Always Embattled SNCC Transforms Over Six Years
Atlanta AP report traces SNCC evolution from idealism to bitterness, noting leadership shifts and rising tensions. Stokely Carmichael jailed on riot charges, Julian Bond resigns after five years, and the movement splits from SCLC amid rising black power rhetoric. SNCC began in Greensboro 1960 with voter registration focus and faced increasing hostility from authorities and within the movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta, Ga
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
Stokely Carmichael
Julian Bond
Georgia House of Representatives
Greensboro
Birmingham
Ala
Freedom Democratic Party
Mississippi
Viet Nam
Carmichael
Negro Black Panther Party
Riot Charges Link Carmichael and SNCC Members
Police charge Carmichael and the riot as Allen vows full use of city and state powers to arrest and prosecute participants. SNCC members William Ware and Bobby Vance Walton bound over to a grand jury for inciting to riot while others were arrested on minor charges after a gunfire incident near Summerhill.
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SNCC
Herbert Jenkins
Henry Bowden
Lewis Slaton
Fulton County
Bowden
Jenkins
Atlanta
State of Georgia
Allen
Summerhill
Carmichael
William Ware
Bobby Vance Walton
SNCCI
Commissioners To Attend Meet In Hershey Conference
The Indiana County Commissioners will attend a two day conference in Hershey on Monday and Tuesday called by Governor William W. Scranton. They will hear about water resources roadside control highways mine site reclamation large parks open space and scenic roads through addresses and panel discussions to explore cooperation with federal programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Hershey
William W. Scranton
Urges More Funds For IU Growth
The state would need to allocate 19 million dollars to provide facilities for IU expansion by 1980. Pittsburgh candidate Gerald Kaufmann criticized current mental retardation funding as inhuman. He cited Ebensburg State Hospital conditions and staff pay, urging better care and more resources. Rep. K Irvis backed the critique but urged more restraint. He noted the Democratic platform should include a mental health plank and Rev. Stephen J. Lasko advocated more aid to private colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Kaufmann
Pittsburgh
Ebensburg State Hospital
Kaufmann
Rep
K. Irvis
D-Allegheny
Irvis
Stephen J. Lasko
Duquesne University
Lawmakers Probe Torrance Hospital Delays and Conditions
Pennsylvania legislators grilled Torrance Hospital officials over delays in securing items and questioned sanitary facilities and patient care. Rep. Kennedy, Rep. McNally, and Rep. Stemmler pressed for budget consistency, proper medication, and staff adequacy as Torrance faces 2,689 patients in a 1,900-bed facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Francis Kennedy
Butler County
Edward McNally
Camorra County
Torrance
Gust Stemmler
Westmoreland County
Schilling
Irvis
Pennsylvania
High Risk Driver Plan Proposed By Philadelphia Senator
PHILADELPHIA AP A state legislator said Thursday he plans to propose a state insurance agency to insure high risk drivers financed in part by higher automobile registration fees. Sen Benjamin Dondlow D Philadelphia says the plan would make auto liability insurance mandatory for all drivers, protect the public from uninsured drivers and from insurers charging high rates for high risk drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Benjamin Dondlow
Lunar landings face hazards in Surveyor study talks
Los Angeles AP reports at an American Geophysical Union session Dr. E M Shoemaker of the US Geological Survey said Surveyor I landed near a crater ringed by boulders up to four feet wide. He warned that similar terrain could threaten future Surveyors and Apollo landings. Lucas of Jet Propulsion Laboratory noted specks seen on Surveyor J photos may be micro meteorites or reflected paint.
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Los Angeles
U.S
Surveyor I
Aymposium
American Geophysical Union
E. M. Shoemaker
Geological Survey
Flag
Ariz
University of California At
Surveyor J
John W. Lucas
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Siand
Lucas
Shoemaker
Surveyor
Pact
Johnson lays out anti inflation plan and budget restraint
President Johnson announced new anti inflation proposals at a news conference as a Capitol Hill message arrived. He urged restraint on federal spending, warned bills would raise revenue needs, and pressed for talks with Red China while addressing troop withdrawals and Vietnam. Debate over tax boosts, poverty aid, and a two year education program looms as Congress weighs funding Sept. 26.
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Johnson
Capitol Hill
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
U.S
Red China
Viet Nam
United States
Charles de Gaulle
America
Congress
Fire destroys Harmon Creek Lumber Co in Turtle Creek
In Turtle Creek a lumber firm on a block long brick building built in 1925 burned early today causing about 500000 in damage. Firemen from six companies fought the two hour blaze and the cause had not yet been determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Turtle Creek
Harmon Creek Lumber Co
Shafer Promises Broad Pennsylvanian Reform Agenda
In a Pittsburgh rally Shafer roared with approval as Shafer climbed to stage, showered by confetti and amid cheers for Republican candidates. He touted job growth, education funding, highway work, and social welfare gains under Scranton. He pledged open housing, expanded higher education access, a major job training push, higher unemployment benefits, and stronger consumer protections to unite Pennsylvanians.
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Tranth
Shafer
Hestage
Hugh, Scott
Pennsylvania
Scranton
United States
3 Wounded In Calif By Desperadoes
In Bakersfield California three people were wounded in an attack by desperadoes. Police investigated the incident and the assailants remained at large as authorities sought leads and described the motive.
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Calif
Desperadoes
Titan 2 leak delays Gemini 11 countdown
A Titan 2 oxidizer leak halted Gemini 11 preparations on the launch pad delaying the mission. If the leak can be repaired externally, launch could occur in a day or two. otherwise, a multi day delay is likely. The plan includes two spacewalks and an asteroid rendezvous with Agena.
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Navy
Conrad
Cmdr
Gordon
U.S
Earth
Moon
Lunar
Obituaries and Notices from Indiana County Forty Years Ago
Obituaries list Elmer F Grosklos 75 of Indiana dying Sept 8 1986 with service details at Bell Funeral Home. Other notices include Devere Hinderliter 65 dying Sept 7 1968, George H Hudson 61 of Wilmington Del, Dessie Drummond 40 formerly of Saltsburg, and Florence Hoover 76 of Homer City R D 1 with burial arrangements.
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Elmer F. Grosklos
Philadelphia St. Indiana
Indiana ,R.D
Charles and
Elizabeth Wagner Grosklos
Pittsburgh
Grosklos
Calvary U. P. Church
Indiana
B.P.C.E
Olie
Elmer Grosklos
Greensburg
Richard Grosklos
York
Mia
Elizabeth Sneary
Bell Funeral Home
James B. Reid
Edgewood
Salisburg
Robert
Vivian) Kropinak
Eric
Alvin
Lorraine) Jones
Blairsville
Elsie Fennell
Punxsutawney
Robert Harvey
Ernest
Edward Hinderliter
Clymer
Bence Funeral Home
George H. Hudson
Delaview Ave
Westwood
Wilmington
Del
Horace
Laura Shearer Hudson
Laura E. Hudson
Thomas L
Boston
Mass
Harold
Summit
O. E. Kirkland
Summerfield
Fla
Maurice Ditzenberger
Corpus Christi
Tex
Indiana Evening Gazette
Robinson- Lytle's
Dessie Drummond
Indian Haven
R.D
Saitsburg
Saltsburg
James
Mary E. Duncan Drummond
Hunter Funeral Home
Richard A. Reynolds
Edgewood Cemetery
Florence M. Hoover
Vernon R. Hoover
Homer City
Brush Valley
Raymond Hospital
Johnstown
Rayne Township
Indiana County
William
Jessie Boucher Little
Green Township
Norman
Margaret) Reeger
Alene) Riddle
Suffield
Ohio
Harold, Doyle and Murray
Nellie Foster
Dorothy Campbell
Roy Little
Harry
Frank Little
Robinson - Lytle's
William Bruggeman
James F. Bray
Cockport Methodist Cemetery
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Martin Luther King Jr
Harry Belafonte
Lewis
James Meredith
John Jay
U.S. Supreme Court
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Selective Service Board
Richard Allen Griffith
Home
Bernard Paul Conway, Jr
Donald Allen Fink
Thomas Paul Davis
Cherry Tree
Paul Robert Schabosky
Francis Lee Donelson
Gas Center
David Roland Powell
Kenneth Herbert Brown
Dennis Gerald Lewis
Roger Lee Lydick
Fred Gene Hughes
Clyde
Richard Eugene Saldana
John Raymond McElhoes
Kenneth Dean Brendlinger
Wayne Eugene Lewis, Jr
John Edwin Mack
Armagh
John Joseph Mizerak
James Leroy Garland
Robert James Chambers
Punxsutawney R. D
Richard Clair Daugherty
Marion Center
Daniel Jay O'Neil
Black Lick
Taprow
John Ronald Burtick
Walter James Lagoda
Bechtel
For Geophysical Union
Bakersfield, Calif
Nsemini
Agena Nose
Bakersfield
Ralph Ferris
Smith
Kern
Aray
Robert Perry Frogge
William Henry Tudor
Richmond
Fas
Howard Wines
Sten
Tina Maria
Smith House
California
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