Court Upsets Two Contempt Convictions
The Supreme Court overturned contempt convictions of Edward R. Fields and Robert Lyons of the National States Rights party after laws against distributing handbills and holding a rally in Fairfield Alabama. NAACP ACLU and the Justice Department urged reversal citing First Amendment rights and lack of evidence.
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Supreme Court
National States Rights Party
Alabama
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Sam Thompson
Louisville
Thompson
Edward R. Fields
Robert Lyons
Fairfield
Ala
Fields
Lyons
Lyon
Lipscomb
Thunderbolt
Jefferson County Ala
American Civil Liberties Union
Justice Department
ACLU
Department
Freight Train Kills Woman at Dakota
Mrs Minnie Drexel aged 68 of Dakota was killed instantly at 5 15 p m Sunday after being struck by Milwaukee Road freight train 331 while crossing tracks near the U S Lock and Dam She read river gauges twice daily and was returning home Engineer Henry Kroll and Conductor William Baxter were St Paul residents Sheriff George Fort led the investigation Survivors include three daughters Mrs Donald Oldenberg Mrs Norman Wardwell Mrs Charles Wacholz and one son Irving Drexel all of La Crosse or Rochester
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Dakota, Minn
Minnie Drexel
Dakota
Milwaukee Road
Winona County
George Fort
Drexel
U.S. Lock and Dam
Sheriff Fort
Henry Kroll
St. Paul
William Baxter
Donald Oldenberg
Norman Wardwell
la Crosse
Charles Wacholz
Rochester
Irving Drexel
John Glenn Joins In Tributes To Wrights
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. led a procession of aviators and officials in Kitty Hawk North Carolina to pay tribute to Orville and Wilbur Wright the bicycle mechanics who solved powered flight near Kitty Hawk on December 17 1903.
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Kitty Hawk
N.C
John H. Glenn Jr
Glenn
Orville
Wilbur Wright
White House Gifts and Policy Actions Dominate Washington News
White House staff receive prints of a Green Room painting with Kennedy signatures as Christmas gifts. President Johnson plans to sign an order releasing Robert G. Baker tax returns to the Senate Rules Committee amid an ethics probe. The Korea airlift is indefinitely postponed as fiscal constraints and Johnson economy drive are cited. FTC orders Procter Gamble to divest Clorox after a six year acquisition, citing limited advertising economies.
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White House
Green Room
John F. Kennedy
Korea
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pentagon
Johnson
Johnson Calls Budget Conference With Top Aides
President Johnson summoned five top aides to the White House for a budget conference ahead of sending the proposal to Congress next month. He planned ceremonial signing of a $1.195 billion federal aid bill for college facilities and a luncheon with FBI Director Hoover, plus a Sunday meeting with Thomas C. Mann.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Kermit Gordon
George W. Ball
David E. Bell
Agency For International Development
Roswell L. Gilpatric
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Thomas C. Mann
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Capitol
Assassination Inquiry Moves to Third Warren Commission Session
In Cincinnati Howard Mor gens of Procter & Gamble says the discount decision will be appealed to federal courts. Chief Justice Earl Warren calls another meeting of the presidential commission investigating Kennedy’s assassination at the National Archives building. the session marks the third gathering since the commission’s creation.
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Procter & Gamble
Cincinnati
Howard Morgens
Earl Warren
Presidential Commission
John F. Kennedy
National Archives Building
Commission
Johnson
Central Hi-Y Group To Meet Monday Christmas Hootennany
The La Crosse Central Hi-Y will gather Monday at 7 30 p.m. in the YMCA Community Room for a Christmas Hootennany. Senior girls' quartet and the Gentry's lead sing-alongs with David Kenstad as entertainer.
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la Crosse Central Hi-Y
YMCA
The
Gentry's
David Kenstad
John Toraason
Kenneth Landro
$100 Worth Of Yule Trees Stolen
Thieves stole about $100 worth of Christmas trees Friday night from a lot at Luther Shell Service, 25th and La Crosse Streets, police said. Seller Germain Davison, 422 North 22nd Street, reported the theft Saturday morning.
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Luther Shell Service
25Th
la Crosse Sts
Germain Davison
22Nd St
Y-Teens Decorate Central for Hanging of the Greens
Y-Teens participated in the annual Hanging of the Greens service project at Central High School Thursday. Advised by Ethyl Dahler the group decorated halls windows and doors in traditional holiday colors and designs with Jane Cline serving as project chairman.
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Ethyl Dahler
Jane Cline
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