Payola Reports Ordered by House Investigators
House investigators ordered the FCC and FTC to report by early next month on steps taken to stamp out payola. Hearings set for March 3-4 will hear agency actions to date, with focus shifting from DJs and record firms to regulatory actions and charges against distributors. The hearings may touch on Philadelphia payola allegations as well.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Oren Harris
D-Ark
House
Legislative Oversight Subcommittee
Harris
FCC
FTC
Cleveland
Boston
Philadelphia
Crum's Last Stand Ends Against Wall
Everett Crum's 55 hour flight and hostage ordeal ended Saturday when state patrols cornered him in Cherry Fork Ohio. He had kidnapped former Manchester mayor Wilbur Trotter and fired on two officers before surrendering after threats and a failed escape bid.
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Wilmington
Ohio
Everett Crum
Wilbur Trotter
Manchester
Crum
Trotter
Adams County
Cherry Fork
Herbert Connor
Paul Duncan
Second Siamese Twin At Home With Family
Mrs James Stubblefield and her Siamese twins Denett and Jeanett are back home in Parma Idaho after successful separation surgery last October at the University of Oregon medical school. Denett returned December 16 and Jeanett joined the family last week, marking a moment when the sisters first reconnected.
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Parma
Idaho
James Stubblefield
Jeanett
Denett
Stubblefield
University of Oregon
Medical School
Portland
Desegregation Protests Hit Virginia Stores
In Richmond Virginia Union University students and other Negroes protested segregated lunch counters by sitdowns across downtown stores. Several outlets closed or suspended operations while white youths watched. Similar picketing occurred in Raleigh Norfolk and Portsmouth with limited disturbances.
Sitdown strike at Florida lunch counter sparks police action
In Tallahassee police broke up a Negro sitdown demonstration at a downtown white lunch counter. About a dozen demonstrators were taken to the police station after refusing to leave while cheering whites watched as Mayor Hugh Williams led officers to eject them. The students were from Florida A&M University.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Hugh Williams
Richmond
Samuel D. Proctor
Virginia Union University
Proctor
Florida A.&m. University
Two Races Drink Together In Raleigh Lunch Counter
Negro and white patrons drank coffee standing up at a Raleigh variety store while Shaw University and St Augustine's College students ended their picket at Kress. Stores on Fayetteville Street faced ongoing demonstrations at Woolworth McLellan Eckerd Walgreen and Hudson Belk with Eckerd still serving whites only behind no trespassing signs. Charlotte ministerial student Joseph Charles Jones urged merchants to fairness as sitdowns continued with public service cited as a right.
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Raleigh
Kress
Shaw University
St. Augustine College
St. Augustine's College
S. H. Kress
Shaw-St. Augustine's
Cornell Adams
Birmingham
D. C. Johnson
North Carolina
Fayetteville Street
Woolworth’s
McLellan’s
Eckerd’s
Walgreen's
Hudson-Belk
Charlotte
Joseph Charles Jones
Originators Of Sitdown Call It Off
Greensboro AP North Carolina A T College students halted sitdown demonstrations at segregated counters opting for peaceful negotiation. The Students Executive Committee for Justice said they speak for A T College students and raised questions about broader participation. F W Woolworth manager C L Harris had not decided on reopening the counter.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
A&t College
Students Executive Committee For Justice
A&t
C. L. Harris
F. W. Woolworth Co
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Payola Reports
Nyssa
Ore
High Point Enterprise
Trinity
Bob Royal
W. L. Dawkins Jr
Darr Field
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Virginia
S. S. Kresge Co
F. W. Woolworth
N. C
D.C. Johnson
Florida
Washington’s
N. Main ST
Ife
Launday
Ala
Lady Berkshire
Meg Marlow
Glamor Home
S. Wrenn ST
Niagara
Main St
High Point
Gliryer Tages
North Main
Cente Ee
Waar
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