Danville Tobacco Market opens with optimistic prices
Growers anticipate a prosperous 1974 season as Danville opens its tobacco sales amid rising prices. Georgia Florida markets report average 1.04 per pound, with top bids to 1.15. All segments endorse a new USDA warehouse designation program aimed at equitable price supports and orderly sales over a 17 week season.
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Danville
Georgia-Florida
North Carolina
Upstalk
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Pittsylvania
Virginia
USDA
Stratford College Closes After 122 Years as Memorial Hospital Purchases
Memorial Hospital buys Stratford College ending its 122 year run as an educational institution. Trustees chair Dr Glenn Updike Jr said Stratford would die with dignity while honoring debt. Faculty and students find new roles and memorabilia is properly dispositioned.
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Memorial Hospital
Stratford College
Glenn B. Updike Jr
Stratford
Memorial
Hunter Grumbles
Greece Faces Slow Return to Democracy in Uneasy Peace
Athens hovers between civilian and military rule as politicians and generals clash over governance. Troops may stay in barracks, limiting leftist protests and Cyprus concessions. Monarchists question Constantine’s return. elections are hoped to decide the issue. Smoking shifts with men down and women up. Antiques rush to fuel Bicentennial demand.
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Athens
Cyprus
Kilpatrick Urges Republicans to Reassess Nixon Fallout
James E. Kilpatrick argues the House impeachment drive fractures the Republican Party and risks conservative gains. He estimates 20 million Nixon supporters remain mobilized, viewing impeachment as a conspiracy and warning their impact on future elections.
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House of Representatives
Richard Nixon
Mr. Nixon
Nixon
Legion
M. Caldwell Butler
Virginia
John M. Ashbrook
Ohio
Untouchables and the call for touched lives
A pastor recalls a college girl who brought twenty five residents of Whitten Village to a campus band concert. He links Jesus touching the untouchable leper to modern acts of reaching out to the marginalized including the elderly, poor, mentally handicapped, and pregnant teens, urging compassionate action over pious sentiment. He warns political anger could erase moderates and push toward a liberal landslide, calling for sobriety and long term responsibility.
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Whitten Village
Rip
Jesus
Mark
Aeeper
Buckley on Nixon Impeachment and Press Role
William F Buckley Jr reflects on the Judiciary Committee fallout, praising the committee’s defensible verdict and outlining three charges against Nixon: coverup, abuse of power, and contumacy. He notes media influence, contrasts judicial processes, and urges citizens to separate the man from the office as the impeachment process unfolds.
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Nixon
Judiciary Committee
Watergate
Execution Square
Senate
Justice Department
House of Representatives
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick
PRI
CUA
Huston
House
Supreme Court
Congress
Richard Nixon
Republic
Moment of Rage and Pity in Nixon Watergate Portrait
Jeffrey Hart contrasts two key Nixon moments in the Watergate crisis. The president erupts in outrage after the burglary, throwing an ashtray and cursing those involved. Later, transcripts reveal a shaded pity, revealing self perception as a victim and sympathy for aides implicated, while preserving loyalists and protecting allies.
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Edmond Goncourt
M. Caldwell Butler
Virginia
Harald Froelich
Wisconsin
Walter Flowers
Alabama
James Mann
South Carolina
ITT
Cambodia
Nixon
James St. Clair
Rodino Committee
Charles Colson
Key Biscayne
John Mitchell
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Mitchell
Adams
Watergate
Christ
United States
Danville Daily Subscription Rates and Terms
The Danville Register lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday delivery by carrier at 50 cents a week, and by mail at one year for 20 dollars, six months ten 50, three months five 25, and one month 1 75. Notices are mailed 10 days before expiration and renewals should be promptly addressed.
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Greece
Constantine
James E. Kilpatrick
McGovern
L.D. Johnson
Furnun Tini
Senator Soaper
Air Force
Shotgun Schultz
Butler
Ashbrook
Rault
Organized Labor
William F. Buckley Jr
Jeffrey Hart
H.R. Haldeman
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