King Denies Communist Influence In Antiwar Movement
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr denies Freedom House claims that Communists influenced his antiwar mobilization. He calls the charges McCarthy like and insists the movement was led by patriotic Americans opposed to the Vietnam War. The Freedom House paper also notes Vietnam policy support for Johnson. In Arkansas Manila, vandals toppled a World War I hero statue of Pfc. Herman Davis, with head missing, as authorities seek restoration options.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Freedom House
South Carolina
Illinois
Paul Douglas
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
Edward Brooke
R.mass
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Vietnam
Joseph R. McCarthy
R.wis
State Department
McCarthy
Senate
Manila
Ark
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J. B. Brown
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Pfc
Herman Davis
Italy
State Publicity and Parks Commission
John J
Black Jack) Pershing
Davis
Arkansan
Big Lake Island
Molleville Farm
Verdun
Mississippi County
Herman Davis Memorial Association
Apportionment Appeals Are Rejected
The Supreme Court, in four unanimous rulings, rejected apportionment appeals in Alabama, New York, Michigan, and Virginia on technical grounds. Justice Douglas signaled the Reynolds v. Sims one man one vote standard could extend to local governments, but left the question unresolved for now.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Alabama
New York
Michigan
Virginia
William O. Douglas
Reynolds
Arkansas AFL-CIO chief urges defeat of Gate Amendment
J Bill Becker president of Arkansas State AFL-CIO urged Arkansas four U S representatives to oppose the Gate Amendment to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act in letters to the commission. He argued the amendment would allow economic discrimination by states and local districts and urged support for the administration bill which he said includes no radical changes and creates no new controversy.
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Little Rock
J. Bill Becker
Arkansas
Afl-Cio
U.S
Becker
Sophomore Delores Lloyd Named Bishop College Student Senate Chair
Delores W Lloyd of 500 Oak Street daughter of Mr and Mrs Vander Lloyd a sophomore at Bishop College in Dallas has been elected by fellow students as Chairman of the Student Senate. The body works with faculty and administration as official student spokesman. It includes representatives from fraternities sororities clubs and other campus groups.
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SOPH
Delores W Lloyd
Oak Street
Vander Lloyd
Bishop College
Dallas
Texas
Delores
Henry Clay Yerger High School
Bishop
Arkansas Democratic Party to pick executive secretary
Five names were on the list for the Democratic State Committee meeting in Little Rock to select an executive secretary. The screening committee recommended Jernigan after Jernigan and Troutt withdrew. other nominees included Lybrand, Prosser, Oakes, Nicholeson, and Bennett.
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Little Rock
Democratic State Committee
Arkansas Democratic Party
J. P. Lybrand Jr
Pine Bluff
Jefferson County
S. K
Stu) Prosser
Conway
Democratic
Jack S. Oakes
Augusta
W. R
Bil) Nicholeson
Osceola
Glenn Bensnett
Jonesboro
Iieus
Brooks Hays
George O. Jernigan Jr
Litetle Rock
Robert E
Bob) Troutt
Hot Springs
Orval Faubus
Jernigan
Decision on Stobaugh to Be Monday
The Welfare Commissioner Len Blaye announced a Monday decision on Stobaugh after a contentious April 25 Democratic State Committee meeting. The Screening Committee was enlarged and ordered to submit five names at the current session amid about 30 applications for the job.
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Little Rock
Len Blaye
Democratic State Committee
Withe
Democratic Screening Committee
Jock
Ment Syse Elstot
Tem
Cornell
Stos
Conway County Welfare Baugh
Carl Stobaugh
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