A&P Restructures Units for Faster Local Decision Making
In New York, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co announces major decentralization. 4723 stores will be organized into 43 autonomous U.S. divisions across four regions Eastern Central Southern Western with regional V-Ps and GMs to speed local buying, distribution and sales decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc
Melvin W. Alldredge
A&p
United States
Canada
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Limited
U.S
Alldredge
Reminded of Commitment to Peace by Quaker Friends
In Whittier California Nixon and family attended school events as about 35 Quaker friends carried placards in rain from Whittier High School to Whittier College. They held a two hour vigil urging world peace noting the Quaker opposition to war and hoping for a real peace during a Quaker president’s term.
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Whittier
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
Friends
Whittier High School
Whittier College
Nixon
Religious Society of Friends
Ann Rush
Quakers For Action
Shaw trial jury selection begins in Kennedy assassination case
In New Orleans 169 citizens are summoned for possible jurors as Clay Shaw faces charges of conspiring to murder President Kennedy. The courthouse is tightly guarded and Deputy sheriffs screen spectators while prosecutors play a delayed trial tactic. The case centers on a theory of a Kennedy conspiracy rather than lone gunman.
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Dill Urwer
Associated Press
New Orleans
Clay Shaw
Dist
Atty
Dim Garrison
John F. Kennedy
Edward A. Haggerty Sr
Shaw
Dallas
Criminal District
Asst. Dist. Atty
James L. Alcock
Garrison
Haggerty
Alcock
U.S. Alty
Ramsey Clark
Kennedy
New Contract at El Dorado NMRADO Ark
A new contract was agreed Saturday between American Oil Co and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International union. Local 5444 members at El Dorado refinery ended their strike and planned to return to work today. The union had been on strike since January 4.
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Bheyee WO
American Oil Co
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
el Dorado
OCAW
Obituaries and a political autopsy report dominate local notices
The death notices list Mrs Lila Bennett at 86 in a Maysville Oklahoma nursing home with ties to Hempstead and Nevada counties and a survivor niece in Hope. Walter D Sipes, 58, a lifelong Columbus resident and retired farmer, dies in a Shreveport VA hospital, survived by siblings in Prescott Napa Hooks and Boonesville with funeral services in Herndon Chapel. A Shaw trial briefing notes Clark’s expert panel upholding autopsy findings that Kennedy bullets came from above behind, challenging Alcock and defense claims of front and rear shots.
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Lila Bennett
da Bennett
Maysville, Oklahoma
Hempstead
Nevada
Glen Fincher
Hope
Walter D. Sipes
Shreveport
Columbus
Gerald Carter
Prescott
Tommy Edward
Napa
California
Him
John Sipes
Hooks
Texas
Fred Sipes
Boonesville
Herndon Chapel
Columbus Cemetery
Herndon Funeral Home
Shaw
Clark
Garrison
Alty
Alcock
Inaugural Address Sparks Praise and Mixed Reactions
Washington AP report notes President Nixon's inaugural speech drawing broad praise from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for its peace emphasis, while critics like Rev Ralph Abernathy faulted it for lacking urgency on hunger poverty and race. Soviet leaders send congratulations signaling desire for improved relations. In Minnesota a police officer and wife welcome a son and a daughter five minutes apart. Redmond Washington reports two Great Danes shot after killing poultry.
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Nixon
Kremlin
Soviet Union
United States
Congress
White House
Washington
Richard Nixon
Capitol Hill
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Arkansas
Foreign Relations Committee
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Muskie
Nikon Progratig
Beford
Gerald Ford
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Pogsgorny
Duluth
Minn
Clinton Bragg
St. Luke's Hospital
Redmond
Wash
Dante Morelli
Tito Morelli
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tUittle Rock University
Guy Jones
Conway
State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
ABC
ABC, Sons
Clarence Bell
Parkins
W. K. Ingram
West
Memphis
Arkansas Legislative Council
State Supreme Court
Little Rock
Jimmy D
Hunt
John Miller
Leon Holsted Y
Attorney General's ‘Office
Lacy Sanders
N. B
Nap” Murphy
Charles Honey
Bernice Kiger
Lamar Dingsler
Jimmie Don McKissack
B. G. Hen Jane
Albany
Albuquerque
Atlanta
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Boise
Aston
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Menver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Honoluluy
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Louisville
Los Angeles
Miami
Milwaukee
St.p
Onda
City
Winnipeg
City and Parks Commission
John Sink
Honey
Senate
Oscar Alagood
Publicity and Parks Commission
State Parks, Recreation and Travel Commission
Robert Harevey
Swifton
Carl Sorrell
Atkins
Ingram
Fred Stafford
Marked Tree
Dan T. Sprick
Humane Societies
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Tricia
Johnson
Air Force
Austin
President Johnson and Family
Minneapolis
Burlington
Robert Mattingley
Red River
J. W. Rowe
Lion’s Club
Town & Court
Try
Rowe
Magnolia
DeQueen
Bob Kellam
Lioness Wagoner of
McCaskill
Lion Elmer Wagoner
Vung Tau
Saigon
Long Son Island
U.S. Army
Duncan
Frank King
Star Camera J
W, Rowe
STAR
Oheetary
el Dorado Nmrado
Greenaway
Ares Bate Galeries
Yee
Dorothy Parkins
Calloway “ PrIce
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