Bluefield Editorial Endorses Board Candidates Amid Critique
The Tazewell County area editorial blasts the local board for inaction on N&W train cuts and other projects. It endorses Victor De Vault, Robert Moore, Edwin Elliott, Leland Carter, Paul Myles, Allen Connolly, and opposes Henry Webb, urging informed votes to improve city governance.
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Cumberland Road
Edison Hollow
Norfolk & Western Railway
N&w
Board of Directors
Tazewell
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western
Victor R. de Vault
Robert W. Moore
District Two
Edwin Elliott
District Three
Leland Carter
G. W. Gills
Carter
Gills
Paul Myles
Lewis Cook
Myles
Allen Connolly
Henry Webb
Connolly
Critics Fire at Concord Professor's TV Appearance
A reader’s letter targets the West Virginia Service Corps director chosen by Secretary Rockefeller for sharp criticism of his TV debate performance. The author questions leadership, links to Bluefield State College campus protests, and calls for stronger church oversight and funding scrutiny.
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West Virginia Service Corps
Rockefeller
Bluefield State College
Dick Gregory
Moore
Laguer
United Methodist Church
Service Corps
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sunset News Observer
Russell J. Cousins
BSC Technical School
Russell Cousins
Cousins
Division of
Technical Science
Oath and Prayer in Public Life Reflected in Burger Ceremony
The piece contrasts the oath sworn by Chief Justice Warren E Burger with the public school ban on prayer. It recalls the 1962 Supreme Court decision against school prayer while noting Congress codifies federal oaths, and presents the full Chief Justice oath, ending with So help me God.
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Washington
Warren Earl Burger
United States
Supreme Court
New York State
Warren
Congress
Earl Warren
House
Senate
High Court
New York
U.S
Forces of Liberation
Warren Burger
England
Burger
Abe Fortas
American Bar Association
ABA
Dean Rusk
Averell Harriman
Vietnam
Paris
Rusk
Harriman
Army
District of Columbia
Emil Mosbacher
Exskipper
Black Manifesto fuels heated SNCC clashes and calls for revolution
The piece outlines James Forman leading protests in churches over a manifesto demanding reparations and black empowerment. It cites plans for economic, educational, and media institutions and hints at potential Justice Department action amid civil rights tensions. It includes Forman’s militant rhetoric and proposed armed confrontation rhetoric.
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James Forman
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
Justice Department
Forman
Southern Land Bank
Detroit
The
Inter-religious Foundation For Community Or
Ganizations
Black Economic Development Conference
U.S
Nixon Changes White House Style to Mark New Era
Washington reports describe President Nixon shaping a calmer, more memorized approach, distancing from LBJ in schedule control and visual cues. He removed LBJ era gadgets, trims pool habits, and relies on staff digests rather than daily newspaper reading for briefing.
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Washington
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
LBJ
Nixon
Secret Service
Johnson
White House
Au Naturel
Herb Klein
New Communications
Klein
Morton
Oval
Air Force One
Larmon
United States Information Agency
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Tricia
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Harvard University
Bowles
Russia
China
West Virginia
Consol News
Tazewell, Va
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Princeton
David Lawrence
Trrem 'Y
Robert Allen and
John Goldsmith
Drew Pearson
Sigurd Larmon
Young and Rubicam
Citizens For Eisenhower
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