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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1966
Page
16
AP reports a further one percent cut in the U.S. auto excise tax took effect, topping a series of reductions aimed at expanding demand. Dealers issue new price stickers reflecting the lower tax and refunds on floor stock continue for earlier cuts.
Virginia report notes a Southampton Prison Farm inmate Jesse Joe Joyce, 21, died en route to State Penitentiary Hospital after allegedly drinking cleaning fluid. Four other farm inmates were hospitalized. one in serious condition. A sixth prisoner reportedly drank the fluid but was not ill. The farm serves youthful first felons and misdemeanants. Also from Virginia Beach, Sen. A Willis Robertson announced a Norfolk Naval Shipyard project to modernize the guided missile frigate Farragut at about 380 million dollars, to start in 1967 and last two years. In Norfolk a City Council candidate questioned Nervi’s licensing to draw the cultural center master plan, challenging a contract up to 15 thousand dollars. In Nansemond County Circuit Court action seeks testimony from Rev. Carl Lee Ousley in a divorce hearing citing 1962 act protecting ministers from being compelled to testify about information given in spiritual counsel.
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund plans a 2 million dollar budget for 1966 up from 1.7 million in 1965 and expects to file landmark civil rights cases. Director-counsel Jack Greenberg says the times will spur demonstrations as the 1966-67 school year nears and criticizes federal enforcement. The fund will push lawsuits in employment education health care and justice areas, targeting discrimination in the South and expansion of desegregation efforts nationwide.
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