Danville Open draws large field and strong local support
The Danville Golf Club hosts the Virginia State Golf Association open with a record 154 competitors including 64 professionals and 9 amateurs across 54 holes. Local players from Danville, Two Rivers, Glen Oak and Cain Creek compete for honors as the course offers its best condition and challenging greens. In other news, Anwar Sadat recalled a 1960s claim that Libyan leader Muammar Khadafy ordered a submarine to sink the Queen Elizabeth 2, a warning tied to broader Arab tensions and unification talks in the region.
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Danville Golf Club
Virginia State Golf Association
Virginia
Danville
USGA
Alfred Smith
Dgc
Two Rivers
Cain Creek
Dan River
Riverside Drive
Tuscarora
Glen Oak
Simon Pure
Anwar Sadat
British Broadcasting Corporation
Sadat
Cairo
al Akhbar
Libyan
Muammar Khadafy
Libya
Khadafy
Egypt
Permissiveness and its price in teen out-of-wedlock births
A study links rising illegitimate births among teenage whites and blacks to looser social norms and welfare incentives. Among 14 year olds in 1968, 22 percent of whites became mothers before 20 with 25 percent unmarried, while 43 percent of black teens under 20 became mothers with 75 percent unmarried. More unwed mothers keep infants, driving human and financial costs borne by taxpayers.
Postscript To Con Son Tiger Cages Visit
John Chamberlain notes Thoreau warned against well meaning intrusions as congressmen Augustus Hawkins and William Anderson with Frank Walton toured Con Son prison off Vietnam. They reported tiger cages as disciplinary cells, though Walton did not witness the alleged scene.
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Con Son
Henry David Thoreau
Augustus Hawkins
D-Calif
William Anderson
D-Tenn
Frank E. Walton
Foreign Service
California
Vietnam
Florida
Frank Wallon
Guadalcanal
Walton
Phil Crane
Ill
Crane
Hawkins
Anderson
Washington Post
G. W. Montgomery
D-Miss
Frank Borman
Can Son
Crane- Walton
Borman
Montgomery
Frank Walton
Con
Thoreau
U.S
A Debate on Franco's Reign and Era of Peace
A critical look at Franco's rule notes mixed legacies including sustained domestic peace and economic growth, yet highlights abuses during the Civil War and 1934 Asturias uprising. It warns of a looming power vacuum after Franco's death and weighs Spain's political stability against authoritarian limits.
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Asturias
Oviedo
Franco
Malaga
Spain
George Washington
Ferdinand Isabella
Frances
Quemoy mission nun tests faith amid China crisis
Russell Kirk contrasts Quemoy’s front lines with a complacent parish, praising Sister Madelaine Suenens and her Catholic hospital school work under Nationalist protection. He recalls nuns exiled from Peking, the martyrlike endurance of clergy, and urges readers to fund frontier missions rather than grand church buildings.
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Quemoy
Kinman
China
Amoy
United States
Kinman City
Jose Sanchez
Munich
Madelaine Suenens
Belgium
Madelaine
Peking
Sister Madelaine
Vietnam
Africa
Just What We Need An Interstate For Orange County
A satirical piece condemns a proposed 95 South interstate through Orange County. It warns drivers will face high speeds, scarce safety, and blight from interchanges. The essay suggests the road would modernize barriers between communities and promote discount goods and services.
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Orange County
95 South
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
The Man Behind The Reputation
Solzhenitsyn emerges as a towering figure whose life and works reveal a complex blend of intellect spirituality and moral strength. From a wartime captain to prisoner and exile his struggle shapes a prolific writer whose protest against injustice extends to universal questions of conscience and the human heart.
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Washington
D.C
Mexander
Solzhenitsyn
Switzerland
Baltimore
New York City
Yankee Stadium
Babe Ruth
Soviet Union
Stein and Day
New York
George Feifer
David Burg
London
Wiant
Alan
Imps
Montebanks
Caucasus
Rostov
Eastern Front
Stalin Secret Police
Hts
Stalin
Danville Daily Rates and Renewal Notice
The Danville Register lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday delivery by carrier and mail. In city and suburbs the rate is 50 cents per week with single copies at 10 cents. Sunday only is 20 cents. Mail rates are one year twenty dollars, six months ten dollars fifty cents, three months five dollars twenty five, and one month one dollar seventy five. Notice mailed ten days before expiration. renewals should be prompt.
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Republic
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Tel Aviv
Mideast
John Chamberlain
Cyprus
Jeffrey Hert
Bull Ring
Royal Plaza
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Popular Front
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Janco
Hitler
Gibraltar
Hendaye
Franeo
Fuehrer
Panzers
New York Times
Yale
Escorial
Devil's Island
Life Magazine
Russell Kirk
Madeelaine
People's Court
Jesus
Holmes Alexander
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