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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1966
Page
1
Gemini 11 astronauts Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon splashed down 9:59 a.m. EDT about 702 miles east of Cape Kennedy, near the carrier Guam, after an automatic reentry. They set altitude records, achieved a landmark rendezvous with Agena, and endured a long spacewalk limited by fatigue.
Senate moves to file a new cloture petition to halt debate on the open housing civil rights bill. Mansfield predicts more votes but doubts securing the two thirds needed as the measure again fails by 10 votes despite a 54-42 Senate tilt in favor.
Gypsie Dodson is named the new voice on Ring Register. The column showcases reader questions and official answers on local education pay, YMCA activities, and homecare tips.
United Press International outlines the Gemini mission featuring Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon. Over 70 hours in space included a record first-orbit rendezvous at 94 minutes, a cut-short spacewalk due to fatigue, a two-hour stand and artificial gravity demonstration, and Gordon’s deep space plunge to minus eight hundred fifty miles. Splashdown is estimated at 9:59 a.m. EDT in the Atlantic about 725 miles from Cape Kennedy.
President Johnson won Senate passage of a 35 cent minimum wage boost to 1.40 effective February with coverage expanding to 40 million workers. The move aims to shore up labor support for Democrats ahead of elections while failing to repeal Taft-Hartley 14B or ease picketing rules.
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia defends his opposition to cloture on debate of the Civil Rights Act of 1966 and to the open housing provisions. He argues the bill creates a protected class of rights, limits contracts, expands federal power, and risks federal intrusion into private property decisions. He asserts property owners’ rights to rent or sell property should outweigh buyers’ rights.
Former Montgomery Ward employees allege targeted reductions in staff to push part time hiring while adverting for help. They claim seniority workers were moved up while others denied part time shifts. Ted Saulnier cites store losses and declined part time offers as reasons.
A heavy rainstorm drenched the Mountain State delivering more than three inches in places and easing drought strain for farmers foresters and hunters. Potomac Basin logged 2.1 inches in 24 hours ending Wednesday 8 a m EDT with several towns reporting top totals Alderson 3.62 inches Matoaka 3.25 Oak Hill 3.16 White Sulphur Springs 3.15 and Bluefield 2.98 Others include Martinsburg 1.49 Romley 1.78 Harpers Ferry 1.74 Keyser 1.76 Elkins 1.46 Wheeling 0.44 Parkersburg 0.25 Morgantown 0.31 and Beckley 0.86 Officials say the rain offers temporary drought relief and improves six month water outlook though not a solution to years long dryness. Conservation officials note rain continued into Thursday with forecasts for more showers.
Forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with an 80 percent chance of showers today and a high near 66. Tonight will be cooler with a low around 43, then clearing tomorrow with a high in the low 60s. Airport data show 62 F high and 58 F low in the last 24 hours. River info notes Greenbrier two feet above normal and muddy water. Lake remains muddy with nine gates open. Gauge at Hinton reads 4.3 feet.
Two nonarmed inmates fled the state prison mine near Moundsville last Monday and were nabbed Wednesday night along railroad tracks. Identified as Larry E. Martin 22 of Fayette County and Guy Newton 26 of Mason County, both serving 1 to 19 years for grand larceny.
Federal Judge Claude Clayton set a hearing in Oxford on whether Grenada officials must protect Negro students. Two integrated Grenada schools in the northern Mississippi town were closed for the day as state police and FBI personnel converged for the session. About 150 Negro demonstrators marched.
Idaho Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charles Herndon died after a small Apache crashed in rugged wilderness 80 miles northeast of Boise during a rain storm. Two other men were killed and the pilot was seriously injured. Herndon died en route to hospital from massive internal injuries. The victims included Oklahoma City businessmen Robert Baldwin and Lloyd Crutchfield. pilot William Bir, a Twin Falls resident, was hospitalized in serious condition.
About 1200 to 1500 U S Marines launched an amphibious and helicopter assault south of the North Viet Nam border. The operation Deckhouse IV targeted the North Vietnamese 324B Division as Leathernecks hit beaches and inland zones. U S casualties had surpassed 5,000, a grim Viet Nam milestone reported from Saigon.
The defense Department announced the death of U S Marine PFC Danny Dolin from Hewett Boone County West Virginia. He was killed in Viet Nam and was the son of Mr and Mrs Charles J Dolin.
In Bethesda Ohio three miners trapped since a noon Wednesday fire are declared dead after rescue attempts end. Keith Spicer 22 Dillonvale Tony Territti 43 Wheeling William Adams 33 Barnesville Adams outside the Morgan Mine Co. mine when fire started. Rescue teams pulled out and mine sealed at 7 25 a.m. EDT.
The House approved a 1 billion dollar defense construction bill for fiscal year 1967 by a 346 to 3 vote. The measure, called a bare bones bill, goes to the Senate and is 95 million below Johnson’s request and 955 million under last year’s appropriation for similar projects.
Rescue teams, exhausted after twenty hours of digging, recovered the bodies of three miners trapped seven hundred feet underground by a cave-in in an anthracite mine near Tremont Pennsylvania. Relatives kept vigil in rain as the three were removed in a mining bucket and transported to a Tremont funeral home.
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