Governor blocks July 2 Martin Luther King Day proclamation
Governor Harrison refuses to proclaim July 2 as Martin Luther King Day in Virginia, citing precedent and public nuisance. The piece criticizes Dr Kino and SLICE, notes Kin e’s controversial history in Danville and Petersburg, and warns proclamations are publicity gimmicks that cost officials time.
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Virginia
Harrison
Kino
Petersburg
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SLICE
Kine
Norfolk
Lynn Hott
Hott
Martin Luther Kine
Kaltenborn Dies at 79 After Long News Career
H V Kaltenborn died in a New York hospital after visiting his five grandchildren in Palm Beach. The veteran broadcaster, famous from the 1930s to the 1950s for live battlefield reporting and sharp analysis, remained active until age 79. His support for Nelson Rockefeller helped end his career.
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Palm Beach
New York
H. V. Kalten- Born
Kaltenborn
Walter Cironkite
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley
Kaltznborn
Mike
Nelson Rockefeller
Freeman Bread Tax Plan Targets Poverty With Bread Price Hike
The Johnson Administration backs a 10 percent bread tax via a domestic food certificates price rise to $1.25 a bushel, adding about 400 million annually to bread costs. Subsidies would shift to wheat growers, with most funds going to large farms, while many farmers receive little. Critics call it a war on poverty by bureaucratic policy.
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Johnson
Asia
Caribbean
Mr. Freeman
Congress
Freeman
U.S
Department of Agriculture
Danville Register Rates and Delivery Details
Danville Register announces subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions. In city and suburbs, carriers pay 35c weekly. Single copies are 6c. Mail rates: one year 15 dollars, six months 7.50, three months 3.75, one month 1.25.
Public thanks for city recreation helps local widows
A Danville letter to the Editor thanks the City Recreation Department for Stan Musial League entries and four weekly ball nights. The writer notes the benefit to families, the husband’s participation, and the joy of outdoor activities after long days, praising the program and those responsible.
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City Recreation Department
Danville
Dan
Fellows
Jean B. Motley
Gene Motley
How A Governor Can Help Industry In Space Age
Holmes Alexander argues that Governor Pat Brown uses Space Age talent to bolster California’s non defense industries. He highlights Kimberly Clark’s new mill in Anderson, water purification, and Brown’s collaboration with aerospace experts to shape growth beyond federal contracts. A Business Week survey cited California as a top state for expansion by 812 executives.
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Anderson
California
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
San Francisco
Kimberly - Clark Corporation
Golden State
Kimberly-Clark
Sacramento
California Uplands
John R. Kimberly
Goldwater
Udall
Business Week
Battle over small hospitals and modernized care
The piece argues that forcing big central hospitals at the expense of small, longtime voluntary facilities hurts low income patients. It cites St Francis Hospital in the Bronx facing closure, concerns about relocation hardship, and warns against bureaucratic drives for modernization that threaten humane, affordable local care.
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Bronx
St. Francis Hospital
Hospital Review and Planning Council
New York
Franciscan Sisters of Poor
St. Francis
Planning Council
St.Francis
Anthony Altieri
St. Francis’ Medical Board
John Chamberlain on the UN's twentieth birthday
As the United Nations marks twenty years, John Chamberlain argues the UN is powerless to enforce rules and often irrelevant in global crises. He notes past failures in Hungary Cuba and Vietnam, while acknowledging it remains a useful forum for diplomacy but not a true world power. He questions whether any speaker will deliver an honest, courageous speech at San Francisco.
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United Nations
UN General Assembly
Soviet
Russia
Korea
South Korea
Soviet Union
Security Council
Middle East
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Katanga
Glass House
Manhattan
East River
Khrushchev
Hungary
Cuba
Vietnam
OAI
Dominican Republic
U Thant
San Francisco
World Organization
United States
Subservient Congress Ready To Repeal 1 A b
William F Buckley Jr analyzes a push by House Education and Labor Committee chair Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr to attach repeal of Section 14B of the Taft Hartley Act to Civil Rights Act provisions. He critiques lobbying, party loyalties, and the politics of labor versus individual liberty, noting anticipated passage and filibuster dynamics in the Senate.
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Johnson
House Education and Labor Committee
Adam Clayton Powell Jr
Powell
Congress
Mr. Powell
Our Largest Cactus Faces Threats in Arizona Range
The nation’s largest cactus, the saguaro, is shrinking in parts of Arizona. Park Service studies show rodents kill most young saguaros, with coyotes proposed as possible allies to protect them. Cattle grazing and nurse-plant loss also threaten regeneration. saguaros grow slowly, reaching decades before rapid growth. President Hoover created Saguaro National Monument in 1933 for protection.
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Arizona
Hoover
Saguaro National Monument
National Park Service
Monument
Park Service
Robert M. Linn
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
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