One man one vote doctrine extends to Midland case
The Supreme Court has extended the one man one vote principle to local elections, as in Midland County Texas. Justice White led the decision, asserting equal protection requires equal voting rights in local districts. Dissenting Justice Fortas warned rural votes could be swallowed by the ruling. The piece notes 81,253 local units may need to reevaluate districts to ensure equal voting power.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Senate of the
United States
Senate
Alaska
New York
Midland
Hank Avery
Texas
Midland County Commissioners Court
Board of Supervisors
Virginia
Board of Commissioners
North Carolina
Midland County Board
Supreme Court
Byron White
Midland County
Ape Forras
Justice Fortas
Ambition and Heart Disease Risk Study Findings
A Bell System study of 270000 male employees led by Dr Lawrence E Hinkle at Cornell finds ambition and climbing the corporate ladder do not raise heart disease risk. Outcomes depend on body type smoking diet and education. College men show 30 percent lower disabling coronary disease incidence than noncollegiate peers.
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Bell System
Lawrence E. Hinkle
Cornell University
L. Hottand Warkney
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Reader Letter Questions King Editorial Tone
A correspondent challenges a local newspaper editorial on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and its portrayal of his killer. The writer defends deification of King by supporters while condemning the editorials as hypocritical and incendiary, urging reflection on portrayal and responsibility.
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Martin Luther King
Dr. King
Danville Register Classified Rates and Credits
The Danville Register lists subscription rates and delivery options with weekly 35 cent Carrier and 6 cent copies. It details Sunday and daily mail plans including annual and quarterly terms and notes AP rights and republication terms for news dispatches.
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Alyard
Associated Press
Clean Own Backyard First To the Editor
A Caswell County reader chides a Danville radio station branded as charity minded for a new effort to aid locals. The writer, Mrs J Louie Oakley of Providence NC, argues the station should fix its own city’s issues before assisting Caswell and laments being called underprivileged.
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Caswell County
Big D
Danville
Pittsylvania County
Caswell Cou
Old North
J. Louie Oakley
Providence
N. C
The Church Must Be Gathered to Worship and Act
Harvey Cox, a leading American theologian, voices second thoughts about a church that stays cloistered. He argues in a national magazine that activism without discipleship is not church and that worship must be balanced with engagement in the world to celebrate and do the things Christ commanded.
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Harvey Cox
Mr. Cox
Jesus
Realiza
Martin Luther
God
Squeeze on Javits as Conservatives and Liberals Press
A Washington style political sketch notes Senator Jacob Javits faces a multi front squeeze. The New York Conservative Party led by Jim Buckley pursues the Senate line while Liberal Party factions split over Vietnam policy with Murray Baron challenging Javits. Dem Nickerson looms, Bobby Kennedy could boost him, and McCarthy supporters mockingly adopt new alias Eugene. The piece ends urging Palm Sunday church celebration and reflection.
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Jacob Javits
New York
U.S. Senate
Conservative Party
Jim Buckley
Bill Buckley
Gene McCarthy
Vietnam
Jack Javits
Senate
Liberal Party
Labor Party
U.S
New York City
Murray Baron
LBJ
Javits
Baron
Hubert Humphrey
Conservative
Nassau
Long Island
Eugene Nickerson
Nickerson
Bobby Kennedy
Bobby
Tavils
Skull Valley Sheep Die After Nerve Gas Drift
In Skull Valley near the Great Salt Lake Desert over 6400 sheep perished within hours from a drifting nerve gas linked to a Dugway Proving Ground incident. The piece reflects on chemical warfare testing since 1942, the dangers of gas spread, and the ethical weight of using such agents in war and deterrence, with memories of the Dugway facility and its isolation.
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Skull Valley
Great Salt Lake Desert
Dugway Valley
Dugway
Napalm Co. Cid
Grantis
Chemical Warfare Service
Exno
Oll
Tedain
Vietnam
Mustard
America
Europe
Asia
Yalu
Pacific Islands
Great
Salt Lake Desert
Skull Country
Week of political surprises reshapes 1968 race
Ralph de Toledano surveys a burst of developments as McCarthy supporters claim movement toward legitimacy while Kennedy and Nixon jockey for position. Wallace's prospects dim but the field remains unsettled with Reagan and Rockefeller weighing renewed bids. The piece notes Johnson's potential draft, Nixon's antiwar stance versus LBJ, and shifting Republican dynamics as Bobby Kennedy looms.
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Wallace
Washington
Nixon
Mr. McCarthy
Bobby Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
George Wallace
Bobby
White House
Gene McCarthy
Johnson
Ronald Reagan
California
Rockefeller
Reagan
Mc Reagan
Kennedy
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Ralph de Toledano
Eugene McCarthy
GOP
Nelson Rockefeller
Richard
Alabama
Mr. Wallace
Mr. Nixon
Cresee
Dick Nixon
Olitzkreig
Tim
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