nam
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Philadelphia Bulletin
United Press International
Chardak
Harry Burnham
St. Paul
Mercury Dips To New Lows Across West Virginia
United Press International reports record cold across Charleston, Huntington, and surrounding towns as Oct 7 lows reach new benchmarks. Flat Top notes 23 degrees, Charleston 30, Huntington 29, with Elkins 24 and Beckley 27, Morgantown 27, Wheeling 32, Martinsburg 30, Parkersburg 35.
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Charleston
Huntington
Elkins
Flat Top
Beckley
Morgantown
Wheeling
Bluefield
Martinsburg
Parkersburg
Weather Cool And Clear Beckley And Vicinity
Beckley area forecast shows mostly sunny and cool conditions this afternoon with a high near 61. Tonight will be fair and not as cold, with a low around 38. Thursday looks fair and windy, with a high in the upper 60s. Last 24 hours temps ranged from 27 to 50. no precipitation reported and NW winds around 8 mph. River and lake levels are normal and clearing, with gates open at the lake and a new gauge at Hinton reading 1.5 ft. Five day forecast expects temperatures about 2 to 7 degrees below normal, with warmer Thursday followed by cooler late in the week and little rain.
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Greenbrier
Hinton
West Virginia
Hulett Says GOP Is Anti Labor
Hulett Smith told a Shinnston audience he supports labor and Labor leaders in West Virginia and says Cecil Underwood and Senator Barry Goldwater lack sympathy for labor. He cites Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative and a 1960 Mercer County speech to argue Republicans are in an untenable position with organized labor.
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Underwood
Mercer County
West Virginia Soldier Killed in South Carolina Crash
Hartzell Perry Davis, 23, of Sutton West Virginia, died when his car left a Kershaw County road and hit a tree during maneuvers near Camden. Davis was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia and was 23.
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S.C
UPI
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Hartzell Perry Davis
Sutton
W.va
Davis
Ft. Benning
South Carolina
Johnson to address voters on television tonight
President Johnson will deliver a half hour campaign address on CBS from 9:30 to 10 p.m. EDT. The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo after a 15,300 mile, seven week journey through 11 countries by land, sea, and air, to be carried into National Stadium on opening day of the Games. State Welfare Commissioner W Bern ard Smith said James P. Dolan has taken over as director of the department's Business Management Division.
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CBS
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W. Bernard Smith
James P. Dolan
Harrison County
Philippine President Macapagal Visits Pittsburgh on U S Tour
President Diosdado Macapagal arrived in Pittsburgh for the second leg of a 12 day U S tour. He planned a tour of Jones and Laughlin steel mill and to receive an honorary Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Pittsburgh. South Vietnams commander in chief Lt General Tran Thiem Khiem fled to Hong Kong en route to West Germany and Britain. East German leader Walter Ulbricht announced an amnesty for about 10000 prisoners including anti Communist activists.
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Pittsburgh
United States
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University of Pittsburgh
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Tran Thiem Khiem
Hong Kong
West Germany
Britain
Walter Ulbricht
Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth Canadian Tour Day Events
Queen Elizabeth continues a Canadian tour with a children's program and royal ball in Charlotte Town. She sails into midnight aboard a yacht with fireworks overhead.
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Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Lady Bird Johnson
North Carolina
Peggy Goldwater
Muncie
Ind
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Leake County
Miss
Highway project bids open in West Virginia
Estimated 14 million dollars in highway improvements set for bid opening October 20 by the State Road Commission. In other items the West Virginia Church Leaders conference meets November 16 to 18 at Jacksons Mill to discuss poverty in Appalachia. About 1200 Sterling Enterprises workers in Monongalia and Preston counties to vote on a new contract, ending a strike that began July 21, after marathon talks in the governor’s office with Gov. Barron and lawmakers participating. Senator Humphrey urged responsible use of strength as vital to national security in a speech to UPI editors and publishers, with plans to campaign in Ohio and Pennsylvania afterwards.
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Appalachia
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Preston
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Rep
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United Steelworkers Union
Sterling
Washington
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
United Press International
Humphrey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Youngstown
Sharon-Farrell
Erie
Ashtabula
Tshombe Held Under House Arrest in Cairo
UPI reports Congolese premier Moise Tshombe is detained in U A R capital by order of the government. Al Ahram says he will stay confined until Egyptian and Algerian diplomats can depart Leopoldville, with other Tshombe allies detained as gendarmes surround embassies.
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UPI
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Moise Tshombe
al Ahram
Tshombe
U.A.R
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Leopoldville
Congo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Mohhamed Fayek
French Congo Republic
Rich Man's Son Nabbed In Miss Bank Robbery Case
Sterling Gillis, 35, son of Norman Gillis Sr., a wealthy McComb businessman, was arrested at his home in McComb on bank robbery charges in the Monticello, Mississippi hold up from March 2. He had been freed on bond for prior racial violence cases, part of a crackdown that yielded 39 indictments by Pike County grand jury. The FBI labeled him a suspect Klansman. the Monticello bank theft involved about $40,000. Gillis arraigned in Hattiesburg with $10,000 bond set. preliminary hearing date not set.
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U.S
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Hattiesburg
U S and Britain Reject Soviet Spy Claim in Siberia
The United States and Britain dismissed a Soviet note as unsatisfactory over accusations that three American military attaches and a British officer spied in Siberia. The case hinges on diplomatic immunity after a hotel raid and confiscation of belongings. Malcolm Toon delivered the protest in Moscow. the attaches faced possible expulsion as they returned to Moscow from Siberia.
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Mikhail Smirnovsky
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Smirnovsky
Johnson campaigns across Middle West in bid for farm voters
President Johnson crossed the Corn Belt urging parity of opportunity for rural America and denouncing Republican farm policies as economically disastrous. In Des Moines he framed the choice as responsibility versus irresponsibility and warned against voluntary Social Security. He spoke in Springfield and Peoria about lines of policy and campaign responsibility.
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UPI
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Iowa Capitol
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Peoria
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Whose
Barry M. Goldwater
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United
Assassination Film Captures Four Days In November
Washington premiere of Four Days in November offered 1600 guests a chronological, cohesive account of Kennedy's assassination. Producer David L. Wolper combines newsreel and recreations to relive the days from Dallas to Washington, with Oswald’s guilt presented as established by evidence and the Warren Commission.
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UPI
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United States
Wolper
United Press International
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Supreme Court
UPI Editors and Publishers
Tavern Owner Charged With Murder Of Wife
Charleston man Alfred Sears 42 is charged with murder in the death of his wife Lilly Null Sears 22. He told police he found her unconscious at his tavern and she died despite arrival at the hospital. Autopsy cites fatal internal injuries from a sharp blow.
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UPI
Alfred Sears
Lilly Null Sears
Sears
Goldwater blasts Johnson on Social Security in Atlantic City
Senator Barry Goldwater told a Republican breakfast crowd in Atlantic City that Johnson is the real enemy of Social Security and that he would compare his own record on the program with Johnson’s. He accused Johnson of lying about his position and urged returning power from the executive to Congress.
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Barry M. Goldwater
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GSA Denies Johnson Suite Cost Increase Charge
The General Services Administration rebutted GOP claims that a new Austin building's price rose to 10 million to fund a Johnson suite. Officials said total cost would be slightly under 8 million with possible Johnson space on one floor, while denying any White House specified suite.
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UPI
General Services Administration
GSA
GOP
Austin
Tex
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F. Clifton White
Citizens For Goldwater-Miller
Maharajah Johnson
White House
Arrests as 65 Parents Protest New York School Segregation
In New York City police arrested 65 white parents protesting school integration measures outside a primary school. Pickets attacked officers as parents tried to load into a van to reenroll their children in a closer school rather than a distant racially mixed one.
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New York
UPI
Boone County approves two million school levy
Boone County residents vote 6471 for and 559 against a school levy about 2 million dollars for five years. The funds will support general improvements teachers salaries textbooks and buses. A 90 percent majority approved the levy well over the 60 percent required.
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Beckley to join national traffic survey program
City officials led by Mayor John W. Smith announced Beckley will participate in the National Safety Council annual traffic survey. Lt. William Teubert will coordinate the effort with Beckley Police and Trooper Paul E. Gyke supplying manuals and forms. The program, free for cities over 5,000, collects data from police, courts, safety education, and traffic engineering to produce a comparative analysis and guide future department improvements.
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National Safety Council
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William Teubert
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SRC Defends Monroe Road in Monore County Dispute
Charleston report notes the West Virginia state Road Commission is accused of spending about 1 million on a backwoods 6.9 mile road in Monroe County near the Virginia border. SRC and Natural Resources Director Warden M Lane defend the project built to serve a 144 acre lake with development potential and local use by about 50 area children and residents.
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UPI
State Road Commission
Monroe County
Virginia
Charleston Daily Mail
SRC
State Natural Resources
M. Lane
Lane
W.va
Virginia Line
G. QO. Cransfield
Gap Mills
3000 Ride Cass Train At Mountain State Festival
More than 3000 people rode the Cass Scenic Railroad during the Mountain State Forest Festival in Elkins last weekend, according to the state Natural Resources Department.
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Charleston
UPI
Elkins
State Natural Resources Department
New York Firm to Underwrite WVU Building Bond
F S Smithers and Associates of New York City will underwrite a 10 million dollar West Virginia University capital improvement bond issue. The 30 year bonds at 3.6761 percent will fund a creative arts center 4.5 million law building 1.5 million Appalachian Center 1.5 million and Potomac State College auditorium 700 thousand plus 1.8 million for utilities roads parking renovations and moving existing buildings on the Evansdale campus.
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Morgantown
UPI
F. S. Smithers & Co. and Associates
New York City
West Virginia University
Evansdale
Potomac State College
Keyser
Birchers sue NBC and H B for 8 million
The John Birch Society filed two libel suits in U S District Court Fort Worth seeking 8 million dollars. The actions target Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and NBC over a May 20 network report claiming FBI arrests linked to arms sales to the Birch Society. Plaintiffs include president Robert Welch and two members, Laurence Bunker and Donald Hays.
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Boston
McDonald Hays
Amarillo
Tex
Welch
U.S
Russell Baker
Broadcastin
Chet Huntley
Davi Brinkley
Baker
Birch Society
Fort Worth
United States
Trial Of Levy Starts Thursday
MARLINTON UP I The trial of Oscar Monte Levy who posed for 10 months as Dr Louis Menendez and director of Denmar State Hospital begins Thursday morning. He faces four indictments including two counts of obtaining money under false pretenses and forgery plus using a stolen medical diploma. Levy, held on $100000 bond since his April arrest in Kansas, pleads innocent. The grand jury also investigated alleged illegal operations, notably abortions, at Denmar. no true bills were returned. Potential sentences range from 1-5 years on false pretenses, 1-10 on forgery, and 1-3 on diploma use.
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Pocahontas County
Denmar
Levy
Menendez
Miami
Fla
Yankees Lead World Series 3-1 After Top Half Victory
Presstime report notes the Yankees hold a 3 to 1 lead in the World Series as the Cardinals bat in the bottom of the second inning. The piece emphasizes the New York club's commanding position and the early action on the field.
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