King and aides resume Mississippi march near Jackson
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and aides resumed Merediths march after a confrontation with highway patrolmen. They walked along U S 51 in single file on the shoulder toward Jackson as sheriff officials maintained order near Hernando where the shooter was captured.
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Martin Luther King Jr
James H. Meredith
U.S. 51
Meredith
China
King
Southern Christian Ledership Conference
Jackson
Floyd McKissick
Congress of Racial Equality
Memphis
Mississippi
Selma
University of Mississippi
Miss
Welch Voting Light As Swope Wins Fourth Mayor Term
In a low turnout municipal election in Welch, Mayor W. B. Swope and five Republican council members were re elected unopposed for two more years. Voter turnout was under 12 percent with about 3 300 eligible. Ward by ward tallies show near unanimous support for Swope and council incumbents.
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Welch
W. B. Swope
Swope
Ward
Ward 2
A. C. Cunningham
H. C. Lewis Jr
Marvin Propst
George Sledge
Ray F. Wilson
Reno Howard
Funding Gloom Skews Interstate 77 Prospects in Va
State Highway Commissioner Douglas Fugate warned that funds may not arrive by 1972 and federal money for Interstate 77 from the West Virginia line through Bland and Wythe Counties by 1975 is uncertain. He called the expected 8.5 million next year a drop in the bucket toward the needed millions, while local leaders from Buchanan County pressed for Rt 460, Rt 83 improvements, sidewalks in Grundy, and a Buchanan highway office.
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Douglas B. Fugate
Fugate
State Highway Commission
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Wythe
U. S. Congress
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Culpeper
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Staunton
Wytheville
Stuart Kime
Keith D. Speer
Grundy
Buchanan County
Buchanan
Speer
Vansant
Breaks Interstate Park
Oakwood
Raven
Rt. 83
West Virginia
Dickenson County
Clyde Ratliff
Stafford Williams
Eugene Bane
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Cook Sr
Virginia Road Toll Reaches 403 After Two Fatalities
Two traffic deaths on Tuesday raised Virginia's highway toll to 403 for the year. Lynchburg resident Fitzgerald, 74, died from injuries in a two car crash May 2 near Amherst at U S 29 and State Rt 151. Pulaski youth Spraker Jr., 21, died when his car left U S 11 and plunged down a 75 foot embankment.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Lynchburg
Newton Walker Fitzgerald
Rt. 3
Amherst
U. S. 29
Amherst County
Pulaski
Benjamin Eugene Spraker Jr
Rt. 2
U. S. 11
Tazewell Receives 34360 Head Start Grant for county
The Tazewell County Board of Education accepted a 34360 federal grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity awarded via the Tazewell County Development Corporation. Ninety students at seven sites will get eight weeks of preschool training starting mid June. The board also approved a community college plan.
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Tazewell County
Board of Education
Lambert Gains Pineville Mayor Post In Tight Race
Incumbent Sam Lambert wins Pineville mayoral election 280 to 191 over J D Cook after being appointed last January. Citizens Ticket sweeps council and recorder races with five incumbents and one newcomer securing seats.
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Sam Lambert
Pineville
J. D. Cook
Lambert
Citizen's
Wyoming
Vaughn Stuart
Kellan Snider
B. B. Shilling
People’s
Bill Maxey
Jack Martin
Ted Bailey
C. E. Richner
OGO Satellite In Good Shape After Launch
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP the OGO 3 satellite in good condition on its first day in space ready to turn on experiments Friday. The 1135 pound craft orbits from 170 to 76 000 miles above earth and completes one revolution roughly every two days as scientists study sun earth relations and solar flare alerts.
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Fla
OGO
U.S
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
Earth
Space Agency
CAP& Knennedy, Fla
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
Atantic Ocean
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Stafford
Cernan
ASDA
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
Air Force
Martin Co
John W. Young
Michael Collins
Young
Collins
Space
Hearing Today On Tazewell Bypass Plans
A public hearing on two proposed routes for a four lane bypass around Tazewell Virginia is set for Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Tazewell High School. The bypass would cross Virginia 16 and connect U S Route 460 on both sides of Tazewell. The routes lie about a mile apart.
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Tazewell
Tazewell High School
Virginia 16
U. S. Rt. 460
Budget OKed for Tazewell County 1966 67 spending plan
The Tazewell County Board of Supervisors approved a $6,150,440.26 budget for 1966-67 at a public hearing May 27 in the County Courthouse. The plan designates $4,965,839.85 for school operations and debt retirement for schools.
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Tazewell County
County Board of Supervisors
Tazewell
Kennedy Defends Apartheid Policy in South Africa Visit
Senator Robert F. Kennedy debated South African students on apartheid at Stellenbosch University and urged openness to all races. He planned to meet Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli in Groutville and said the US seeks signs of greater freedom, not to dictate South Africa’s system.
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South Africa
Robert F. Kennedy
Albert Luthuli
U. S
Stellenbosch University
Hendrik F. Verwoerd
Kennedy
United States
New York Democrat
Luthuli
Groutville
Stanger
Pretoria
Ed Anderson Leading Candidate for Mercer County Superintendent
Mercer County board members indicate Ed Anderson is the leading contender to succeed Pete Cooke as county superintendent. The five member board and Harold Wood of Flat Top interviewed Anderson Friday night in Princeton, with a decision expected at the upcoming meeting.
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William E
Ed) Anderson
W. R
Pete) Cooke
Mercer County
Jack Nestor
Harold Wood
Flat Top
Anderson
Princeton
Nestor
Cooke
E. B. McCupe
Morgantown
McCue
D. W. McCormick
Bramvwell
Estor
George Richardson III
Owen Griffith
Association
L. C. Caldwell
Bluefield
Wood
Reagan In Big Lead In California Primary
Ronald Reagan held a commanding early lead over George Christopher in the California Republican primary with 67,703 to 17,676 as votes were tallied. Governor Brown led the Democratic side over Mayor Yorty, while turnout appeared brisk statewide with particular strength in Southern California.
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San Francisco
Ronald Reagan
George Christopher
California
Edmund G. Brown
Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
Reagan
Brown
Pacific Palisades
Christopher
Lloyd N. Hand
Thomas W. Braden
Glenn M. Anderson
Princeton Youth Dies After Lake Accident
Seventeen year old Sonny Lu cas of Princeton died at 11 06 p m Tuesday after injuring his neck in a dive into Douglas Lake near the North American Aviation Plant. He was treated at Bluefield Sanitarium and was the son of Mr and Mrs Robert Lucas Jr of Princeton.
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Sonny Lucas
Princeton
Douglas Lake
Bluefield Sanitarium
Lucas
North American Aviation Plant
Robert Lucas Jr
School Laboratory Plans Are Approved for Appalachian Center
U S Senator Byrd said federal Education Office approved plans for an Appalachian regional education laboratory to be located in Charleston West Virginia. A $330 000 grant is under final consideration and the center could be operational within a month. It would research and test educational methods for West Virginia south central Pennsylvania western Virginia and parts of Ohio and Tennessee.
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Washington
U. S
Robert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
U. S. Office of Education
Charleston
W. Va
Byrd
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Ohio
Tennessee
Alma Hursicane reaches peak winds as Cuba braces
Hurricane Alma built to 95 mile an hour winds and veered east toward Cuba as authorities extended emergency zones from Havana to Cienfuegos. Isle of Pines reported 60 mph winds while Cuba faced widespread squalls, evacuations, and a state of emergency across western provinces.
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Alma
Caribbean Sea
Cuba
Cuban Weather Bureau
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Island
Isle of Pines
U.S
Honduras
Havana
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Caribbean
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Key West
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