George A Myers Jr remembered as Danville doer and promoter
Long obituary highlights George A Myers Jr a driving force in tobacco trade civic projects and museum dreams. He helped stabilize Danville’s tobacco market, led beautification efforts with City Beautiful and Keep Virginia Beautiful, built a major tobacco collection that spurred a museum, and earned the 1973 Kiwanis Citizenship Award before his death.
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George
George A. Myers, Jr
Danville
George ‘Myers
Jack Neal
Sonny” Myers
Neal
Myers-Neal Association
Myers
Thomas H.brown
Danville Tobacco Association
Nat Terry
DTA
Terry
Association
Charles K. Waddell
Old Belt
City Beautiful Commission
Keep Virginia Beautiful
Virginia Tobacco Company
Lynn Street
George Myers
Kiwanis Club
National Tobacco-Textile Museum
Amateurs Create Hit $1 Movie House in Memphis
In Memphis Tennessee a new entertainment bargain draws crowds with a $1 double feature a cartoon a serial attraction and inexpensive snacks. A second Movie House followed the first opening last spring. The venture is run by three novices an attorney and an air conditioning firm employee and another person all new to theater business and they are profitable. The piece notes amateurs often discover new ideas by not following accepted rules.
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Memphis
Tennessee
Captain Marvel
Flash Gordon
Humphrey Wallace ticket chatter stuns Alabama crowd
John Chamberlain reports in Las Vegas Humphrey, visiting for housing talks, suggested he would run for president with Gov. George Wallace if the party nominates Wallace. In Montgomery Wallace supporters react with shock and speculation over a possible Humphrey Wallace ticket.
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Montgomery
Ala
Birmingham News
Las Vegas
National Savings and Loan League
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
George Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Franco and Spain's Valley of the Fallen legacy
A reflective essay argues Franco's interment in the Valley of the Fallen symbolizes postwar Spain. It weighs his long rule, repression, and peacetime achievements, noting Western ties, limited democracy, and ongoing civil tensions. The piece shifts to U S politics and Wallace LBJ reflections, then oil politics with OPEC and Soviet interests.
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Francisco Franco Bahamonde
Madrid
Franco
Eliot
Spain
West
Europe
America
France
Canary Islands
OPEC
Moscow
U.S
Wallace
Republican Stew With Liberal Rabbits In Congress
Washington report on the House Republican blueprint for the Seventies. The plan mixes orthodox proposals with liberal concessions, praising a food stamp reform by Michel and Buckley, while urging energy profits tax and a windfall levy. It notes omissions on SALT and schooling reforms and discusses White House influence on GOP policy.
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Republican Party
Bob Michel
Mlinois
James Buckley
New York
White House
Panama
Readers praise front page coverage on Obsessed-To Get Drunken Drivers Off The Road
A reader, John T. Hardy, commends the Sunday Register for its front page coverage of the story Obsessed-To Get Drunken Drivers Off The Road and praises the paper for sound editorial stands and timely issues.
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John T, Hardy
Ford Versus New York City in Buckley's Viewpoint
William F Buckley Jr argues the Ford NY clash is a national struggle not a personal feud. He highlights media reactions, exposes the city’s bond woes, and contends the real battle is between the real world and political rhetoric.
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Ford
New York City
Kennedy
Steel
New York Times
New York Daily News
CBS
NBC
ABC
UPI
David Rockefeller
Albert Shanker
Harriet van Horne
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Neville Chamberlain
Hendaye
Gibraltar
LBJ
Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
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Texas
John Connally
M. Stanton Evans
Washington
House of Representatives
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
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Congress
William F. Buckley Jr
Ford Vs
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Milky Way
Doctor Who
Labor Unions
Pullman Company
Roosevelt
Banks
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Little Rock
Arkansas
United States
Reston
Whatshisname Segretti
Honest John
New Hampshire
Nelson Rockefeller
John Lindsay
Newsweek Magazine
Standard and Poor
Lindsay
Senator Packwood
Senate Committee
Carey
Goldin
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