Bluefield YWCA Board Debates Integration Amid Planned March
A Bluefield self appointed committee urged immediate limited integration of Y facilities to counter a threatened February 13 march. The combined YM YW boards deadlocked 6 6 on admitting all races, while NAACP leader Nettles claimed authority for the march and said it would proceed unless integration occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NAACP
Davis
Nettles
Louisville
Carl Braden
Southern Conference
Sanitarium
Braden
Bluefield Sanitarium
Bluefield
Randolph Whittle
Daily Telegraph
Citizens Committee
J. Taylor Frazier
Bluefield Supply Co
E. G. Otey
First National Bank
Guy Lawhead
Flat Top National Bank
J. Elliott Blaydes Jr
D. Hampton St. Clair
Laurence Tierney Jr
New Industry
Frazier
Look Magazine
Daylight Saving Time Repeal Foes Lose In WV House Vote
In Charleston AP reports the Daylight Saving Time repeal bid failed 70 to 30 as the House Judiciary Committee and then the floor rejected the effort to scrap the 1963 DST law. The session then moved on to a reciprocal arrangements bill passing 97 to 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
House
Judiciary Committee
West
Temperance Committee
Panhandles
Pittsburgh
Washington
Dels
J. Paul England
Wyoming
H. Dale Covey
Raleigh
W. Dewey Mentz
D-Mcdowell
Fred L. Scott
Kanawha
House Judiciary Committee
J. E
Ned) Watson
D-Mahion
England
del. D. P. Given
D-Webster
Watson
Clarence C. Christian Jr
Dmercer
State Tax Department
Virginia
Five Die In Fire In Sissonville West Virginia
Five persons perished in a house fire in an isolated hollow near Sissonville Kanawha County as a chimney fault sparked the blaze. The victims include William Gilbert Slater 34 William Slater Jr 7 Deborah Victoria Slater 6 Patricia Ann Slater 5 and Robert Andrew Laney 5 Jam nita Slater 30 escaped to hospital with shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sissonville
W. Va
Kanawha County
William Gilbert Slater
William Slater Jr
Deborah Victoria Slater
Patricia Ann Slater
Robert Andrew Laney
Slater
Jam
De Gaulle Seeks Five Power UN Crisis Conference
Paris President Charles de Gaulle urged a five power Geneva conference including Britain the United States the Soviet Union Communist China and France to realign the United Nations and curb U S influence in Europe He called for a new gold based international monetary system and said German reunification must be solved by Europeans only The Congo operation and unpaid peacekeeping costs triggered U S and allied hesitancy toward UN actions. The remarks came as de Gaulle discussed health personal and global political concerns with reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
China
United Nations
de Gaulle
U.S
United States
U.N
Europe
Congo
Soviet Union
France
Security Council
General Assembly
West Germany
U. S
George C. McGee
Britain
Federal court orders faster Negro registration in Selma
A federal judge in Mobile ordered the Dallas County Voter Registration Board to speed up registration of Negro voters and barred use of a disputed literacy test. The injunction requires expeditious processing of applications, adequate staff and facilities, and rejects the long literacy exam. NAACP LDF calls it a great victory and vows similar suits in other Alabama counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Ala
Dallas County Voter Registration Board
Daniel H. Thomas
Mobile
U.S. Asst
John Doar
U.S
Alabama Supreme Court
New York
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Jack Greenberg
Alabama
Man and Woman Slain in Washington Apartment
Police say a double murder occurred in a Washington apartment after a man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s were found shot fatally. A 2-year-old boy was present. Branson was shot once in the forehead and the woman four times. The baby was turned over to the Woman's Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senny Brena
Costello Waddy
Branson
Area Couple Burned To Death In Canton Residence Fire
A former Sandlick couple, Lloyd and Mrs. Wallace, were killed in a Canton Ohio home fire on February 1, reportedly caused by a faulty oil heater. Surviving relatives include their son Danny, the mother-in-law Lula Marcus of Sandlick, three Marcus brothers, two Marcus sisters, and no surviving listed for Mr. Wallace. Funeral services were set for Canton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nita Slater
Charleston
Young Laney
Sandlick
Canton
Bluefield
Lloyd Wallace
Danny Wallace
Wallace
Lula Marcus
Irvin
Earl Marcus
Howard Marcus
Ennis Barberie
Roanoke
Verdine Voce
Philadelphia
Rapist Sentenced To Death In Virginia Chair
In Norfolk, Jeremi Thursday was sentenced to die in the electric chair. Judge H. Lawrence Bullock set the execution date for April 19. His counsel indicated an appeal to the State Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk, Va
Jeremi
H. Lawrence Bullock
Corporation Court
State Supreme Court
Inside Abby and 10 Movies Highlight Years
A concise page notes features on Abby values and a list of ten films with decade cues. It also mentions Princeton coverage with eight items in a classifieds section and brief society notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Abby
Princeton
Jenkins Absence Stirs Bobby Baker Hearing
Two psychiatrists and a lawyer stood in for Walter Jenkins at the Senate hearing as Jenkins refused to testify. The closed session yielded second hand accounts while Republicans pressed to question him about an insurance agent’s claim he urged buying $1,208 in TV ad time for the Johnson family. Johnson declined to comment on the Baker investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walter Jenkins
Senate
Bobby Baker
Jenkins
Johnson
B. Everett Jordan
D-N.c
Senate Rules Committee
Texas
Don B. Reynolds
Reynolds
White House
Baker
Giles Acquits Lee Perdue in fatal shotgun shooting
Lee W. Perdue, 18, of Giles County Virginia, was found not guilty by a Giles County Circuit Court jury after an hour and a half of deliberation. He admitted firing the shotgun that killed his father Marvin Perdue, 48, claiming the elder had threatened to kill him and his mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee W. Perdue
Giles County
Young Perdue
Wolf Creek
Narrows
Marvin Perdue
Perdue
W. E. Harman
Lee Perdue
German Unity Drive Heats Up
West Germany under Chancellor Ludwig Erhard pushes for reunification with the East as a major political issue ahead of the September elections. The United States cautions against new bids without allied consensus on borders and security, while neighbors fear renewed conflict if division persists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Erhard
German Federal Republic
West Germany
German Democratic Republic
East Germany
Poland
Soviet Union
Federal Republic
Democratic Republic
United States
U. S
Dean Rus
Tidal Warnings Fizzle After Alaska quake
Fearful coastal residents waited as a Pacific wide alert for tidal waves followed a strong Alaska earthquake. Seismic warnings spread to Hawaii and Japan but no waves materialized, and alerts were lifted after hours with minor damage at Shemya Air Station and no fatalities.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Pacific Rim
Hawaii
Aleutian Islands
Ofunato
Honshu
U.S
Crescent City
Aleutians
Here
University of Washington
Norman Rasmussen
Seattle
Shemya Air Station
Great Circle
Orient
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John Nettles
Bluefield State College
National Associaton For the Advancement of Colored People
C. Anderson Davis
Jaanita Slater
William
Del
Louis G. Craig
Lewis
Tax Department
House Temperance Committee
Chester R. Hubbard
Ohio
Giles
Neema Alela
Bremen
Hamburg
Kassel
Nurnberg
Berlin
Hitler
Frankfurt
By Carl Hartman
Associated Press
Beauty of
Pacific
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