Ten-Year Sentences Handed Klansmen For Race Crimes
Two Ku Klux Klansmen, Joseph Howard Sims and Cecil W. Myers, were sentenced to 10 years in prison by U S District Judge William A Boo tle under an 1870 law for crimes against Negroes related to the 1964 killing of Lemuel A Penn near Athens Georgia. Bond set at 35000 each. A co defendant Herbert Gues received two years for selling unlicensed pep pills.
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Sanders Carter
Athens
USS
William A. Bootle
Joseph Howard Sims
Cecil W. Myers
Bootle
Sims
Myers
Lemuel A. Penn
Washington, D.C
Ft. Benning
Gaims
Penn
James Hudson
Herbert Gues
Udson
Johnson signs plane crash damage bill in Texas
President Johnson signed a bill compensating North Carolina farmers for crop damage from a B52G crash near Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. The payment of 14398 dollars goes to Charles T. Davis Jr., Sallie M. Davis, and Nora D. White for damage on their 169 acre Wayne County farm located near Goldsboro and Eureka.
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San Antonio
Tex
North Carolina
Air Force
Johnson
Charles T. Davis Jr
Sallie M. Davis
Nora D. White
Wayne County
Goldsboro
Eureka
Seymour Johnston Air Force Base
N.C
Davis-White Farm
King Rally Ties Chicago Civil Rights Drive to City Hall
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will headline a free speech rally at Soldier Field and a march on City Hall in Chicago to test support for his campaign. Speakers include King, two labor leaders, and James H. Meredith. Floyd McKissick declined attendance. The event, hosted by King’s SCLC and the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, aims for about 100 000 participants amid Chicago’s large Black community.
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Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
Soldier Field
City Hall
Dr. King
James H.meredith
Mississippi
Floyd McKissick
the of Racial Equality
Joseph H. Jackson
National Baptist Convention
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Coordinating Council of Community Organizations
Mutual Broadcasting System Sold to New Parent Company
New York AP report states Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing sold the Mutual Broadcasting System to Mutual Broadcasting Corp formed earlier as Mutual Industries Inc. Robert Hurleigh remains president and chief executive. John P. Fraim, new chairman, plans expansion in communications.
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NEW York
Mutual Broadcasting System
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co
Mutual Broadcasting Corp
Mutual Industries, Inc
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
John P. Fraim
L.M. Berry Co
Dayton
Ohio
Fraim
Robert F. Hurleigh
MBS
Neil F. Campbell
Los Angeles
George C. McConnaughey Jr
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LBJ
MBS Radio Network
Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics
Evelyn Wood
Carolina Inn
Chapel Hill
Jack Tar
Durham
YMCA
Hillsboro St
Raleigh
Public
Main St
High Point
Reading Dynamics Institute Greensboro
YWCA
Winston- Salem
Holiday Inn
N. Tryon Charlotte
Raleigh High Pointe
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Granville Towers
Reading Dynamics Insti. Ywca
Glade St
N. Tryon
Clip & Mail
Els
Noxzema
NEW Dawn
Tke
Aluminum
Haart
Lee Cream
RIN
Eastman
Woodbury
Cannister
BAYER
General Electric Steam & Dry
Mann
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