Unprecedented Negro Voter Turnout Viewed Ahead
Southern leaders urge compliance with the new voting rights law as Negroes register in large numbers. In Americus Georgia scenes of violence and appointments of federal registrars mark the drive, with about 1 230 registrants reported across nine counties in Mississippi and Alabama.
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Americus. Ga
Alabama
Americus
Feder
A. P. Gallinghouse
Orleans Parish
Louisiana
Lowndes
Wilcox
Governors Respond To Federal Voting Rights Law
Gov McKeithen supports the move and orders registrars to comply as federal officials register Black voters in rural East Carroll East Feliciana and Plaquemines parishes. North Carolina leaders vow to uphold the rights act while weighing challenges and possible registrar deployments.
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John McKeithen
East Carcoll
East Feliciana
Plaquemines
McKeithen
North Carolina
Malcolm Seawall
State Board of Elections
Congress of Racial Equality
Daniel R. McLeod l
South Carolina
Robert H.icNair
Indiana governor appeals to Supreme Court over judicial study panel
Governor Branigin and Indiana lawmakers filed an appeal with the U S Supreme Court to overturn a lower court order blocking the naming of a committee to study Indiana’s judicial system. Atty Gen John Dillon argued that the 1965 legislative advisory commission already has authority to perform the study.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Branigin
Indiana
Supreme Court
Atty
John Dillon
Marion County
Leo Kriner
Dillon
Legislative Advisory Commission
Tthem
Fifth Amendment query raised at Miami Beach
Canadian Bar Association president Nlazen Hansard urged reshaping the Fifth Amendment to resemble Canadian self-incrimination rules. He argued U S police suffer when witnesses invoke the Fifth and suggested a model where witnesses cannot refuse to answer but may seek court protection, barring subsequent use of that evidence.
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Miami Beach
UPI
U.S
Nlazen Hansard
Canadian Bar Association
American Bar Association
Canada
Montreal
Hansard
Halleck Opposes Indiana Dunes Park Plan
Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana says he remains opposed to establishing an Indiana dunes national lakeshore in his district. He pushes for a $1 million federal grant for the Burns Ditch port breakwater and calls a grant condition tied to the dunes park unprecedented in legislative history.
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Washington
Charles A. Halleck
R-Ind
Fomer House
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Halleck
Indiana
Burns Ditch
Dunes Park
Deaths In Madison And Nearby Counties
Multiple obituaries from Madison and nearby counties note deaths of Edith Murnan Maude Humble Ida Busby Oliver Loy Earl Presser and Paul Shore. The notices include ages birthplaces family survivors and funeral arrangements with cemeteries in London Shelby County Brook Cemetery Mendon and Gravel Lawn.
Shuter To Compete At State Fair
Madison County will be represented in the State Tractor Driving Contest at the State Fair on August 27 by Mike Shuter of Boon Rowkton son of Mr and Mrs Mervin Shuter Shuter won the Junior Division title in county events and earned the McKnight trophy Also noted is Lenny Davison Ricky Jarrett and Don Butler as other junior and senior contestants with various ribbons and honors in recent district contests
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Madison County
Mike Shuter
Mervin Shuter
Bo Row Kton
Mike
Dunisr
McKnight
Pendleton
Lenny Davison
Winchester
Randolph County
Ricky Jarrett
Kenneth Jarrett
Elwood
Don Butler
Ring Implement Company
Edgewood Ordered to Build Sewage Plant in Two Years
The town must prepare and submit plans for a state controlled sewage system by May 1, 1968 and start work by Oct 1, 1968, with completion by Oct 1, 1969, under an injunction upheld by Madison Circuit Judge Carl T. Smith. Revenue bonds will finance the project as Edgewood ceases polluting White River ditches.
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Edgewood
Diana
Elizabeth Britton
White River
Smith
Work Right Repeal Advances In Subcommittee
In Washington the Senate labor subcommittee approved the House backed bill to repeal Section 14B of Taft Hartley by a 7 to 1 vote. It would outlaw right to work laws in 49 states. one Republican dissented while another joined Democrats in support. A date for full Senate action was not set. Two of 17 crowns from King David's tomb in Jerusalem disappeared during cleaning.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Paul J. Fannin
R-Ariz
Jacob
Infant Christopher Pugh dies after birth in Anderson
Infant Christopher Scott Pugh son of Max and Mrs Pugh died shortly after birth at Community Hospital. Graveside rites today at Anderson Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors include parents two brothers and extended grandparents. Funeral arrangements by Harold E Rozelle.
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Maude Wumble Pendleton
Maude Hurble
S. Adams
Edward Hombie
Pendleton
Indianapolis
Cornwell Bright
James Wilyard
West Grove ‘Lawn
Humble
Soloman JF. Lukens
Edna Buss Lapel
Ida Busby
Lapel
Ander
Lawrence Busby
Rehbek
T. AM. Busby
UGH
Christopher Scott Pugh
Max A. Pugh
Community Hospital
U. S
Anderson Memorial Park
Melvin Phillips
First Baptist Church
Harold E. Rozelle
Douglas C
Jeffrey N
James A. Pugh
Anderson
Donald C. Lowder
S. E. Pugh
Bluffton
Minnie Leaird
Muskegon
Mich
Maude Beecraft
Home remodeling loan offer from Community Finance Center
An advertisement urges immediate home remodeling financing from Community Finance Center calling for phone contact at 543-6983. It promises cash for any remodel, repayable over months with no penalty for returning extra funds and supports loans up to 57,000.
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Cenquter
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Charles Murnan
Herman Schaekel
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Shore
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Germany
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Congress
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Israel
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Robert T. Lanane
Columbus Ave
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Waltz and Hiday Funeral
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