Hanoi and Peking Split Over Viet Nam Peace Talks
Paris sources report a sharp split between Hanoi and Beijing over opening Viet Nam peace talks with the United States. North Vietnam seeks a firm U.S. withdrawal date before talks, while China vetoes talks under any circumstances. De Gaulle’s Phnom Penh speech reflected Hanoi Beijing tensions and possible U.S. exit pressure.
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City Attorney explains extra 16801.09 not just services
Beckley city records show E M Payne III total 17521.09 paid for 1965 66 fiscal year from general fund and Sanitary Board accounts. Payne says the amount covers firm expenses and city business costs dating back to 1963 including park building work, legal notices, filing fees, and travel.
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Ned) Payne, III
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Marines Overrun An Dinh In DMZ Clash Near Saigon
U S Marines seized the border village of An Dinh after fierce fighting that left 53 North Vietnamese troops dead with air strikes and artillery support. West of the DMZ Marines killed 15 more at a North Vietnamese stronghold nicknamed The Rock Pile. The drive against the 324B Division included 116 missions by air and sea units, while 11 air sorties targeted the panhandle supply route. One F105 fighter was reported missing after being shot down over the North.
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Viet Nam
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Dmz
Rights Bill Is Beaten in Senate Vote on Open Housing
Washington reporters describe the 1966 civil rights bill defeat as a whimper not a bang. The Senate rejected a cloture attempt 52 to 41, well short of the two thirds needed, ending a two week anti open housing filibuster led by Everett Dirksen. House support stood at 259 to 157 with 38 former 1964 supporters opposing the measure.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Everett M._ Dirksen
Johnson
Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
House
Fair Packaging Bill Revived By House Committee
The House Commerce Committee voted 17 to 14 to revive President Johnsons fair packaging and labeling bill after an earlier 13 to 6 defeat. The measure would require clear statements of contents quantity and manufacture on about 8000 supermarket and drug store items and could empower the government to set standard weights or prices to aid buyer comparison if producers refuse.
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Washington
UPI
House Commerce Committee
Johnson
Weather Light Showers In Beckley Area Today
Mostly cloudy with a few light showers today tonight and tomorrow. High today around 65 and tonight’s low near 55. Tomorrow’s high expected in the mid 60s. Airport data shows 04 inches precipitation in last 24 hours and easterly winds around 17 mph. River Greenbrier normal to muddy. Lake level normal with 8 gates open. Gauge at H foot above clear with 3.8 ft.
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Beckley
Greenbrier
Ring Register Q&A Highlights Local Services
Readers ask about American Airlines presence in Beckley and receive guidance to Charleston for boarding. The column notes Miss Judy Evans at AAA, 106 S Kanawha St, 252-1111 for fares and schedules. It also covers suede coat cleaning with a suede brush and biology as Biological Science Curriculum Study.
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American Airlines
Charleston
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Dunloup Creek Project Cleared to Plan Watershed Work
Washington grants authority to the Soil Conservation Service to plan the Dunloup Creek watershed project in Fayette and Raleigh counties. The 31 000 acre effort, sponsored by the Southern Soil Conservation District of Beckley and Fayette County, could include a dam and stream improvements with estimated 1963 flood damages of 44 000 and average annual damage of 23 000.
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Raleigh
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Jennings Randolph
Robert Byrd
John Slack
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Department of Agriculture
West Virginia Soil Conservation Committee
Dunloup
Southern Soil Conservation District of
Beckley
J. R. Keatley
Fayette County
Byrd
Surveyor 2 Spacecraft Heads Toward Moon Landing
The United States launched Surveyor 2, a 2204 pound lunar lander, on an 8 300 mph approach toward Sinus Medii. Engineers will fire small thrusters to steer for a precise touchdown, aiming for a soft landing near the Moon’s Sinus Medii region around 10:52 a.m. EDT Thursday.
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UPS
United States
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Pasadena
Calif
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Earth
Bids Open On Major Appalachian Route Project
Charleston UPI reports the State Road Commission will open bids Tuesday for a large Appalachian Development project, constructing 3.3 miles of new U S 50 from Bristol to Wolf Summit in Harrison County with three bridges. The deal starts 11 miles of U S 50 under construction and includes the near-final link to Interstate 70, nearly one mile of new superhighway with twin bridges between Middle Wheeling Creek and Elm Grove.
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Charleston
UPI
State Road Commission
Bristol
Wolf Summit
Harrison County
Wheeling Creek
Elm Grove
Smith Named To SGC Resolutions Committee
West Virginia Governor Hulett C. Smith was named to the Resolutions Committee of the Southern Governors Conference in Kentucky Dam Village. The panel drafts policy statements for 17 governors with Chairman Robert E. McNair of South Carolina and members Henry Bellman of Oklahoma Paul Johnson of Mississippi and Mills Godwin Jr. of Virginia.
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Kentucky Dam Village
Missile explosion at Vandenberg ICBM launch
A Minuteman 1 intercontinental ballistic missile exploded seconds after rising from its launching silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base California. The blast occurred as the missile climbed on a plume of fire from its underground base toward a preselected target about 5,000 miles down the Pacific missile range.
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Calif
UPI
Minuteman
Pacific Missile Range
U S Admits Intrusion But Denies Village Attack
The United States acknowledged possible intrusions into Chinese airspace on Sept 9 and Sept 17 amid battles with MiG jets over North Vietnam. State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said no credible evidence supported Beijing's claim that American planes attacked a Chinese village.
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UPI
United States
Red China
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
U.S
McCloskey
China
Viet Nam
Pope Scorned As Reactionary By Red China
Tokyo reports Communist China denounces Pope Paul VI as the mouthpiece of reactionary classes in Red Flag. The piece rejects the Pope's August critique of Red Guard attacks on Catholic nuns and praises Maoist youth as the shock force of the cultural revolution, calling the Pope's statement a sign of death.
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UPI
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Red Flag
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Red Guard
China
Mao Tse-tung
Red Guards
Peace Force Leaves D R
In Santo Domingo the Inter-American Peace Force disbands, with about 200 troops remaining of the once 30,000 strong force. Most depart for home as the Dominican Republic faces an uncertain future. A small number of the U S Army 82nd Airborne will stay to supervise equipment removal into Wednesday. The force formed during the 1965 crisis under OAS authorization marks a rare direct intervention in to sovereign affairs.
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82Nd Airborne Division
Organization of American States
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Tweel Charge Dropped in Counterfeit Tax Stamp Case
Indictments against Norman J. Tweel charging sale of cigarettes with counterfeit tax stamps were dropped. Cabell County Common Pleas Court Judge Ernest E. Winters dismissed the indictments Monday at the state's request.
Chinese Say Coup Plotted Against Mao
In Peking, military authorities charged that a group of Communist officials and intellectuals plotted to overthrow Mao Tse-tung. Radio broadcasts cited Red Flag and warned bourgeois elements and high level power-holders were targeting Mao and Ling Piao. The reports mark rising internal opposition to Mao’s purge and Red Guard drive.
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Thai Buildup Inquiry Opens In Senate
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins an inquiry into the U S buildup in Thailand with little chance of public disclosure. Testimony from Assistant Secretary of State Bundy follows Fulbright concerns about missing information on American commitments. Reports claim about 25 000 U S servicemen in Thailand and bases expanding to eight with logistics lines for air strikes against North Vietnam.
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Washington
William P. Bundy
Sen. J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
U.S
Bundy
Thailand
Pentagon
Two Die in West Virginia Traffic Toll Rises in 1966
Two West Virginians died in traffic crashes pushing the year’s road death toll to 364, up from 322 a year earlier. Frederick F. Bauman, 82 of Sistersville, died on W V 2 north of Parkersburg when his car struck another vehicle. the other driver was uninjured. Paul A. Lough, 52, a Moundsville Penitentiary guard of Littleton Wetzel County, died in a car-truck collision on W V 7 in Monongalia County.
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United Press International
West
W. Va
Monongalia County
Moundsville
King Leads Negro Students to Grenada Schools in Mississippi
News in Brief reports Dr. Martin Luther King Jr leading Negro students to Grenada Mississippi schools amid a mob frenzy sparked by integration last week. The King slogan Learn Baby Learn counters the Watts Burn Baby Burn chant from 1965 riots.
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Grenada
Miss
Watts
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
California
House
Johnson
Governors urge national attack on highway deaths
Southern governors press a sweeping plan to cut highway accidents after predicting 50 000 lives will be lost nationwide this year Kentucky Governor Breathitt chairs the highway safety committee and says up to 225 000 annual deaths could occur unless action is taken Tehran education ministry brands miniskirts improper, bans admission to schools for wearers Wheeling Steel sues three iron ore firms for 144 million alleging antitrust violations and price fixing in Cleveland based companies
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Edward T. Breathitt
Highway Safety Committee
U. S
Tehran
U. S. District Court
Wheeling
Wheeling Steel Corp
Hanna Mining Co
M. A. Hanna Co
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co
Cleveland
Voting Fraud Cases Delayed In Kanawha
Special Judge Sam Spinsky postponed 14 cases of indicted individuals charged with willful neglect of duty in the May 10 primary. Defense counsel were given briefs due Oct 3 to quash indictments, with the state to file responses by Oct 10. The probe cited voting irregularities in Charleston area precincts, including votes cast by deceased persons.
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Charleston
UPI
Sam _ Spinsky
Psycho Film Replaced After Valerie Percy Murder
CBS swapped a Friday TV airing of the horror film Psycho for a war romance after Valerie Percy was killed in Kenilworth Illinois. The decision followed the murder case drawing national attention and prompting programming changes by the network.
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UPI
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Valerie Percy
Kenilworth, Lll
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