01 Mar 1966
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Newspaper
The Gastonia Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1966
Page
1
County IBM analysis shows 63.8 percent of taxpayers would face a yearly increase of $3.44 or less, with only 1.5 percent paying more than $2.50 a month for hospital bonds. Top 133 taxpayers, mostly corporations, pay the bulk of the levy.
Gastonia Clocks 45,429 residents, a 17.7 percent jump since 1960, aided by annexing nine square miles. Gaston County rises 6.4 percent to 435,836, with Mount Holly and Cherryville among fast growers. Officials caution counts exclude college students and service members. final figures to follow.
Robert Allen of Tucson and a 65 year old Philadelphia man, both with osteogenic sarcoma and blood type O positive, will undergo a tissue swap at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in an experimental operation. Doctors say the procedure has potential but no guaranteed success. earlier similar efforts showed body resistance to foreign cancer tissue within ten days.
A request invites readers to send hospital related questions to Gastonin editors via Gistonia Gazelle postal box 1538. The note appears in a local column urging public participation.
University of North Carolina trustees approve a policy allowing chancellors to regulate visiting speakers. Student groups announce plans to invite Herbert Aptheker and Frank Wilkinson, with potential court action if denied. Acting Chancellor Carlyle Sillerson and a faculty-student committee must approve invitations.
Two Bahama area mental patients, described as voluntary but able to walk out, are held in Durham for the killings of Raleigh realtor Andrew Roberts and storekeeper Fred Fonville. They allegedly led investigators to bodies near a railroad crossing after a cab driver murder in Greensboro. Authorities also linked earlier robberies and kidnap incidents to the suspects, with multiple arrests and inquiries continuing.
President Johnson asks Congress to fund a nation wide cradle to old age health and education program to feed poor children and support elderly hospital needs. He seeks $50 million for child nutrition programs plus $229 million for school nutrition and related commodities, but provides few financing figures.
The Pentagon seeks 700 male Army nurses and 200 for the Navy beginning April, plus 2 496 doctors by July, amid a Viet Nam driven medical shortage. Officials doubt reaching 600 qualified applicants among men ages 19 to 26, noting many will not serve in Viet Nam and may go to Europe or other U S posts.
In a quiet yet somber scene at a Missouri plant, Air Force Maj. Charles Tasell and civilian Lee and Bassett died when a jet plane struck a McDonnell building near the airport. Gemini 9 pilots Stafford and Corpenan survived and were named prime crew for the ninth mission as Gemini 8 and 9 schedules remained on track. The crash injured 15 workers and paused production as over 2,000 people were in the facility.
Moscow reports that four Soviet probes Venus 1 through Venus 4 reached Venus, with Venus 4 falling silent after a near surface approach while Venus 2 and 3 sent data. Venus 2 passed 14,900 miles from the planet and Venus 3 indicated a possible surface touchdown.
A Gastonia man was killed in a wreck on Monday morning. A second truck plunged into the South Fork River but its driver was rescued in a heroic effort. Later a third vehicle went off the same embankment leaving one dead and three injured. Story continues on page 5.
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