Bus wreck in North Carolina kills ninth grader
A Buncombe County school bus plunged into a 50 foot ravine killing Marsha Ann Franklin 13 as about 35 to 49 pupils were aboard. The driver Douglas Baldwin 17 said passengers shouted before the bus left the road. Ambulances carried around 16 injured to St Josephs Memorial Mission Hospitals. The bus serves Red Oak Elementary and North Buncombe High School and the accident occurred near Madison County.
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Asheville
N.C
Buncombe County
Marsha Ann Franklin
North Buncombe High School Future Homemakers Association
Herman Sprouse
Marsha
Ard Franklin
Enka
Douglas Baldwin
St. Joseph's
Memorial Mission
Red Oak
North Buncombe High School
Madison County
J. H. Franklin
Rt. 1
Alexander
Glenn West Jr
West Funeral Home
Weaverville
Shirley Fisher
Federal suit by Hendersonville teachers dismissed
In Asheville AP report Judge J Braxton Craven dismissed a federal suit filed June 28 by Grace Chambers Doris Yvonne Greene and Mary Ann White and the North Carolina Teachers Association against the Hendersonville City Board of Education alleging racial discrimination in 1965-66 reemployment. A Morganton case against the county board was similarly ruled against. The suit sought an injunction to bar nonreemployment of Negro teachers for the 1965-66 and subsequent years due to race.
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Asheville
U. S
Hendersonville
Grace Chambers
Doris Yvonne Greene
Mary Ann White
North Carolina Teachers Association
Entrance Bill Up For Action
Washington AP Rep Emanuel Celler said a conference bill would be called for House action today to wipe out the national origins quota system and limit Western Hemisphere immigration. The measure would set 120,000 per year from Canada Mexico and other Western nations beginning July 1 1968 while admitting up to 170 000 overseas with family ties to U.S. citizens or with close kin in the United States.
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John Chadwick Washington
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Senate House Conference
House
Senate
Johnson
Canada
Mexico
U.S
Republicans deny Birch Society place in party
Washington AP reporting that Senate and House Republican leaders rejected the John Birch Society as part of the GOP. Dirksen and Ford called the group clandestine and not welcome, denying Morton’s claim of infiltration and urging removal of Birch members from party ranks. Morton defended his stance while Bliss and Kuchel avoided comment.
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Washington
Senate
House
John Birch Society
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Gerald 8. Ford
Michigan
Hej
GOP
Thruston B. Morton
Birch Society
Republican Party
Dirksen
Ford
Morton
Ku Klux Klan
Communist Party
Birch
Los Angeles
John H.rousselot
JBS
Ray C. Bliss
Thomas Kuchel
Calif
Mortona
Houston
White Jury Acquits Alabaman In Slaying
In Hayneville Alabama a jury of 12 white men acquitted special Deputy Sheriff Thomas L Coleman of manslaughter in the killing of white civil rights worker Jonathan M Daniels. The deliberations lasted two hours total, with the panel afterward shaking hands as they were discharged. The case arose after Daniels, an Episcopal seminary student from Keene New Hampshire, was shot near a Hayneville grocery store on August 20. Law defense argued self defense contending Daniels and Rev Richard Morrisree were armed. the jury verdict carries a possible sentence of one to 10 years. The judge postponed a separate civil rights trial to October 18 and rescheduled later Klansman Wilkins case.
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Hayneville
Ala
Thomas L. Coleman
Jonathan M. Daniels
Montgomery
C. E. Gates Jr
Kelly
Lowndes County
Coleman
Episcopal Seminary
Keene, N. H
Richard Morrisree
Chicago
Thagard
Kins Jr
Wilkins
Five More Executions Planned in South Viet Nam Friday
South Vietnamese officials reportedly plan five additional executions Friday despite Viet Cong threats against American prisoners. Convicted criminals, including murder and rape cases, are listed as the targets. public executions have not yet occurred.
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N Wall
Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Faree
Red China defies foes on eve of 16th birthday
Foreign Minister Chen Yi in Peiping declares China would welcome an invasion by the United States and allies. He taunts rivals from India to Britain and urges African and Asian nations to build nuclear weapons. He sets tough UN terms, demanding withdrawal of the Korean War resolution and admission of all independent nations.
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TOKYG
China
Chen Yi
Peking
United States
U.S
United Nations
Students Help Out In Garbage Collection News
New York reports cities struggle with trash when workers are scarce. Little Rock hires bouncers to haul cans. 16 collectors short as six quit. Atlanta uses students, Miami workers strike over pay. Portland seeks reliable collectors, must lift 100 pounds and handle patrons diplomatically. San Francisco Brisbane ends waterfront dumping, Seattle seeks more dump space. Atlanta also uses prisoners to collect trash but risk of escape noted.
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New York
Little Rock
Ark
Atlanta
Stafford
Graydon
Miami
Dade County
Adam W. Wilson
Portland
Maine
San Francisco
Seattle
Brisbane
Alanta
Bruton asks 1967 assembly clarify school sales laws
North Carolina Attorney General Wade Bruton asks the 1967 General Assembly to clarify laws governing school sales at athletic events and selling instructional supplies. His new opinion lets schools continue selling soft drinks at games and enables limited insurance programs, extra pictures, magazine subscriptions, and candy sales to raise funds.
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Ambrose B. Dudley
Associated Press
Raleigh
Wade Bruton
General Assembly
Bruton
Ralph Moody
Charles F. Carroll
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Carroll
Parent Teachers Associations
Eiucle Clubs
Moody
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J. Braxton Craven
Nguyen Cao Ky
Harold Bennett
Perryville
da Nang
Humbert R. Versace
Baltimore, Md
Kenneth M. Roraback
Fayetteville
Red Cross
State Department
Communications Satellite Corp
Pacific
Hawaii
Midway Island
Esas
Atlantic
Robert J. McCloskey
Africa
Department
Toj
Foc
Viet Nam
Ei Red Cross
Geneva
Kanther
Hanoi
Nhangaroo
Dan
North Viet Nam
Redi
Comsat
Red China
Tovain
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