29 Oct 1964
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1964
Page
1
Two U S Air Force pilots were killed when their A1E Skyraider crashed during a training mission 12 miles northeast of Saigon. The incident raises U S fatalities in non combat accidents to 95 since December 1961 while combat deaths total 214.
Robert Grove of the Fire Seal Committee notes initial response was satisfactory but falloff in donations has occurred since Fire Prevention Week. He suggests residents may have set Fire Seals aside and forgotten them as the drive continues to improve equipment and communications for fire safety.
About 60 Indonesian guerrillas landed by sea on the southwest Malaysian coast in two groups. By nightfall nearly half were captured or pinned down in swampy jungles. 25 prisoners reported. Malaysian and New Zealand troops pursued remnants as a 24 hour curfew was imposed.
Senate hopeful Barry Goldwater launches a Pennsylvania whistle stop tour amid charges that Democrats have Communist backing. He claims millions of unhappy Americans will trigger the century’s biggest upset next Tuesday while denouncing alleged false attacks and fading to repudiate Communist backing. He cites crowds in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh and accuses President Johnson of using degrading tricks.
Ford Motor Co. faces a possible crippling strike as 23 of its 90 UAW bargaining units lack at the plant working agreements that would implement the national Ford UAW contract. GM resumes plants after a 31 day walkout, with many units still lacking local pacts and 18 of 23 assembly plants idle at peak.
Dr. Charles H Townes of MIT and two Russian scientists share the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for maser light beam development. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of Oxford University earns the chemistry prize for X ray determined structures of vital biochemical compounds.
North Vietnam charged Friday that U S air and naval forces again bombed and shelled its territory. A Foreign Ministry spokesman quoted radio Hanoi saying jets and T28s from Laos attacked the Cha Lo frontier post in Quang Binh Province at 1000 hours on October 28 and three U S naval craft from South Vietnam shelled Quang Binh coast at 2300 hours that day.
In New York City Hubert H. Humphrey denounces loud mouthed anti Communists and plans a two hour vote drive in the garment district before pushing west for 81 electoral votes in eight states. He cites the Cuban missile crisis to argue leaders must balance courage with prudence and avoids naming Goldwater. He will not return to Washington before Election Day if schedule holds.
GOP vice presidential candidate William E. Miller accused President Johnson of treating Social Security as a campaign issue rather than raising benefits for the elderly. He warned Democrats use TV ads to paint Goldwater as opposed to Social Security and defended Goldwater as a peace through strength candidate.
The Kremlin reportedly ousted Nikita Khrushchev for dictatorial leadership and policy missteps. Suslov’s alleged summary lists violations of collective leadership, shifting investments, and unconsulted foreign missions to Bonn and India.
President Johnson spoke at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City after overnighting there, saying the Soviet premier pledged to seek peace with the West and continue communications with the United States. He urged guiding inevitable changes in Communist countries and noted Kosygin's promise of stable policies.
A cold front extending from New York to Illinois will cross Virginia tonight bringing showers over the mountains today and the rest of the state by evening. Friday will be cooler and fair.
Frist two days list includes Fri and Sat October 30 and final days of store closing at Philip's Specialty Shop with Apple Parsers priced at 4.95 while Miller's Hardware notes stock limited.
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