Sylvester Calls Charges About News Policy Hogwash
Pentagon press chief Arthur Sylvester rejects claims of news management as hogwash and asserts he is a newsman delivering truth. He testifies for three hours to a House subcommittee on Defense Department information programs and defends reporting and access practices amid broader inquiries into censorship and wartime secrecy.
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Washington (Ap
Pentagon
Arthur Sylvester
Defense Department
Sylvester
House
Washington
Defense
Robert J. Manning
State Department
Congress
South
Viet Nam
George Meader
R-Mich
Free Press
Meader
Michigan
Ogden R. Reid
R-N.y
New York Herald Tribune
Reid
Union Dues Case Under Advisement
Supreme Court takes under advisement a 10 year dispute by 20 Charlotte area railway workers challenging the use of union dues for political purposes. Plaintiffs allege dues were used to fund campaigns and influence elections, while defense argues lack of stated opposition by workers.
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Charlotte
N.C
U. S. Supreme Court
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America
Southern Railway
Whiteford S. Blakeney
Blakeney
Milton Kramer
Washington
Kramer
Robert Case Cheats Gas Chamber Retrial Ordered
Robert Lee Case of Gastonia, 33, won a new trial after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a rehearing of his habeas corpus appeal in Eastern North Carolina. The case followed a conviction for rape in Gaston County and comments on a birthday rebirth. The court also ordered a new trial for Jesse Garfield Patton in Caldwell County for armed robbery due to denial of counsel.
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Raleigh
Robert Lee Case
Gastonia
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case
U.S. District Court For
North Carolina
Gaston County
Alexandria
Jesse Garfield Patton
Caldwell County
Patton
Sheriff In Fight At Moonshine Still In Morganton
Sheriff David Oaks knocked a knife-wielding suspect into a vat of scalding mash at a moonshine still site in Morganton North Carolina. Lee Lail suffered burns while James Furman Hallyburton and William Delmer Miller were also arrested. a fourth man escaped.
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Morganton
N.C
David Oaks
Sheriff Oaks
Lee Lail
Rt. 7
Oaks
Lail
Grace Hospital
James Furman Hallyburton
Rt. 1
William Delmer Miller
Rt. 3
Giant sequoias sprout from tiny oatlike seeds
The article notes that the giant sequoias begin life from small seeds that resemble rolled oats. It also mentions a parsec as an astronomical unit and awkwardly cites a large distance of about 19 trillion miles, equating 3,000 parsecs to large real measurements.
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Earth
No Spare Barrels
The story in Frankfort explains how bourbon aged in charred barrels after a slave accidentally started a fire in a cellar. The charred wood allegedly improved flavor, leading to barrels being reused and the practice becoming common.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
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