New Commerce Commissioner Seeks Regional Industry Push
West Virginia commerce chief Angus E. Peyton warns that automation and stagnating investment threaten jobs and welfare rolls unless satellite industries are drawn to the state. He proposes a regional approach syncing Huntington Parkersburg Charleston efforts to lure plants, with five region model and data driven planning to attract development. Peyton stresses plant sites skilled labor roads and schools as keys, and urges closer ties with local leaders for long term planning and expanded contacts.
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UPI
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West Virginia
Peyton
Huntington
Parkersburg
Fire kills 12 at U S Navy center near Tokyo
A two story frame building 20 miles southwest of Tokyo housed a U S Navy communications center. Firemen say they were barred at first, delaying response and raising casualties to 12 dead and 14 injured among American servicemen. The site relayed messages for the 7th Fleet.
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UPI
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Here
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Imperial Japanese Navy
Administration Warns On Foreign Aid After Present Vote
In Washington Senator J William Fulbright refused to vote yes or no on the Senate foreign aid bill signaling Congress demands a revised program next year The measure passed 59 21 with Fulbright voting present The House would reconcile with a higher 142 million in aid while the Senate trimmed 50 million from the House total and set a one year ban on aid to Egypt and Indonesia unless the President finds it in the national interest
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UPI
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Rainy And Cooler For Beckley And Vicinity
Rain today with possible thunderstorms then ending tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and cooler with highs in the upper 50s and a low around 44. Beckley records show 77 high in the last 24 hours and 55 low at 12 30 pm. Precipitation measured at .27 inches. window 12 mph and humidity 99 percent. River Greenbrier normal and cloudy. Lake normal and clear with 13 gates open. new gauge at Hinton 1.9 ft. Five day forecast calls for cooler weekend then a rise mid next week and over half an inch of rainfall early next week.
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Wyo
West Virginia
Big Viet Cong defeat claimed near Qui Nhon
Saigon reports say forces killed more than 600 Viet Cong in a brutal battle along a 20 mile stretch northwest of Qui Nhon. US and Vietnamese troops also killed 91 guerrillas in skirmishes, with B52 strikes and other air missions over North Vietnam. One American Skyraider crashed but the pilot was saved.
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Kontum
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Mekong
Gromyko Demands End to U S Viet Nam Aggression
At the United Nations An drey Gromyko pressed for a total halt to U S aggression in Viet Nam with no preconditions and backed North Viet Nam and China in demanding withdrawal of all American forces. He warned of third party interests in Kashmir that could fuel wider conflict.
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Pakistan
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Dorothy Malone Battles For Life After Surgery
Hollywood star Dorothy Malone, Academy Award winner, fought for life after a six hour lung operation in which her heart stopped. She remained on a mechanical heart lung device at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Doctors removed clots from her lungs and expressed cautious optimism.
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UPI
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Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Raymond Weston
Miss Malone
Weston
Esther
Vatican Council Debates Heaven and Space Age View
In Vatican City UPI reporting Belgian Bishop Andre Charne says the old heaven and hell concept is out of date for an interplanetary era while Italian Bishop Giuseppe Marafini urges acknowledging evil in the modern world. The Ecumenical Council endorsed the document On the Church in the Modern World by a landslide vote of 2 111 to 44 and the discussion will continue with 12 speakers addressing nuclear weapons population growth and the possibility of intelligent beings in space. Father Francis J. Connell notes the need to recognize divine creativity beyond Earth. The document now moves toward further debate on page 2.
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UPI
Ecumenical Council
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Hell
Andre Charne
Namur
Giuseppe Marafini
Veroli
Frosinone
Council
Francis J. Connell
School of Sacred Theology
Catholic University of America
Young couple found dead in pact of suicide
In Baldwin Borough a 22-year-old man Frederick W. McGoogan killed his 19-year-old wife Jane with a high powered rifle then shot himself. Police report notes say they wished to be together from now on. the couple had married six months ago.
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UPI
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Frederick W. McGoogan
Jane
John L. Weis
Plan To Recruit More Reserves Disclosed
Washington officials reveal a plan to recruit thousands of youths for possible use in Vietnam. The Army would use a six month program to train volunteers then assign them to National Guard divisions and civilian units. About 20,000 hands needed to fill combat units with supporting troops.
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UPI
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Two Indiana Senators to Speak in West Virginia
Jennings Randolph invites two Democratic Indiana senators to speak in West Virginia. Vance Hartke will speak September 25 at the LBJ Bar-B-Que in Martinsburg, and Birch Bayh will address the Columbus Day Dinner in Weirton October 9.
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Washington
UPI
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Indiana
West Virginia
Vance Hartke
Martinsburg
Birch Bayh
Weirton
Award Winning Producer Dies at 51 in New York
David Lowe, noted television documentary producer for CBS Reports, died of a heart attack at age 51 while at the Friars Club. He was husband of Harriet Van Horne and recent work included KKK The Invisible Empire. Lowe earned a Peabody for journalism and praise from Congress for his firearm access documentary.
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UPI
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Columbia Broadcasting Company
Friars Club
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Harriet van Horne
New York World- Telegram
Scripps - Howard
CBS
Invisible Empire
Congress
United States
India accuses Pakistan of cease-fire violations
India charges Pakistan with cease-fire breaches at frontier points as pro Pakistan guerillas claim killing 83 Indian soldiers in Kashmir. Government says Pakistanis entered India and dug trenches. Amid war tensions Britain faces calls to halt military shipments and Commonwealth pressure grows. Crisis not over, warns Shastri and Ayub Khan.
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Pakistan
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Mohammad Ayub Khan
Johnson
Alexei N. Kosygin
Shastri
Ayub Khan
Indian Defense Ministry
Ex-Sen Keating Seeks New York Court Post
Former U S Senator Kenneth B Keating accepted the Republican nomination for associate justice of the New York Court of Appeals. He was nominated to oppose Supreme Court justice Owen McGivern, with Keating previously defeated by Robert F Kennedy for the Senate in November.
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UPI
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Kenneth B. Keating
State Court of Appeals
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Manhattan
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Robert F. Kennedy
NAACP Opens State Conference in Williamson
NAACP state conference sessions began at Logan Street First Baptist Church Williamson with committee and executive board meetings and two workshops led by Dr. Tinsley Spraggins of the U S Office of Education. Samuel J. Siemons will speak at tonight's dinner, with Rev DC Anderson Davis of Bluefield delivering remarks. A memorial service is planned Saturday, two workshops Saturday afternoon, and a Freedom Banquet Sunday featuring John M. Brooks on voter registration. Reports of Huntington chapter considering withdrawal were unconfirmed.
Red China Building Secret Comao Base
Military expert Col. Ray Cromley is quoted in an exclusive report claiming Red China is constructing a covert Comao base. The article directs readers to page 4 for full details and context.
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Comao Base
Newspaper Enterprise Association
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Brezhnev warns on nuclear arms access at Moscow rally
Brezhnev hailed the Kashmir cease fire in Moscow at a Soviet East German friendship rally and warned Warsaw Pact nations would take appropriate measures if West Germany gains access to nuclear arms. He did not specify the measures. Johnson signs 1.2 billion education aid bill. House approves 1.8 billion for second year of war on poverty act. bill moves to Senate.
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Kashmir
Moscow
Warsaw Pact
West Germany
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House
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Actor Lee Marvin to be arraigned for drunkenness
Actor Lee Marvin 41, star of Cat Ballou and M Squad, to be arraigned in a Hollywood court on a drunkenness charge after a traffic accident. He was arrested by California Highway Patrol after his car hit motorcyclist Robert Hathaway 27 of Los Angeles who suffered leg injuries. About 140 Negro pupils stayed away from Liberty Elementary School Williamson for a second day protesting a teacher transfer. Housing and Home Finance Administration announced a $28,240 urban renewal planning loan for Berkeley County.
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Cat Ballou
M Squad
Hollywood
Marvin
California Highway Patrol
Robert Hathaway
Los Angeles
Hathaway
Liberty
Williamson
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Berkeley County
Judge Dismisses Walker Libel Suit In 1962 Mississippi Row
U S District Judge James F. Gordon in Louisville Kentucky dismissed a $2 million libel suit brought by former Major General Edwin Walker against Courier Journal Louisville Times and WHAS Inc relating to Walker s actions during the 1962 Meredith enrollment at the University of Mississippi. Sydney Chaplin leaves estate to widow Henrietta in probate at San Diego court. Guy Warner the 19 year old sailor faces court hearing in San Diego as guardian and grandmother attend.
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U. S. District Court
James F. Gordon
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Louisville Times
Whas, Inc
Edwin Walker
Walker
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Sydney Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Henrietta
Nice
France
Chaplin
San Diego
Calif
Guy M. Wariiner
John P. Scripps
Bluefield Informer Jailed After Flamboyant Escape
Marvin E. Brooks, 45, of Bluefield West Virginia, jailed in Milwaukee on a routine battery charge by his wife under an assumed name. He possessed more than $28,000 and was wanted in a 1962 Myrtle Beach South Carolina safe burglary. Brooks had previously provided information that led to the dismissal of seven Bluefield policemen and vanished during court. Authorities suspect an escape plan tied to his Bluefield burglary connections. He faces return to South Carolina then Bluefield.
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Milwaukee
UPI
Marvin E. Brooks
Bluefield
W. Va
Brooks
Myrtle Beach
S. C
New River
Glen Lyn
South Carolina
Plattsburgh couple join Glidden Tour to see steam engine
Mr and Mrs Joseph S Church of Plattsburgh N Y with 235 antique car owners on the 1965 Glidden Tour visited Beckley Exhibition Mine to admire a steam engine donated by Winding Gulf Coals Inc to New River Park. They rode in a 1929 Chrysler and detoured via Bluefield to rejoin the group, after four tours from Plattsburg Motor Service.
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Joseph S
Plattsburgh, N. Y
Beckley Exhibition Mine
Winding Gulf Coals Inc
New River Park
Chrysler
West Virginia
Turnpike
Trav
Bluefield
Plattsburg Motor Service
Two Escapees Caught at Peel Tree Prison Break
CLARKSBURG UP I dispatch reports Peel Tree police captured two more Moundsville penitentiary inmates Thursday, leaving two of six at large. Bernard Brookes and James Armstrong remain sought, while James Sprecher, Barry Lee Scotten, Robert Gibson, and Ralph Wires have been apprehended in the past two days.
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UPI
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Moundsville Penitentiary
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Bernard Brookes
Ohio County
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Taylor County
James Sprecher
Barry Lee Scotten
Wyoming County
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Clay County
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Wood County
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