Rockefeller Has 80 Votes In New York
Albany New York Gov Nelson A Rockefeller secured formal commitment from at least 80 of the state's 92 Republican National Convention delegates and alternates to back his presidential bid and platform. The meeting produced 77 pledged votes with three absentees—Sens Javits and Keating, and Rep Lindsay—also backing Rockefeller, ensuring broad support as San Francisco convention opens.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
GOP
Fred A. Young
San Francisco
Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Vincent J. Walsh
Garden City
Goldwater
U.S
Jacob K. Javits
Kenneth B. Keating
John Lindsay
Local Mental Care Centers Urged in North Carolina
Dr. Eugene A. Hargrove, commissioner of Mental Health, urged a statewide system of community level mental care centers including diagnostic clinics, day care, rehab, education facilities, halfway houses, shelters, and foster homes at an Academic Assembly in Morganton during Western Carolina Center dedication. W. P. Kemp said the center will continue its historic role aiding the severely retarded and coordinate with 36 counties to meet handicapped children's needs.
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Morganton
N.C
North Carolina
Mental Health Department
Eugene A. Hargrove
Western Carolina Center
Hargrove
W. P. Kemp
North Carolina Board of Mental Health
Western Carolina
St Augustine March Disorder Amid Sit In And Arrests
In St Augustine Florida police arrested five white males amid marchers vagrancy charges as King led about 200 demonstrators in a third night of sit ins with 17 others jailed later. In Greensboro North Carolina Eugene A Gordon and others pledged to take the oath as County authorities reported two white youths detained for disorderly conduct while a trooper was soaked with a stinging liquid.
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ST. Augustine
Fla
Volun
King
St. Johns County
Martin Luther King Jr
Atlanta
Greensboro
N.C
Eugene A. Gordon
Burling
U.S
Succeedstration
Ing Richardson Preyer
Kenneth Boatright
Edwin M. Stan
Highway Patrol
Wassley
Preyer
North Carolina
Price payments not revealed in cotton program
Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman said the department will not disclose the exact amount of price-equalization payments to individual users of cotton. Under the new cotton program payments go to domestic textile mills and other raw cotton users.
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Waoundly
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Department
Appalachia Highway Plans Made Public
The Bureau of Public Roads details routes linking Asheville to Atlanta Columbus and other cities as part of a planned Appalachian highway system. Powell K Bridwell, acting deputy federal highway administrator, cites cheap cotton export subsidy payments tied to foreign competitors since 1956. Freeman said states will report payments, not individual concerns, at a House subcommittee hearing.
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Asheville
N.C
Atlanta
Columbus
Ohio
Bureau of Public Roads
Appalachia
Powell K. Bridwell
Peach Crop Drops To Thirteen Percent Of 1963 Yield
RALEIGH AP North Carolina's peach crop will total about 200,009 bushels this year, only 13 percent of the 1963 harvest of 1,500,000 bushels due to destructive spring frosts. The Federal State Crop Reporting Service provides the estimate.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Federal
Route talks linked to Appalachian development plan
Taouuiguvu and Bridwell described two major road routes aiming to link Asheville with Columbus and Atlanta with Chattanooga near Interstate 40. They said these corridors would become key north south arteries benefiting Eastern Tennessee Western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky with recreational land and forestry development under President Johnson's Appalachian Development program.
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Asheville
Columbus
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Bridwell
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Tenn
President Johnson
Sabotage Defendants Given Life Sentence
In Smithfield North Carolina an AP report notes multiple defendants were sentenced to life terms after a case involving a beauty school student killed and dragged into a cornfield. Miss Marshall’s body was found east of Clayton after a conflict linked to the Olive branch. evidence and questions remained unresolved.
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Smithfield
N.C
Pneto
S. Marshall
Alice Marshall
Depu
Sherif Howard
Garylord Oliver
Miss Marshall
Clay __ ton
South Africa Crowns Eight Executed Opponents
In a controversial trial eight men were sentenced including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu among African national leaders. Dennis Goldberg, an engineer, and Ahmed Kathrada were among the defendants. The Security Council urged the government to spare further executions as a ninth defendant was acquitted.
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South Africa
U.N. Security Council
Taco Avquiyere
Nelson Mandela
Walter Sisulu
Dennis Goldberg
Ahmed Kathrada
Tar River Basin Hearing Set in Rocky Mount
An Army Engineers hearing on Tar River basin development will be held in Rocky Mount North Carolina on August 1. The event aims to discuss plans and potential impacts for the basin project with officials and the public in attendance.
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Tar River Basin
Rocky Mount
N.C
Tar River
North Carolina
Army Engineers
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