Republicans Elect District Officers and Delegates in Stormy GOLDSBORO Meeting
In GOLDSBORO NC Republicans from five of nine district counties elected district officers national convention delegates and a presidential elector at a stormy convention. Contested votes for San Francisco delegates sparked heated exchanges with Dunn of Sampson County challenging results and later withdrawing to seek harmony. Clifton and Kornegay were chosen as delegates with alternate delegates named, plus a re elected district chair Everett Peterson and other officers. The presidential elector is Ed Cox of Wayne and a state executive slate was named. About 75 Republicans attended.
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Goldsboro
N.C
Repubicans
San Francisco
Joe Dunn
Sampson County
Hervey Kornegay
Duplin
Dennis H. Clifton
Sampson
al Otter
Dunn
Clifton
Kornegay
Sale Oer
Otter
Harmony
Rachel Sessons
Ed Cox
Wayne
P. B. Lockerman
A. L. Butler
Owen Matthis
A. L. Wilson
Carteret
John W. Cowe
Pamlico
P. G. May
R. A. Wilkins
Steven Wilkins
Virginia Constitution Amended For Private Tuition Grants
Virginia's constitution was amended to allow state funds to be paid as tuition grants for education at nonsectarian private schools. The 40 delegates at the three day convention unanimously proclaimed the amendment aimed at enabling the Gray Education Commission plan to avoid forced integration in public schools.
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Richmond
Virginia
Gray Education Commission
Rocky Mount Eyes Move for Louisburg College
A Rocky Mount committee aims to relocate Louisburg Junior College, a Methodist coed school of about 400, for possibly a four year senior college. A Rocky Mount delegation will meet Bishop Paul Garber in Durham as discussions continue. Louisburg College, founded 1787, is the oldest Methodist supported college.
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Louisburg
Leon Russell
First Methodist Church
Rocky Mount
Durham
Paul Garber
Louisburg Junior College
Breeze detergent boosts supply with Cannon towels in every box
Mrs. Checkley explains she never runs out after switching to Breeze. Each Regular size box includes a pastel Cannon face cloth while Giant Economy packs contain a Cannon kitchen towel. Breeze is pitched as the premium family wash and Levey Brothers offers replacements if unsatisfied.
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Breeze
Mrs. Checkley
Levey Brothers
Police Probe Slaying of Dayton Doctor
Dayton detectives faced a blank wall in the murder of Dr. James H. Gunn after a confession by 27 year old Donald Williams was deemed phony. Gunn was shot through his living room window last Sunday in Dayton.
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Dayton
Ohio
Donald Williams
James H. Gunn
Law to Restrict Negro Voting Backfiring in Louisiana
MIDEN Louisiana. Mrs. Winnice P. Clement Webster Parish registrar says a voter literacy test intended to restrict Black voters is backfiring as about two dozen white voters fail versus only two Black voters on technicalities. She notes more Negroes register this year, but so do more whites, with pressure from Citizen Councils and the parish police jury, while she maintains she follows the letter of the law.
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Miden
Louisiana
U. S
Winnice P. Clement
Webster Parish
Clement
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