Danville Desegregation Talks Paused After Tense Meeting
In Danville Virginia Negro integration leaders met with the all white Racial Advisory Committee and agreed to halt immediate street demonstrations. A teenaged demonstrator was fined and jailed as 105 others face trial for violating a court injunction. Negotiations may continue if a Negro member joins the three man committee and charges against demonstrators are reconsidered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
William L. Geoghegan
Justice Department
Corporation Court
Julian R. Stinson
Danville Christian Progressive Association
Corporation
Supreme Court bars Bible reading and Lord’s Prayer in public schools
The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that mandatory Bible reading and recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in public school opening exercises are unconstitutional. The decision, with Justice Tom C. Clark writing for the majority, allows permissive or secular approaches while barring establishment of these exercises by majority rule. Justice Potter Stewart dissented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Tom C. Clark
Congress
Potter Stewart
New York
Clark
William J. Brennan Jr
Maryland Court of Appeals
Madalyn Murray
William
Baltimore
Court rulings on school prayer trigger wide church reaction
Church leaders split after the Supreme Court ruled that states may not require religious exercises in public schools. Some see a reaffirmation of constitutional safeguards, while others warn of secularization and loss of parental rights in education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
America
Russian Boy Dips But Duo Spins Along
The Tass news agency reports Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky lost altitude on the fourth day of his space flight while his female crewmate Valentina Tereshkova continued in her Vostok 5 capsule. Televised images showed Tereshkova fatigued yet cheerful as orbit data shifted for both craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
Valery Bykovsky
Valentina Vereshkova
Tass
Izvestia
Bykovsky
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
Miss Tereshkova
Macmillan Survives Confidence Vote Amid Scandals
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan won a tight 321 to 252 confidence vote in the House of Commons after a fierce attack over the Profumo Keeler sex and security scandal and party defections. He is expected to step down soon, possibly this summer, as conservatives push for a younger leader to restore the party image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
House of Commons
Eastern Kentucky UMW hospital bill advances in House
The bill to create non profit regional hospital corporations and allocate 700000 for indigent care passed first reading in the Kentucky House amid Gov. Combs push to prevent the closing of five UMW hospitals in Eastern Kentucky. A federal 39 million grant supports a non profit takeover plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Eastern Kentucky
House
Bert Combs
General Assembly
United Mine Workers
Eastern
Kentucky
Combs
UMW
United Presbyterian Church Board of Missions
House Rules Committee
R. P. Moloney
Lexington
Senate
Macmillan under fire over Profumo scandal and security failures
Labor leader Harold Wilson accused Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of grave dereliction and inadequacy in handling the Profumo affair, calling Britain’s scandal the century’s most sensational. Wilson urged full disclosure as MPs demanded information the security services failed to pass on regarding Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macmillan
Labor Party
Harold Wilson
Britain
John Profumo
Profumo
Christine Keeler
Stephen Ward
Miss Keeler
Yevgeni Ivanov
Wilson
Parliament
Princeton Man Waived On Murder Charge In Slaying
Princeton man Gilmer Gene Farley 21 waived to the Mercer County grand jury on a murder charge for the pistol slaying of Emmett Martin 26 in Martin’s Mercer Street apartment. Farley was arrested near the Mercer County Courthouse after a pickup was put out and remained jailed without bond. Martin was shot five times as he stood in his bathroom doorway. Farley admitted the shooting but the .25 caliber pistol was not recovered. Survivors include his parents and six siblings. funeral arrangements pending at Memorial Funeral Directory in Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilmer
Gene Farley
Princeton
Mercer County Grand Jury
Emmett Martin
Mercer Street
Farley
Turnpike
Ken Ellis
Mercer County
J. L. Adkins
Adkins
Weap
Martin
Hardy
Ellis
Mason Martin
Lucille Graham
Pipestein
Rosetta Keffer
Gertrude Lord
Baltimore
Raynard Martin
Fairmont
Woodrow Martin
Senators pressure Rusk for tougher Europe on trade aid
Senate Foreign Relations Committee pressed Secretary of State Dean Rusk to demand greater European confessions on trade and aid. Senators Morse Symington Sparkman urged substantial cuts in the 4.5 billion foreign aid and more help from Europe for developing regions. Rusk defended rising U S and NATO contributions and pledged to negotiate for removal of Common Market farm restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Msgr
John Voight
Archdiocese of New York
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Secretary of
Dean Rusk
United States
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
U.S
Europe
Africa
Asia
Latin America
John J. Sparkman
D-Ala
Rusk
Congress
Morse
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Two Youngsters Die After New River Drowning
Oak Hill West Virginia AP two children Sammy Howington 12 and Elizabeth Howington 8 drowned in the New River at Thurmond Fayette County Sunday afternoon Elizabeth fell in while playing friends Sammy jumped in to save her both drowned rescuers continued dragging Sunday afternoon and all day Monday recovering the bodies Monday evening Parents Mr and Mrs Herbert Howington of Greentown near Oak Hill, WV.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
W.va
New River
Thurmond
Fayette County
Sammy Howington
Elizabeth
Sammy
Herbert Howington
Greentown
Bradshaw Miner Bitten by Copperhead at Church Service
A 35 year old coal miner from Bradshaw sustained three copperhead bites while at a church service in Jolo McDowell County He was bitten Sunday night and reported in good condition Monday by authorities Steve Webb was the patient and he received medical attention promptly
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jolo (Ap
Jolo
McDowell County
Steve Webb
Bradshaw
Terse sweep of national events from court rulings to space outlooks
The Supreme Court holds eight to one that Bible readings are not required in public school classrooms. President Kennedy campaigns bipartisan civil rights support and aims for an interfaith committee. Dirksen notes an area of agreement while Macmillan faces Parliament backlash over a sex and security scandal. Bykovsky’s space mission struggles, and Rusk pressed for European concessions. Pope John buried in Rome as college and state funding priorities rise. Gene Farley waives to grand jury for Emmett Martin slaying. Farley admits the shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Supreme Court
Kennedy
Congress
Senate
Everett Dirksen
Danville
Robert Kennedy
Macmillan
Britain
Bykovsky
Dean Rusk
Europe
Pope John
Rome
Concord College
Bluefield
State Board of Education
Concord
Gene Farley
Princeton
Grand
Emmett Martin
J. L. Adkins
Farley
Hoover Shows Improvement Amid Serious Illness
Former President Herbert Hoover, 88, remained gravely ill at Waldorf Towers after cancer surgery and GI bleeding. Doctors reported slight improvement with a cooler fever and more regular heart action, though overall condition stayed very serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Waldorf Towers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Torn
Ezell Barksdale
A. M. Aiken
Carol McCrorey
Peoria
Ill
Illinois Chiropractor Assn
Carol
Illinois
St. Louis
Majority
Stewart Lane
Pinion
THE
Associated Press
Franklin Clary Fry
Lutheran Church In America
Central Committee
World Council of Churches
Acts With
Ward
Miss Keller
Abby Tees
Graham
Comics Society
John Moore
Lee Moore
Chicago
Bernetta
Moore
David
John
Princetonian
Norfolk and Western
J. E. Parsons
Steve Kassay
W. R. Hedrick
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!