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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1967
Page
1
A psychiatrist was sent a postcard note from a former patient reading Having a wonderful time Why The Sun Magazine Baltimore and was noted as the source of the message. The brief note confirms contact from a former patient and mentions the Sun Magazine in Baltimore.
Fair and warm weather is in store for the area today and Monday with scattered thundershowers. Temperatures will rise into the low 90s today and climb higher on Monday.
Sen Stuart Symington told the State American Legion Convention banquet that the United States should get out or go on with the Vietnam war. The remarks were made during theCommander's Banquet at the Hotel Morgan in Tyrone. Residents along Tyrone Road face a water shortage with hauling and conservation measures. Jim Gentile of Star City challenged a Pennsylvania teacher to write a book on making glass paper weights, she accepted.
National notices report poet Sandburg died at his Flat Rock North Carolina residence at age 89 after two heart attacks in six weeks. He was famed as a Bard of America and Lincoln biographer.
In Saigon and allied advances the conflict surged as 462 Communist soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours. Washington plans a 50 percent rise in American advisors to South Vietnamese forces and a 30 percent boost in village defense troops. Gromyko blamed the United States at the UN for blocking a withdrawal demand. In China, reports say Maoist figures were detained as regime critics appeared, amid warnings of a new anti Maoist threat.
Four members of a Baltimore family were killed in a fiery accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Irwin. Victims Austin Arther 52 Ethel 50 Cindy Lou 18 and Ronald 16 died when their eastbound car was hit by a westbound tractor-trailer that crossed a median barrier. A second truck from the east piled into the wreckage. Driver Eugene Bowser 53 of Johnstown was listed as in fair condition at Monsour Clinic Jeannette. Other trucker John Lauer 23 of Somerset was treated at the scene.
A television tabloid feature previews Tales Do Tell Tales in Eyes. The section highlights programs for nine channels today through next Saturday. Also included are 22 best comics in eight pages and Family Weekly in sixteen pages.
Carl Sandburg Lincoln biographer poet and folk singer died at his Flat Rock North Carolina home on his 89th birthday after years of illness He had suffered heart attacks and an intestinal infection in recent years His wife Lillian Paule said he passed peacefully with nurses present and the funeral will be held at St Johns in the Wilderness church Monday afternoon
In 24 hours of renewed fighting near the DMZ and Saigon, U.S. and allied forces killed at least 462 Communists. Marines, armored cavalry, paratroops and South Korean units repelled ambushes and struck enemy formations, with 36 Americans dead and 161 wounded.
President Johnson saluted Carl Sandburg saying he gave America the truest vision of its greatness. He called Sandburg more than a poet, the bard of democracy whose life and work ennobled the nation and echoed the people. The president added that Sandburg’s legacy endures beyond any epitaph.
Giant B52 bombers operated at dawn for the fifth straight day against Communist truck depots base camps and storage sites in the A Shau valley. Military spokesmen said the valley serves as a main artery for the Ho Chi Minh trail used by North Vietnamese forces.
In Hupeh province two top Mao aides Gen. Hsieh Fu-chin and Wang Li were reportedly captured while on a mission to quell deadly clashes. Peking sources say protests in Beijing demanded punitive action against officials linked to arrests as violence has shuttered about 2400 plants and factories.
Extremist delegates to the National Black Power Conference stormed a crowded press briefing in Newark blasting through a rear door. Newsmen and officials were injured as cameras and equipment were smashed during a chaotic stampede.
National Guardsmen kept peace after riots in Minneapolis as violence extended to St. Paul. Fire bombs and rocks were thrown at a grocery and apartment building, police fired on three youths, two arrests for disorderly conduct, seven stores damaged, and Humphrey arranged a meeting with Mayor Arthur.
In Englewood New Jersey racial violence broke out Saturday night as young Negroes attacked police and smashed store windows. Officers exchanged gunfire with a hidden sniper amid the riot in the suburb near New York City.
Washington reports the Johnson administration plans a 53 percent rise in American advisers with Saigon units and a 30 percent expansion of the popular forces. About 2,600 new advisers would bring the total to around 7,800, while Vietnam’s popular forces would grow by roughly 50,000. The plan includes possible draft-age reduction to 18, and total U.S. troops in Vietnam projected near 525,000 by year end, depending on ally recruitment.
Carl Sandburg, famed biographer of Lincoln and poet of Chicago, balanced a plain manner with fierce discipline. Born to a poor immigrant, he rose to write six volumes on Lincoln, winning twoPulitzers, one for prose and one for poetry. His verse, often prose in rhythm, sparked debate over whether it was poetry or prose.
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