Gemini 11 completes historic first orbit rendezvous
Gemini 11 crew Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon launched from Cape Kennedy aboard Atlas Agena, achieved an unprecedented first orbit rendezvous with the target, and docked at 12:16 p.m. EDT. The mission aims for a three day flight with spacewalk experiments and an altitude record, despite minor preflight hatch and hydraulic line issues.
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Pete) Conrad
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World Briefs Sour Roundup From Wire Dispatches
World notes span de Gaulle tour toward the Caribbean after viewing the Pacific nuclear test blast. In Pennsylvania eleven high schoolers hospitalized after a football bus rollover. Johnson tax credit ideas may lift steel prices per Jones & Laughlin. Roudebush cites NSF funded UC professor in Russia press conference denouncing U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Mansfield laments failed State Department push for French support on Viet Nam endgame. West Virginia holds interim committee talks on tax and revenue. Seasonal warmth fades to 30s in the Northeast as southern areas await cooler air. Dick Reid, former TV figure, dies at 44 in South Charleston hospital after three weeks’ care.
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Viet Nam
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Midwest
New England
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Mayor Allen to Meet Williams Over Negro Rioting in Atlanta
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen arranged a meeting with civil rights leader Hosea Williams to halt rioting as Williams, SCLC projects director, was among more than 62 people detained during weekend racial outbreaks near Georgia Baptist Hospital in a Negro section near Summerhill. Williams was released on bond.
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UPI
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Hosea Williams
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Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Chicago
South
Georgia Baptist Hospital
Summerhill
South Viet Nam election seen as victory for Ky
Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky hailed the elections as a smashing political victory that signals the end of Communist threats. He noted high turnout of 80.8 percent with 4,274,812 of 5,289,752 registered voters participating to form a 117 member constituent assembly.
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UPI
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Viet Nam
Communist Bloc
Constituent Assembly
Mekong Delta
Record North Vietnam air assault claims no U S planes lost
North Viet Nam raid by hundreds of U S jet bombers marked the war’s greatest aerial offensive. U S spokesmen said 171 missions were flown with no American aircraft lost. Targets across the north included depots, anti aircraft sites, warehouses and river ferry systems amid nationwide South Vietnamese elections.
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North Viet Nam
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Ring Register Q&A: Life expectancy and inquiries
A reader questions topics from life expectancy to Benjamin Franklin and sun. the page provides concise, fact based answers. It covers life expectancy by race, child care, Youth Opportunity Center, Alaska information, shilling value, West Virginia governors, sun composition, electricity history, and perfect game pitching records.
Viet Cong Uprising Falters as Large Turnout Emerges
In Saigon elections, about 81 percent of five million eligible voters cast ballots amid Viet Cong terror campaigns aimed at suppressing turnout. Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky gains a stronger poll mandate, defeating Buddhist opponents despite monk-led calls for boycott.
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UPI
South Viet Nam
Viet Cong
Nguyen Cao Ky
South
Viet Nam
Primaries Test Kennedy Name in 10 States and GOP Bids
United Press International reports primary elections in ten states on Tuesday with races testing the Kennedy name influence and GOP efforts to capture four Democratic governors. Key contests include Wisconsin governor and Minnesota, Maryland, Arizona, Vermont, New Hampshire, Colorado, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Utah, Georgia runoff potential, and Louisiana runoff later.
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Massachusetts
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Minnesota
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Bo) Calloway
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Patrick Lucey
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Weather Summary Beckley Area Showers Possible
Considerable cloudiness through Tuesday with a 30 percent chance of light showers Tuesday. High today 74, low tonight 60. Tuesday high in mid 70s. Sunrise Tuesday 7:04 a.m. Sunset today 7:38 p.m. River conditions Greenbrier low and clear. Lake normal and clear. new gauge at Hinton 1.5 ft. High 107 at Imperial California, low 30 at Greenville Maine. Five day forecast shows cooler midweek, warmer by Saturday, showers about Friday or Saturday with about a quarter inch of rain.
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Valley Camp Coal No 3 mine resumes work after fatal derailment
Valley Camp Coal Co No 3 mine reopened at midnight after a two day shutdown caused by a Friday derailment that killed four miners. A company spokesman said the deaths were ruled accidental and no further probe would be made to determine the cause.
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UPI
Valley Camp Coal Co
Suspended tax credit moves Johnson toward new economics
Washington leaders report President Johnson seeks to suspend the 7 percent investment tax credit to support the nation’s new economics. The move aims to keep the economy stable, not fund Viet Nam or balance the budget, a tax increase framed as preserving growth.
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UPI
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Congress
Viet Nam
Oklahoma Entries Wins Miss USA Miss America Jane Jayroe
Jane Anne Jayroe of Oklahoma, a 19 year old Oklahoma City University junior from Laverne, Oklahoma Panhandle, won Miss America after beating 49 state winners in Atlantic City. She will spend a year making public appearances and will appear on The Mike Douglas Show. Jayroe cited naturalness and honesty as key traits.
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UPI
Jane Anne Jayroe
Jay Jay
Mike Douglas
Oklahoma City University
Laverne
Oklahoma Panhandle
Atlantic City
N.J
Escapee Nabbed After 16 Days Free in West Virginia
MOUNDSVILLE. Crayton C. Litton, 49, escaped from a prison milk truck on August 27 and eluded authorities for 16 days. He was captured Sunday by sheriff's deputies and a conservation officer at his mother's home in Statts Mills near Ripley, Jackson County, and returned to Moundsville Penitentiary a few hours later.
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Mounsville
Litton
Statts Mills
Ripley
Jackson County
Fowler Backs LBJ Anti Inflation Plan Amid War Costs
Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler urged quick adoption of President Johnsons anti inflation program before the House Ways and Means Committee. He supported suspending for 16 months the 7 per cent investment tax credit and cautioned that war costs threaten peacetime economic planning while noting tight monetary conditions and high interest rates. Commerce Secretary John T. Connor joined in urging timely action on the depreciation write off suspension.
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UPI
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Johnson
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Fowler
Commerce
John T.connor
Southeast Asia
Soviet grants asylum to American priest Harold Koch
Tass reported Harold M. Koch former Catholic priest and UPI said he was granted political asylum in the Soviet Union. Koch sought asylum to protest U S actions in Vietnam and Johnson policy. American embassy in Moscow had no information on the defection.
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UPI
Russia
Harold M. Koch
Tass
Koch
U.S
Viet Nam
Johnson
Soviet Union
Numerous Violations Threaten Closure of Julia's Tavern
State through Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney seeks injunction to permanently close Julia's Tavern owned by Julia Bailey over numerous violations and as a public nuisance. Eight arrests since May 13 1960 cited for illegal possession and sale of tax paid liquor. $1050 in fines paid in six years. Separate suit seeks $40000 for personal injuries from a March 19 1965 auto crash on Prosperity Road. Plaintiff represented by Thomas Canterbury and C Berkeley Lilly.
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MacArthur
Circuit Clerk’s
Atty. C. Berkley Lilly
Julia Bailey
West Virginia
Raleigh County
John Calvin Robinson
Michael B. Faykus
Charles Faykus
Prosperity
Robinson
Faykus
Prosperity Road
Thomas Canterbury
C. Berkley Lilly
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